Review by Monique Thompson Tijuana Jackson is a man determined to move beyond his checkered past and achieve his ambition of becoming a world-renowned motivational speaker. When asked to be the subject of a 10-minute student film, TJ leaps at the opportunity....
Review by James Lindorf When two of the most intimidating men in movie history, Vinnie Jones and Ron Perlman, get together with acting legend Malcolm McDowell, you can’t help but have expectations as big as a West Virginia. When you see that it is a film about oil...
Greetings again from the darkness. We get our first glimpse of Alice Lamb as an older woman in 1975 pounding away on her Royal typewriter before abruptly and rudely shooing neighborhood kids away from her door. We then flashback thirty-something years to World War II,...
Greetings again from the darkness. The American Civil Liberties Union has been around since 1920. That’s 100 years of striving to be the stewards of our nation’s liberties. Eli B Despres, Josh Kriegman, and Elyse Steinberg are the three credited directors who bring us...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s November 8, 2018 and the film opens with the daily weather report. For the residents of Paradise, California, this will forever be their worst nightmare: ‘Camp Fire’, the deadliest and most destructive fire in the state’s...
Greetings again from the darkness. This documentary was first released in 2012. I watched it then, and was pleased to hear that it’s now being re-released as part of the schedule of events in celebration of what would have been Bob Marley’s 75th birthday. Kevin...
Greetings again from the darkness. Childhood best friends forge a bond that is never really broken. Piper (Jill Renner) and Celeste (Nicole Falk in her first credited role) grew up in the same trailer park. Piper is shown glancing at an old photo booth snapshot of the...
Greetings again from the darkness. We realize very quickly that octogenarian Gordon Lightfoot isn’t about to cater to co-documentarians Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni, or establish a new reputation as being a sweetheart at this stage of life. Instead he is filmed with...
Review by James Lindorf A year ago, Stephen (William McNamara) was a little stressed trying to balance spending time with his family, and going on to being a successful cardiothoracic surgeon. Now, he is broken and barely going through the motions. Stephen has decided...
Review by Monique Thompson Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister. There may...