Lani Gonzalez, Author at Book and Film Globe

Tick Tick Boom

The Garfield Show

December 6, 2021December 8, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 1 Comment Andrew Garfield, Jonathan Larson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick Tick Boom

Andrew Garfield takes center stage in ‘tick, tick…Boom!’, an adaptation of ‘Rent’ author Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical

Heights

Nine Musicals to Watch if You Loved ‘In The Heights’

June 15, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 1 Comment Black Orpheus, Coco, Esther Williams, Fiddler On The Roof, Fred Astaire, Frida Kahlo, Hamilton, In The Heights, Jon M. Chu, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Million Dollar Mermaid, Moana, Royal Wedding, Stanley Donen, Step Up 2, Step Up 3D

From Fred Astaire and Esther Williams to ‘Step Up 3D’

The Rise of the Prequels

June 4, 2021June 10, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 2 Comments Cruella, Grease, Minions, Paramount, Star Wars, Timothée Chalamet, Willy Wonka

Hollywood keeps going back and back and back again

31 Days of Oscar

The Return of ’31 Days of Oscar’

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments 31 Days Of Oscar, Alexander Payne, Angela Lansbury, Gaslight, Hope and Glory, Ingrid Bergman, John Boorman, La Ronde, Max Ophuls, Nebraska, Simone Signoret, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies highlights classics and new favorites this month

TCM

TCM Reframes the Movies

March 15, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 2 Comments Gone With The Wind, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Katharine Hepburn, Swing Time, TCM, Woman of the Year

Cultural context instead of cancellation

Cary Grant

Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend

January 18, 2021January 22, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 2 Comments Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Father Goose, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn, Leslie Caron, Loretta Young, Mark Glancy, North By Northwest, The Awful Truth, The Dishop's Wife

Reconsidering the movie star who rarely “played himself”

Body switch

Swap Meet

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 Lani Gonzalez 1 Comment Barbara Harris, Body-switch, Carl Reiner, Face/Off, Freaky Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jodie Foster, John Travolta, John Woo, Lindsay Lohan, Nicolas Cage, Turnabout, Your Name

Horror-comedy Freaky is the latest film in the peculiar body-switch genre

Actors CLASSICS FILM Remembrance

Five Olivia de Havilland Gems Worth Watching

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Bette Davis, Gone With The Wind, Hattie McDaniel, James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth

The legendary actress did far more than ‘Gone With The Wind’

racist

Six Classic Films that are Just a Little Bit Racist

June 15, 2020January 24, 2022 Lani Gonzalez 1 Comment A Majority of One, Alec Guinness, Bing Crosby, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Danny Kaye, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gone With The Wind, HBO Max, Holiday Inn, Imitation of Life, Louise Beavers, Mickey Rooney, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Peter Sellers, Rosemary Clooney, Swing Time, The Party, Vera-Ellen, White Christmas

This hasn’t aged well

Hollywood

Netflix TELEVISION

Once Upon a Time in ‘Hollywood’?

May 7, 2020May 12, 2020 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, Hollywood, Ian Brenna, Jake Picking, Jeremy Pope, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, Laura Harrier, Patti LuPone, Ryan Murphy, Samara Weaving

Ryan Murphy’s latest series is a woke fantasy of postwar Tinseltown

The Way Back

‘The Way Back’ and The Bad Coach Playbook

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Bad News Bears, Ben Affleck, Emilio Estevez, Gene Hackman, Hardball, Hoosiers, Keanu Reeves, Mighty Ducks, The Way Back, Walter Matthau

Five movie coaches who probably shouldn’t be around kids

Dust to Dust

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments His Dark Materials, James McAvoy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Philip Pullman, Ruth Wilson

HBO’s ‘His Dark Materials’ Series is off to a Promising Start

Welles on the March

September 9, 2019September 8, 2019 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Marching Song, Orson Welles, Roger Hill, Todd Tarbox

A Newly-Published Play Enriches the Legacy of an American Genius

Meet Meh In Monaco

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Alfred Hitchock, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb, Meet Me In Monaco, To Catch A Thief

The Addition of Grace Kelly Doesn’t Spice Up Bland Historical Romance

Cat-astrophe

July 20, 2019July 23, 2019 Lani Gonzalez 2 Comments Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats, Cats Trailer, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Thundercats, Tom Hooper

A Horrifying Invitation to the Jellicle Ball

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