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T&T Giveaway: ORGANIC MERCHANTS POPCORN
Here’s a perfect Film and Food Giveaway! ORGANIC MERCHANTS POPCORN There’s nothing better than good old-fashioned popcorn to make for a perfect movie, baseball game or midnight snack. While most popcorn kernels are genetically modified, Organic Merchants lets you enjoy a healthier popcorn without all of the GMOs and chemicals found in traditional popcorn. Additionally, if you’re gluten-free or looking into healthier eating alternatives, Organic Merchants popcorn provides a natural, certified, organic choice that’s packaged in an eco-friendly, resealable bag. Organic Merchants Co. is a family owned, vertically-integrated importer, packager and direct consumer retailer of premium natural and organic products. Organic Merchants Co. is a family owned, vertically-integrated importer, packager…
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The Pink Cake Looked Delicious: BIG STONE GAP
You just can’t convince me, no matter how small and country a town might be, that anyone who looks and acts like Ashley Judd would ever wind up a spinster. She’s the epitome of the super cute girl next door that most men immediately marry, and so is her character Ave Maria in Writer/Director Adriana Trigiani’s Appalachian Mountain folksy tale BIG STONE GAP. I knew Big Stone Gap was a comedy, but I thought in terms of getting attached to a small town and its inhabitants, the movie might have in it a little Steel Magnolia, Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean or even that little…
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Gothic Romance: REBECCA & CRIMSON PEAK Comparison
I’ve yet to see writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), as much as I’ve heard it praised for it’s imaginative design and brilliant direction. I feared it might be too strange or trippy. Now having seen CRIMSON PEAK, I no longer worry about Pan’s Labyrinth being over the top and plan to watch it posthaste. (Post update 1/10/16 – did see it, found it engrossing, strange and wondrous). Please don’t go into Crimson Peak looking for a Blumhouse Productions type horror movie, cause you won’t find it, you’ll be disappointed and you’ll want to mock this film, which won’t be fair. Crimson Peak is being categorized as a…
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: lebua Hotels and Resorts Café Breeze Coming to Philadelphia
Quick T&T Interview with lebua CEO Deepak Ohri By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Early Sketch Rendering of Café Breeze Philadelphia You may have read last month that Deepak Ohri, the Thai-based hotel magnate, plans to open a lebua Hotels & Resorts dining experience here in Philadelphia. Deepak Ohri’s best-known watering hole is the neon-lit Sky Bar atop Bangkok’s 68-story State Tower, scene of some dangerous buffoonery in The Hangover Part II READ MORE Philly.com Mayor Nutter met Ohri by chance while visiting Frankfurt to establish the sister-city relationship and took the opportunity to introduce Ohri to Philadelphia and the unique opportunities presented by the city. A series…
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Sisters in the Struggle: SUFFRAGETTE, FREEHELD, THE KEEPING ROOM
Discussion of Three Female Driven Movies Screened Back to Back – “Suffragette”, “Freeheld” and “The Keeping Room” By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay SUFFRAGETTE – which takes place in England (1920’s) during the height of the feminist movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst’s (Meryl Streep) Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) which was founded in 1897, but after years of peaceful methods of trying to gain women the right to vote without success, the WSPU began practicing militant, radical and rebellious methods to call attention to their cause. Most of the characters in the film are composites of Suffragette’s of the time representing both upper class and working class…
