Since Nia Vardalos lit the Greek fire in Hollywood with her blockbuster My Big Fat Greek Wedding, more talented Greek Americans have come forth with great works. Actors like Costas Mandylor, Nick Cassavetes, Louis Mandylor and Melina Kanakaredes have proven what they are made of. Yet there are those who are still breaking the “red […]
When I first saw the trailer for Admission, it bummed me out. Here was Tina Fey, funny, smart, bad ass Tina Fey, making another romantic comedy where she played the career gal who just couldn’t land a man. It was like a Liz Lemon joke of a movie. And it bummed me out that no […]
I made a concerted effort to see all of the films nominated for Best Picture before the Oscar ceremony. This effort was made difficult by the Academy in recent years with the addition of five more films and a shortened time frame from announcement to ceremony. Compliments of Rave Cinemas’ discount Tuesdays, however, this effort […]
Once again this year… Today is April 1st. Yes, yes, April Fools Day, la di da. But, more importantly, today is the day we celebrate our most senior writer– Ms. Rachael Nisenkier, without whom My Entertainment World simply would not exist. (This is not an exaggeration- before Rachael this was a strictly one-man operation, now […]
Portraying the struggles of a foreign nation during a time of war has become a common trend in North American cinema. War being the most favored subject matter of filmmakers, it is also the most controversial one. Countless war movies are released each year with an apparent agenda of exposing “the truth” rather than entertaining […]
It’s strange to write this- a friend and I were literally talking about him just two days ago. We don’t make a habit of announcing every celebrity death on this site, knowing that surely someone else will say what needs to be said, but in this case I feel that I should write it myself– […]
I’m a big fan of the 90’s. The music, the pop culture, the plaid; I like it all. One of my favourite things about that decade was the proliferation of films that could best be described as “Die Hard in _____”. For a while it seems like every action movie would fall into the template […]
In the Louisiana bayou, cut off from the rest of the world, a small free-spirited community has settled down. In this water-sunken place (or, as the locals refer to it, “the bathtub”) the poverty is surreal, yet no one seems to mind. Seen through the eyes of 6-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) it is “The most […]