21st Annual Beverly Hills Film Festival Livestreams 155 Films to Global Audience & Honors Actor Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa with Legends Award in First-Ever Virtual Edition
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Each Film Will Be Available for 24-hours to Accommodate World Time Zones
The upside with the new virtual platform is that we are able to screen our official selections to a global audience. We’ll also be offering virtual panels and networking events to bring our community together. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (PRWEB) April 16, 2021 The 21st Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival® (BHFF) is proud to announce its first-ever virtual edition, which is livestreaming 155 official selections globally via the fest’s site, beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com and powered by Eventive, from April 28 – May 2, 2021. Actor Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa (“The Last Emperor,” “Man in the High Castle,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Rising Sun”) is being
What s New to Stream on Hulu for April 2021
This month s new arrivals include a pair of Hulu Original Documentaries that are definitely worth your time.
Crossing the Streams is our look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Hulu arrivals for April 2021, including new documentaries on WeWork and Bigfoot, a pair of Denzel Washington thrillers, one of 2017’s best films, and more!
Hulu Pick of the Month for April 2021
Thelma, which premieres on April 17th, is four years old by this point, but as too many of you still haven’t experienced its absolute beauty I’m recommending it once more. (Here’s my original review.) One of the best films of 2017,
Horror History: THE LAWNMOWER MAN Was Released on This Day in 1992
THE LAWNMOWER MAN was released on this day back in 1992! By Josh Millican
The Lawnmower Man, released on this day in 1992, is based on a short story by Stephen King–or at least that’s what New Line Cinema would have you believe. While King indeed penned a short story called “The Lawnmower Man”, the movie is connected in name alone. Still, New Line purposely mislead moviegoers, marketing the movie as
Stephen King’s Lawnmower Man.
Synopsis:
The eccentric Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) puts mentally disabled landscaper Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey) on a regimen of experimental pills and computer-simulated training sequences in hopes of augmenting the man’s intelligence. In time Jobe becomes noticeably brighter and also begins to fare much better with the opposite sex. But, as he develops psychic powers, he realizes that those around him h
Redding officers identified in deadly shooting on Cypress Avenue Bridge
The Redding Police Department on Wednesday released the names of the three officers involved in a fatal police shooting last month.
The officers involved in the Feb. 7 shooting were officers Jeremiah Kasinger, Nate Sweeney and Brett Leonard, who also was involved in two prior fatal shootings in the past three years, according to Redding police Sgt. Danny Smetak.
The three officers fired on Brooke Leann Blair, 27, of Redding after she pulled a replica handgun from her waistband, police said shortly after the shooting.
The incident, as described by police, began shortly before 11:30 a.m. Feb. 7 on the south side of the Cypress Avenue Bridge.
The 90s VR Movie: The Lawnmower Man had a lot to answer for
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the wave of straight to video Virtual Reality films that followed in the wake of The Lawnmower Man in the mid to late ’90s…
The idea of virtual reality worlds has been something of a sci-fi staple for many decades. Cronenberg toyed with the concept in
Videodrome. Philip K Dick’s classic short story,
We Can Dream it For You Wholesale was adapted to the big screen as
Total Recall. However, during the video game boom of the early 90s, alongside a progressive wave of developing CGI technology, VR became immensely popular, with everything from naff TV game shows, to movie concepts.