Greetings again from the darkness. Director Gore Verbinski has a diverse oeuvre of films dating back almost thirty years. His work includes the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, the horror film THE RING (2002), the animated Oscar-winning RANGO...
Review by James Lindorf In the early 90s, Pop was a mainstay of the music scene, battling the rapidly growing, evolving genres of R&B and Hip Hop. Still, everyone was looking up at the explosive rise of Grunge. However, inside the Milwaukee city limits,...
Review by James Lindorf Harry Lighton is making his feature film debut as a writer and director, but he is no stranger to filmmaking. His 2017 short film “Wren” was nominated for Best Short Film at the 71st annual British Academy Film Awards. His latest...
Review by James Lindorf Dracula is the greatest of our fictional monsters. He can be a savage beast like the Wolf-Man, or a tragic figure wandering the world alone like Frankenstein. Still, none of them bring the power of seduction or a dozen other abilities...
Greetings again from the darkness. William Shakespeare has inspired so many writers and stories over the years that he often goes unacknowledged rather than credited. Such is the case with this latest from writer/director/animator Mamoru Hosoda with...
Review by James Lindorf Director Robert Sarkies has operated in two modes throughout his career. First is absurdist comedy, whether it is about two friends and vehicular manslaughter or a group of friends taking over an abandoned home filled with weed. The...
Shelter is a slightly above-average Jason Statham movie with plenty of action, visually appealing fight choreography, great actors, beautiful scenery and music, and a plausible storyline that embraces Statham’s potential heartwarming side. Although I cannot...
Greetings again from the darkness. Well, it’s not exactly a ‘good cop/bad cop’ scenario, since only one of them is a cop – and he’s suspended and out of his territory. It’s also not a traditional ‘Buddy comedy’ since these aren’t buddies, but rather...
Greetings again from the darkness. The concept is interesting and relatable. A woman undertakes the solving of a mystery, and in the process, learns a great deal about herself. Writer-director Rebecca Zlotowski w-d (OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, 2022) and...
Greetings again from the darkness. If not for a few bizarre (and interesting) visual metaphors tossed in, one might mistake this film from Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Palmason (GODLAND, 2022) as a documentary. After all, we are mostly watching one family’s...