Lorna Jane - El Paseo's Store Opening Celebrates the Active Life Lorna Jane opened a new store in Palm Desert in the quaint El Paseo shopping district near Palm Springs. Since 2012, this Australian activewear clothing line has opened 36 stores in the US, and the Palm Desert store is the latest. The mission of [...]
Directed by Ben Patterson Reviewed by Karen Henry Slamdance is like a second cousin to Sundance Film Festival, taking place simultaneously in Park City and often introducing first-rate films that are not part of the more exclusive Sundance line-up. Sweet Micky for President had its world premiere on January 24, 2015, at Slamdance. It is [...]
Sundance 2015. It began with the flight attendant offering me a free bloody Mary on the DL for no apparent reason except to get the party started. Alrighty then! Park City Events at Sundance As usual, celebs are in Park City, parties are swinging, and gifting suites line Main Street in Park City, where most [...]
Glam, glitter, stars. This week’s Palm Springs International Film Festival is not only the first festival of the new year, but also a kick-off for the 2015 awards season. In Palm Springs, the stars were all in attendance at last Saturday’s exclusive night gala. The event’s honorees, many of whom were in attendance at the [...]
Produced by and starring Reese Witherspoon, directed by Jean Marc Vallee Reese Witherspoon certainly went on a wild ride in the just-released film Wild. Unprepared, naïve, yet determined to walk away her personal issues, her character undertakes a 1,100-mile hike up the Pacific Crest Trail. The story is based on the best-selling memoir Wild: From [...]
Through coalition building and filmmaking, Bridges is on a mission to eliminate childhood hunger. We may know Jeff Bridges best for his decades of work in front of the camera, not the least of which is as the Dude in the The Big Lebowski or as a fading star in Crazy Heart. Yet, some of [...]
The mission of the Awakened World International Film Festival Retreat’s is to “express the voice of the spiritually nature movement.” To this end, the 18 inspirational films shown throughout the week include: People vs. the State of Illusion, Dying to Know, and The Power of the Heart from Light to Life. Each film is accompanied [...]
Directed by Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell Reviewed by Karen Hemry The movie Pump may provide just the motivation for me to convert my car to an electric or Flex Fuel model in the near future. The documentary points out that, with rising demand for cars and gasoline in booming China, it will be imperative for [...]
The 10-day Awareness Film Festival opened not with a bang but with the type of awareness befitting a longtime meditator or Zen master on Thursday, September 11. The two feature films screened that night at the beautiful Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus were David Lynch’s Meditation, Creativity, Peace and Moving From Emptiness: The Life [...]
Fed Up about Childhood Obesity Katie Couric was impressed enough with her talk show guest Stephanie Soechtig, the director of the documentary Tapped, that she asked Soechtig to direct a passion project for her. The epidemic of childhood obesity was a subject that Couric felt was only being superficially covered by the media. The result of [...]