Review by James Lindorf When the creative team sat down to craft a list of people they wished would star in the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” top of that list had to be Jennifer Hudson. She is a bonafide superstar in her own right; she has multiple grammies and...
Review by Bradley Smith Guns, more guns, and one shot to save Washington D.C. One Shot takes a familiar plot, a terrorist attack on a CIA compound, and gives it a real-time twist giving the audience a chance to feel either the urgency and suspense or feel like they...
Greetings again from the darkness (on the edge of town). The old adage goes, “Music soothes the savage beast”. But what if it’s the savage beast playing the music? Let’s go back more than 40 years to 1979. In March, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident...
Greetings again from the darkness. His name has been derogatory punchline for as long as any of us can remember. Labeling someone ‘a Benedict Arnold’ meant they had been disloyal to their team, club, organization, or group of friends. But those of us who are not...
Review by James Lindorf If you were making a list of things people love on a nearly unanimous level, you wouldn't have to go far down the list to find dogs, cute robots, and Tom Hanks. The latest Apple+ Original movie "Finch" combines all three into one easily...
Review by Lauryn Angel Marvel Studios’ Eternals is not the typical Marvel movie, and that’s a great thing, as the studio breaks from its formula. That’s not to say the movie is without flaws, but on the whole I enjoyed it, as did the audience I watched it with. Unlike...
Review by James Lindorf Few people can claim that their life hasn’t been impacted in some way by addiction. It doesn’t have to be your addiction, with nearly 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 12 actively suffering; it could be a family member, friend, co-worker, or...
Review by James Lindorf Seven Thousand years ago, Arishem, the leader of the Celestials, sent a team of heroes known as the Eternals to earth. Their mission was to protect its inhabitants from the Deviants, an intergalactic race of monsters that kill every living...
Greetings again from the darkness. Writer-director-editor-actor Jim Cummings’ 2018 film THUNDER ROAD was quite popular on the festival circuit, and Cummings is back with another story of a stressed out man … at a time when the world doesn’t much care about stressed...
By James Lindorf From October 7th through the 17th, Indianapolis residents, visitors, and film fanatics worldwide got to enjoy the 30th annual Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF). This year’s event consisted of 143 films from all genres. I was able to see 12...