Greetings again from the darkness. I’ve stated it many times before, and it’s proven true again here … WWII continues to be a source for stories big and small. Stories of heroes, and stories of victims. Some of these stories are very personal, and some have historical...
Greetings again from the darkness. As far as I can tell, there has never before been a feature film profiling Harriet Tubman. Given her remarkable accomplishments and historic standing as an iconic American hero, we should all agree that it’s high time. The film plays...
Review by Joseph Tucker A rookie police officer in New Orleans has to balance her identity as a black woman with her role as a police officer when she witnesses other police officers committing murder. The short synopsis offered by IMDB of “Black and Blue” is as...
Review by Monique Thompson STARRING: John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo, Brianna Hildebrand, Judy Greer, Dennis Haysbert, Tyler Mane, Christian Convery, Finley Rose Slater When straight-laced fire superintendent Jake Carson and his elite team of...
Review by Monique Thompson Members of the mysterious and spooky Addams family -- Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester and Grandma -- are readily preparing for a visit from their even creepier relatives. But trouble soon arises when shady TV personality...
By James Lindorf Several years ago, Writer and Director Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest), along with his co-writer Birgitta Bongenhielm brought the idea of adapting Swedish writer Hakan Nesser’s thriller novels to producer Rick Dugdale. The...
It’s been a while since I’ve taken my youngest child to a movie where she was asking me when we could leave almost the whole time. Her little four year old self actually sat through ‘Avengers: Endgame’ without much complaint at all. However, she was laying in my lap...
Greetings again from the darkness. Every parent with young kids has been there. That feeling of exhaustion … a sense of frustration and being beaten down. It’s not about loving your kids, because you absolutely do. It’s simply the nagging feeling that your own self is...
Review by James Lindorf Frank is on the cusp of a career breakthrough with a big promotion all but guaranteed. His relationship with his wife Cheryl, on the other hand, isn’t going quite so well. When his co-worker and best friend Jeff offers to take Frank out on the...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?” In this third entry of the franchise, those song lyrics are what we are asking cocky and aging Miami detective Mike Lowery (Will Smith). An old case comes back to haunt him and a scorned...