THE FATHER (2021) Greetings again from the darkness. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are frequent topics in movies these days for the simple reason that so many are impacted either directly or through a friend or family member. The importance of memory to our core...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Rock ‘n Roll is dead.” It’s a proclamation that many have attempted to push for the past 50 plus years. We know that during these past decades, many other music genres have had their runs: folk, reggae, pop, punk, disco, country,...
Greetings again from the darkness. Anyone who has experienced recurring nightmares understands how they impact not just the time you are asleep, but all waking hours as well. Anthony Scott Burns is the writer-director-cinematographer and is working from a story by...
Review by James Lindorf "Coming to America" is a timeless classic. It was the second highest-grossing film of 1988. It remains just as funny and beloved today for how it blends sweet, selfless romanticism with raunchy jokes about STIs and the royal penis. It has been...
Greetings again from the darkness. There is no shortage of famous reclusive writers. Harper Lee, Thomas Pynchon, and even Edgar Allan Poe surely earned the label. Yet, thanks to his book “The Catcher in the Rye”, J.D. Salinger remains the most mysterious of them all....
Review by James Lindorf Nothing says passion project like one person producing, directing, filming, and editing a single movie. For Elizabeth Lo, that passion project is "Stray," which follows three stray dogs as they embark on various journeys around Turkey. Zeytin,...
Greetings again from the darkness. The wait was 54 years for MARY POPPINS RETURNS (2018) and 35 years for BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017), and it’s been almost 33 years since John Landis directed Eddie Murphy in COMING TO AMERICA (1988). So while it’s an unusually lengthy...
Greetings again from the darkness. The world famous Villa Tugendhat is a physical, emotional, and visual metaphor for the collapse of the Czech Republic in this film from director Julius Sevcik (LOST GIRLS AND LOVE HOTELS, 2020). Writer Andrew Shaw (VOICE FROM THE...
Review by James Lindorf Eddie Huang may be best known for writing the memoir that inspired the hit show “Fresh off the Boat,” which ran for six seasons on ABC. Eddie is looking to change that narrative by writing and directing his first feature-length movie. “Boogie”...
Greetings again from the darkness. When most of us need an item, we first check the Amazon website for price and availability. For Physicists and Astronomers, it’s not always so easy. We are informed that photographing a Black Hole would require a telescope the size...