Greetings again from the darkness. Despite Irish ancestry, during my childhood, Ireland was vaguely described as a place to avoid due to the Northern Ireland Conflict (also known as The Troubles). In contrast, the childhood of writer-director Kenneth Branagh was smack...
Review By Lauryn Angel Upon seeing the trailer for Studio 666, my immediate response was “Oh, hell yes!” A horror comedy starring the Foo Fighters? Sign me up! But would it be good? Or even, so-bad-it’s-good? Or would it just be bad? The good news is, it’s the first...
Greetings again from the darkness. Being a high school kid has always been challenging, and today’s added pressures of social media makes being an outlier almost unbearable at times. Writer-director Paul A Kaufman (in his feature film directing debut) has adapted the...
Greetings again from the darkness. As a kid in Glasgow, Alan McGee’s dream was the same as many others: he wanted to make it big in the music business. A TV appearance by The Sex Pistols lit the proverbial fire, and Alan became obsessed. However, as he states in the...
Film critics often talk about tone and the way it shifts when one sequence leads into another. This is because balancing the tone between scenes is an important part of the editing process and it is used to help guide audiences threw the proceedings. However, tone is...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s been more than 25 years since The Unabomber was arrested. The composite sketch of Theodore John Kaczynski wearing sunglasses and a hoodie became an iconic image on its own, and he was the target of the longest and most expensive...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Where ya’ from?” It’s a seemingly innocuous question that most of us have asked others without giving it much thought. But imagine living in constant fear in your own country because of how you look. Many immigrants in the UK live...
Greetings again from the darkness. For her first feature film, director Ruth Paxton tackles an ambitious story from writer Justin Bull. It’s not an easy film to describe to someone who hasn’t seen it, and it’s even a bit of a challenge to have a discussion with anyone...
Greetings again from the darkness. Is it acceptable to call Joanna Quinn and writer Les Mills ‘frequent collaborators’ when they have only made 4 short films together over a 34-year period? Regardless, this is their first since the BAFTA nominated DREAMS AND DESIRES:...
Review by James Lindorf The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Taking place the same weekend also in Park City, Utah, is the Slamdance Film Festival....