Film review by L.C. Cragg This documentary film draws audiences into the heart and soul of a master story teller and a Nobel prize winning author: Toni Morrison. A comprehensive look at her very full, inspiring and ground breaking path as a writer of authentic black...
Review by Cole Clay When 2019 is all said and done, there will be many good movies in the rearview. Some will make us laugh, some will be spooky, and some may show us a part of the world that exists only in our dreams. The scrappy indie THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON, from...
Greetings again from the darkness. Would you rather have a few minutes warning for the impending end of the world, or remain blissfully unaware of doomsday? Penny and Larry are a married couple on vacation in Hawaii. As they argue about the best timing to hit the...
Greetings again from the darkness. A well-dressed man (Vincent Cusimano) is informed that he won’t be hired due to an unspecified blemish on his background check. His desperation leads him to don a black ski mask and point a gun at the teller as he demands the money...
Greetings again from the darkness. Alex is a young woman who can’t seem to find her way in life. She is a CODA: Child of Deaf Adults. She doesn’t belong to the deaf community, the hearing community, or her dance company. Alex views herself as an outsider in all...
UNMASKING JIHADI JOHN: ANATOMY OF A TERRORIST (2019, doc) Greetings again from the darkness. When we think of terrorist groups, we usually visualize a shadowy, faceless group, all dressed in black, while carrying out some unspeakable act of violence. Director Anthony...
Greetings again from the darkness. Viewers of writer-director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical feature will likely be divided into two distinct groups: those who find it to be a beautifully artistic psychological study, and those who find it to be a painfully slow...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Father Morris (Clayton Nemrow) is dealing with confessions, like he always does, but this time seems particularly hard as he hits his breaking point dealing with everyone’s problems including his own. A random teenager named Amber (Jessica...
Quentin Tarantino has been a window into the Hollywood of the past for nearly three decades now. He has illuminated its wonder, its violence, and its allure as a continuing thread that connects his previous eight films. Now, he brings the whole thing front and center...
Review by James Lindorf Academy Award-winner Guy Nattiv made his English-language feature debut with Skin, a story of emotional and physical of transformation, inspired by actual events. If that name sounds familiar, it is because Skin was also the title of Nattiv’s...