By: debbie lynn elias Tennessee Williams is long and widely considered to be one of, if not the most celebrated and important American playwright of our time. His collected works are prolific and memorable, taking not only the stage by storm, but the silver screen as well. Celebrating the grandeur,
By: debbie lynn elias So what would a film festival be without at least one dynamic and dazzling mockumentary? A lot less entertaining, I can tell you that. Thankfully, we don’t have to worry about that at LAFF this year as award winning commercial director Darren Ashton brings us some
By: debbie lynn elias This year, foreign films and foreign filmmakers are truly leaving their mark on the Los Angeles Film Festival, with what is undoubtedly the largest and most diversified showing of international filmmaking to ever screen at the festival. In this fourth feature written and directed by Alessandro
By: debbie lynn elias 16 year old Leland P. Fitzgerald is a murderer, having brutally killed a young autistic boy, stabbing him some 20 times with a butcher knife. The son of a famous author, no one can understand what would possess a young man with his opportunities and potential
By: debbie lynn elias Let me preface this review by stating I will not be revealing too many plot details because as we have come to know, in films by M. Knight Shyamalan, even a little revelation can be too much. But, let me also state, “The Village” pales in
By: debbie lynn elias As many of you may know, I love horror films. (Could be because most of them remind me of my brother Ed.) So I made a special point to catch “Undead”, latest foray into the world of zombies courtesy of the brothers, Michael and Peter Spierig.
By: debbie lynn elias For many of us, our first exposure to “nature” films and the wonders of the beautiful planet Earth, was compliments of Walt Disney. We traveled to the wild jungle, the openness of the African Plains and saw the beauty of melting snows and crystal clear rivers
By: debbie lynn elias Successful San Francisco book critic and writer, Frances Mayes, finds her world spinning out of control and going from good to bad to worse. Her husband is having an affair, giving way to a nasty divorce. Critics are criticizing her critiques. Life just isn’t worth living.
By: debbie lynn elias Molly Gunn is a pop princess by birth with all of the rights and privileges that come with having a legendary rock musician for a father. A reckless spender with a fun-filled, free-wheeling, reckless lifestyle (reminiscent of the 1980’s “Maid to Order” with Ally Sheedy), on
By: debbie lynn elias Well, let’s just say it right now – UP IS THE BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, just hand over that Oscar gold now. 78 year old Carl Frederickson has always had his head in the clouds. A balloon salesman
