By: debbie lynn elias Leo Tolstoy is long considered one of the greatest novelists of our time. Celebrated for works such as “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”, his appeal is as universal as the language of love itself, a language for which he publicly espoused its idealistic virtues, but
By: debbie lynn elias Daniel Rafferty is a celebrated New York divorce attorney – that is to say when he’s not writing books or hitting the talk show circuit. He’s also one of New York’s most eligible bachelors; although he does believe in the sanctity of marriage. And did we
By: debbie lynn elias Back in theaters this summer straight from Bel Air by way of Boston and Washington, D.C., is America’s favorite blonde legal eagle, Elle Woods. When we last saw Elle, she had overcome her blondeness (to a degree), conquered Harvard law school, tried her first murder case
By: debbie lynn elias Johnny Depp returns to the big screen in the first of two releases this year, The Libertine. In keeping with his chameleonic roles, Depp tackles the role of the wildly eccentric – and even pornographic – John Wilmot aka the Earl of Rochester. The time –
By: debbie lynn elias AFI Film Festival opened with a bang to rival that of the wars ravaging our world today with one of the most star-powered films to come our way in a long time. With Robert Redford at the helm for the first time in seven years,
By: debbie lynn elias First love. Something so sweetly innocent yet perhaps even more glorious and magnificent than one’s last love. And something that causes the rules between elementary school aged boys and girls to change forever. 10 year old Gabe has the perfect life – sports, video games and
By: debbie lynn elias Disney Channel TV’s megahit “Lizzie McGuire” comes to the big screen this week with its star, adolescent sensation Hilary Duff, taking on Rome in an engaging entertaining romp so reminiscent of another 1960’s teen sensation, Sally Field as “Gidget.” The ever popular Lizzie has just
By: debbie lynn elias Based on the real-life 1940’s murder spree of Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez, “Lonely Hearts” is nothing more than a poor man’s poor adaptation of Leonard Kastle’s intriguing and far superior 1970 “The Honeymoon Killers”. Ray Fernandez is a sleazy con man making his way through
By: debbie lynn elias I am a great admirer of screenwriter Scott Frank. Having penned the 2004 remake of the Jimmy Stewart classic “Flight of the Phoenix”, adapted Elmore Leonard novels like “Get Shorty” and “Out of Sight” and even scripted original works such as “Little Man Tate”, Scott Frank
By: debbie lynn elias The time is 1961. Dr. Paul Armstrong and his trusty wife and all around assistant Betty head up into the mountains (in this case, Lake Arrowhead, California) in search of a meteor that has fallen to Earth. Ah, but this isn’t just any meteor. This one
