Gregg Hunter’s Newspace

Yes Virginia, even in these perilous times it is possible to eat out or even to take out meals that are tasty and appetizing but also nourishing and healthful.
In Glendale, Elena’s Greek Cuisine on So. Glendale Avenue just above Chevy Chase Drive  serves up an abundance of delicious lean kabobs and more with roasted fresh [...]

Reports Of His Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

It’s true on a number of levels to say that Hal Holbrook’s one-man show “Mark Twain Tonight!” is the performance of a lifetime. Not only because Holbrook has distilled a lifetime’s worth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ writing and humorous commentary into a single evening, but the fact that Holbrook has been doing the show for [...]

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Runtime: 107 Minutes
Not for Children Under 12
This might be called “Alice in Wonderland,” but it is not Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland,” which was published in 1865. The most enjoyable thing for me in reading Carroll’s “Alice” is that it is full of philosophy and truisms, simply and plainly put. Here are [...]

Cop Out

Cop Out

Runtime: 107 Minutes
Not for Children
As a critic, nothing ticks me off more than lame-brained, inane, poorly-made, idiotic movies. Usually it’s pretty easy for me to write reviews devastating them. For some reason, even though this is as lame-brained, inane, poorly-made, and idiotic as any, I’ve had difficulty actually setting myself to write a critique. [...]

The Gifting Suite: An Awards Staple

By Sue Facter
Oscar fever is over, but memories surface with media images for the year to come, especially from the gifting suites.
If you’re a Hollywood insider, you and your entourage run around town to upscale hotels, pose, and collect the goods. This is not just an Oscar thing; the suites are year round. Next: GLAAD [...]

More for Less

Barone’s Famous Italian Res-taurant co-founder Frank Monteleone, who was a well-respected and ever popular presence at the restaurant, succumbed on Valentine’s Day at the age of 95. Still family-owned and operated, Barone’s Famous Italian Restaurant made a successful move from Sherman Oaks to Van Nuys four years ago (13726 Oxnard Street)
In keeping with today’s tight [...]

The Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer

Runtime: 128 Minutes
Not for Children
Roman Polanski admitted in court to drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles and then ran away. Almost as reprehensible, his newest film paints Tony Blair and the USA as the bad guys in the war against terror. The CIA is pictured as evil as The Gestapo.
But [...]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Runtime: 119 Minutes
Not for Children
Author Rick Riordan has written a series of children’s books based on his protagonist, Percy Jackson, as the son of a Greek God, Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and an ordinary American woman, Sally Jackson (Catherine Keener). According to this film, the fictional Olympian gods are [...]

“Blue Like the Morning”

By Bea Wolff
“Blue Like the Morning” posses the question: “If you know you are living the wrong life, do you leave it?” It offers an answer in the form of a myth, telling the story of Sarah, a woman trapped in a life she can’t abide, who finds self-realization through helping others less fortunate than [...]

Oscar® News

Get Ready to Laugh… Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, and Ben Stiller to Present on Oscar® Show
Comedic talents Sacha Baron Cohen, Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, and Ben Stiller will help bring laughs to the 82nd Academy Awards®. This will be the debut appearances for Baron Cohen and Bateman. Stiller [...]