Review by James Lindorf Academy Award-winning Director Ross Kauffman’s Tigerland is a look at preservation efforts in Russia and India, two of the big cats’ primary territories. Joining Kauffman as a producer is Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens (The Cove) who is no...
Review By Wesley Collins As living and breathing vessels with thoughts outside of ourselves, I’d like to think we as humans all explore the world of death through thought and imagination. We think about death so much we often times bring about our own demises. We...
Review by James Lindorf Trading Paint is the second feature-length film for Director Karzan Kader (Bekas) and was written by first time writer Craig R. Welch and Greg Gerani (Pumpkinhead). Trading Paint explores the world of dirt track racing and stars John Travolta,...
In the eyes of many industry insiders and film critics, Jordan Peele is the next Alfred Hitchcock or perhaps even Stanley Kubrick. These comparisons may feel a bit early, but after watching his masterfully crafted follow up to the Oscar winning ‘Get Out’, I can see...
Greetings again from the darkness. A herd of wild horses frolic and gallop and relax in the prairies that separate majestic peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Suddenly the peace being enjoyed by the horses is interrupted by the deafening noise of a helicopter...
Greetings again from the darkness. Having previously mentioned my general annoyance at the frequency of which the ‘Americanization’ of World Cinema projects occur, I was initially dismayed to hear about the remake of the excellent Chilean film GLORIA. That 2013...
Greetings again from the darkness. More. Better. Faster. Most industries have those goals, and this story from French-Canadian writer-director Kim Nguyen focuses on high-frequency stock traders … particularly a race between two competitive firms to cut one millisecond...
Review by Cole Clay Shooting a narrative film at the Olympics seems like an impossible task, but not for filmmakers Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas (TRACKTOWN) who had unprecedented access to the Olympic village at the 2018 Pyeongchang games in South Korea. They...
Review by Cole Clay Before you read any further, VILLAINS is a darkly comic blast. This home invasion thriller has some twists and turns, but its predictability doesn’t get in the way of the comedy, the performances and the filmmaking craft of directing duo Dan Berk...
Greetings again from the darkness. The all-too-familiar sick/dying teenager genre is frequently associated with Lifetime Channel movies or something of that ilk. What sets this one apart (and above) many in the slew of similarly themed movies is the script, and more...