Review by Lauryn Angel Dolls are everywhere this summer: the Toy Story gang is back; Chucky got a make-over; and Annabelle is looking for a new host. Annabelle Comes Home is the third movie about the creepy doll from the first film in The Conjuring franchise – and...
Greetings again from the darkness. Summer movies are traditionally tentpoles and teen flicks … big budget action movies and those aimed at an audience that are on a 3 month reprieve from school. We are quickly learning that rising star filmmaker Ari Aster cares little...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s this time of year when the slew of ultra-heavy dramatic Oscar hopefuls fill the movie-watching schedule, so this zany little flick is a welcome diversion … despite, or perhaps due to, defying traditional movie genres. An...
Greetings again from the darkness. Yes, it’s another instant classic from Pixar. No, we shouldn’t be surprised. Their track record is beyond compare. But I can’t help it. How the heck do they do it time after time, movie after movie? We have known (most of) the...
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. It’s the kind of interaction that occurs many times every day. A busy career woman crosses paths with a stranger at a London coffee shop. While she is stressed, structured and harried, he is laid back,...
Greetings again from the darkness. When former Yale University high-jumper Sam Fox announces he is setting out to break the speed record on the Pacific Crest Trail, he does so with a confidence-bordering-on-arrogance that seems to be a natural trait amongst endurance...
Review by James Lindorf Over four hundred years in the making, The True Don Quixote updates Cervantes’ classic tale to modern times and trades the Spanish provinces for the wilds of Louisiana. Isolated and aimless, Danny Kehoe (Tim Blake Nelson) retreats into his...
Review by James Lindorf Director Alexandre O. Philippe is continuing his look at some of the most significant scenes and films in cinema history with Memory: The Origins of Alien. In 1971 a relatively unknown writer named Dan O’Bannon penned a 29-page script entitled...
It's been a few months since Fred sold the Mystery Inc. van and they haven't solved any cases. Shaggy makes them promise they're done doing investigations. Then Shaggy wins a trip courtesy of Elvira's TV show to an island for a vacation. The whole gang joins him. When...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s been 80 years since THE WIZARD OF OZ was released and 50 years since Judy Garland died. So why do we still care so much? Of course the obvious reason is that, for many generations, her adventures as Dorothy Gale from Kansas...