Review by Wesley Collins The barriers and restrictions we’re forced to live with often times dilute our understanding of ourselves. We never truly know what we’re capable of or what we’re willing to do in the direst situations. This is what Ty Matthews is faced with....
Greetings again from the darkness. One of the reasons I so enjoy movies is that I can usually find some positive to latch onto, even if most of the project fails to connect or generate much interest. Such is the case with this latest from director Catherine Hardwicke...
Review by James Lindorf First-time filmmakers Brent Kinetz and Terence Mickey, along with Gravitas Ventures, take you on a journey into one man’s obsession to be responsible for 1 Billion Orgasms. Aaron Headley is a middle-aged semi-successful engineer. He is a...
Review by Russell Whitehouse King Henry V has fascinated people since the time of his reign, in the 1400s. Shakespeare wrote three plays, the Henriad, about the young ruler. David Michod based THE KING, which he co-wrote with one of the film’s supporting actors (Joel...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler John Clarke (Adam Huss) is a surgeon hanging out with his son, Brian (Tate Birchmore), when he gets called back into work. On the way, John crashes his car and loses his son. When he awakens in the hospital, his wife Chloe (Madeline Zima),...
Review by Wesley Collins The mark of a great film for me is its ability to maintain intrigue and interest throughout the course of the movie. An Affair to Die For did just that. It isn’t a film that is based just on or in beautiful settings and fancies imagery that...
Review by Bradley Smith Can you ever really leave the past in the past? Probably. But in film, almost never. In the gritty thriller Blood Brother, a cop has to face his past when an old friend gets out of prison after taking the fall for a crime they and a couple...
I do not know exactly how I feel about the latest entry in the Lisbeth Salander series. I have been a huge fan of these characters for a decade now (even named my dog Blomkvist), but I can’t help having very mixed feelings about this latest iteration. It’s an exciting...
Greetings again from the darkness. From the department of ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’ (a phrase attributed to French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr), there is a segment in this documentary showing Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew...
Greetings again from the darkness. Missing: Tchaikovsky and Ballet. OK, not missing entirely, and it seems all we do is beg for creativity and new approaches in movies, so let’s give this one fair treatment. It’s not the traditional “Nutcracker” holiday fare you’ve...