Film

HOLLYWOOD—“Passengers” was touted as a major awards contender nearly a year ago once it became apparent the flick would star Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and the next big Hollywood star Chris Pratt. With Morten Tyldum, who recently earned an Oscar-nomination for Best Director for his work on “The Imitation Game,” what could go wrong? Well, quite a bit people. The biggest...

HOLLYWOOD—Actress Olivia Mary De Havilland died Sunday, July 26, at her home in Paris, France where she lived for almost 60 years. She died at the age of 104 of natural causes making her the last major surviving star of the Golden Age Era of Hollywood. She was the longest living cast member of the Oscar-winning film, "Gone With...

SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Film Festival announced that "Naked Singularity" will be the premiere movie to next month’s event. The festival begins on Friday, April 9 and runs until April 18. It will feature a selection of 42 drive-in movies and 56 short films from 41 different countries. 13 of the films showed will be world premieres. The world premiere of...

HOLLYWOOD—Honoring the brightest and best in cinema, television, music and literature, the 49th Annual NAACP Awards were handed out on Monday, January 15 and “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson took on hosting duties again. Anderson had no trouble going for the jugular. I mean talk kicked off with rather Oprah Winfrey would run for presidency, Donald Trump, talk of protests,...

BEVERLY HILLS—It is here America, awards season is in full swing. Why? The party of the year, the Golden Globes kicked off things with some surprising results people. Coming into the night it was “Vice” leading all contenders with six nominations, but in the end it was “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Green Book” who were big winners. “Bohemain Rhapsody” walked...

HOLLYWOOD—“Everything is Awesome,” it was the song that got stuck in everyone’s head during the 2014 release of the animated flick “The Lego Movie.” There was something about that flick that had charm, hilarity and just pure entertainment value for both kids and adults. Fast-forward to 2019, and we finally have the sequel, after seeing the “The Lego Batman Movie”...

SANTA MONICA—I guess I shall say it, awards season is in the mix and the first one to transpire took place on Tuesday, December 7, the People's Choice Awards, actually voted by the people. If I learned anything about fan voted awards shows its proof that anyone can win or better yet, whoever attends the ceremony or knows ahead...

BEVERLY HILLS—The stars were out in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 11, as the 72nd Annual Golden Globe ceremony was held at the famed Beverly Hilton Hotel. Leading all nominees was the drama “Boyhood” with seven nominations including Best Motion Picture-Drama. So would the tale that was shot over a 12-year period take home the top prize? It was...

HOLLYWOOD—I tell people this time and time again, I’m not the biggest fan of musicals. I have a hard time wrapping my brain around the notion of people just having a conversation and bursting out in song and dance. However, that is NOT my only grip it’s the fact that so many musicals have great song and dance numbers,...

HOLLYWOOD—Let me ask you a question: have you ever been inside an escape room? For those of you not in the know, it’s an establishment where you are locked inside a room. Inside that room could be people that you know or in some cases people that you may not know as well. You are given a certain amount...