By: debbie lynn elias Anyone who knows me, knows of my great admiration for Dustin Hoffman. Likeable both on-screen and off, he is affable, engaging, entertaining and always surprising (which makes me look forward all the more to our occasional conversations in our office building), and he has only gotten
By: debbie lynn elias I take it as a good omen when less than one month into the new year, the thriller and horror movie genres have multiple films of exceptional quality hitting theatres around the country. One such film, THE LODGER, opens this week, and let me say right
By: debbie lynn elias Yes, folks. There are other films opening this week besides STAR TREK. And while they may be overshadowed by the legends of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the U.S.S. Enterprise, they are equally deserving of attention, if not moreso. And while other films may not beam their
By: debbie lynn elias Ah, Juliet. The mere mention of the name may make even the most hardened heart a tad wistful at the thought of love won or love lost, while for the true romantics, hearts may go pitter patter and eyes well with tears of joy, or heartache.
By: debbie lynn elias Shane Wolfe is a Navy S.E.A.L. assigned to rescue top level government scientist Howard Plummer. Unfortunately, Wolfe fails in his assignment and Plummer is somehow executed (off screen of course; after all, this is Disney.) It’s not long, however, before Wolfe finds himself assigned to protect
By: debbie lynn elias Los Angeles Film Festival 2007 boasts an expansive and diverse collection of international films and no country more prominent that Romania. One of the three such submissions is THE PAPER WILL BE BLUE. Directed by Radu Muntean and written by Muntean, Razvan Radulescu and Alexandra Baciu,
By: debbie lynn elias Passion – from the Latin “perpessio” – the act of suffering. The passion of Christ – “passio.” The topic of media buzz for many months and now the focus of a media frenzy, I can’t imagine there’s a person within range of a television, radio or
By: debbie lynn elias With the holiday season in full swing and Christmas less than two weeks ago, its’s been rather slim pickings at the box office for those of us looking for a “real” holiday or Christmas movie. Not “Santa Clause” nor even an “Elf”, to brighten the spirits
By: debbie lynn elias My one overall gripe about films adapted from books has always been, and typically with very few exceptions, that the film not only fails to do justice to the printed word on which it is based but more often than not, often ravages and annihilates the
By: debbie lynn elias Since first hearing of the project a few years ago, I have anxiously awaited this latest interpretation of Gaston Leroux’s novel and big-screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical and after seeing Joel Schumacher’s vision and interpretation of Sir Andrew’s magnificent work, there is only
