Greetings again from the darkness. "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Every junior high student learns that Neil Armstrong spoke those words when he became the first person to walk on the moon’s surface in 1969. So while his words are...
Review by James Lindorf Stella’s Last Weekend was written by, directed by and stars Polly Draper (Thirtysomething), along with her two sons, Alex Wolff (The Fault in Our Stars) and Nat Wolff (Hereditary). Jack (Nat Wolff) has had a bit of a rough year. He met a girl...
Greetings again from the darkness. The mystery of why Ant-Man was not involved with the battle for the galaxy in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR has been solved as director Peyton Reed returns to helm the sequel to his 2015 hit ANT-MAN. The reason is very simple: Scott...
Greetings again from the darkness. John Lennon wrote “Money don’t get everything, it’s true. What it don’t get, I can’t use. Now give me money. That’s what I want.” Gordon Gekko said “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” Photographer-Director Lauren Greenfield...
I have not particularly enjoyed the last couple of ‘HotelTransylvania’ movies. The animation style is less Pixar and more Direct to DVD. It also doesn’t help that the usual suspects of crappy Adam Sandler movies are on full display in all these films. However, the...
‘A Star Is Born’ is a story that has now been passed on since 1937 and remade at least five times over an 81 year span. Yet, the story itself is as old as music. A famous boy meets a girl. They fall in love. The boy helps the girl find her voice. She becomes a star,...
‘The Hate U Give’ might end up the most divisive mainstream picture to release this year. Which is a fact that did not hit me until today. Not because of the films quality, but because many white people and the deliberately blind racists of this world have no interest...
Review by James Lindorf Bismillah is Alessandro Grande’s award-winning Italian film that tackles some of the significant issues facing undocumented immigrants. Young Samira has been left to care for her ailing brother, Jamil, without access to traditional medicine. As...
Review by James Lindorf Marianne Farley’s sincere film, Marguerite, stars Béatrice Picard (Les Jeunes Loups) alongside Sandrine Bisson (1991). Picard is Marguerite, an aging woman suffering from complications of diabetes, forced to hire a nurse, Rachel, played by...
Greetings again from the darkness. Being neither an alcoholic, an artist nor a quadriplegic, I found myself wondering if I would be able to connect at all with the real life story of John Callahan. At most, I figured another stellar, oddball performance from Joaquin...