It has been 14 years since the Parr family took the world by storm in 2004. My twin girls were barely a year old at the time and the perfect age for a family of superheroes to touch their hearts. We bounced back and forth between ‘Incredibles’ and ‘Finding Nemo’ until...
Greetings again from the darkness. Our food supply and sources have become a deserved focal point of interest over the past few years, and director Christopher Quinn brings the 2009 best- selling book by Jonathan Safran Foer to the big screen to ensure we are paying...
THE MISANDRISTS Greetings again from the darkness. An injured man is attended to by a group of females in an isolated home, and things don’t go so well. You might assume this is similar to THE BEGUILED, but you’d be mistaken. Written and directed by Bruce La Bruce, a...
Greetings again from the darkness. Having previously lampooned the political landscape of England (IN THE LOOP, “The Thick of it”) and the United States (“Veep”), writer/director Armando Iannucci turns his skewering pen and clear eye to a bygone era in Russia. Based...
Greetings again from the darkness. Despite being early in her career, actress Zoey Deutch has often been the highlight of her film projects. Although that sounds like a good thing, in her case it speaks not just to her talent, but also the quality of those choices....
Review by Caitlin Ziegler Michael Lawson (David Corenswet) wants to get ahead in politics by starting at the very bottom. He finds a way to work for Senator John Boland Baines (David James Elliott), through blackmail, with the help of his roommate/friend Callie Roland...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) lives the perfect, upper middle class suburban life. He has two loving parents and a good relationship with his younger sister. On his sixteenth birthday he got a car, which he now uses to carpool with his three...
Much has been written about the supposed video game curse. Many say that there has never been a good movie based on a video game and some even argue that it’s not possible because of the nature of the medium. This is actually bull if you trace the history of these...
Greetings again from the darkness. Being an expert, or even a genius, in one’s chosen field doesn’t necessarily translate to celebrity or a life in the public eye. Few of us can name the best structural engineer or the best commercial airline pilot, yet we regularly...
If the intent of great horror is to create images that evoke fear, anxiety, disgust, or simply just haunt your dreams, then ‘Hereditary’ is the stuff of nightmares. The night I came back from watching this film I closed my eyes to images of sheer terror and disgust....