MOVIE REVIEW OF ”I AM LISA” Van Roberts March 16, 2021 Entertainment, Features MOVIE REVIEW OF ''I AM LISA" Like the best revenge movies, the low-budget werewolf chiller “I Am Lisa” (***1/2 OUT OF ****) is a derivative but rewarding escapade in sweet vengeance. Put movies like...
MOVIE REVIEW OF ”DREAMLAND” Van Roberts March 2, 2021 Entertainment, Features MOVIE REVIEW OF ''DREAMLAND" The 193os’ era, Dust Bowl Depression, couples-in-crime saga “Dreamland” (** OUT ****) evokes better memories of Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie & Clyde”...
Alabama Viral Sensation Speaks Ten Years Later Reggie Allen March 1, 2021 Entertainment, Features 12 Comments Alabama Viral Sensation Speaks Ten Years Later Paige Reynolds was giving the performance of a lifetime to an audience of one. Singing a tune written by herself, the 15-year-old sashayed across her parent’s...
MOVIE REVIEW OF ”MONSTERS OF MAN” Linda Johnson February 23, 2021 Entertainment, Features MOVIE REVIEW OF ''MONSTERS OF MAN" One of the worst things a movie can do is wear out its welcome. Sadly, Australian filmmaker Mark Toia couldn’t bear to trim 30 minutes off this derivative, two-hour...
MOVIE REVIEW OF ”BORN A CHAMPION” Van Roberts February 22, 2021 Entertainment, Features 28 Comments MOVIE REVIEW OF ''BORN A CHAMPION" “Boondock Saints” star Sean Patrick Flanery holds Black Belts in both karate and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so it’s no surprise he staged all the stunts in co-writer...
Kanzi Plays The Keyboard With Peter Gabriel Alan Sculley February 18, 2021 Entertainment, Music Kanzi Plays The Keyboard With Peter Gabriel I first learned about Kanzi, who recently celebrated his 40th birthday, from one of his best-known musical collaborators. The year was 2001 and Peter...
MOVIE REVIEW OF ”BREACH” Van Roberts February 9, 2021 Entertainment, Features MOVIE REVIEW OF ''BREACH" Counting “Twelve Monkeys” (1995), “The Fifth Element” (1997), “Armageddon” (1998), “Surrogates” (2009), and “Looper” (2012), “Die Hard”...
50 Cent’s New Book “Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter” Alan Sculley February 2, 2021 Entertainment, Features 13 Comments 50 Cent's New Book "Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter" “It’s very easy to run through a million in this country,” writes Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in his recently published self-help book...
MOVIE REVIEW OF ”THE MARKSMAN” Van Roberts February 2, 2021 Entertainment, Features MOVIE REVIEW OF ''THE MARKSMAN" The cliches fly like bullets in “Trouble With the Curve” director Robert Lorenz’s formulaic cartel thriller “The Marksman” (** OUT OF ****), with...
MOVIE REVIEW OF ”NEWS OF THE WORLD” Van Roberts January 22, 2021 Entertainment, Features MOVIE REVIEW OF ''NEWS OF THE WORLD" “Captain Phillips” director Paul Greengrass casts Tom Hanks in his first western “News of the World” (** OUT OF ****) as a gray-bearded Civil War veteran who rides...