Category: 2025

The Year 2025

Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters

The plaintiffs are: American Association of University Professors (AAUP), American Association of University Professors-Harvard University Faculty Chapter, American Association of University Professors at New York University, Rutgers American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers and Middle East Studies Association.

 This the WORD posting is by Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Publisher the WORD who hopes the lawsuit galvanizes other higher ed institutions to stand their ground.

SCREAMBOAT 2025 (Teaser)

Will SCREAMBOAT audiences be shaking in their boots? Guffawing their heads off? Should parents let their kids see this? Is hideous slapstick horror bad for your health? Good? What does the Center for Disease Control say? What Do Donald Trump & Musk say? This reviewer lucked out to be scheduled for screening! – Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Reviewer, Marshal of Arms (When Necessary).

Part II: Film Review of THE HEIRLOOM, A Rom-Com Psychodrama With Paradoxical Plot and Narrative Twists That Can Be Mesmerizing

THE HEIRLOOM is Heavy with a capitol H. “This is a true story” flashes briefly at the beginning of the film. It is a semi-autobiographical piece, drawing, heavily, on a couple’s real-life adoption of a rescue dog, Dilly, during the pandemic, and the strains on the couple’s relationship, according to numerous cyber film synopses and descriptions easily found on Google. This reviewer regards the COVID-19 Pandemic as an existential menace, that showed us what the gates of hell might look like. – Review, Article by Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Reviewer.

OVERLOOK FILM FESTIVAL – PART 2 – Kitchen Sink and All the Rest in the First Wave

Taking place April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres, the horror festival will welcome audiences back to America’s most haunted city with a terrifying selection of new and classic films as well as the extensive offs-screen offerings including interactive events, live performances, immersive programming and special guests that the annual horror staple has become known for. By Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Reviewer

Overlook Film Festival – Part 1

Taking place April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres, the horror festival will welcome audiences back to America’s most haunted city with a terrifying selection of new and classic films as well as the extensive offscreen offerings including interactive events, live performances, immersive programming and special guests that the annual horror staple has become known for. – By Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Reviewer

I Couldn’t Resist Recycling This Brave New Films Video That’s a Bit Dated But Puts a Klieg Light on Trump

Klieg Light? Back in the day of Trump’s first election, a remarkable list of high-profile figure spublicly criticized his leadership. Notable names include Mike Pence, Trump’s vice president, who emphasized Trump’s disregard for the Constitution; Bill Barr, his second attorney general, who condemned Trump’s bullying tactics; and James Mattis, his first secretary of defense, who pointed out Trump’s divisive approach.

This pattern extends across various positions, with individuals like Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson, and John Bolton expressing concerns about Trump’s foreign policy and leadership style.

 


 


This Update Should Be Kept in Mind for Those Planning to Watch Trump’s Addressing Congress (The Address Expected to be Replete with Prevaricating-Distortions-Lies-Debaurchery) Tonight, Tuesday March 4, 2025

Editor, Gregg W. Morris

THE BUILDOUT: An Otherworldly Back to Nature Tale With a Cosmic Sheen by Filmmakers Described As Thematically Blending Mysticism, the Paranormal and Horror, Propelling Audiences into Another Dimension of Transcendental Awareness

THE BUILDOUT has been selected by the Panic Fest, Popcorn Frights and Chattanooga film fests. It hit VOD streaming platforms via Ethos Releasing on Tuesday, February 25.  
It was filmed in Southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which is steeped in mystery and inexplicable phenomena in an area known as the Borrego Triangle. Real life paranormal researchers coined this description leading to intriguing interests for visitors. – Review by Gregg W. Morristhe WORD.

Audience Caveat: Magniloquent Grandiloquence in Play
KNOW MERCY Is A Multiple Award-Winning Genre Bending Sci-Fi Drama With a Black Perspective. This Film Reviewer Believes It’s Also a Metaphor for These Misanthropic Trumpian Times!

On the one hand, dazzling production values as well as razzle-dazzle scenes and kinetically charged fighting scenes; on the other, KNOW MERCY can be confounding. It is not rated by the MPAA, and, so, it’s not rated by this reviewer, who believes the cinematography and visuals result in arousing and captivating moments. – Review by Gregg W. Morris