JOKER Review — It’s Nothing to Laugh About
Joker review — Starting out pitch black and going darker, this super villain origin story is about as grim and grimy as it gets. DC Comics movies have always been darker than Marvel, and in the hands of directors like Christopher Nolan and Patty Jenkins, the darkness is balanced and intriguing. Not so with Todd Phillips’ Joker. Yes,…
LUCY IN THE SKY Review — Don’t Picture Yourself in a Car With a …
Lucy in the Sky Review — The “astronaut in a diaper” stigma does this film no favors. Some viewers might have been intrigued hearing that Lucy in the Sky is loosely based on the real life story of Lisa Nowak, a NASA astronaut who fulfilled a mission on the Space Shuttle Discovery, then came back down…
How I Use CBD for Fitness at Home in Hollywood (Don’t Worry — It’s Perfectly Legal)
It’s not naughty and I don’t get high! Here at home in Hollywood I use CBD for fitness, and a Wall Street Journal article just might back that up. I saw an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal this morning: “Fitness Devotees Are Getting Stoned to Stay Toned — Pot helps relieve the pain and…
ABOMINABLE review — 11-Year-Old-Winston Says It Could Snowball Into a Hit
Kid critic Winston Ordoña’s Abominable review says the plot and characters are predictable, yet the lovable monster and the beautiful visuals make DreamWorks’ new animated feature anything but Abominable. Abominable is about how Shanghai teen Yi (Chloe Bennet) has to find a way to return a Yeti home to Mount Everest, crossing thousands of miles with…
No Emmy Season is Complete Without the Bergman Style Lounge — Check Out the Celeb Goodies!
The Bergman Style Lounge is THE gifting event of Emmy Season, where celebs and journalists like little old me discover fabulous new finds. SO glad I went to the Bergman Style Lounge and Party in celebration of the 71st Annual Emmy® Awards. The event turned out to be a lot more fun than the actual…
DOWNTON ABBEY Review — Everything You’d Hoped For…and a Little Less
Downton Abbey review — The costumes! The architecture! The upstairs/downstair drama! All your favorite elements, on steroids, are present, but are they enough? I had a huge argument with myself when reviewing Downton Abbey. It’s one of my favorite TV shows of all time, after all. My inner dialogue went something like this. It’s formulaic…
THE GOLDFINCH Review — It Coulda Been Worse…
The Goldfinch review — Expectations flew high for the film adaptation of this best-loved book. But instead of soaring, it takes a dive. Millions of eager readers had such high hopes for the big screen version of Donna Tartt’s complicated and thrilling novel, The Goldfinch. The trailer looked promising — it seemed that filmmakers followed…
HUSTLERS Review — Putting the Stiletto on the Other Foot
Hustlers review — This revenge of the strippers film is surprisingly intriguing—now about J-Lo’s pole dance… Who would have thought that a film about strippers-turned hustlers who scam the wolves of Wall Street by drugging them then maxing out their credit cards could be so significant? Hustlers, based on a 2015 New York magazine article by…
Come Party With Frankie Feldman at the Queen Mary Doggie Paradise Sat. Sept. 14
Woo Hoo~ What could be better than a birthday party with Frankie Feldman and hundreds of his friends at the Queen Mary? Come to the Queen Mary Events Park for a paw-fect afternoon, party with Frankie Feldman at the Doggie Paradise, and celebrate our four-legged family members with a festival that’s all about them (and Frankie…
IT CHAPTER TWO Review — Pennywise Creeps Up On You
It Chapter Two review — Long but lively, it’s almost everything fans could hope for. In the Stephen King horror classic, for some reason, every 27 years, muderous evil, often in the form of Pennywise the creepy clown, comes back to haunt the residents of Derry, Maine, and wreck havoc with their very souls. In It…
