By: debbie lynn elias I wasn’t familiar with Ivo Raza or his work until recently, but let me tell you, he’s on my radar now thanks to his latest short film, SEVENTEEN HOURS IN. Completely unexpected, writer/director Raza expertly captures not only emotion, but crafts three distinct acts of a
By: debbie lynn elias We’ve waited a long time for this moment. We’ve watched Joseph Gordon-Levitt transform from the young Tommy Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun into a first-rate film actor with stellar turns in films like 50/50, Hesher, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. Now with DON
By: debbie lynn elias With few exceptions, each of us has been affected by the financial collapse of America in 2008 and the resulting “Great Recession.” But how many of us actually understand “how” this could happen not only to America, but to each of us? We work hard, save
By: debbie lynn elias “Money makes the world go round. . .Pfft on being poor!” “The Money Song”, Cabaret (1972) No one ever put it more succinctly than Fred Ebb did when he wrote The Money Song for Cabaret. Be it 1931 Nazi Germany or 2013 United States of
By: debbie lynn elias Entering the documentary world of pumping iron, director Vlad Yudin brings us GENERATION IRON. Intended as a “remake” or update of the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron which not only helped catapult Arnold Schwarzenegger into the spotlight, but gave the world some insight into the world of
By: debbie lynn elias What is supposed to be a thriller, A SINGLE SHOT, is more like a lone dud or loud thud in this adaptation by Matthew F. Jones of his own novel. Directed by David M. Rosenthal, Sam Rockwell leads the charge as John Moon. A simple dairy
By: debbie lynn elias As we saw last year in theatres with Steve McQueen’s Shame and on tv the past few seasons with Californication, sex addiction is slowly finding its way into the plethora of addictions and diseases as viable subjects for film and tv. Becoming more acceptable for public
By: debbie lynn elias Many of you may have heard of and/or experienced the phenomena called JEWTOPIA. What began as a small stage production in Los Angeles ten years ago morphed into a smash Broadway hit and spawned an hilarious coffee table book. Now, eight years after first pondering a
By: debbie lynn elias When we last saw the Lambert family, courtesy of their creators director James Wan and his co-writer Leigh Whannell, they had cleaned up at the box office, established themselves as THE number one family plagued by the horrors of the supernatural kind and left us begging
By: debbie lynn elias From the wickedly irreverent, fertile imaginations of those guys who brought us “Reno 911!”, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, comes HELL BABY, a riff on the demonic possession films that have delighted audiences for generations. Vanessa and Jack are expecting their first child and, of
