by elinkstoday | Sep 4, 2025 | Community, Film Festival, Food & Beverage, Music
Centroamericanto Fest 2025 celebrates its 17th edition with two days filled with Central American culture. Friday, September 19th will be dedicated to film and Saturday the 20th to music, dance, and gastronomy. Centroamericanto Fest has become a cultural festival that...
by elinkstoday | Aug 29, 2025 | Film
A film regarded as a “coming of age” story can be perceived in a couple of ways. Some people may want to pass on viewing it because it may be formulaic and predictable. I try not to set expectations and am open to seeing what the filmmakers offer. How creative is it...
by elinkstoday | Aug 28, 2025 | Film Festival
The Oscar-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival recently wrapped this month and two films that I viewed from filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen are very impressive. She is an AFI Conservatory MFA graduate. Both of her films were screened at the TCL Chinese Theater earlier this...
by elinkstoday | Aug 28, 2025 | Film
The Whale filmmaker, Darren Aronofsky directs his new film Caught Stealing with Austin Butler (Elvis,2022) in the lead role as Hank. A talented baseball player in his younger years, the athlete had a promising career in New York, and now he is a bartender. The...
by elinkstoday | Aug 25, 2025 | Film
From writers/directors Juan González and Nando Martínez, comes The Fantastic Golem Affairs, an absurdist Spanish sci-fi comedy that was offered internationally during the 2023 film festivals, Fantasia and Fantastic Fest (Austin, TX) among others. The film is about...
by elinkstoday | Aug 22, 2025 | Film
In the past I have enjoyed films by writer/director Ethan Coen, and while I liked several parts of his new film Honey Don’t! I felt a bit unfulfilled by the time the credits rolled. It almost felt like when the Rev. Drew Devlin (Chris Evans) is discussing “submission”...
by elinkstoday | Aug 22, 2025 | Film
Eden unravels the shocking true story of a German doctor and his partner who have left Germany to live a distinct life from that of World War I. They reside on an island in the Galapagos and write letters “back home” about how they are satisfied and in peace. Those...
by elinkstoday | Aug 15, 2025 | Film
Highest 2 Lowest by Director Spike Lee (Inside Man) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025. The crime thriller’s screenplay is written by William Alan Fox, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963). I have not seen the classic film prior to the...
by elinkstoday | Aug 8, 2025 | Film
Director: Antonio Negret Guionista: Daniel Negret Sinopsis: Una familia misionera viaja a una zona rural de Ecuador para convertir a la población indígena. Todo marcha bien hasta que su hijo se aventura en una cueva local prohibida y regresa con un espíritu demoníaco...
by elinkstoday | Jul 31, 2025 | Film
Directed by Nick Rowland (Calm with Horses) based on the screenplay by the book author Jordan Harper and Ben Collins & Luke Piotrowski, this is an action-packed film from the beginning to end. The story is about newly released ex-con Nate McClusky (Taron Egerton,...
