Review by Lisa Payne When a movie starts with a creepy version of a nursery rhyme, you know you’re in for some otherworldly mischief. “What was that?” “Probably some animal.” “That’s what everyone says before they are attacked by some psycho.” THANK YOU! That is...
Greetings again from the darkness. The set-up is a familiar one. Two tough guys, armed with weapons, snap at each other about the meeting that is about to go down. Tensions are high. Taking place in an underground garage for privacy, and as the SUV approaches, the two...
Review by Lisa Payne Two bank robbers, Mick (Dan Liebman) and Harry (Jonathan Thomson) have left their third accomplice Keith (Nick Apostolides) who was shot during the robbery. We don’t see it, only hear. This ratchets the tension up immediately. What it also did was...
Review by Lisa Payne Nai Nai (Tsai Chin) is a bad-tempered, disobliging, and quarrelsome Grandma. Perfect! After visiting a neighborhood fortune teller who says Nai Nai’s lucky day is coming, she withdraws all of her money from the bank and blows it all at the casino...
Review by Lisa Payne As I started watching, I felt like I had come in halfway through, and now I know why. I Will Make You Mine is the third movie in a trilogy started by Dave Boyle. Surrogate Valentine, then Daylight Savings were the first two movies. Lynn Chen takes...
Review by James Lindorf Long before Kate Nash was co-starring on the hit Netflix series GLOW as Rhonda Richardson, she was an 18-year-old platinum-selling recording artist. “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl” uses the singer’s home videos following her from rising...
Greetings again from the darkness. Now is either the absolute best time to release this movie, or it’s the worst. During a pandemic with directives to stay home, you would be excused for classifying a cinematic travel trip by funny buddies as either a harsh prank or a...
Greetings again from the darkness. Artists think differently than the rest of us. Not only do they see the world with an offbeat or skewed vision, but they process life events in ways we sometimes can’t fathom. For instance, if a crime were committed against you –...
Greetings again from the darkness. The PSAs that frequently popped up on my childhood TV are vivid memories, though it took many years before I had any concept of what the Peace Corps was, how it was formed, and what it did. Director Alana DeJoseph, herself a Returned...
Review by Lisa Payne Peter (Danny Irizarry) and his mom (Wendy Keeling) move into a new house. She tries to get him to go to meet the neighbors. However. he doesn’t want to go after seeing the red headed daughter (Charlotte Arnold). Peter is the archetypal awkward...