— by WILLIAM STERR — IMDB currently gives this period haunting an 8.1/10.0 rating (as of Oct. 21, 2025). I beg to differ. Borley Rectory was a real place, once known as “the most haunted house in Britain.” This appellation is primarily due to the questionable investigation of the sup[...]
Archive for October, 2025
Review: On The End
— by WILLIAM STERR — Thomas Ferreiri (Tim Blake Nelson – “Old Henry”) is not an attractive man. He’s a diabetic, has bad teeth, uses foul language, and lives in what can best be described as a nightmare of trash and auto parts. His neighbor and aunt, Dolly (Lois Smith –[...]
Review: Tribe
— by WILLIAM STERR — The Silurian Hypothesis. Formed in 2018, this thought experiment posits that a superior intelligent race existed on earth before humans, and that evidence of them can be found even after millions of years. Retired Prof. Devin Adams (played by an uncredited Dan Asma, [...]
Review: KOLN 75
— by BEV QUESTAD — There is something about Keith Jarrett’s improvisational music that transports the listener to another dimension. Test it out. Click on KOLN 75. Start the video and come back to read this review while you travel to a magical place of tones and subtlety that charms yo[...]
Review: There Was, There Was Not
— by BEV QUESTAD — “In Armenian, we don’t begin our stories with ‘Once Upon a Time.’ We begin with ‘There Was, There Was Not.’” While not planning on that theme when she began filming, seven years later, Emily Mkrtichian uses it as the title. In 2018, Mkrtic[...]
Review: Among Neighbors
— by BEV QUESTAD — Yoav Potash went to Poland to film a commemorative event. Upon arriving, his curiosity drove him to check out the community. He finds a Jewish grave-marker in an old man’s backyard scrapheap. Then he observes that Jewish markers became foundational rocks in roads, wa[...]
Review: Beyond the Drumlins
— by WILLIAM STERR — drum’lin (noun): an oval or elongated hill believed to have been formed by the streamlined movement of glacial ice sheets across rock debris, or till. The name is derived from the Gaelic word druim (“rounded hill,” or “mound”). Encyclopedia Britannica There[...]
Review: Mr. Blake at Your Service!
— by WILLIAM STERR — In an age of raucous, frenetic, raunchy comedies, this film is a throwback to a gentler, more respectable, even genteel comic sensibility. As such, it’s general audience popularity is in question. Andrew Blake (John Malkovich) is a widower. His French wife died fou[...]
Review: Sisters of Ukraine
— by BEV QUESTAD — In the early days of October 2022, two people ran a mercy mission to rescue a group of women and children waiting in a bomb shelter in western Ukraine. The day before they were to arrive, October 9, the great bridge linking Crimea with Russia and its supply line was [&[...]
Review: Roads on Fire
— by WILLIAM STERR — Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get so desperate that you would take every cent you could raise, beg, and borrow to get out of your own country and flee to another? With your children? Having to trust people who might leave you for dead anywhere [&hel[...]
Review: Soul of a Nation
— by BEV QUESTAD — What was going on in Israel during the months leading up to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack? How popular was Netanyahu then and now? The what and how are answered through a series of interviews, news clips and live videos in this eye-opening documentary. But it’s not perfect[...]
Review: A Blind Bargain
— by WILLIAM STERR — Crispin Glover is an unusual actor. Some call him “genius.” Other think he’s a “madman.” Perhaps he’s both. But whatever he is, he has a talent for picking bizarre roles. In “A Blind Bargain,” he has chosen another unusual vehicle and warped chara[...]
Review: Monsters Within
— by BEV QUESTAD — A loner and a vet aptly named Luke Wolf (Devin Montgomery) comes back to his hometown unemployed and an alcoholic. On his first night back, after the singer in a bar insults the bartender, we see a gruesome wild animal head with long gnashing carnivorous teeth appear i[...]