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The High Note

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 5/25/2020 12:00 PM EDT
The glamorous world of the Los Angeles music scene isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just ask all the celebrities' personal assistants. They run around ragged always trying to please their incredibly demanding employers. Meanwhile, they have dreams of their own. Let's face it… many of them live in the entertainment hub... Read More

Spaceship Earth

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 5/12/2020 11:56 AM EDT
As a Floridian, when one hears the words Spaceship Earth one immediately thinks of the big, round golf ball that sits at the entrance of Epcot Center. Looming eighteen stories high, it greets excited visitors to an amusement park full of wonder and innovation with an international flair. However, in this case, Spaceship Earth refe... Read More

Trolls World Tour

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/10/2020 10:10 AM EDT
They're colorful, they're bright, they're furry, they love to sing and dance and…they fart glitter. Yes, that's right, Universal Studios/DreamWorks Animation is once again bringing their beloved Trolls back for a second round. Poppy (Anna Kendrick; Pitch Perfect), Branch (Justin Timberlake; In Time) and the rest o... Read More

Call of The Wild

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/2/2020 5:59 PM EDT
Jack London spent almost a year in the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Goldrush. While there he watched as dog sleds raced through the harsh terrain and weather in an effort to get their masters' to the gold before anyone else. From this experience, he later wrote his most popular piece of fiction – a novel entitled The Call of the W... Read More

Bloodshot

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/12/2020 9:42 AM EDT
It seems if there is a comic book/graphic novel out in the world, then at some point we will see a big-screen adaptation. Marvel and DC Comics have had great success in the last ten years turning their superheroes and villains into major box office hits and now Valiant Comics is trying to duplicate the achievements of their counterparts with ... Read More

The Way Back

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/5/2020 4:08 PM EDT
Most people can recall a time in their young lives when someone older inspired them and/or believed in them. Perhaps it was a teacher or a coach or a tutor, etc. who helped them see the potential they had even when they couldn't. There have been numerous films over the years that have explored this theme and it is common to get at l... Read More

Emma

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/4/2020 10:05 AM EDT
Jane Austen published four novels in her short life and two more were published posthumously. The original four, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma, have not only been part of school curriculums the world over but have been adapted for both television and theatrical release. The latter, Emma, even had a modern... Read More

The Invisible Man

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/27/2020 3:52 PM EDT
Nobel Prize nominee H.G. Wells was a writer who was ahead of his time. Considered one of the "Fathers of Science Fiction" he wrote a novel published in 1897 called The Invisible Man. Almost forty years later, Universal Pictures released a feature film version of the novel starring Claude Raines as Dr. Jack Griffin/ The Invisible Man... Read More

Downhilll

(Alyn Darnay) 2/13/2020 2:58 PM EDT
Question: What do you call a film that's not funny, not deeply dramatic, and feels like a messed-up effort to re-make a good foreign film? I guess you call it "Downhill" and label it a ‘dramedy'. To sum up the "Downhill" situation; the filmmakers took what should have been a dream comedy pairing, in this case, the won... Read More

Sonic The Hedgehog

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 2/13/2020 8:59 AM EDT
Almost 30 years ago Sega introduced a little blue creature to the gaming world called Sonic the Hedgehog. He was super-fast, powerful, had enemies who wanted his power and he ran around various worlds collecting gold rings. Since then there have been many iterations of the game making it one of the bestselling game franchises ever. &nbs... Read More