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This Weekend I’ll be Covering: The XPN Music Film Festival
Film & Music, like Film & Food is always an exciting pairing! I’m looking forward to attending some of the goings on at this year’s XPN Music Film Festival April 11-14, 2013. Here’s a link to T&T coverage from last year’s XPN inaugural festival. Now in its second year, the WXPN Music Film Festival represents a collaboration between the noncommercial radio station and the Philadelphia Film Society. The event will encompass 17 film screenings, live music performances and a variety of ancillary activities. The eclectic affair will span a variety of music genres, including documentaries about the music scene, biopics about musicians, and movies that have distinctive music soundtracks. http://xpn.org/events/music-filmfest…
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Back to Bahama Breeze: New Rice Bowls!
At the beginning of the year I was invited to a blogger’s event at Bahama Breeze to taste their new Legendary Island Cocktails (click for post). Last week they invited me back to sample items from their Late Night Happy Hour menu and new Rice Bowls! “From Caribbean Creole to an Asian-island inspired sweet chili and ginger sauce, each bowl brings a distinct international island flavor to the table.” I was greeted this time by manager Talia Rivera (Talia, forgive me for forgetting to take your picture). Thanks for being such a great host. As we learned in my last post, Bahama Breeze takes their cocktails seriously, so choosing a…
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Candi’s Corner: Interview with new Evil Dead Director Fede Alvarez
*Please note- if you have not seen the original Evil Dead movie and would like to see it before watching Fede Alvarez’s version, you will be slightly spoiled reading this interview! You’ve been warned. As my journey in the movie industry continues, from acting to writing to reviewing, I find myself talking to the most interesting of people. However, I’ve met very few, where I can see in their eyes and from their body language and facial expressions, the look of cynicism. Many are passionate, yet because the odds seem very much not in their favor in this merciless business, you begin to notice more of the jaded, the cynical,…
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Devouring an Old Favorite: Jurassic Park 3D
I saw Jurassic Park 3D last Saturday (Opens today 4/5). Totally forgot how good a flick this movie is! Or maybe I never really knew, as 20 years ago I was too young to appreciate the pacing, perfect casting (Where’s Sam Neill been?) and ratcheting tension. Still love when the T Rex is reflected in the rear view mirror that reads – “objects are closer than they appear”. And when that piece of bloody goat foot lands on top of the jeep’s sunroof! Trying to figure out why Samuel L. Jackson looks older 20 years ago than he does today, is he doing a Benjamin Button? But what’s most notable…
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What’s the Secret to Getting In: ADMISSION
Okay, so I’m slipping. Paul Rudd and Tina Fey’s Admission opened the weekend before last. And yes, I did see it in previews, yet I’m just now putting up the post. I suppose it was because originally, I didn’t have a lot to impart about this movie. But I found an interesting tie in this week, which inspired me to write. Fey plays Portia a woman who by her mother’s standards, (a notable feminist activist, played outrageously by Lily Tomlin), didn’t amount to much, even though Portia is one of the top Admission Faculty at Princeton University. Rudd plays John Pressman, a man with a privileged background who prefers to…
