Review by James Lindorf Random Media’s LGBTQ coming-of-age drama The Experience marks the feature film debut for Writer and Director Katerina Gorshkov. Scarlet (Allison Kove) is a teenage girl whose behavior lands her in a ‘tough love’ wilderness program for the...
Greetings again from the darkness. A twenty-something New York City millennial is having an other-side of-the-globe phone conversation with her Chinese grandmother. It’s immediately clear that, despite the geographic gap, these two share a close bond. We also witness...
Review by Bradley Smith What would it be like to be a fly on the wall? Movies and television shows frequently broach this topic with varying degrees of effectiveness. Above the Shadows has an intriguing premise and a beautiful, sad story, but the awe of the central...
After seeing the trailer for "The Farewell", I was hooked into the idea of seeing this original movie. A Chinese family lying to their grandmother, who only has months to live, and deciding to not tell her. As a way to gather before Nai Nai's (Shuzhen Zhao) final...
Greetings again from the darkness. Romantic Comedies and Political Parodies are staples in the film industry, and have been for many decades. The combination of the three – a political romantic comedy – is a bit rarer, though we have seen it in such films as DAVE...
The story has been around for quite some time and it’s one that producer James Cameron has always wanted to tell, but I can imagine that he’s been concerned about the economic viability of the project himself. He hasn’t said it publicly, but Cameron is a smart guy. He...
Review by Monique Thompson Scott and Annie Russell couldn't be happier after buying their dream home from a mysterious and lonely widower named Charlie in Napa Valley, Calif. Their newfound paradise soon turns into a living nightmare when Charlie -- still strangely...
Review by Bradley Smith Go another round in the IP MAN franchise with this latest spinoff installment. In this entry, we find Cheung Tin Chi (Max Zhang reprising his role from IP MAN 3) trying to live a peaceful life free of the martial arts style he once tried to...
Greetings again from the darkness. This special screening included a simulcast of the Red Carpet arrivals at the Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse hosted by Eric Davis of Fandango, and the broadcast went to many cities around the U.S. What immediately struck me from the...
Greetings again from the darkness. As described here, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 documentary BLACKFISH “changed everything” in regards to Orcas being held in captivity. But then Bill Neal’s documentary proceeds to lay out all of the problems that still exist and...