Greetings again from the darkness. “I don’t want to not have a baby.” This is just one of the zingers Zoe rattles off during this charming, and often quite funny film from director Curtis Vowell and writer Sophie Henderson. Fellow New Zealander Taika Waititi is an...
Two teenage brothers find themselves in a whole lot of trouble when a troubled security guard falls into a well after catching them stealing from an elderly woman whose house is being fumigated. The brothers clash with each other about how to handle the situation, but...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Free at last.” Martin Luther King, Jr’s speech at the 1963 March on Washington is partially shown, yet documentarian Sam Pollard’s film proves that MLK was never free, and still isn’t, even 50 plus years after his death. Based on...
Greetings again from the darkness. Liam Neeson’s particular set of skills, and his grumpy face, seem to show up on screen most every January. If there is a surprise to this year’s entry, it’s that the annual Liam action movie is not directed by Jaume Collet-Sera, as...
Greetings again from the darkness. Do you know where cabin air comes from on the commercial planes you fly for vacation or business? Most of us don’t. We simply take the airlines’ word that the air is filtered and safe. Or at least we did before the pandemic motivated...
Greetings again from the darkness. The Villages of Florida is a massive master-planned retirement community. It’s similar in development to Del Webb’s Sun City, but roughly 5 times the size. We learn that there are 20,000 single folks among the residents of The...
Greetings again from the darkness. It may look like the crowd filing out of a sports arena after a big match, but in fact, it’s actual footage of an Israeli checkpoint in Palestine along the West Bank. Another big difference … heavily armed soldiers and cages to...
Greetings again from the darkness. Think back to the days when we interacted with other people … shopping at stores and walking city sidewalks. Now imagine you are out late one night, and you spot someone standing on a street corner. They are holding a sign that reads...
Review by James Lindorf Sidney King is coming off of a 17-year break, and Wei Bu is a relative newcomer; perhaps that is why they could come up with the concept for “Skyfire” that is ripped from the heart of the ’90s. Wei and King decided to unite two ’90s classics...
Greetings again from the darkness. Four grown men hanging out in a Miami motel room may not strike you as a promising premise for a must-see movie, but this wasn’t just a group of random buddies. Inspired by what actually happened on February 25, 1964, the film takes...