By: debbie lynn elias We are so used to seeing films with a predictable plot line of mother wrangling unruly child or lonely miserable single mother trying to befriend her single child that we forget there are single dads out there, too. However, when we do see them, they are
By: debbie lynn elias It’s so good to be bad; especially when you’re Nic Cage and you’ve teamed up with the legendary Werner Herzog for BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. Many of you may recall Abel Ferrera’s 1992 “Bad Lieutenant”. Do not be fooled into thinking Herzog’s version
By: debbie lynn elias As with life itself, there are some films in and of themselves that need to have a back-up plan. Such is the case with THE BACK-UP PLAN. At first blush, the story idea for THE BACK-UP PLAN is disarming and charming. 30-something woman; successful; biological clock
By: debbie lynn elias Who can resist the chubby little cheeks of a newborn? Or that sweet baby smell after a little one has had a bath and is all fluffed and powdered? And those giggles and coos? Doesn’t your heart just melt? It’s not just the parents whose hearts
By: debbie lynn elias BEST WORST MOVIE shows that you really can make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Way back in 1989, a little known “horror” film lensed in a quaint little town in Utah. Under the helm of Italian director, Claudio Fragasso, in the eyes of
By: debbie lynn elias In 1999, a member of the Rylstone Women’s Institute was faced with the loss of her husband following his battle with leukemia. Wanting to help not just her husband, but others like him by contributing to cancer research, the RWI embarked on a most unusual fund-raising
By: debbie lynn elias If you’re looking for a continuation of the story of Michelle’s Pfeiffer’s Selena Kyle aka Catwoman or even that of the most infamous Catwoman to hit the big and small screen, Julie Newmar (or Eartha Kitt for that matter), you’ve come to the wrong place. If
By: debbie lynn elias Making its Los Angeles debut at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival, within just a few frames, CHALK immediately became one of my top picks as a “Must See Festival Film” even then. But luckily for all of you, I wasn’t the only one impressed with
By: debbie lynn elias Once upon a time there were three little girls, angels if you will, – one, very very smart; one, very very pretty and one, very very bad. But now, they’re all grown up and they work for Charlie. (You know him – the man with the
By: debbie lynn elias One of the most vivid memories of my childhood is my checking out of my elementary school library, E.B. White’s 1952 classic “Charlotte’s Web.” Fanciful, fun, heartwarming, I can still recall my delight with talking animals, a spider that could spell and a little pig that
