Review by James Lindorf After the success of Mud and Midnight Special, actor Michael Shannon and director Jeff Nichols have teamed up again, this time for the 7-minute short Long Way Back Home. The film was inspired by the song of the same name by the Memphis based...
Review by Lauryn Angel If you’ve seen Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles or Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx’s Avenue Q, the idea of puppets behaving badly is nothing new. With The Happytime Murders, director Brian Henson (yes, Jim Henson’s son) elevates the concept to a...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes If the intention behind Isabel Coixet’s latest film The Bookshop is to laud the invigorating power of books, it fails in spectacularly boring fashion. Among all of the declarations of devotion and care, this dull-edged and lifeless chronicle...
Greetings again from the darkness. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” “I don’t want to be a star, I wants to be a legend.” The first quote comes from THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE and the second is drawled by Blaze Foley as he snuggles with his muse...
Review by James Lindorf Guillaume Enard and Jonathan Delerue’s medieval tale By Blood, or Par la Sang in its native French, focuses on Mort-Lieu, an old man haunted by his past. By Blood recently screened at Hollyshorts Film Festival, and will continue the festival...
Greetings again from the darkness. We couldn’t help but ask “why?” when the sequel was announced, even though we knew the answer was money. There was little hope in improving on the first DEADPOOL (2016), and since that film’s director, Tim Miller, was tied up with...
Greetings again from the darkness. “A crisis of faith” is merely the tip of the theological iceberg in this gripping, thought-provoking, debate-inspiring oddity from legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader. Mr. Schrader has long specialized in messed up/conflicted gents...
Review by James Lindorf Black Water reunites action-movie icons, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, for the fourth time, in a tale of undersea espionage. Saban Films will show the one-time Dish Network exclusive in select cities around the country, as well as...
Review by James Lindorf Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks, Josh Crockett's directorial debut is a comedy of errors about siblings struggling with grief after the sudden death of their absentee parents. The estranged brother and sister, Marcus and Michelle Brinks (Scott Rodgers...
Greetings again from the darkness. When asked if they believe a computer could ever be conscious, two young woman combine to respond: ‘No. Unless they program it that way’. And that answer is at the core of director Chris Paine’s (WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?) latest...