Greetings again from the darkness. Filmmaker Alika Maikau effectively captures a heart-breaking and tense scene that has played out in most every community across the globe. A young man pulls up in front of a school and tells a waiting student that his mom sent him...
Review by James Lindorf Growing up during the heyday of the Friday the 13th movies, every time that elusive date rolled around meant one thing for many television stations, horror marathon. Over the years, the enthusiasm for showing the series and celebrating the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Outlaws on the run have been fertile ground for movies over the years, and young director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and writer Nicolas Zwart give the genre their best shot (pun intended). The easiest comparisons are probably Sam...
Review by James Lindorf “Coded Bias” is a powerful new film from Director Shalini Kantayya (Catching the Sun) inspired by the groundbreaking research of MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini. Joy was able to prove that a racial bias was coded into facial recognition...
Review by Lisa Payne Charlene Murray (Raylene Harewood) finally steps into a comedy club for an open mic night to start living her dream, and is mercilessly heckled by Bob Carpenter (Brian Markinson). Unable to handle this, she runs offstage after attempting little...
Review by Lisa Payne Anna (Malin Akerman) is having a run of bad luck. Her best friend, Charlene (Dulcé Sloan) knows just the cure. I’m gonna take her to a female fight club where I know she’s going to hate it, find out the real meaning of said club, is touched and...
JUNGLELAND (2020) Greetings again from the darkness. We’ve rarely seen more improvement from an actor than what we’ve witnessed on screen from Charlie Hunnam in his nearly 25 year career. His work was particularly strong in James Gray’s LOST CITY OF Z (2017), and he...
Greetings again from the darkness. The fine line of demarcation between “art” and pornography is one of society’s longest-running debates. “I know it when I see it” was made official in 1964 by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in a case where the subjective...
Joel Kinnaman (Robocop 2014, House of Cards) takes the lead in this dramatic crime thriller from writer/director Andrea Di Stefano (Escobar: Paradise Lost) and writers Matt Cook (Angel Has Fallen) and Rowan Joffe (28 Weeks Later). While not a perfect film (what is),...
Review by James Lindorf Philadelphia is also known as The City of Brotherly Love. It is the home of the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and of course, the Philadelphia Eagles. Before their improbable win over the New England Patriots in 2017, the Eagles winning it...