Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. Mark Pellington is a renowned music video director, having worked with such acts as Bruce Springsteen, U2, Leonard Cohen, Pearl Jam, INXS, Demi Lovato, and Imagine Dragons. He’s also done TV work, as well...
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. Spicoli (Sean Penn in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH) was the poster child for stoners in the 80’s. Julie (Deborah Foreman in VALLEY GIRL) taught us the annoying Valley Girl speech patterns, some of which...
Review by James Lindorf It has been a busy couple of years adapting the works of author Kate DiCamillo (“Because of Winn-Dixie”). Netflix began producing a movie based on “The Magician’s Elephant in December 2020. Walt Disney Pictures released the film “Flora &...
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. Parenting is difficult. Pandemic parenting is a whole new level of difficult. No helpful guidebook exists and there is no recent similar time in history from which to take lessons. That leaves instinct,...
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. My second film at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival is the first feature from writer-director Justin Zuckerman. After some retro opening credits showing 1970’s New York City, the story focuses on...
Review by James Lindorf Public opinion says that, on the one hand, Woody Allen is one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation. On the other, he is a scandalous good-for-nothing abuser and should be thrown under a prison. Unfortunately, without evidence or a...
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. What a terrific film to kick off this year’s Slamdance festival! Writer-director Clay Tatum and co-writer Whitmer Thomas co-star in their own story that brings the “old” meaning of ghosting back to the...
Greetings again from the darkness. “You gotta tell a horse when it’s time to stop running.” That line of dialogue is uttered in this racing film from writer-director Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar, but the sentiment holds true for many others, including...
Greetings again from the darkness. How quickly we make assumptions and judge the actions of others. We all do it, and writer-director Michel Franco (NEW ORDER, 2020) seizes on this common human trait in this unconventional film centered on a man who simply doesn’t act...
Greetings again from the darkness. I’ll try to avoid the temptation of including overtly cute food references … especially those that might leave a bad taste (!). Writer-director Cristoffer Boe and his talented co-writer Tobias Lindholm (ANOTHER ROUND, THE HUNT) have...