Greetings again from the darkness. Nafisa (Mihad Murtada) is a typical teenage girl who picks cotton daily alongside her friends in the fields of their rural Sudan community. She flirts with a local boy while her friends ‘ooh and ahh’ knowing that her parents have...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s 1936 in Berlin, so already tensions are high. Anxiety increases as a young girl is scolded to remain hidden in the small space behind the dressing room wall. The woman doing the scolding is Katharina (CJ Johnson), a local...
Review by James Lindorf A tragedy often changes how you view yourself, the world around you, and your place in it. For Molly (Cecilia Milocco), that trauma came on what was supposed to be a pleasant holiday to the beach with her wife. A year later, after leaving a...
Greetings again from the darkness. The camaraderie is obvious in this class full of aspiring young British actors. They go through their drills and encourage each other to stretch their boundaries, as that’s the favored approach to honing their acting skill. Jonathan...
Greetings again from the darkness. Director Mary O’Leary’s cold opening replays the scene in the “Dark Shadows” TV series where Barnabas Collins, a 175 year old vampire, makes his first appearance. Fans of the gothic soap opera that ran from 1966 through 1971 know...
Review by Lauryn Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel is based on a true story in medieval France – the story of Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), who accuses Jacques LeGris (Adam Driver), a friend of her husband’s, of rape. Then as now, women who accuse prominent men of...
Greetings again from the darkness. The opening credits inform us that the film is based on Todd Snider’s 2006 song, “Just Like Old Times”. This caused me to stop the film before it ever really got started. I was initially stumped … other than Christmas and Elvis...
Greetings again from the darkness. There are so many ways to divide the world, but few lines of demarcation are clearer than ‘dog people’ versus ‘cat people’. Being firmly planted in the former group, while being confounded by the latter, it was for edification...
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 4K, BLU-RAY™ AND DIGITAL ON OCTOBER 12, 2021 FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT. Quentin Tarantino’s WWII revisionist history, revenge-fantasy is now available in 4K HD Below is a revised and updated version of my original...
Review by James Lindorf It has been twelve years since Justin Beiber released his first single, “One Time,” in 2009. In that time, he has sold 150 million records, won 2 Grammys, 21 Billboard Awards, and 18 American Music Awards, not to mention racking up a personal...