Since he days on the popular teen drama Dawson’s Creek Katie Holmes has carved out a nice film career for herself and now she’s dipping her feet into directing with All We Had. Aside from directing, she also stars in the movie…
The Film Canon: Phone Booth (2002)
Just because you can’t make something work right now, doesn’t mean it won’t work out somewhere down the line. Such is the story behind Phone Booth‘s production. Writer Larry Cohen originally pitched the concept to famed director Alfred Hitchcock back in…
Cat’s Touched With Fire Review
In a world where having a mental disorder is treated as a hugely negative and stigmatized scenario, actor, writer, and director Paul Dalio hopes that his film, Touched With Fire, might help change people’s minds about people who are bipolar,…
Ally’s Movie Review: “The Giver”
The Giver fails because it doesn’t try to be anything extraordinary, happy to settle for a simple retelling that doesn’t show us anything that goes beyond satisfactory. It is a classic example of a missed opportunity, and with such rich, innovative…
Australian Newcomer Plays Jonas in ‘The Giver’
Just the other day I had a chat with Brenton Thwaites at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. He made jokes, talked about the parallels he has with his character, Jonas, and described what it was like working with…
Conversation with Lois Lowry, author of The Giver
I had the incredible opportunity, along with several other websites, to participate in a conference call with Lois Lowry, author of The Giver, a bestseller and award-winning novel, about her book and the upcoming movie: Shelf To Screen: “The Giver…
‘The Giver’ New Posters and Foreword by Author Lois Lowry
The term “Young Adult” has taken on a new meaning since these dark times of overdosed dystopias, pale sparkling men and tattooed, leather clad teens. There was more “Adult” to the genre; we grew wiser from stories, as opposed to…