Backstage Pass

The 25th Critics’ Choice Awards Red Carpet held at the Barker Hangar Sunday, January 12, 2020 in Santa Monica. As a voting member of the Critics’ Choice Association for the past six years the Red Carpet always has a high anticipation to celebrate the stars who we haven’t seen in…

Michael B. Jordan stars as Bryan Stevenson in a true story as a determined Alabama lawyer that decides to defend death row prisoners. The year is 1987, and Walter McMillian (Jamie Fox) is sentenced to die for the murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a majority of evidence proving his…

Jumanji: The Next Level (PG-13) by Sony Pictures All the cast is back, in the sequel although this time Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and Jack Black have new character changes when they return to Jumanji. The addition of new cast members Danny DeVito, Danny Glover and Awkwafina add…

Little Women (PG) Based on the book by Louise Mae Alcott Sony Pictures Home Entertainment An American coming-of-age period drama written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the eighth film adaptation of the 1868 novel. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée…

“Ford v Ferrari” PG-13 Historical Fiction and Drama by 20th Century Fox The film is based on the rivalry between the car manufacturers Ford and Ferrari in their pursuit to win the 24 hour Le Mans sports car race in 1966. I screened the film at the Toronto International Film…

  Marriage Story is a comedy-drama film or dramadey written and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Scarlett Johansson and Adamson Driver. We view an insightful and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family that longs to stay together. Laura Dern, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta…

“Honey Boy” is an autobiographical story of actor Shia LaBeouf’s childhood relationship with his father. LaBeouf plays his father while Lucas Hedges and Noah Jupe play older and younger LeBeouf. “Honey Boy” had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2019, and won the Special Jury…

The story is of a family of four living in South Korea; they are so poor they fold Pizza boxes to make a living. Suddenly, everything changes when the older son is hired as a tutor to teach a wealthy families’ High School daughter English. Eventually, all four family members…

Brad Pitt plays astronaut Roy McBride, who’s sent on a top-secret mission to discover what’s behind the damaging electromagnetic pulses coming from the planet Neptune. His father, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is a decorated astronaut that has been missing in space. The film is directed and co-written by James…