By: debbie lynn elias Many years ago I had the pleasure of first meeting one of our finest and most respected attorneys, Arlene Coleman Schwimmer. Within the legal community I knew her to be dedicated, ethical, honest, hard-working, prepared, meticulously detailed and caring. Often described as a Pit Bull or
By: debbie lynn elias When I look back at my life, and as I have similarly heard so often from many of you, movies represent key moments and influence thoughts, feelings and, to a large degree, often shape who and what we become. And I don’t know of anyone in
By: debbie lynn elias When I first saw the promos and trailers for this film , my initial thought was, “not another Griswold family-type vacation film.” Been there. Done that. It’s the 21st Century. Let’s move on with movie making. My second thought on noticing that Barry Sonnenfeld would be
By: debbie lynn elias This review comes with a disclaimer/warning, at least for the male population, for little did we realize what Hall & Oates were singing about with one of their 1980’s anthems, “Maneater.” On the other hand, women (including – or maybe – especially myself) will more than
By: debbie lynn elias A competitor in the Documentary category at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, if there was ever a film predestined for me to review, this one could be it. If there was ever a documentary you need to see, it is this one. Centralia is located
By: debbie lynn elias The State Department estimates that upwards of 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, largely for sexual exploitation, with 80% being females and 50% being minors. In truth and in fact, the US is a large scale importer of sex slaves. Exposed to the
By: debbie lynn elias With four nephews, the oldest of which turned me onto these really cool Hasbro toys when he was much younger (and which, for the life of me, I still can’t manipulate from machine to robot and back to machine), there was no way I was going
By: debbie lynn elias I had the privilege of attending the world premiere of THE TRIPPER, which opened Screamfest 2006, one of the, dare I say it, “coolest” festivals around, and have since patiently awaited its big screen release after playing the festival circuit. With no real pre-festival promotion or
By: debbie lynn elias Writer/Director Stewart Wade is a gifted storyteller. With an affable and natural ease, drawing on his own life experiences and from those around him, Wade consistently creates memorable characters and situations, witty and often hilarious dialogue and garners an extraordinary cast resulting in mainstream family films
By: debbie lynn elias In looking through the annals of film, there is one title that consistently appears on virtually everyone’s list as being classic, iconic, masterful, mandatory viewing and a must see for any filmmaker – “Twelve Angry Men” – Sidney Lumet’s 1957 character study of 12 strangers serving
