Movie News
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AFI Postpones Its 48th Life Achievement Award Celebrating Julie Andrews
The American Film Institute (AFI) is postponing the 48th annual AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute in celebration of Julie Andrews. The event was originally scheduled for April 25 and AFI said it will be rescheduled for a date in early summer. The new date and the air date for the premiere of the Tribute special on TNT will be announced in the coming weeks, AFI said. The AFI Life Achievement Award is bestowed on artists “whose work has stood the test of time.” “AFI’s decision to postpone the event is simply in response to the rapidly evolving nature of current events and our promise to ensure the well-being of…
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5 Questions for Actor: MIKE PAQUIN
Mike Paquin was born in S.W. Philly, raised in Delco, and currently resides in the Roxborough section of Philly. Most recently he’s featured in Christopher Stem‘s short film Thriller “The Springs County Psycho”, which is temporarily available on YouTube (see below). Mike caught the acting bug a little later in life, but has been making steady headway by studying the craft and acting in several local independent films. Before you know it, we’ll be saying we knew him when! Welcome Mike to Tinsel & Tine’s 5 Questions Series: T&T: What led you to this latest project? & briefly describe your character. MIKE PAQUIN: My “Latest” project is as the Star…
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The Invisible Man
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Yes! This is a GO SEE IT!!!! Writer/Director Leigh Whannell has presented us with a fine thriller starting scene 1 – You become immediately invested in the escape without having seen who, why, where an escape is even needed. The movie would be very good with another actress in the main role, but of course, my girl crush, Elisabeth Moss kicks it into great! She’s so good at making you feel her pain and share in her victories. I’m not gonna say much more cause I don’t want to give anything away. But I will say, I have read H.G. Well‘s book “The Invisible Man”…
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Featured in Central New York Woman Online
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. I got to talk about my career ups and downs, losing faith in myself and…
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DOWNHILL (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
Is Downhill as good as the original? No, of course not. Although, I do remember there being a number of unnecessarily slow, extraneous scenes in “Force Majeure”, so co-directors and writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (Academy Award winners for The Descendants which they co-wrote with Alexander Payne) do create a tighter script in “Downhill”; yet the movie is also missing some of the subtleties of things farther under the surface, which foreign films seem to capture so well.
