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Philly Spotlight: TOTALITY: THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE DOCUMENTARY
Tinsel & Tine Highlights: Philly Filmmaker John N. Campbell’s By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Remember the spectacular total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, which had people taking off from work, driving cross country to get a better ogle at it? We just had a partial eclipse January 5, 2019, these happen more often, but before 2017, the last total solar eclipse in the continental U.S. occurred 38 years ago on February 26, 1979. Unfortunately, not many people saw it because it clipped just five states in the Northwest and the weather for the most part was bleak. Before that one, you have to go back to March 7, 1970.…
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GLASS
I was on Rotten Tomatoes reading some horrifically mean reviews of M. Night Shyamalan’s sequel to UNBREAKABLE & SPLIT – all complete with horrible puns on cracked glass and glasses half full etc… Okay even as a huge Philly film supporter, I’m not going to say I have enjoyed all of Night’s movies, or that I’ve even seen them all; but I can’t understand why movie critics really get off on tearing him down, they want to hate his movies. Many of them that will admit Unbreakable and Split were both pretty good, seem to do so reluctantly. I can’t think of another filmmaker who gets such vitriolic treatment from…
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The 76th Annual Golden Globes Round Up 2019
Anne Hathaway (Elie Saab) usually comes correct on the red carpet, so I don't mind chastising her on this trailer park trash comes to Hollywood look, which I'm sure she regrets. I do feel bad about putting Elisabeth Moss (Christian Dior Haute Couture) on this list..
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TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME Interview with director Olivia Lichtenstein
TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME was the Closing Night film at the 27th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival – a documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Philly’s own Teddy Pendergrass. The night before I got a chance to chat with the director Olivia Lichtenstein and producer Nick Bedu about the making of the doc., how much time they spent in Philly, the darker side of Teddy, the music, the tragedy and the come back of this sexy and soulful entertainer gone too soon.
