Greetings again from the darkness. Rich people aren’t like you and me (unless you happen to be rich, in which case you fall into the first category). Their houses are different. Their vacations are different. Their family traditions are different. And that’s where...
Greetings again from the darkness. Quentin Tarantino has been praised as the cinematic “voice of his generation.” His influence on other filmmakers is as obvious as those who have influenced him. This is a celebration of Tarantino the filmmaker, and also somewhat of a...
TREE #3 (2019, short film) Greetings again from the darkness. Teachers can have a lasting impact on their students, and few teachers would knowingly prevent one of their students from achieving their goals or living their dreams. Teachers tend to have one key flaw....
Greetings again from the darkness. The Copacabana tracking shot in GOODFELLAS in etched not only in my brain, but in cinema lore. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese teases us with a similar shot as the opening sequence in his latest. The camera snakes through the dank halls...
From the opening string quartet to the closing theme, ‘Knives Out’ is filled to the brim with cleverly written hilarity. Just when you think it’s going to take you in one direction, it veers off into a direction you did not expect. I even thought I knew who the killer...
Greetings again from the darkness. Whether in sports or music or movies, watching talent blossom and grow is wondrous. For movie lovers, this describes young filmmaker Trey Edward Shults, whose first feature film KRISHA really grabbed me at a film festival in 2016....
Review by James Lindorf It’s April in Anaconda, Montana. Graduation and a world of possibilities are just around the corner for this year’s senior class…well, most of them anyway. Headstrong teenager Mickey Peck (Camila Morrone) is doing what she can to keep Hank, her...
Greetings again from the darkness. “I suspect ‘fow-uhl’ play.” So states the renowned and poetically named private detective, Benoit Blanc. Of course when mega-wealthy, best-selling author Harlan Thrombey supposedly commits suicide after his 85th birthday party by...
Greetings again from the darkness. Has she lost her way or lost her mind? The Bernadette Fox we meet is a misanthrope. She doesn’t much like her life. It’s a life with a loving husband, a workaholic tech genius. It’s a life with a crumbling, once majestic mansion that...
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. This easily could have been extended to 80 or 90 minutes of Father-Daughter road trip, but director Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers and writer Luis Molinie deliver the same story and evoke the same emotional...