By: debbie lynn elias “Shame” which garnered an NC-17 rating. This year, it’s Matthew McConaughey in William Friedkin’s KILLER JOE, which the MPAA also saw fit to designate as NC-17. And let me say up front, while the rating is warranted due to nudity and extreme sexual innuendo innuendoand one
By: debbie lynn elias Easily claiming a spot on my list of “Must See Festival Films” at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival last month is the documentary THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES which is now being released in theatres for all to see. As fascinating and funny with ridiculum and
By: debbie lynn elias Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by of the same name by Jens Lapidus, EASY MONEY (Snabba Cash) was already wildly successful in Sweden and Europe before this US release. And it’s easy to see why. EASY MONEY is “easy” in more ways than one. Easy
By: debbie lynn elias When you toss out the name Neil Young, my interest is peaked. Toss out the name of Jonathan Demme, and you’ve got more than my attention. Put them both together and we’re talking a “Must See” project, no matter what it is. And that’s just what
By: debbie lynn elias Adam Sherman is a gifted and courageous storyteller. Calling on his own life experiences as the basis for his films, the most recent of which is CRAZY EYES starring Lukas Haas and Madeline Zima, the results are compelling, albeit very controlled, perhaps too controlled, leading to
By: debbie lynn elias We’ve all heard about sibling rivalry, but what about sibling non-rivalry. When it comes to Mark and Jay Duplass, the latter is the operative phrase as a more cohesive unit of siblings one would be hard-pressed to find. Self-described by Jay Duplass as the brothers being
By: debbie lynn elias This has been one busy year for “mumblecore” filmmaking darlings, brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, especially Mark who, in addition to his writing/directing/producing with Jay, has been taking the silver screen by storm with acclaimed performances in countless high profile films, among them, People Like Us,
By: debbie lynn elias Many that know me or know of me, know of my passion for tv broadcasting, particularly the early days of tv during its infancy in the 40’s and 50’s. I saw first hand not only how local programming can explode on a national or iconic level,
By: debbie lynn elias What initially strikes one about CRAZY EYES is, in fact, the eyes of its two stars, Lukas Haas and Madeline Zima – big, round, expressive and at the same time, often vacant and distant – making them the perfect windows into the souls and lives of
By: debbie lynn elias It’s been a decade since Sam Raimi first brought everyone’s favorite webslinger to the big screen, setting the bar and forever immortalizing indelible imagery and performances to the audiences’ imaginations. So one must now ask in 2012, after the successful franchise starring Tobey Maguire wrapped in
