By: debbie lynn elias There were high hopes out of Toronto last year after the screening of “Love And Other Impossible Pursuits.” Starring Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow as the big name attractions, writer/director Don Roos’ adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ayelet Waldman, is a prime
By: debbie lynn elias Mega explosions, massive amounts of perfectly executed elaborate heart pounding stunts, non-stop edge-of-your-seat thrill ride excitement. Pulsating score. Nail biting tension that just mounts with each target kill and with the thickening plot. Simon West has helmed an exhilarating moviegoing experience! What film am I talking
By: debbie lynn elias With the announcement of the final Best Picture nominee, WINTER’S BONE, the 83rd Academy Awards race is officially off and running. Announced during a live news conference at 5:38 P.S.T., last year’s Best Supporting Actress, Mo’Nique, joined AMPAS President Tom Sherak, in announcing this year’s nominees
By: debbie lynn elias Peter Weir is a masterful director. With both a brilliant mind and eye, Weir never ceases to inspire awe and wonder within each film. But beyond that, there is always something very thought provoking about man’s isolation and solitude, man versus nature, human nature versus nature.
By: debbie lynn elias In 1956, the world was gifted with an astounding “autobiography” by Slavomir Rawicz – “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. Translated into 30 languages, this was the story of Rawicz’ escape from a Siberian gulag and his 4000 mile trek from
By: debbie lynn elias I first met Chris Landon when he was a tow-headed young lad watching his dad at work. Dad just happened to be Michael Landon. I remember Chris as being a bit shy and having a grin to melt anyone’s heart. And you just knew the wheels
By: debbie lynn elias As I left the screening room after the final credits rolled by for COUNTRY STRONG, my mind was playing the lyrics “I was country, when country wasn’t cool.” And all I could think was that had any self-respecting true “country” star witnessed what I had just
By: debbie lynn elias BIUTIFUL is the type of film that doesn’t come around too often. It doesn’t leave your mind, or your heart, long after the curtain comes down. It stays with you. The complexity of the main character, Uxbal, set against the simplicity of the film’s thematic elements,
By: debbie lynn elias It is rare indeed to experience the adaptation of an excellently crafted and performed, emotionally impactful play, into an equally excellent film. Such is the case here with John Cameron Mitchell’s adaptation of the David Lindsay-Abaire drama RABBIT HOLE, the screenplay for which is adapted by
By: debbie lynn elias Sofia Coppola is masterful when it comes to mood and attention to detail in a film. Just take a look at “Marie Antoinette” or “Lost In Translation.” Both are perfect in each sense. Even with her earliest film, “The Virgin Suicides”, Coppola establishes her own directing
