Open House at the Bates Motel
When you get an invite from Vera Farmiga to an Open House at the Bates Motel, the response is not a simple “yes please,” but a “HELL YESSSSS! And what should I wear and can I bring my lovely and talented husband to snap a photo or two?” This time of year, with Critics Choice…
Answers.com's Q&A With Lisa Johnson Mandell
Editor’s Note: Every now and then a publication will do a feature on me and I’m grateful for them all, but I particularly loved this one on Answers.com, because I felt it really captured the essence of what Lisa Johnson Mandell, and AtHomeInHollywood.com, are all about. They have my eternal gratitude for running this. Q&A…
WOMAN IN GOLD Review
At last, I have a decent answer when someone asks, “Have you seen any good movies lately?” Woman in Gold is the cinematic work of fine art I’ve been waiting for all year. While I was thrilled by Furious 7, debuting in theaters the same weekend, I’m not going to run out and take my mother to see it. Woman…
THE LONGEST RIDE Review
I know all you Nicholas Sparks fans are going to run right out and see this film no matter what I say, so I’m going to address those of you who haven’t seen any of his film adaptations since The Notebook, and might think it’s time to stick a toe back into the romance author’s…
FREETOWN Review
As much complaining as we do about life in the U.S., we take an awful lot for granted. Every now and then, however, we see something in the media that humbles us, making our first world complaints seem petty and insignificant. Such is the case with the harrowing film Freetown, based on the true story of six Christian…
Buzzr: Game Show Nirvana
Can’t get enough of your favorite game show? Do you ever get an insatiable craving to watch shows like Password, Family Feud, Celebrity Name Game or Body Language, but didn’t have a listing, or a TV handy? Thanks to a YouTube Channel called Buzzr, you can now watch all new episodes of both classic and new game…
Fox Reopens THE X-FILES
Remember those good old days when Gillian Anderson had a poofy perm and David Duchovny didn’t play a sex-crazed Californian? I bet you can still hear that mysterious X-Files theme whistling through your head. Fans of one of the most successful sci-fi television dramas of all time will be thrilled to learn that the Peabody Award…
GET HARD Review
Heaven help me, I think Get Hard is criminally funny. For the record, I had to drag myself to go see it, because it didn’t exactly sound like my type of film–the premise seemed brutal, and the title sounded crude. Still, I thought it just might have a slim chance of being amusing if the chemistry sparked between Will Ferrell…
The Mad Style of Undurraga Wines
If there’s one thing Mad Men has taught us, it’s that ad campaigns are all about style, and a wit thrown in there doesn’t hurt either. One of the cleverest, and most fashionable ad campaigns I’ve come across in some time is one Testa Wines of the World came up with to promote Chile’s Undurraga wines,…
INSURGENT Review
First of all, let me just state that I love dystopian future films with kick-ass heroines. Heaven knows there are enough of them trying to climb on the Hunger Games bandwagon. I was also a fan of the Divergent series long before it was it was picked up by Summit/Lionsgate for a film franchise. I thought the…
