Review by James Lindorf Crown and Anchor stars Michael Rowe (Arrow, The Flash) as James Downey, the son of an abusive father struggling to live a disciplined, straight-laced but lonely life in Toronto, far from his tiny hometown. His cousin Danny (Matt Wells, Scars)...
Movie Review: ‘Paper Year’
Review by Jacquelin Hipes When Dan (Avan Jogia) and Franny (Eve Hewson) get married, they aren’t exactly ready for adulthood. As their parents point out, neither one has a job or even a concrete plan for what’s meant to come next. Despite their lack of preparation,...
Movie Review: ‘Alright Now’
Review by James Lindorf Director and writer Jamie Adams (Black Mountain Poets) partnered with Unstoppable Entertainment to develop his latest project, Alright Now, which will be released in the US on September 7th. Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother, Avengers)...
Movie Review: ‘Peppermint’
Review by Bradley Smith While watching Peppermint, I realized I have missed Sydney Bristow. And although Riley North is not quite the same character, it is great to see Jennifer Garner in this above average action/thriller. The plot is a touch predictable and the...
Movie Review: ‘The Apparition’
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Jacques Mayano (Vincent Lindon) is a journalist, who was recently injured covering a war story. Unfortunately, he lost his colleague and it made him want to take a break from everything. He was planning to take that break until he received a...
Movie Review: ‘Superfly’ Blu-ray
Review by Monique Thompson Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit. Not that a remake of the 1970s Gordon Parks Jr.,...
Documentary Review: ‘Hal’ Looks At Hal Ashby
Greetings again from the darkness. There may never have been a director with a comparable streak of 6 films in terms of quality and variety as Hal Ashby delivered between 1971 and 1979. At least 4 of those films would be included on a list of my all-time favorites....
Movie Short Review: ‘By Blood (Par Le Sang)’
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. It’s likely a guilty conscience that leads Mort-Lieu to assume the mysterious Knight on horseback is actually Death coming for him. After all, he did seize his vast land holdings through violent atrocities...
Movie Short Review: ‘The Interview’
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. On the surface, this 8 minute short film plays like a pretty simple twisted comedy. A recently laid-off, nervous and desperate family man meets a cocky and somewhat sleazy recruiter for a job interview. It’s...
Documentary Film Short Review: ‘One Leg In, One Leg Out’
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. Filmmaker Lisa Rideout follows transgendered sex worker Iman as she goes through her typical days and nights. For the viewer, it isn’t about the work being done, but rather the person harboring a dream. Iman...







