A piece of sad news came over the radio waves this morning as I heard that legendary crooner Andy Williams passed away after a year-long battle with bladder cancer at the age of 84. My mother was a huge fan of his music, along with other popular vocalists in the 60s and 70s like Frank …
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A Birthday Tribute: Top Five Christopher Reeve’s Roles
The New York-born actor passed away eight years ago of heart failure. He would've been 60 years old today. Hearing the Superman theme the other day I suddenly thought of the man behind that heroic role. My admiration for Christopher Reeve went as far back as 1978 when I was only a wee girl. It's …
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Weekend Roundup: Hysteria Review
Happy Monday all! It's been a busy weekend for me, girls movie nite, a friend's birthday party, etc. all scheduled around the same time. Suffice to say, there's no time for cinema viewing this weekend, though I finally did send y'all a reminder for the Small Roles... Big Performances blogathon, hope all you who signed …
Featurette Spotlight: Les Misérables … Can’t get ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ out of my head!
One thing for sure, there won't be a lack of awesome films this December. There are a few I'm giddily anticipating, Gerry Butler's soccer comedy Playing for Keeps and of course, The Hobbit!! I'm not posting the second trailer as right now I'm already sold on it long ago anyway, but if you haven't seen …
Musings on actors-turned-directors… who are your favorites?
Seems like every other week there's news that another actor is trying their hand at directing. Just this past month alone, I read that James Franco is supposedly directing a Lindsay Lohan biopic (??) and Philip Seymour Hoffman seems ready to be back in the director's chair (after Jack Goes Boating) with a Depression-era ghost story …
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Ted’s Picks of Worst Films of the Year so far
Just yesterday I saw this info-graphic that Hollywood's creativity is waning. I mean, zero original movie in 2011?? WOW! I wonder how 2012 fares, but there sure are a bazillion remakes, sequels, prequels, what have you, and that trend isn't likely to end anytime soon. Well, Rodney at Fernby Films are currently doing Worst Film …
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TCFF Lineup is here! Check out what’s showing Oct 12-20
Wahoo!! After months of planning, negotiating, previewing, etc. the TCFF board and staff have finally revealed the full lineup of its third film fest! As did the previous two years, TCFF have become the regional premiere of a lot of this season's most-anticipated films. Steve Snyder, TIME magazine's assistant managing editor and TCFF's scheduler, said …
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