Review by Jacquelin Hipes In a broad sense, the Zellner brothers’ Damsel feels like a direct retort to the classic John Wayne Western, The Searchers. Both feature a single-minded man setting out to rescue a kidnapped woman, casting himself as a noble savior in a...
Review by Bradley Smith Post apocalyptic survival horror is also a surprisingly deep, tragic love story. It's two for the price of one with two stories featuring one woman running parallel. One story is set in a typical post apocalyptic desert wasteland where Juliet...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Craig Owen (Cayleb Long) goes to a liquor store at the request of his wife, Kelly (Mischa Barton). After chatting up the cashier, Lauren (Tracie Thoms), Craig goes outside to smoke and answer his phone. When he finally decides to leave, he...
Review by James Lindorf Few things readily spring to mind when you think of perseverance and the human spirit to tackle the most difficult tasks. Maybe its drums up images of the Wright brothers first flight in 1903, Hillary and Tenzing conquering Everest in 1953,...
Greetings again from the darkness. In the vein of Gillian Flynn/David Fincher’s GONE GIRL and Paula Hawkins/Tate Taylor’s THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN comes yet another vanishing woman mystery. This latest is based on Darcey Bell’s novel (screenplay by Jessica Sharzer), only...
Greetings again from the darkness. Politics in the United States is an embarrassment to any citizen who is paying attention these days. And by “these days”, I’m referring to at least a couple of generations, if not even more. The bickering between and within political...
Alright admit it you're a sucker for a good classic Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolf, Mummy, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Phantom Of The Opera movie from the the 1930's to 1950's. With stars like Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Elsa...
Greetings again from the darkness. Dating back to H.G. Wells’ 1895 book and 1960 film THE TIME MACHINE, time travel has long been a favorite and familiar trope for filmmakers and writers. It’s been a central topic for comedies (BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE,...
If you’ve heard anything about the new ‘Ocean’s’ movie it likely had to do with gender. Yes, the latest film has swapped the hormones and the genitalia. But that’s pretty much all it has swapped. Having the film be from a female perspective does lend certain aspects...
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. While I will never tire of seeing really cool dinosaurs on the big screen, I’ll probably never avoid frustration from a poorly written and poorly acted film. On the bright side, I got to see this at the Grand...