Review by James Lindorf At the beginning of his career, screenwriter David Loughery worked in various genres, including action, sci-fi, comedy, and kid’s adventure movies. In the early 2000’s he decided to rebrand himself as the thriller guy. Since 2008 he has written...
Greetings again from the darkness. As a devoted follower of films by Almodovar for more than 35 years, I still find myself enchanted by his stories, his visuals, his characters, and his consistency in writing complex and engaging parts for women. Oscar winning...
Greetings again from the darkness. There is nothing wrong with delivering exactly what’s expected for kids’ movies. It’s a bit bewildering that so many fall short. This is the fourth (and final) film in the hugely successful “Transylvania” animated movie franchise,...
Review by James Lindorf In 1996 two Manukau Polytechnic students and former bootleg t-shirt creators would change the landscape of Hip-Hop in New Zealand. Andy Murnane and Tanielu Leaosavai’i (aka Brotha D) began with a Hip-Hop night at a local bar in Otara. They...
Review by James Lindorf It has been 43 years since the night he came home in 1978. In that time, there have been nine sequels focused on the shape of evil that terrorizes Haddonfield, Illinois. There was that one other sequel that involved Stonehenge, killer masks,...
Review by Lauryn Angel If you look at the cast list of The 355 and expect the movie to be an impactful, message-filled film, you are going to be disappointed. If you’re looking for a fun action flick that happens to feature three Academy-Award winning actresses...
Greetings again from the darkness. Every writer has a story about what inspired them to put words on the page. What we have here is Eva Husson directing a script from Alice Birch (LADY MACBETH, 2016) who has adapted the 2016 novella from British author Graham Swift....
Unless you are a Spider-Man fanatic, you likely didn’t venture into a movie theater in 2021. Not many did. However, thanks to the backlog from so many delayed 2020 films, the past 12 months have been a movie lover’s delight with a bevy of excellent films and memorable...
Greetings again from the darkness. For those of us who enjoy the burst of adrenaline provided by thrillers, the premise of a blind person in peril is something we’ve seen a few other times, including WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) with Audrey Hepburn, SEE NO EVIL (1971) with...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” That line from a Sir Walter Raleigh poem hit me early, and stuck with me through this latest superb film from Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi. Having won me...