By: debbie lynn elias We know where it began and we know how it ended, but what happens in between that leads to the end of the greatest manhunt in world history, is what Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal deliver with ZERO DARK THIRTY. With breathtaking precision,
By: debbie lynn elias Who doesn’t remember where they were or what they were doing on December 26, 2004, when a world-shattering tsunami arose in the Indian Ocean, decimating the entire region as it pummeled onto the shores of Thailand and elsewhere with such force so as to not only
By: debbie lynn elias Who hasn’t read Jack Kerouac’s iconic ON THE ROAD? Since its first publication in 1947, ON THE ROAD, has become a touchstone for generations – and a long anticipated and hoped for screen adaptation. Director Walter Salles and screenwriter, Jose Rivera, have now taken Kerouac’s novel
By: debbie lynn elias When he’s not fighting Captains of the USS Enterprise or going toe-to-toe with a computer named Hal or playing legal eagle with those brash young attorneys, Franklin & Bash or, as he is doing this holiday season, hunting down a serial killing, flame-throwing Santa Claus in
By: debbie lynn elias Heleno de Freitas is a name synonymous with the history of soccer. One of the world’s greatest players in the 1940’s, he is legendary in his home country of Brazil. Rocketing to the forefront as a leader in the sport, Heleno achieved fame of almost mythical
By: debbie lynn elias Heleno de Freitas is a name synonymous with the history of soccer. One of the world’s greatest players in the 1940’s, he is legendary in his home country of Brazil. Rocketing to the forefront as a leader in the sport, Heleno achieved fame of almost mythical
By: debbie lynn elias Who doesn’t love butter? Delicious rich decadence, butter makes everything taste better – including movies, and I’m not just talking about on top of the popcorn. Thanks to the wit and visionary eye of screenwriter Jason Micallef and director Jim Field Smith, BUTTER comes into its
By: debbie lynn elias Abbie Cornish is one of the brightest young stars in film today. Whether sweetly knocking us out as Sweet Pea in Sucker Punch, transporting us into the 19th century and breaking our hearts with the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne, getting psycho with
By: debbie lynn elias A fascinating slice of life and peek behind the curtain at a pivotal point in world history, HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON takes us into the private world of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a very public figure who actually managed to keep his personal life personal. With a
By: debbie lynn elias Adapted by writer/director Andrew Dominik from Charles V. Higgins’ 1984 crime novel Coganfs Trade, KILLING THEM SOFTLY moves from Higgins’ 1970’s mob-infested Boston to 2008 and the economic collapse in Anytown (or Everytown), U.S.A., where even the mob seems to be having some financial difficulties within
