By James Lindorf In 2017 the Scotch industry raked in nearly 6 billion dollars and the liquor only continues to grow in popularity. As more people are giving the rich variation of whiskey a try, it is only natural that they look to learn more about the beverage. Enter...
Movie Review: ‘Clara’
Review by Bradley Smith Emotional. Heartbreaking. Intriguing. Clara is a simple, grounded love story surrounded by astronomy, the search for life in the universe, and art. If Avengers isn't your cup of tea or you need a cleanser after that epic conclusion, Clara might...
Tribeca Film Review: ‘Swallow’ An Entertaining Warped Fairy Tale Twist
Review by L.C. Cragg Set in present day, but with chilling overtones of 1950’s themes of female objectification and the subservient role of women, Director/ Writer, Carlo Mirabella-Davis with Swallow delivers a grippingly eerie tale of one women’s obsession as she...
Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Skin’ Hits A Strong Chord Against Hatred
Review by L.C. Cragg Based on the Academy Award winning short, of the same name, Writer/Director Guy Nativ delivers a story of struggle and redemption against an unyielding a real threat from the white supremacist nation movement. Based on true events, the film tracks...
Tribeca Film Review: ‘The Gasoline Thieves (Original Title Huachicolero)’ Is A Gripping Coming of Age Story
Review by L.C. Cragg This film depicts a classic coming of age story, with romance, family drama, jealousy, classism, economic struggle set in a violent rural countryside, with a backdrop of government price gouging driven by a “shortage” of gasoline. In the vain of...
Movie Review: ‘The Dirty Kind’
Review By: Wesley Collins The older I become the more I realize how much I love an unplanned day. One of those average days: where anything is possible because you’re apart of or into many different things. There’s almost nothing like it. That’s what the film The...
Movie Review: ‘Non-Fiction (Doubles vies, France)’
Greetings again from the darkness. Kids today (shake your head while saying it). No one reads anymore, and when they do, it’s only e-books and blogs. Such is the ongoing discussion throughout this latest from writer-director Olivier Assayas (PERSONAL SHOPPER 2016,...
Movie Review: ‘The Lego Movie 2’ Blu-ray Is A Rehashed Blast!
Is the ‘The Lego Movie 2’ better than its predecessor? Sadly, the answer here is no, but that should not be surprising. A sequel was always going to lack the fresh nature of the original film. It was truly the first of its kind and its unique concept could never be...
Movie Review: ‘Tell It To The Bees’
Greetings again from the darkness. Secrets and lies become a tangled web of messiness that impacts lives and relationships in this story adapted from Fiona Shaw’s 2009 novel. Annabel Jankel (known for her music videos and as a creator of Max Headroom) directs the...
Movie Review: ‘What Men Want’ Blu-ray
Review by Monique Thompson TARAJI is....E V E R Y T H I N G! Passed up for a well-deserved promotion, sports agent Ali Davis wonders what else she needs to do to succeed in a man's world. Hoping to find answers from a psychic, Ali drinks a weird concoction that...






