Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
After 1,000 weeks of ongoing drama, sizzling sex scenarios, and bizarre plot twists, the ever-popular daytime soap – “Young and the Restless” – celebrated its 35th Anniversary this year online.
That was good news for a handful of actors, sure to be checking their mailboxes for residual payments, in coming months.
Because the daily serials broadcast a new [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
A short while ago, I attended a screening of “Miss Navajo”, sponsored by the local organization named Project: Involve.
In fact, “Project: Involve”, has showcased a handful of films crafted by talented filmmakers of color at various festivals over the past year.
In the documentary film – ”Miss Navajo” – filmmaker Billy Luther follows a Native American Indian woman [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
“To bore the audience for a second is a sin,” director Werner Herzog warned a rapt audience last night at a screening of the enlightening documentary, “Encounters at the end of the World.”
The respected filmmaker was in high spirits.
With great satisfaction, Herzog announced that his latest film starring Nicholas Cage – shot in New Orleans [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
If you like kitsch and don’t mind a little plaid or a cardigan or two, HAIRSPRAY is the movie for you.
The Broadway hit was recently adapted for the big screen and never lets up from the get-go.
The setting is in Baltimore in the 1950’s.
The premise goes something like this.
Each day, when the school bell signals [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
“The Drummer” (which screened at the Asian Pacific Film Festival) is about a band of ZEN musicians and a troubled young man who stumbles upon their humble community in the mountains of Taiwan.
“For me,” noted director Kenneth Bi,
“It began with a stage performance.”
After attending a theatrical production by the world-renowned drummers, the genesis of an idea [...]
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
Posted by: Julian Ayrs on: September 18, 2008
In reviewing “Lars and the Real Girl”, one critic referred to the project as a love story, but the assessment is misleading.
Through the grapevine, you probably got a whiff of the synopsis for the film.
A shy young man – played expertly by Ryan Gosling – falls in love with an anatomically correct doll he mail-orders [...]
