Greetings again from the darkness. The challenge after watching this movie is deciding whether it needed more time or less. With a run time of two-and-a-half hours, that may seem like a ludicrous question, but Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize (fiction) winning 2013 novel...
Greetings again from the darkness. This may be a conventionally-structured documentary profiling a well-known person, but that person possessed extraordinary talent, and her story deserves to be told … or better yet, heard. Parkinson ’s disease has robbed Linda...
Greetings again from the darkness. “Turn that down!” Those are words we all hear when growing up and then repeat as our own kids come of age. Noise pollution rarely receives the same attention as that of air or water, and most of us are startled when we find ourselves...
Greetings again from the darkness. Co-directors Gavin Fitzgerald and Charlie Lightening could have ended this profile of singer Liam Gallagher by playing the theme song to “Family Feud” over the closing credits. While they do offer up an unflinching look at the...
Review by Bradley Smith If you are the type of person that watches auto racing for the crashes, the first half of this documentary is for you. For everybody else, Rapid Response is a well-crafted history lesson about the development of safety standards in auto racing...
Greetings again from the darkness. For us baseball fans, seeing the sport on the big screen can be bliss (THE SANDLOT, 1993) or extreme torture (ED, 1996). Actually, with any sports movie, the pressure is on the filmmakers and cast to be respectful to the talent and...
Review by James Lindorf Riot Girls is an action sci-fi feature set in an alternate 1995 where a mysterious illness has killed every adult. With the adults gone, the town of Potter’s Bluff has split into two factions. On the east side are the poor kids who work...
My biggest worry going into the second chapter in the modern film version of ‘It’ is that the film would fail the way the miniseries did. Part of this is inherent in the novel itself. The adult half of the story is just not as good as the kid half, but part of of what...
Greetings again from the darkness. Love it or hate it. Sometimes it’s not that easy. Sometimes it is. Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has been making his own brand of videos, shorts, documentaries and features since the 1980’s. He has a loyal following of viewers who “get”...
Greetings again from the darkness. September 11, 2001 provided us examples of human nature at its worst, followed by human nature at its finest. Filmmaker Moze Mossenen begins with audio from the September 11 news reports playing over somber and beautiful shots of the...