Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. It’s a gritty scene set in a dimly lit bus station. A mother is nagging her distracted young son. Their bus is delayed, which agitates them both. Writer-director Daniel Newell Kaufman and Cinematographer Adam...
Review by Lisa Payne “You click on horrific news headlines, violence, destruction, terrorism, war because it makes your shitty little lives seem that little bit less shitty.” This is Guns Akimbo in a nutshell. Miles (Daniel Radcliffe), lives a dull life running from...
Review by Lisa Payne Scott (RJ Mitte) hates Christmas and birthdays. This dismays both his heavily-pregnant wife, Karen (Yuly Mireles) and his young son, Jeremy (Elijah Maximus - great name). The family always spends the Christmas holidays with Karen’s parents, Jackie...
Review by James Lindorf No matter how you look at it, antisemitism in the US and Europe is on the rise and is bleeding into governments around the world in ways not seen since the 1930s. Antisemitism is coming in the forms of vandalism, social media abuse, assault,...
Harrison Ford is one of the most reliable actors in filmmaking. Even as he ages, he just seems to become more steadfast. Which is an important quality in a movie like ‘The Call of the Wild’, because without his presence this movie might certainly have failed. The...
Review by James Lindorf Ayanna (Zora Howard) is a seventeen-year-old poet enjoying her last months at home before starting college. On a summer night in Harlem, she meets Isaiah (Joshua Boone), a charming music producer who has just moved to the city. Ayanna is...
Greetings again from the darkness. Based on Robbie Robertson’s “Testimony: A Memoir”, documentarian Daniel Roher’s film is understandably told from the lead guitarist’s point of view, and in fact, Mr. Robertson spends a good deal of time recollecting directly to the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Billy Crystal hasn’t starred in a film since 2012’s PARENTAL GUIDANCE. Sure, he’s had some appearances in movies and TV shows, and done some voice acting, but that’s a lot of years between top-lining gigs. It seems writer Peter Hoare...
Review by Lisa Payne I wonder how many versions of Emma. there have been including the best, Clueless. I mean I love Pride & Prejudice adaptations. And I tend to like TV, rather than movie versions of Emma. because they are so much more expansive and allows Emma. to...
Review by Lisa Payne “The lengths we go to for family are infinitely immeasurable, but this path may have just led me too far beyond my return.” During the opening credits, words flash across the screen and honestly, I should have tweaked what type of movie this was....