— by BEV QUESTAD — “If you want to leave this world, contact me.” Sometimes we are in a life situation so dark and painful we have to escape. Maybe through binge drinking, a drug overdose, a jump off a bridge, a self-inflicted gunshot, or a car crash. We could also just go crazy. Any[...]
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Review: Lore
— by WILLIAM STERR — It’s a bit unusual these days to find a film that features an ensemble of short stories – an anthology film. The British film company Amicus was well known for them in the 1960s and ’70s. “Twilight Zone: The Movie” is an example from American film-maker[...]
Review: 500 Years
— by BEV QUESTAD — Though America is financing a genocide in Gaza and Lebanon right now, there have been other, quieter genocides with which America has been complicit in the past. By quieter, I mean less media coverage, not less tragic. “500 Years” documents one of those stories. Co[...]
Review: Strange Harvest
— by WILLIAM STERR — I recently had the opportunity to attend the venerable (29th year) H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Ore. The HPLFF prides itself on showing features and shorts produced by individual filmmakers and small production companies. What they present over a two an[...]
Review: Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox
— by WILLIAM STERR — I recently had the opportunity to attend the venerable (29th year) H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. The HPLFF prides itself on showing features and shorts produced by individual filmmakers and small production companies. What they present over a two[...]
Review: Borderland: The Line Within
— by BEV QUESTAD — I don’t understand the American immigration policy. I am so confused I can’t find my way to a position. Almost every other country has a border policy, so why the cry-out? Why is it even an election year trigger point? And why on earth is the projected budget for t[...]
Review: Cruise Boom
— by BEV QUESTAD — Know anyone who has gone on an Alaskan cruise this past year? The new Klondike Gold Rush (1896-189) is The Alaskan Tourist Rush. With the recent opening of a private dock in Sitka, the inhabitants say, “Welcome!” But quietly they wonder, “At what point do we lose[...]
Review: Strangers
— by WILLIAM STERR — Laura (Sienna Guillory) has a problem. She is an American expat living in Sophia, Bulgaria, with her abusive, controlling husband, Tony (Emmett J. Scanlan). She feels her life is drifting away in the misery and fear of her marriage, and she has daydreams of killing h[...]
Review: The Old Man and the Land
— by WILLIAM STERR — Sometimes, films surprise you. They are fashioned differently than you would expect. A modern film that is filmed in black and white, “The Artist” (2011), is one example. Another is one that tells a story from the end back to the beginning, like “Momento” (20[...]
Review: The Critic
— by WILLIAM STERR — Sir Ian McKellen has become a legend on the silver screen, in theater, and on television. Among his films are “Richard III,” “Gods and Monsters” and the “Lord of the Rings” series. On television, he starred in the delicious “Vicious.” And on stage, he[...]
Review: Close to You
— by WILLIAM STERR — Around 2020, actor Elliot Page announced his transition from female to male. Starring at the time in the Netflix series “The Umbrella Academy,” his character also transitioned from female to male between the second and third seasons. Now, as writer and producer, [...]
Review: Lost Nation
— by BEV QUESTAD — Prepare to be enlightened. New York State wanted to be bigger, African-Americans were amongst the earliest settlers in Vermont, and the proponent for recognizing Vermont as America’s 14th colony was given a tempting counter offer from the British. The story begins in[...]
Review: War Game
— by BEV QUESTAD — What if the 2024 election results end with a coup attempt, but better organized than the last? My greatest shock about the Jan. 6, 2020, attack on the US Capitol Building was not that it happened, but that it was met with such a limited response. I was thinking, “Gee[...]