Review by Lisa Payne This gritty adaptation of Shakespeare is a complex and multi-layered romance. After a horrific multiple shooting outside a Melbourne block of flats, where Claudio (Harrison Gilbertson) jumps in front of Jaiwara (Megan Smart) to protect her from a...
Greetings again from the darkness. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby.” In an effortless manner, it sweeps the reader into a magical world through prose that brings the parties and characters to life....
Review by James Lindorf For the past 23 years, the Fantasia International Film Festival has taken place in the heart of beautiful Montreal, the largest city in Canada’s Québec province. Fantasia, like many big-name festivals, SWSX, TIFF, and Tribeca, to name a few,...
Greetings again from the darkness. Election Day 2020 is only two months away. Our nation is divided into two vocal factions … those for President Trump and those against him. There seem to be very few who fall into the “undecided” bucket, and that’s with no...
Review by James Lindorf For the past 23 years, the Fantasia International Film Festival has taken place in the heart of beautiful Montreal, the largest city in Canada’s Québec province. Fantasia, like many big-name festivals, SWSX, TIFF, and Tribeca, to name a few,...
Greetings again from the darkness. For the fifteen plus years Jon Stewart hosted “The Daily Show”, he could be depended on to bring his acerbic wit and often scathing political commentary to virtually every show. His most devoted followers leaned left, though he was...
Review by James Lindorf For the past 23 years, the Fantasia International Film Festival has taken place in the heart of beautiful Montreal, the largest city in Canada’s Québec province. Fantasia, like many big-name festivals, SWSX, TIFF, and Tribeca, to name a few,...
Review by Monique Thompson Thomas Livingston, an author desperate for a hit, spends a weekend locked in a haunted lighthouse as a publicity stunt for his next book. As Livingston delves into the lighthouse's terrifying history, he is targeted by powerful supernatural...
One Night in Bangkok follows a man and a professional driver as they explore the beautiful capital of Thailand. Along the way, the man meets up with others who have a connection to his past, at which point he kills them… or at least tries. When the driver figures out...
Review by James Lindorf For the past 23 years, the Fantasia International Film Festival has taken place in the heart of beautiful Montreal, the largest city in Canada’s Québec province. Fantasia, like many big-name festivals, SWSX, TIFF, and Tribeca, to name a few,...