By: debbie lynn elias THE PILL, a witty and wry film by Michelle Goetsche, is an Official Selection at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. In case you missed this first time filmmaker’s outstanding work at Dances With Films or Rhode Island International Film Festival, here’s your chance to
By: debbie lynn elias Ahoy mateys! Shiver me timbers, I think we have a winner here! In it’s second attempt to take a popular theme ride/entertainment park feature to the big screen (we won’t even discuss the first effort – it’s too embarrassing and abysmal), Disney finds a buried treasure
By: debbie lynn elias “Did no one come to save me just because they missed me? ” Captain Jack Sparrow Well, Captain Sparrow, you need wonder no longer because the world not only misses you, it loves you. The anxiously awaited three-quel in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, PIRATES
By: debbie lynn elias Call me crazy or the little girl who never grew up, but there was no way I could pass up reviewing this third installment in Disney’s Winnie the Pooh film franchise. In fact, one of the very first “reviews” I ever wrote was done back in my
By: debbie lynn elias Seems like only yesterday when what seemed like an entirely new genre of film took hold of us. With a little film called “The Poseidon Adventure”, in 1972 the disaster extravaganza took hold and changed the world of movie making and the movie-going experience forever. And
By: debbie lynn elias Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon are two actors whose work is typically above par in any genre. Bullock, who is branching away from the patented success of her romantic comedies, had critical and public acclaim for her seven minutes of screen time in the Oscar winning
By: debbie lynn elias There is a reason that Culver City is called “The Heart of Screenland.” Rich in history with everything from MGM and Louie B. Mayer to the Munchkins, musicals, Culver Studios, David O. Selznick and Scarlett O’Hara, just to name a few, Culver City can also boast
By: debbie lynn elias More of a continuation than a sequel of the 2001 Disney big screen mega-hit based on the enchanting (and highly successful) series of novels by Meg Cabot, “The Princess Diaries 2” picks up five years after we last saw the not-so-beautiful, nerdish, awkward Mia Thermopolis (who was
By: debbie lynn elias Aaron, Abe, Robert and Phillip are friends. More than that, however, they view themselves as entrepreneurs, saviors of the future, and naturally, hold aspirations and dreams of something bigger and better than what life now holds for them. Slogging through the days building error-checking devices, they are
By: debbie lynn elias Inspirational. Uplifting. Hopeful. Encouraging. A three-hankie flick. PRIDE is nothing like I expected despite knowing the film’s backstory and the incredible accomplishments of its subject, swimming coach Jim Ellis. It’s so much more. Jim Ellis was, and is, a proud man. A student at Cheney State
