Review by James Lindorf Have you ever wondered what it would be like if someone edited an emotional family drama like “The Squid and the Whale” and the insanity of a Gerard Butler ____ has fallen movie into one film? Well, wonder no more thanks to writer/director...
Review by James Lindorf “Separating” is the latest film by veteran horror director William Brent Bell. Bell is best known for 2006’s “Stay Alive” and 2016’s surprisingly successful creepy doll feature “The Boy.” Looking to put a spin on the genre “Separation” is...
Review by James Lindorf According to the French playwright Jean-Paul Sartre “Hell is other people.” It is true that opening yourself to others invites heartache but shutting them out also cuts off avenues to laughter, joy, and love. In “The Outside Story,” this is the...
Going to the movie theater is often about so much more than just watching a good story. I watch good stories play out on my television all the time. Going to the movie theater is often about enhancing the experience of that story. And the best films give you the...
Greetings again from the darkness. When one thinks of casting a farmer in a legal drama, surely Oscar winner Christopher Walken (THE DEER HUNTER, 1978) is not even on the first two pages of the casting director’s list. However, lest we forget, a great actor will make...
Greetings again from the darkness. Drug addiction provides bountiful harvesting for emotional message movies, though I’ll admit to some difficulty in relating to the subject matter. Writer-director Rodrigo Garcia (ALBERT NOBBS, 2011) has worked with co-writer Eli...
Greetings again from the darkness. Immigration is an important and hot topic these days, and it should be noted that most countries have challenges with people either trying to get in or trying to get out … and for some, it’s both. Writer-director Ben Sharrock offers...
Greetings again from the darkness. Have you ever wondered why they warned concert attendees to stay away from the brown acid at Woodstock? I can only speculate, but I assume the poor souls who consumed the taboo drug experienced hallucinations not dissimilar to...
Greetings again from the darkness. It seems to this casual observer that once a person makes the career decision to become a hitman (or hitwoman or hitperson), their life expectancy drops significantly, as does their willingness to trust any person they meet, or at...
Review by James Lindorf After two highly successful seasons of the John Krasinski-led series “Jack Ryan,” Amazon Studios has decided to expand the Tom Clancy “Ryanverse” with the action thriller “Without Remorse.” Based on Tom Clancy’s 1993 Vietnam era novel “Without...