Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. The image most associated with “Rosie the Riveter” is the iconic poster featuring a woman wearing a headband, and flexing her bicep exposed by a rolled-up work sleeve. The phrase on the poster reads “We can...
When I finished watching ‘Onward’, the latest Pixar film, I thought that it was a wonderfully animated, fairly sweet, and slightly humorous trip. Kind of like a ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ road trip film about the importance of the family that’s right in front of you. In...
Review by Lisa Payne Military Wives is inspired by true stories of the Military Wives Choirs. It is exactly what you’d expect it to be. Husbands away at war, and the wives need other things to do to take their minds off the stress of worrying. (Lisa) Sharon Horgan is...
Greetings again from the darkness. It has been said that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Writer-director Thomas F Mazziotti has not only based this story on his own real life experience, but with it proves that imitation can also be the sign of a...
Greetings again from the darkness. No studio has ever had a 25 year run like Pixar. This is their 22nd feature film over that span and every single one lands somewhere in the range of brilliant/instant classic to watchable/re-watchable. Though this latest may not...
Greetings again from the darkness. Have you ever picked up a marble and wanted to ingest it? How about a push-pin? A battery? Any other items normally considered inedible? If not, you likely don’t suffer from the psychological disorder known as pica – an eating...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Greed for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.” Those words were part of the iconic speech from Gordon Gekko (an Oscar winning role for Michael Douglas) in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film WALL STREET. Here we are 3...
Greetings again from the darkness. Seeing Chinese films reach mainstream status is a nice development in a cinematic industry that too often segments by nationality. Jon M Chu’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS was a huge hit in 2018, and then last year Lulu Wang’s brilliant THE...
Greetings again from the darkness. So much beer and booze. It would be easy to classify this latest from writer-director Gavin O’Connor as a sports movie. After all, he has given us two excellent ones in MIRACLE (2004) and WARRIOR (2011). However, as with those two...
Greetings again from the darkness. The ‘long con’ usually doesn’t work for movies since the story must be told within a 2 hour window. However, writer-director Georg Nolfi and co-writers Brad Kane, Niceole R Levy, David Lewis Smith and Stan Younger deliver a story...