By: debbie lynn elias Dusty delivers! He dives, he swoops, he scoops, soaring into our hearts again! PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE may be the epitome of the Disney themes of “friendship first” and “lend a helping hand”, not to mention second chances, as aerial racing legend Dusty Crophopper takes his
By: debbie lynn elias When I first saw Jason Momoa on screen in ‘Conan” back in Summer 2011, I was impressed. He had potential. He stumbled over his words, relied on his physical presence, but you could see the drive in his eyes. There was something untapped lurking beneath those
By: debbie lynn elias Audrey Lewis is the average single woman. She dates a guy once, twice rarely rolls around and thrice, well, a blue moon happens more often. She is a week away from turning 34 but claims to be 29. And she’s single. She has every neuroses about
By: debbie lynn elias The single most important and powerful documentary of the year for all Americans is Ric Roman Waugh’s THAT WHICH I LOVE DESTROYS ME. If you see only one documentary all year, make it this one. Delivering a powerful, honest, eye-opening, and extremely humbling documentary on our
By: debbie lynn elias With DELIVER US FROM EVIL, one thing is certain – no one should ever deliver us from the genius that is director Scott Derrickson. As he did with “Sinister”, Derrickson again not only dives headfirst into a world of demonology, rooted in centuries of faith, fact,
By: debbie lynn elias Hands down the most powerful film at the 20th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival and one of my top five “Must See Festival Films” across the board is SUPREMACY. Based on a true story, with a script by Eric J. Adams, director Deon Taylor demonstrates at
By: debbie lynn elias It’s a real treat for me to be able to include TROUBLE DOLLS as a “Must See” Festival Film at the 20th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival. Making its World Premiere, TROUBLE DOLLS marks the directorial debut of Jess Weixler, an actress whom I have had
By: debbie lynn elias A pleasant surprise for me at the 20th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival is MAN FROM RENO. With his feature debut in 2006, “Big Dreams Little Tokyo”, writer/director Dave Boyle was a fresh, new, fun voice in film. But with each of his next three films,
By: debbie lynn elias Making its US premiere at the 20th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival is one of my “Must See” films of the film festival – WALKING UNDER WATER. Already the winner of a Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs in Toronto, if LAFF was ever to start
By: debbie lynn elias Coal mining was the bread and butter for much of the Appalachian region of the United States for centuries. Fraught with the inherent dangers of being miles below the earth’s surface in an unknown environment at the mercy of shifting tectonic plates, inhaling dirt and dust with
