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AVENGERS INFINITY WAR Review — So Much More Than You Expected
AVENGERS INFINITY WAR Review by Lisa Johnson Mandell Take all your theories, predictions, hopes, dreams, wishes and fears for Avengers: Infinity Wars, multiply them by ten, and you still won’t come close to what directing brothers Anthony and Joe Russo release on the superhero world. Avengers: Infinity War is the Kraken of all super hero…
Famous McNally Mansion Provides an Elegant Map to Your Past
The guy who built the McNally Mansion played a major part in getting you to where you are now What does the McNally Mansion have to do with you? Well, remember those huge rolled up maps at the front of the classroom that your teacher would pull down in order to teach a geography or…
THE HOUSE OF TOMORROW — A Lovely Film That Brings Attention to the Geodesic Dome Home
THE HOUSE OF TOMORROW will make you want to hug your local teenager and move into a geodesic dome home by Lisa Johnson Mandell If ever a film were made for someone like me, whose passions involve movies/architecture/design/real estate, The House of Tomorrow is it. It’s a thoughtful coming-of-age tale of Sebastian, a teenager (Asa Butterfield) who’s lived a sheltered…
A Series of Unfortunate Events Fashions — Don't Turn Away
A Series of Unfortunate Events Fashions — Eye-popping Gothic Ensembles by Staci Layne Wilson “I would advise all our viewers to turn away immediately and watch something more pleasant instead,” says the eponymous author and narrator (Patrick Warburton) in a delightful deadpan as he recounts A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix. But if you…
A QUIET PLACE Review — The Sound of Brilliance
A QUIET PLACE Review by Lisa Johnson Mandell If you would have told me I’d be absolutely riveted and wide awake through the entirety of an hour-and-a-half film with only about five minutes of dialogue, I would have told you you were demented. But to his ample credit, writer/director/star John Krasinski has come up with something…
Live in the Marvelous Malibu Pyramid House for Only $3.1 Million
The famous Malibu Pyramid House will feed your body, mind and spirit The Malibu pyramid house is now on the market in for only the second time in its storied history, so if you have a spare $3.1 million lying around, you too can live outside the box. But the unique residence is so much more than…
Famous Former Ellen Degeneres Home Lists for $34M
You’d have to go a long way before you found a home with a Hollywood pedigree with more power than this fabled Ellen Degeneres home. The Skouras residence in Trousdale Estates was originally built in 1956 by celebrity architect Hal Leavitt and has had a number of notable owners in the past couple of decades. The fabled Beverly Hills, CA, home was restored and…
ISLE OF DOGS Review — Labradoodle Frankie Feldman Says 'Bow Wow WOW!'
ISLE of DOGS Review — Good Boy, Wes Anderson! by Hollywood Hound Frankie Feldman As a furry family family guy who watches many a movie on the couch, I can tell you that the tastiest of all treats, writer/director Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, could change canine cinema forever. There is no doubt that this fido-licious…
LOVE, SIMON Review, TOMB RAIDER Review — Neither is What You Expected
TOMB RAIDER Review — LOVE, SIMON Review by Lisa Johnson Mandell LOVE, SIMON Review If John Hughes were making films today, Love, Simon might be what they’d look like. Although it treats a very current topic, it still has the same warm and shiny innocence of teen films of the ’80’s. Simon could well be…