Greetings again from the darkness. It’s interesting that movies and TV sitcoms are fair game when it comes to remakes. We don’t find authors re-writing Hemingway or Fitzgerald. A painter who copies Picasso is labeled a forger. Even when a pianist interprets a Chopin...
Greetings again from the darkness. A neo-noir “inspired by actual events” and based on a compelling 2008 “New Yorker” article by the great David Grann (THE LOST CITY OF Z) seems to have the necessary components for a satisfying thriller. So what went wrong?...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s mind-boggling how many fascinating stories – both large and small – continue to come from World War II, even 75 years later. Writer/director Robert Schwentke (RED, FLIGHTPLAN) abruptly opens his latest with a single soldier...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Away at school and working on a project, Ethan (Thomas Mann) receives a call from his brother, Matt (Percy Hynes-White), that their parents have been in an accident. Ethan comes home to step up for his family, including his little sister,...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) isn’t unloved. It’s just that, for as long as they can remember, her family has been unfailingly cared for by her. Her husband Louie’s (David Denman) complacency has long since lapsed into obliviousness. That Agnes...
Review by Bradley Smith Here we have a little auto racing history lesson told mostly through archive footage and voiceovers. It is the 1950s and the “iconic” (I'll have to take the description’s word on this) Scuderia Ferrari is taking on the Formula One World...
Review by James Lindorf Director Sean Frank brings you an eye-opening look into the world of “musicologists”, in both New York City, and the Dominican Republic. “Musicologists” radically customize everyday vehicles, packing them with speakers in the pursuit of music...
Review by James Lindorf Calling All Earthlings, a documentary film by Jonathan Berman, explores a mid-1900’s UFO cult led by George Van Tassel. Van Tassel, a once mogul of the aviation industry and Howard Hughes collaborator, claimed to learn the secrets of time...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Father Thomas Riley (Lalor Roddy) and Father John Thornton (Ciaran Flynn) are sent from the Vatican to investigate a miracle of a bleeding statue of the Virgin Mary. In 1960’s Northern Ireland, they are sent to a sort of asylum meant for...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Andrew Solomon struggled for years to accept his homosexuality, told by his parents—and mother, in particular—that being gay was a choice he could elect not to make. Not so long ago, when he was a young man, it was more than just immoral:...