Greetings again from the darkness. I nearly opted to pass on this since I assumed it would be similar to watching Alex Honnold climb in Best Documentary Oscar winner FREE SOLO (2018), and that was a visceral viewing experience that should not be messed with. To ease...
Review by James Lindorf This weekend the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) welcomed filmmakers to Austin for the 34th annual PRISM LGBTQ+ Film Festival screenings. This year’s event was again a hybrid affair with both in-person and online...
Review by James Lindorf There are a handful of things that are distinctly American. Baseball and apple pie are the most cited elements, but there is another more sinister phenomenon that helps define America, the serial killer. The U.S. is credited with having had...
Review by James Lindorf Christmas time is also the time of year that people typically think about Hallmark movies. They can be old-fashioned, they are cheesy, most likely schmaltzy, but their familiarity provides good vibes. It has been another long year, and if you...
Review by Lauryn Angel I admit that even though I love Marvel comics and the MCU, I did not know anything about Shang-Chi before seeing Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Since it was a Marvel flick, I expected to enjoy it, but I had no idea what a treat I was...
Greetings again from the darkness. In keeping with the times, writer-director Kay Cannon (the screenwriter for three PITCH PERFECT movies) has turned the classic and ancient Cinderella tale into an agenda movie, albeit one adorned with new and lively adaptations of...
Review by Lauryn Angel Director Nia DaCosta’s Candyman has been described as a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 film of the same name, directed by Bernard Rose. DaCosta’s film deftly skips over the sequels to the earlier film, connecting to the first film in a vein...
Greetings again from the darkness. As expected, we are beginning to see an influx of “pandemic” movies and TV shows. What wasn’t expected is the unique and creative approach in this one from Co-directors Stephen Daldry (THE HOURS, 2002) and Justin Martin. The script...
Greetings again from the darkness. This is an unusual documentary from Andreas Keofoed. The first part examines the attempts to solve the origin mystery of a discovered painting, while the second half takes us inside the mysterious money side of the collectible art...
Review by James Lindorf It has been 29 years since audiences first said his name. There have been a few lackluster sequels and a year-long pandemic delay in the nearly three decades since, but “Candyman” has finally come back to Chicago and Cabrini-Green. This time he...