By: debbie lynn elias As you have often heard me say, some of the greatest films come from the theatre. Steeped in myth and legend, theatre dates back to the Greeks and Romans and while some of the most intriguing characters and plot lines (and slightly twisted themes and mores)
By: debbie lynn elias For me, holiday movies are what finally make the holiday season feel like the holidays; probably from all those years in my youth I spent watching Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney on tv in “White Christmas” while my mother decorated and put up the silver tree
By: debbie lynn elias Anytime I see a project that has Rod Lurie attached, I can’t get to a screening fast enough. His writing is always intelligent, decisive, thought provoking, timely and topical, with a story that embraces integrity, ethics, morals and social conscience. His direction is always with military
By: debbie lynn elias It’s been 19 years since we heard from John Rambo. And leave it to Sylvester Stallone to resurrect him with a larger than life ferocity in this fourth installment of the RAMBO franchise. As history shows, Stallone has always used John Rambo as a means to
By: debbie lynn elias “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft a-gley.” Robert Burns, To A Mouse. Or, in the common vernacular, no matter how well thought out or planned, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, which in the case of Kevin
By: debbie lynn elias I am undoubtedly in the minority when it comes to David Mamet. As a screenwriter, he has turned out some incredible works, two of his best being “Wag the Dog” and “Glengarry Glen Ross”. However, he has fallen short with many screenplay adaptations, most noticeably with
By: debbie lynn elias Battling Bob Satterfield coulda been a contender. Not only could he have been, he was. The Ring magazine ranks him at #58 among boxers as being one of the “greatest punchers of all times”. Mohammed Ali isn’t even on the list. A Chicago City Golden Gloves
By: debbie lynn elias We all remember the trials and tribulations of being a teen. Trying to find our own individuality amid the madness and mayhem of school, family and friends. Learning about life and love. And as if life isn’t hard enough, sometimes we get thrown a curve, like
By: debbie lynn elias Tremendous! Inspirational! A knockout! Pure heart and soul! 30 years after it all began on the streets of Philadelphia, and 30 years after the world triumphantly raised its arms in unison and embraced in its hearts a simple honest and determined young fighter named Rocky Balboa,
By: debbie lynn elias As if an adaptation of the John Grisham legal thriller “Runaway Jury” isn’t enough of a reason to see a film, then how about the pairing of Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, two of the greatest actors in film history. For the first time in their
