By: debbie lynn elias Well, what can I say. You’re gonna “jump” over this one. That’s right – JUMP! – marked its world premiere at LAFF 2007 with a sold out house, unbridled energy from filmmakers and fans alike, and jump rope exhibitions (and free jump ropes) on the Festival
By: debbie lynn elias Monsters? Did someone say “monsters”? They sure did and not a moment too soon as it has a been a long hot dry summer in the monster slaying department. Thankfully Trevor Matthews and Jon Knautz have come to the rescue with the unveiling of what is
By: debbie lynn elias I still remember the very first” meal” that I ever cooked for someone. It was in my first apartment and for my favorite former Marine – hot dogs boiled in water and green beans with almond silvers. (Strange, I know, but one doesn’t argue with the
By: debbie lynn elias Think back to your youth and those small suburban neighborhoods or city communities or even now in this age of technogadgetry. Remember when Mr. Jones got a new car? What did your dad go out and do? He went and got a new car. Of course, then
By: debbie lynn elias Opening in the United States on August 4 and in Canada on September 15 is Armistead Maupin’s adaptation of his own best-selling novel, THE NIGHT LISTENER, based on his own experiences. Directed by Patrick Stettner and starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette, this is just another
By: debbie lynn elias Harkening back to the days of wide eyed innocence, post-war America under President Eisenhower, before Dicky got tricky, black & white movies, the birth of Technicolor, when words like erotic and titillating were only said in hushed voices in back alleys (or under a blanket with
By: debbie lynn elias “National Treasure” was commissioned in honor of the United States’s Bicentennial of 1976 but, due to a governmental slip-up, is just getting to us now. Are we surprised by the delay? A descendent from one of our nation’s founding fathers (can you guess who), Benjamin Franklin
By: debbie lynn elias Poetic, epic and sweeping, writer/director Terrence Malick brings to the big screen yet another incarnation of the settlement and colonization of the Virginias and the love story of John Smith and Native American, Pocahontas, in “The New World.” Unfortunately, this retelling of this chapter in America’s
By: debbie lynn elias When I read the novel “The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks, only one image, actually a montage of different aspects of the same image, came to my mind – my grandparents. When I saw the film, those same images still flashed through my mind but melded with
By: debbie lynn elias One thing I learned as a small child sticking my hands in my beloved German grandmother’s pots and pans sampling “uncooked nibbles” or sneaking unknown candies from the dish by her front door or pretty petit fours from the fridge, is just because something looks good,
