If you are reading this, it might be too late for this warning, but avoid previews for Abigail if you can. Because the first half of the movie would be more suspenseful and thrilling without knowing what is about to happen in the latter half, which was the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Cinema trends often mirror societal trends (Superheroes being the exception), so it’s not surprising that so many movies over the past few years have dealt with dementia and Alzheimer's in some manner. In fact, it was just...
Greetings again from the darkness. When Greg Townsend states, ‘hard work overcomes hard luck’, it’s as much a reminder to himself as it is a motivation for the boys he’s dealing with. The film from writer-director RJ Daniel Hanna (MISS VIRGINIA, 2019) and...
Review by James Lindorf After a seven-year hiatus after 2008’s “RocknRolla,” Director Guy Ritchie has been pumping out material that runs the gamut from Disney to the war in Afghanistan. My favorite in the period is 2015’s “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” his...
Greetings again from the darkness. This is based on the true story of Irena Gut Opdyke who, during WWII, vowed “If I could save a life, I would.” Directed by Louise Archambault, it has been adapted for the screen by Dan Gordon, who was the playwright for the hit...
Review by James Lindorf RLJE Films latest project, “Arcadian,” is a reunion of Nicolas Cage, Director Benjamin Brewer, and writer-producer Mike Nilon, who first all worked together on the 2016 heist film “The Trust.” Other than desperation, the two films do not have...
Review by James Lindorf Writer-Director Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood series) is trading in one of the most popular horror movie monsters, zombies, for one of the world’s most common phobias. While plenty of people find spiders scary, they often don’t get much time to...
Review by James Lindorf As the indie movie studio of the moment, A24 is known for bringing quality without breaking the bank. Look at "Everything Everywhere All at Once," with 11 Oscar nominations and seven wins on a $25 million budget. Director Garland and...
Greetings again from the darkness. “It’s us or them.” That’s a line spoken by one of the ICE officers after a particularly physical and dangerous altercation with an illegal immigrant. In this particular instance, the words ring true. However,...
Greetings again from the darkness. The trailer for this one makes it clear that it’s a monster movie in the vein of those Friday late night creature-features I stayed up watching as a kid … whenever I wasn’t grounded from watching TV. Australian filmmaker...