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Spotlight on The Ready Rig

By Ron Merk When I lived in Topanga, California, my next door neighbor was a well-known director and director of photography on many big network TV series. Mario Di Leo began [...]

April 7, 2014

CAAMFest 2014 Concludes

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26, 2014 – CAAMFest 2014 successfully concluded after 11 days of film, music and food programming. As the largest festival of its kind in the country, [...]

March 28, 2014

“Looking…”

By Ron Merk Last evening I had the opportunity to see two episodes of the new HBO series, “Looking,” at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. With the cast and creators [...]

January 15, 2014

If Ever Oh Ever A Wiz There Was…

By Ron Merk Oh, I know, why doesn’t Hollywood stop fiddling with the classics, trying to modernize them or remake them or worse, convert them to color or 3D? Well, the [...]

November 17, 2013

BEAUTIFUL

By Ron Merk Beautiful is a really good show. If I was going to write a one-line review, that would be it. The cast, staging, tech, sets, and choreography are great. Good [...]

November 10, 2013

Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe continues stretching as an actor to play legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg as a gay Columbia University freshman discovering his sexuality in John [...]

November 10, 2013

House of Wax 3D

If You Are a Big Fan of 3D Movies, Read This Great Story on “House of Wax” by Bob Furmanek and Watch for the Blu Ray of the new restoration of this classic film starring [...]

September 30, 2013

GIANT (1956)

Reviewed by Ozgur Pamukcu George Stevens’ sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber’s best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious [...]

August 21, 2013

The Kite Runner

THE DELAYED ATONEMENT Much like the best-selling novel on which it’s based, “The Kite Runner” tells the story of an Afghan refugee who, long after arriving in America, [...]

August 6, 2013

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