by David Ferguson | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. It seems society has reached a point where most of us are at least a bit skeptical of someone being nice. We assume there is an ulterior motive for acts of altruism. Writer-director-actor Cooper Raiff won a SXSW award for his first...
by David Ferguson | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. We are informed that the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival features 7000 musicians across 14 stages over 8 days. It’s a massive and popular event and co-directors Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern set out to highlight the...
by David Ferguson | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. There is a fine line between movies that cheat and those that cleverly keep us guessing. The first feature from writer-director Eli Horowitz and Matthew Derby seems to fully embrace cheating as a storytelling structure, relegating us...
by David Ferguson | Mar 17, 2022 | DIFF, Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. With her first feature film, writer-director Mariama Diallo shows us that the terror of racism need not be blatant and obvious, and can be subtle and generational. Thanks to Jordan Peele, horror films have become de rigueur for...
by David Ferguson | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. The synopsis for this documentary had me excited to learn about the Tendai sect of monks on Mt Hiei in Japan. Known as “the Marathon Monks”, the sect has been a part of the mountain for more than 1200 years and are known for their...
