The Newport Beach Film Festival presented by Pacific Sales continues to bring interesting films that may never make it to a wide distribution, but that doesn?t mean the films aren?t worthy of being seen. That is one of the values of film festivals. I would encourage...
Welcome back to the Newport Beach Film Festival presented by Pacific Sales. It was a full day for me, as you?ll see when you see the nine films I have to talk about. Okay, I?ll admit that six of them were shorts, but that still seems like a full day to me. Note that...
The 20th edition of the Newport Beach Film Festival presented by Pacific Sales is now up and running. Films are shown at several venues, including Starlight Cinemas, Edward?s Big Newport Cinemas, the historic Lido Theater, and The Lot in Fashion Island. If you?re in...
While many of my Screenfish colleagues (and most of the rest of the world) will be seeing The Avengers: Endgame this weekend, I?ll be absent from that crowd. Instead, I?ll be starting my weeklong coverage of the 20th Newport Beach Film Festival presented by Pacific...
Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul, was a well-established star in 1972 when she chose for her next album to return to the music of her youth?gospel. The daughter of a Baptist minister, singing in church was where her sound was born. In Amazing Grace, we travel back...
This is the 10th anniversary of Disneynature creating documentary films about our planet and its inhabitants. This year?s offering (as always, being released for Earth Day) is Penguins. And as with previous Disneynature films, they will make a donation to Wildlife...
I recently had a chance to sit down with Tim Disney to talk about his film William. William is the story of a cloned Neanderthal who is raised by a pair of academics who have different visions of who he is and should become. There were a lot of different movies that...
It is important to have a place where you belong?people who journey with us. Or as Qoheleth put it: ?Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does...
What makes one ?human?? Can one be human but not Homo sapiens? Until about 30,000 years ago, there were other species of human that in time died out. One of those was Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals. If a Neanderthal could be born today, how would it differ...