Review by James Lindorf On April 8th, just days before the 110th anniversary of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, Fox’s ad-supported streaming service Tubi released “Mysteries from the Grave: The Titanic.” This new original documentary dives deep into one of the...
Review by James Lindorf Director Stephanie Laing is best known for her work on television, with multiple episodes of Apple TV+'s Physical, HBO's "Veep," and "Made for Love" to her credit. But Laing used the pandemic to partner with her co-writer Brad Morris to create...
Being born in the early 1980’s, video games were as important a piece of my childhood as anything that my parents taught me. And only a handful of games truly took up the majority of my time before the release of the PlayStation changed the gaming world forever. One...
Greetings again from the darkness. Thanks to James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt, we’ve grown accustomed to globetrotting action-packed thrillers in the spy genre. But of course, there is the flip side: the quiet and unheralded work done by intelligence agents …...
Greetings again from the darkness. Farming and ranching are about two main things: commerce and sourcing food and other items (wool, leather, cotton, etc). Director Andrea Arnold won an Oscar for her short film WASP (2003), and also directed a couple of narratives...
Greetings again from the darkness. Ana Gasteyer’s “Saturday Night Live” parody of Celine Dion not-so-humbly announcing herself as “the greatest singer in the world” was brilliant sketch comedy and good for a hearty laugh. All these years later, filmmaker Valerie...
Greetings again from the darkness. Dinner parties are ripe for generating just about any kind of conflict between characters … loud and rude, or subtle and passive-aggressive. Many filmmakers have used the setting to their advantage, and from that we’ve heard some...
Greetings again from the darkness. Perhaps you are a normal movie lover and have never wondered what it might be like if director Terrence Malick delved into the horror genre. Well, the first feature film from writer-director Goran Stolevski gives every indication...
Review by James Lindorf Six years ago, Chris Pine and Ben Foster played Toby and Tanner Howard, a pair of bank-robbing brothers in "Hell or High Water," which would earn four Academy Award nominations. On April 1st, in a day and date release, they reteam as brothers...
Greetings again from the darkness. Trust the science, they said. Dr. Michael Morbius is a brilliant doctor/scientist who has devoted his life to formulating a cure for the rare and crippling blood disease he and his friend Milo were born with. This is an origin story...