Greetings again from the darkness. German filmmaker Christian Petzold has a track record of creating thought-provoking, intelligent, and ambitious films such as BARBARA (2012) and TRANSIT (2018). This time out he re-teams his TRANSIT co-stars Paula Beer and Franz...
Greetings again from the darkness. We open on a team of masked gravediggers. Row after row of holes are being dug in the rocky terrain. A casket is lowered with no family or clergy present. Yusuf (Nadir Saribacak), one of the gravediggers, says a brief prayer over the...
Review by James Lindorf Examining mortality through film is nothing new for writer and director Michelle Boyaner. However, her latest project, “It’s Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents,” gives her a new perspective of being in front of the...
Imagine Celebrity Big Brother but people die when they get voted out of the house, like the Doctor Who episode “Bad Wolf”, but less family friendly. That is the premise of the new horror film, Funhouse. Eight “celebrities” from across the globe sign up for a new...
Greetings again from the darkness. World War II continues to provide the stories of individuals who were caught up in the horrific events surrounding the war – some folks acted heroically, some despicably, and still others simply did what they could to survive....
Greetings again from the darkness. Relatively late in life, director Luke Holland discovered his Jewish roots and the history of his grandparents being murdered in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Mr. Holland passed away in 2020, but not before he finished...
Review by James Lindorf It has been 18months since the end of P! nk’s last tour, and fans are aching to see her perform again. While it isn’t quite the same as attending a live concert surrounded by 80,000 other fans, the drought is over when “P!nk: All I Know So Far”...
Greetings again from the darkness. Remember when an exonerated OJ Simpson vowed to dedicate his time to finding “the real killer” of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman? For some reason that memory came back in the early stages of this film as a Melbourne-based...
Greetings again from the darkness. Feel-good, underdog sports stories are a dependable addition to the entertainment value many seek from movies. Director Euros Lyn (shout out for the first 3 episodes of “Happy Valley”) and writer Neil McKay take us to South Wales for...
Greetings again from the darkness. “You say you want a revolution … well, you know … we all want to change the world.” Writer-director Michel Franco hits head-on the always hot, and very current topic of the haves versus the have-nots, and I immediately thought of...