Greetings again from the darkness. A huckster or carnival barker is spouting off the many uses and health benefits of radium. He even hails it as “liquid sunshine”. That’s how this film from co-directors Lydia Dean Pilcher (A CALL TO SPY, 2020) and Ginny Mohler kicks...
Movie Review: ‘Synchronic’
Greetings again from the darkness. Innovative filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are frequent collaborators, as evidenced by such films as SPRING (2014) and THE ENDLESS (2017). Their films teeter between science-fiction, horror, fantasy, and personal drama,...
Movie Review: ‘S.O.S. Survive or Sacrifice’
Review by Lisa Payne When Kate (Jeannine Kaspar) picks you her younger teenaged, phone-obsessed sister Liz (Ksena Pinch) from the airport in Cyprus, the problems start. Liz is a typical pain in the butt teen who pays little attention to what’s not on her black mirror....
Movie Review: ‘Redwood Massacre: Annihilation’
Review by Monique Thompson The hunters become the hunted after a stranger obsessed with the Redwood Farm murders convinces bereaved family members to venture into the wilderness in hope of proving the existence of the notorious burlap masked maniac. REDWOOD MASSACRE:...
Documentary Review: ‘The Campaign Of Miner Bo’
Greetings again from the darkness. During her campaign for the presidency, Hillary Clinton appeared at an Ohio Town Hall meeting, and while pushing green energy alternatives said, “We are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” It’s the...
Movie Review: ‘Memories Of Murder’
Greetings again from the darkness. Between 1986 and 1991, 10 women were raped and brutally murdered in the province of Gyeong-gi outside Seoul. Considered South Korea’s first serial killer case, the crime went unsolved until 2019. The case was the inspiration for...
Movie Review: ‘Don’t Look Back’
Do you remember the final episode of Seinfeld? That episode that many people either loved or hated where the main group witnesses a crime, does nothing to stop it, and goes to jail? Well, the writer of Final Destination, Jeffery Reddick (in his feature length...
Movie Short Review: ‘Mirror’
Greetings again from the darkness. “I see a monster.” That’s what the girl answers when asked what she sees when she looks in the mirror. Her face is severely scarred from what could be fire or chemical. If customers are present at work, she wears a mask – the same...
Documentary Review: ‘She Is The Ocean’
Greetings again from the darkness. “My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea. And the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” That quote from William Wadsworth Longfellow sums up much of what makes the nine women (OK, 8 women and one...
Documentary Review: ‘Stro: The Michael D’Asaro Story’
Greetings again from the darkness. I would have not guessed a fencing movie could hold my attention. I’d have been wrong. But then, this isn’t so much a fencing movie as it is the story of the legacy of Michael D’Asaro, a former world class fencer and coach....






