Greetings again from the darkness. I guess we were due for a “Cold War Buddy Comedy”. And who better to deliver than co-directors John Francis Daley and Johnathan Goldstein, the team behind GAME NIGHT (2018) and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES...
Greetings again from the darkness. With the mere mention of Jimmy Buffett, we immediately envision a sea of ‘Parrot heads’ sipping margaritas and having a blast as they sing along to the feel-good coastal tunes being played at a sunny outdoor venue. The...
Review by James Lindorf Casper Kelly is best known for “Too Many Cooks,” the viral 2014 Adult Swim short that took classic television opening sequences and turned them into something unsettling through repetition and the introduction of a killer. “Buddy”...
Greetings again from the darkness. We envision the makeup of a champion to be confident, fearless, and to possess the heart of a lion. Documentarians (and brothers) Lars Brinkema and Torsten Brinkema profile legendary cross-country skier Jessie Diggins who...
COYOTE VS ACME (2026) Greetings again from the darkness. For those of us who grew up belly-laughing at Looney Tunes, the characters are considered sacred ground, so a bit of anxiety hits when movies like SPACE JAM (1996) hit the big screen. This especially...
Greetings again from the darkness. Writer-director Tessa Blake and screenwriter Jennifer Manocherian have adapted Lisa O’Donnell’s 2014 novel, “Closed Doors”, and set the story in small town Minnesota rather than Scotland. This relocation works beautifully...
Greetings again from the darkness. Circumstances. Fate. Luck. Determination. It’s been said that what we make of our lives is up to us. Still, it seems likely that these factors play a role- often a significant role. Writer-director Emmanuel Corcol and...
Review by James Lindorf Before "The Deb" reaches American streaming audiences, it is worth understanding the journey that brought it here. Hannah Reilly wrote the original stage musical, which ran briefly in Australia, with music by Megan Washington and...
Mutiny is pretty much what I have come to expect from a film starring Jason Statham: a brisk action movie with a lot of violence. The story is entertaining and engaging enough, albeit highly predictable and routine for the genre; I cannot speak for the rest...
Review by James Lindorf Enid Blyton published the first Faraway Tree novel in 1939, and the series has never gone out of print. That kind of endurance is either a testament to timeless storytelling or the stubborn loyalty of childhood nostalgia. For a...