Greetings again from the darkness. Choosing Jane Austen’s beloved 1815 novel for one’s feature film directorial debut is an ambitious decision, and one for which photographer Autumn de Wilde proves she is up to the challenge. Ms. de Wilde and screenwriter Eleanor...
Greetings again from the darkness. I was really hoping for a Josh Trank resurgence. When his FANTASTIC FOUR became one of the worst reviewed movies of 2015, he lost out on a chance to direct a Star Wars film. Given creative control as writer-director-editor, CAPONE...
Greetings again from the darkness. Director Rodney Luis Aquino opens his first feature film on a happy and loving family consisting of father/husband, mother/wife, and son. They are a normal family who eat dinner together while discussing spitballs. The wife questions...
Review by James Lindorf “The Legion” came from the mind of the first-time writer and director, José Magán. Thoe he is new to the scene, Magán didn’t want to start small he wanted his first film to be an epic roman adventure. He began by writing a story of courage and...
Review by James Lindorf Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg and writer Amy Talkington have revived the nearly 40-year-old Nicolas Cage comedy cult classic “Valley Girl” as a musical. Set in the era of excess where the only thing bigger than the hair were the attitudes,...
Greetings again from the darkness. A lovely opening sequence shows Karen in bed, the morning sun barely able to match the light of love emanating from inside her. We never see Karen’s lover’s face, but we hear D’s voice as the two ladies share the beginning of a day....
Greetings again from the darkness. British writer Caitlin Moran has adapted her own 2014 semi-autobiographical novel-memoir for the screen, because who better to write about the coming-of-age of a talented outcast than that talented outcast herself? Given the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Most all of us built a terrarium for science class when we were in junior high. Did you ever fantasize about living in it? Well that’s basically what happened in 1991 when 8 scientists were sealed up in Biosphere 2, a giant terrarium...
Review by Bradley Smith A suicidal man in a remote cabin finds himself on the opposite side of three brutal killers when a kidnapped woman arrives on his doorstep in need of help. The pair of protagonists are likeable enough to make the audience care about their...
Review by Lisa Payne Imagine all major family celebrations being videotaped from your earliest moments after birth. Let that sink in. “The camera immediately became a wall between Henry and the family.” - Jacqui Neulinger From the moment Jacqui said this, I had a knot...