Comic-Con 2011 Underway with Robert Pattinson's New Undercut and Del Toro's Expletives!

The first full day of Comic-Con featured a cursing Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in a new do,  Justin Timberlake's first visit to the Con, and  foul-mouth Guillermo Del Toro. Photo by S. Valle Twilighters were the highlight of the day filling Hall H with screaming fans of every age. After spending the night, some since [...]

The 2011 Oscars: Boring, flat and uncomfortable

It took all of my energy to sit through the entire broadcast of The 83rd Academy Awards, but I did. I kept hoping it would pick up the pace with the next award, but it let me down most of the time. The show was slow, the musical numbers unnecessarily solemn, and though the hosts, James [...]

COMIC-CON 2009 – My Top Picks for Families

Comic-Con 2009 is poised to be bigger and better than ever, and this year some of the activities normally confined to the San Diego Convention Center's cavernous halls will be spilling out to other venues offering everyone a chance to be part of this exciting five-day pop-culture extravaganza. Forty years ago, what started as a small comic book convention has joined [...]

KIDS CHOICE AWARDS 2009

Photo KCA 2009 Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson rocked as host of the KCA this year. Following the same blue print of past awards shows: slimy beginning building up to the ultimate slime-washed end, the green mucus was plentiful through out the show. Only a couple of eye-brow raising moments caught my PG attention. My kids noted that The [...]

THE OSCARS WENT TO THE DOGS!

The Oscars went to the dogs this year, SlumDogs that is! The $15 million budget 'SlumDog Millionaire' was expected to be the top winner of the 2009 Academy Awards, and it took the top prize as Best Picture for 2008. Winning 8 out of 10 nominations, Ben Stiller joked about the low-budget movie saying