Review by James Lindorf With the release of “Jacinta” on October 8th Hulu will add an emotional new documentary to its slate of Originals. This ABC News and Impact Partners film follows a young woman struggling to find stability amid years of addiction and...
Greetings again from the darkness. A normal life is no longer possible. The question becomes, how does one go on in the aftermath of an unimaginable (yet all too common) tragedy that takes the life of one’s child? This the feature film debut of writer-director Fran...
Greetings again from the darkness. The opening sequence is surreal and a bit creepy, and with it, first time director Valdimar Johannsson accomplishes a couple of things. First, we witness the rugged beauty of rural Iceland, and second, he sets us up for a bizarre...
Review by James Lindorf Alessio Jim Della Valle is an Italian director and writer best known for his short films and documentaries. Now he is taking his shot at making a Tarantinoesque Neo-Noir with “American night.” The sudden appearance and disappearance of a prized...
I cannot count myself as one of the millions who made ‘The Soprano’s’ into the phenomenon that it was. I’ve seen a few minutes of a few episodes, but the show came out during a time where I was graduating high school, getting married, and joining the military. So, I...
Greetings again from the darkness. Let’s start with this disclosure: the original Danish film from Gustav Moller was one of my top 5 favorite films of 2018. Even then, I fully expected an Americanized version to happen at some point. The surprise is having director...
Greetings again from the darkness. When asked to explain the appeal, many fans of Western movies note how the clear division of good and bad, and right and wrong, allows for easy identification of those to root for, or even admire. Writer-director Potsy Ponciroli...
Greetings again from the darkness. For fans of the 1984 megahit GHOSTBUSTERS, this is the ultimate gift from the brother and sister filmmaking team of Anthony Bueno and Claire Bueno. It’s a deep cut “making of” feature that takes us behind the scenes for a detailed...
Greetings again from the darkness. There aren’t many Opera singer-Romantic Comedies, so that alone made this one worth checking out. Writer-director Ben Lewin (THE SESSIONS, 2012) co-wrote the script with Allen Palmer (his first feature film) and cast the film...
Greetings again from the darkness. We’ve seen movies where the seasonal residents interact with the locals, and often the class differences come into play. The term for northerners who head south for the winter is ‘snowbirds’. In the Hudson Valley, we learn the...