Review by James Lindorf The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought first responders to the front of our collective minds. Between those two events, they reverted to the people you only thought about when you needed them or...
The Long Walk is an intriguing story set in a post-apocalyptic fascistic United States. It is an unbelievable feat of endurance as the movie literally follows 50 participants on an endless marathon where only 1 will survive. Conversations between the main...
Greetings again from the darkness. There is no obvious explanation for my connection to and appreciation of Tim Blake Nelson on the big screen … well … other than his talent. He certainly doesn’t possess the traditional attributes of a movie star, yet that’s...
Greetings again from the darkness. Most of us scoot through life never being labeled as “the prettiest” anything. That’s fine. We accept it. Still, we apply the label periodically and it was Bunny Yeager who was known as “the world’s prettiest photographer”....
Review by James Lindorf Dylan O’Brien gives an excellent performance playing wildly different twins Roman and Rocky in writer and director James Sweeney’s second feature “Twinless.” The movie made waves at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, not just for the...
Review by James Lindorf If you ask someone how they feel about romantic comedies, you often get one of three responses. They either love them, hate them, or used to love them. With the possible exception of people who claim superhero fatigue, no other genre...
A new entry in the Jurassic Park/World franchise is upon us, softly rebooting the franchise just three years after the last movie. While the previous trilogy had the dinosaurs roaming freely around the globe, this movie puts them mostly back on an isolated...
Greetings again from the darkness. Having one’s name or work associated Hitler typically (but somehow not always these days) marks one as a pariah or persona non grata. For artists, the rules can be a bit blurred, and filmmaker Andres Veiel takes on the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Ben Masters’ follow-up to his outstanding documentary, DEEP IN THE HEART: A TEXAS WILDLIFE STORY (2022) is even more stunning, more remarkable, and more important. Narrated by environmentalist, model, and actress Quannah...
Review by James Lindorf Toxie is back and ready to avenge the put-upon citizens of his small town once again. “The Toxic Avenger” took his first toxic waste bath in 1984, leading to three sequels, even if two of them have been disowned, and a spin-off...