Greetings again from the darkness. Frequent movie goers often complain about the lack of originality in American movies. It sometimes seems as if most are sequels, remakes or reboots, or simply pulled from the panels of a comic book. There is another source that is...
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. Most World War II films focus on the atrocities committed by Hitler’s German forces, but this adaptation of Ruta Sepetys’ novel (“Between Shades of Gray”) reminds us of the evils under Stalin and the Russian...
Review by James Lindorf IFC Midnight will be distributing Pledge, from Director Daniel Robbins, Writer Zachary Weiner and Producer Mark Rapaport in theaters and VOD January 11th. Three socially inept college freshmen, Ethan (Phillip Andre Botello), David (Zachary...
Greetings again from the darkness. The rogue/burned-out cop obsessed with an old case or particular criminal nemesis is something we have seen many times before. Ordinarily there would be no reason to seek out yet another movie on the subject; however, this time the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Usually after watching a movie, I spend some time thinking about the story, the performances, the visual effects, the music, the sets, the costumes, and any other piece of the puzzle that makes up that particular movie going...
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. Two men are kidnapped, bound and gagged, and dragged into a secure basement. Soon enough, the disoriented men (and we as viewers) realize this is to be a trial conducted via social media – and the stakes are...
2018 was a huge box office year (especially for Disney), and I was able to see 248 movies during the year – a nice mixture of blockbusters, indies, Documentaries, World cinema, and even my first ever Christmas Apocalypse Musical! Since I’m not a big believer in the...
SHOPLIFTERS (Manbiki kazoku, Japan) Greetings again from the darkness. We typically think of family as blood relatives, those affiliated by marriage or adoption, and those funky cousins (sometimes ‘removed’) that, according to the family tree, are supposedly related...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Sawyer (Hermione Corfield) was supposed to leave college and go visit her family for Thanksgiving. When she receives a call about a job interview, she decides to go drive out to Washington D.C. instead of going to visit her family. Sawyer’s...
Review by Russell Whitehouse Behold an expedition of mammoth proportions... Genesis 2.0 is a documentary that follows two groups of people united by their passionate pursuit of one thing: the wooly mammoth. The film simultaneously explores the paleontology team of...