By: debbie lynn elias A car crash. A body on the side of an LA roadway. An intersection. A crossroads. A passing detective who stumbles on the crash and the body. And so our story begins. 48 hours earlier, District Attorney Rick Cabot and his wife Jean are car-jacked by
By: debbie lynn elias We all have our share of insane love stories. The one that got away. The one you wished would go away. The ones that rob and beat you. The ones that end in happily ever after. And then we have Burt and Linda Pugach. Now, I’ve
By: debbie lynn elias CRIES FROM RAMAH, Best Short Film Winner at the Sedona International Film Festival, is perhaps one of the most politically and socially relevant and timely films to hit the film festival circuit this summer. As if lifted from the front page newspaper in Anytown, The World,
By: debbie lynn elias For the past 65 years, generations of children have found fun, laughter and joy with one of literature’s most beloved characters – Curious George. Originally created by Margret and H.A. Rey in 1940, producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer together with director Matthew O’Callaghan, now bring
By: debbie lynn elias Ingenious. Innovative. Imaginative. Informative. Visionary. Vibrant. Appropriated. Historical. Educational. Stimulating. Timeless Captivating. Energetic. Explosive. Relevant. Constitutional. Patriotic. Yippicentric. This, is CHICAGO 10. The time 1968. The Tet Offensive was launched in January 1968, striking not only Vietnamese targets, but the US Embassy in Saigon. 550,000 troops
By: debbie lynn elias Chuck Palahniuk may be a familiar name to all you bookworms out there. He may also be a familiar name to all you moviegoers thanks to a twisted little film called “Fight Club” which was adapted for the screen based on Palahniuk’s novel of the same
By: debbie lynn elias Leonard Chess is name probably not familiar to many of you. However, it is because of Chess that you are familiar with recording artists like Etta James, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Little Walter, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry, and even more familiar with the likes
By: debbie lynn elias It seems only fitting now that Academy Award nominations have been announced that I start off my month of Oscar coverage with a review of the Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, and my pick for Oscar gold, France’s entry, the powerful and wonderfully expressive
By: debbie lynn elias Technology and the public have finally embraced 3-D – and I’m not talking the 3-D experience of the 50’s. No way. This is 21st Century 3-D. Digital. Real D. Call the various processes what you will, but 3-D is now perfected to the point of little
By: debbie lynn elias When Sophie Kinsella’s most entertaining novel “Confessions of a Shopaholic” hit bookstores several years ago, I ran to grab my copy. After all, I had grown up with the queen of shopaholism – my mother (if it comes in 10 colors, buy all 10 colors and
