Mother's Day Gift Guide

Mother’s Day Gift Guide — Mom Needs Something a Little Different This Year

This Mother’s Day Gift Guide gives great ideas that will keep Mom healthy, happy and occupied, whether you get to be with her or are sharing love from afar. Think of how many poor moms will have to suffer through Mother’s Day this year with no children on hand to adore them. Consider of all…

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Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network — Get a Sneak Peek Sunday

Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network is taking over Discovery’s DIY —catch the four hour preview event this Sunday. If you’ve been missing Chip and Joanna Gaines like I have, you’ll be thrilled to know that a special TV presentation called Magnolia Presents: A Look Back & A Look Ahead airing Sunday, April 26 on the…

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Stay At Home Survival Guide for Pets — Fido and Fluffy Need Extra Quarantine Care Too

This Stay At Home Survival Guide for Pets offers a plethora of products that are sure to keep those tails wagging, even during these crazy times. Now that you and your pets are pent up together like never before, do you wonder what’s going on in their wee little heads? (Or giant noggins, as in…

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Here are Some of the Best Action Movies Available Now On HBO

Behold an excellent list of some of the best action movies you may have missed that you can watch right now. I know you usually keep up with all the blockbusters, but there are likely dozens of excellent, mid-range action movies released every year that you might have missed, but always wanted to see. Even…

Minamata review

MINAMATA Review — A Riveting Film Proving Johnny Depp’s Star Power Once Again

Film critic Leah Sydney’s Minamata review says the Johnny Depp starrer is an artistic homage to a man ahead of his time. Johnny Depp proves his star power once again in his latest film, Minamata, playing the legendary LIFE magazine photo journalist/celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith.  Directed by the talented Andrew Levitas and written by…

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Stay At Home Survival Guide — Fabulous Finds for Happy Hunkering

Lisa Johnson Mandell’s Stay at Home Survival Guide gives you great ideas for work, play, comfort, health, eating and drinking. I’ve always been happy here working at home in Hollywood…Until I was told my comings and going should be limited. Suddenly, I’m feeling crazily claustrophobic, and to make matters worse, I don’t seem to have…

HBO List of Feel Good Movies and Series

Here’s the Fabulous HBO List of Feel Good Movies and Series

With more people isolating at home and looking for new content to help pass the time, this HBO List of Feel Good Movies and Series will come in handy! This week I’ve received the HBO List of Feel Good Movies and Series, which highlights some warm, fuzzy and sometimes delightfully prickly entertainment that offers perfect ways to cheer…

Bloodshot review

Bloodshot Review — Are the Wildly Entertaining Vin Diesel and Sam Heughan Worth the Risk?

Bloodshot Review — Yes, I attended a packed theater full of huggy colleagues to see this comic book based action movie, but should you? I suppose that becomes the definitive question these days, doesn’t it? Is this film worth sitting in a theater full (or not so full) of strangers to see? You’ll have to…

Onward Review

ONWARD Review — Our Kid Critic Thinks It’s Magical

Onward review — 11-year-old Betty Ordoña thinks Pixar’s latest animated adventure  is the next best thing to playing Dungeons and Dragons. In a modern world populated by mythical creatures, magic is all-but forgotten and centaurs and cyclops live ordinary lives, holding down jobs and going to cafes. Elf brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot (Tom Holland…

The Way Back Review

THE WAY BACK Review — Ben Affleck is Moving in This Surprising Double-Redemption Film

The Way Back review — Ben Affleck’s very personal film does’t go as expected. From the outside, the trailer or the score, you might get the impression that The Way Back is your typical redemption film, where a drunk with a heart of gold hits rock bottom, then has a religious/rehab epiphany and changes his…

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