Review by James Lindorf Writer and Director Eamonn Murphy’s “A Better You” is a steampunk Irish fantasy/drama about a man discovering the best version of himself. Douglas is a thirty-something programmer with few prospects in the way of friends and even less in love....
Greetings again from the darkness. Trust in our national institutions may be at an all-time low, but it’s not like there haven’t been plenty of events over the years to make us wary enough to demand attention and oversight. This story of the 2002 Nassau County Schools...
Greetings again from the darkness. The opening title card states “Nothing you are about to see is true” … and then it dissolves, leaving the word ‘true’ as the first word in the film’s title. Of course, some of the things we are about to see are true, though it is a...
Greetings again from the darkness. Their mother amassed quite the collection of whale-related items from eBay prior to her recent passing. The brother needs the inheritance to continue his self-discovery course, which may or may not answer the question of whether or...
Greetings again from the darkness. The description for this movie labels lead character Tyler Rake “a fearless black market mercenary.” Now I’ve personally never shopped for a mercenary, but my assumption is that every one of them is ‘black market’, and none would...
Review by James Lindorf Seeking a little honest work on his road to redemption, Crimson Matthews takes on the task of cleaning up a dilapidated house owned by the small town’s preacher. Crimson has had a lot of things to fear in his life, rival motorcycle gangs,...
Greetings again from the darkness. Let’s get this out of the way upfront. Filmmaker Guy Ritchie’s return to London crime-comedy is most assuredly a bit too far removed from today’s acceptable Politically Correct line. It features mostly male characters and far too...
Greetings again from the darkness. One might think that the only thing less interesting than watching someone read a book would be watching them talk about a book they are buying and not intending to read. Director-Editor-Producer DW Young somehow manages to make the...
Review by James Lindorf Haldwell is an elite boarding school in an unnamed part of Pennsylvania. On its private grounds, all debaucherous activities are controlled by one of five student-led factions. Seventeen-year-old Selah Summers (Lovie Simone) runs the Spades,...
Review by Lisa Payne Two men discuss the robbery they are going to commit, then one has a better idea, let’s steal from the bodega, it goes wrong, one escapes, he gets knocked out by two other men on their way to a drug deal, this moves on to a gun deal, then kids...