Greetings again from the darkness. Thanks to Ron Shelton’s BULL DURHAM (1988), a favorite sports phrase emerged: ‘announcing one’s presence with authority’. Perhaps no better phrase exists to describe Tracy Edwards at the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race. The 24...
Review by James Lindorf Academy Award® winner Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) and Golden Globe nominee Jessica Alba (L.A.’s Finest) headline Killers Anonymous, the latest film from Director Martin Owen and Lionsgate. Things at Killers Anonymous, a support group for...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s 1945 on the heels of the Allied forces victory in WWII. British officer Lewis Morgan is charged with overseeing the military’s role in beginning the process of returning a sense of normalcy back to Hamburg (and assisting with...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes It’s a question most of us have likely posed to ourselves at one time or another: when the end comes would you rather face it head-on, or trundle forward in blissful ignorance? The answer probably takes into account a mixture of the practical...
Greetings again from the darkness. For many countries, tourism is vital to economic stability. For that revenue, there is often a price to pay. It could be overcrowding, destruction of natural resources, diminishing local culture, or even a jolt to pride and...
9 years ago, I called ‘Toy Story 3’ the best ending to an animated trilogy of all time! And I honestly thought that the series was over at that point. What better ending could it have? Well, ‘Toy Story 4’ tries to answer that question with results that will blow you...
Greetings again from the darkness. Very few rock stars would be content having the nickname “Stoneface”, or having a documentary on their life titled “The Quiet One”, but then Bill Wyman is not a typical rock star. Having quit The Rolling Stones after being a member...
French-Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand won the Best Foreign Language Oscar for THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (2003), and has gained a very loyal group of followers for his films. It should be noted that, despite the title, this is not a sequel or prequel to Arcand’s 1986...
Review by James Lindorf In Burn Your Maps Hollywood it-kid, Jacob Tremblay, is Wes, an 8-year-old from a nondescript American city whose heart lies, not at home with his family, but on the plains of Mongolia. After discovering an old picture stuck in the pages of a...
Review by Jacqueline Hipes Women don’t often fare well in Shakespeare’s plays. Although written with as much dimension as the men, they rarely find themselves in a better position at the end of the play than the one they held at the start. At best they find themselves...