by David Ferguson | Sep 18, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. I’m not sure how to officially protest, but this is writer-director Sean Durkin’s first feature film since the excellent and thought-provoking MARCY MARTHA MAY MARLENE in 2011. Okay, he directed a TV mini-series (“Southcliffe”) in...
by David Ferguson | Sep 10, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “Everybody loves somebody sometime.” So sang the great Dean Martin. But what about the exception that proves the rule? Writer-director Jon Stevenson (in his directorial debut) offers up David, a 40 year old lonely heart, who is a...
by RedCarpetCrash | Jul 25, 2020 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Review by Monique Thompson Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister. There may...
by RedCarpetCrash | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Review by James Lindorf Home invasion thrillers have been a constant over the last 50+ years and include trend setters like the brutality of “The Last House on the Left,” and the stylish terror of “The Strangers.” The rise in popularity of vacation rentals through...
by David Ferguson | Jul 16, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosinski’s 1965 novel “The Painted Bird” has one of the strangest and most controversial histories of any book. Initially celebrated as an extraordinary piece on the Holocaust era, the novel was banned in...