By: debbie lynn elias Hammer Films is iconic when it comes to the history of film and horror films in particular. Thanks to a steady stream of B-movies with stunning production values, talents like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing became household names. Revived and reinvigorated in the 21st Century, Hammer
By: debbie lynn elias With a script by Oren Moverman, Craig Robinson and veteran screenwriter John Pogue, the latter of whom also directs, THE QUIET ONES is inspired by a true story and true events that happened during the 70’s when great social science experiments became “the thing”, so much so
By: debbie lynn elias Having followed Kevin Spacey’s twitter feed during the world tour experience of the Bridge Project’s RICHARD III, to see the journey chronicled through peeks “behind the scenes” and intimate interviews in the documentary NOW: IN THE WINGS ON A WORLD STAGE is both insightful and entertaining.
By: debbie lynn elias As recalled by stage and screen legend Carole Cook, “We called it ‘the plague’. They called it ‘the gay disease’. There wasn’t even a name.” The time was 1984. We would come to know the disease as AIDS. But in 1984, all anyone knew was that gay
By: debbie lynn elias ANIMAL COOKIES is a bite of delicious enchantment! There’s always been a special bond between dads and daughters and with the enchantingly charming ANIMAL COOKIES, that love between filmmaker Matthew Temple and his daughters, Iona, Mer and Jade, “comes to life” on screen thanks to their
By: debbie lynn elias When I first heard about LOCKE, I had no idea what to expect from writer/director Steven Knight. A man in a car? Driving? Alone? The whole concept of setting the film just within the confines of a car may have some thinking “what the hell can
By: debbie lynn elias When it comes to writer/director/leading man John Turturro and FADING GIGOLO, the first word that comes to mind long before film’s end is “enchanting”, followed by “intelligent sensitivity”. And yes, I said, leading man. Fioravante is a tall, gangly, kind of odd duck. A florist, he
By: debbie lynn elias While there are many moments in which I was hoping to transcend the experience of screening TRANSCENDENCE, long after the credits rolled and I had left the theater, this freshman directorial effort by award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister would not leave my thoughts. Screenwriter Jack Paglen tackles
By: debbie lynn elias 5th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival The 5th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival may be over, but the love lingers on! Kicking off the Fest on April 10, 2014, are TCM hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz along with network and festival programmers Charlie Tabesh and
By: debbie lynn elias Based on the true story of former WWII Japanese prisoner of war Eric Lomax and script adaptation by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, director Jonathan Teplitzky brings us Lomax’s harrowing story of survival under the most brutal of circumstances, and the power of redemption and
