Film & Movie Archives
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Movie Blog Post: BFFs starring Tara Karsian & Andrea Grano
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Indie Film Spotlight: BFFs by Writers, Producers, Co-Stars Tara Karsian and Andrea Grano Looking for a few days of vacation and amusement, two best friends pretend to be lovers while attending a couple’s weekend workshop. I received a screener for this film, BFFs,which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Kat (Tara Karsian) is having one of those weeks where you break up with your long term boyfriend right before your birthday and your mother’s gift to you is a weekend couples retreat. Kat’s best friend Samantha (Andrea Grano) with easy familiarity appropriates most of Kat’s birthday gifts for herself, including trying to figure out…
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A BIGGER SPLASH
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I was really happy with both the movies that opened this past weekend Luca Guadagnino “A Bigger Splash” and Jodie Foster’s “Money Monster” (See separate post). A Bigger Splash stars one of the most fascinating creatures in Hollywood, Tilda Swinton who also appeared in Guadagnino’s 2010 foodie film I Am Love (click for T&T post). In A Bigger Splash Swinton plays Marianne Lane a famous female glam rock personality recovering from throat surgery. She not only can’t speak above a whisper, she’s been told to refrain from speaking while her vocal chords heal. What better place to recuperate than on a beautiful Mediterranean Island called…
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Movie Blog Post: MONEY MONSTER
Jodi Foster is one of those rare individuals in this business who can take long periods of time off and yet continues to command respect, stays relevant and never loses her ability to find and tell good stories.
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Movie Blog Post: HOW TO PLAN AN ORGY IN A SMALL TOWN
Awkward Sex Abounds in Comedy “How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town” By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay I could picture How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town as a Christopher Guest movie, with the addition of Eugene Levy and Fred Willard to this nutty mix of small town neighbors, friends and ex’s determined to have a night of unabashed sex – Orgy style.How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town is actually written and directed by Jeremy LaLonde, who was raised in a small town and had planned to do a movie with that as the focus, but found himself wondering one…
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KEANU: Interview with Jordan Peele & Method Man
Peele says it was a challenge he and Key were ready for. “The difference of course at this point,” he says, “is you have to sustain a story. So you can’t just sell out the comedy and expect to be able to go back and have people care (about) what you’re doing. You have to ground it. You have to give it heart. And so ‘Keanu’ takes us through on this journey.”
