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My Sundance posts caught the eye of someone who was helping a friend do publicity on an event taking place at #Sundance2020, she asked me if I wanted to attend. I said I would, only the event was taking place the same day I was flying home from Park City. We chatted a bit more over DMs, leading to her mentioning that she was also a co-founder of this publication Central New York Woman Online which features women of all walks of life, age, race and location, telling their stories of success, failure and hope. READ MORE
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BARRYMORE AWARDS 2023 – My BARRYMORE NOMINATOR ROLE – Theatre Philadelphia
As with reviewing movies, I don't take notes during the show, I feel this takes away from the enjoyment and purity of my feelings. But I do pay close attention to how the sets look and work. Lighting is harder to judge cause good lighting shouldn't really be noticeable. Direction…
Abandon Ship! Summer Projects & Procrastination
I realize I've had a couple of summers recently, where I've been pulled into projects that I should be up for doing. That should be in my wheelhouse, and yet, I never feel that way, Imposter Syndrome, I suppose. But also, a lack of motivation, it always feels like too…
TOP 50 MOVIES I CAN WATCH AGAIN AND AGAIN
These are the movies that if I find it on TV, I've gotta watch it to the end, no matter what point it's at. The ones that I get a hankering for, maybe not annually, but every couple of years. There's a lot of good movies missing from this list,…
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Tinsel & Tine: Annual Oscars Round Up 2024
Annual Recap & Archive highlighting Oscars 2024 - the 96th Academy Awards - Celebrating movies of 2023 ... Live Broadcast March 10, 2024
OSCARS 2024 – Nominations Commentary
Best Picture and Best Director should just be the same award. Don't separate it out. Yes, the Producers are important as well, and yeah they get an Oscar too when the film wins, but it's really the director's moment...
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 2023 Winners
This was my 5th year being a voting member of THE PHILADELPHIA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE (PFCC). Check out the Winning Films. Thank you Philip's Steaks for Sponsoring!
FILM SCRIBES PODCAST
As a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, I join in on our monthly Podcast, FILM SCRIBES. I really should do it more often cause it's fun hashing out our opinions of recent flicks!
Interview with Actor/Entrepreneur NAKIA DILLARD (Black Lightning, The Wire, House of Cards) And Now The Wonder Years
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor – ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 26, 2020 I got a chance to finally interview actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur, Nakia Dillard, a Philly native, who I met so many years ago, I dare not say how many or it will age us both, but he was part of an outreach program called the Rainbow Company which performed original musical productions in Philly schools, run by American…
BOOK VS MOVIE: The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript – Video Interview with Mark L. Levine
11 days after the controversial Chicago 7 trial ended, Levine and friends were able to get the trial transcripts into bookstores. The materials -- edited for brevity, insight and entertainment, became a best seller at the time, but eventually went out of print. In 2020 Aaron Sorkin and Steven Spielberg‘s Dream Works Pictures made the story of the trial into an Academy Award nominated Netflix film. Contemporaneously with the release of…
Tinsel & Tine: Annual Oscars Round Up 2024
Annual Recap & Archive highlighting Oscars 2024 - the 96th Academy Awards - Celebrating movies of 2023 ... Live Broadcast March 10, 2024
OSCARS 2024 – Nominations Commentary
Best Picture and Best Director should just be the same award. Don't separate it out. Yes, the Producers are important as well, and yeah they get an Oscar too when the film wins, but it's really the director's moment...
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 2023 Winners
This was my 5th year being a voting member of THE PHILADELPHIA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE (PFCC). Check out the Winning Films. Thank you Philip's Steaks for Sponsoring!
FILM SCRIBES PODCAST
As a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, I join in on our monthly Podcast, FILM SCRIBES. I really should do it more often cause it's fun hashing out our opinions of recent flicks!
Interview with Actor/Entrepreneur NAKIA DILLARD (Black Lightning, The Wire, House of Cards) And Now The Wonder Years
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor – ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 26, 2020 I got a chance to finally interview actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur, Nakia Dillard, a Philly native, who I met so many years ago, I dare not say how many or it will age us both, but he was part of an outreach program called the Rainbow Company which performed original musical productions in Philly schools, run by American…
BOOK VS MOVIE: The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript – Video Interview with Mark L. Levine
11 days after the controversial Chicago 7 trial ended, Levine and friends were able to get the trial transcripts into bookstores. The materials -- edited for brevity, insight and entertainment, became a best seller at the time, but eventually went out of print. In 2020 Aaron Sorkin and Steven Spielberg‘s Dream Works Pictures made the story of the trial into an Academy Award nominated Netflix film. Contemporaneously with the release of…