Lani Gonzalez, Author at Book and Film Globe

Best-Picture-Inspired Food for Oscar Night

March 8, 2023March 13, 2023 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments All Quiet On the Western Front, Avatar The Way of Water, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fablemans, Top Gun Maverick, Triangle of Sadness

Ace recipes from the BFG test kitchen

TCM Underground

Why TCM Underground Mattered

February 24, 2023February 28, 2023 Lani Gonzalez 1 Comment Gymkata, Millie DeChirico, TCM Underground, Turner Classic Movies

The curated series acknowledged that cult movies are just as important to film history as ‘Gone With The Wind’

80 For Brady

’80 For Brady’ and Friends: The Boomer Buddy Comedy Never Dies

January 30, 2023February 1, 2023 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments 80 For Brady, Alan Arkin, Andy Garcia, Book Club, Candice Bergen, Craig T. Nelson, Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Don Johnson, Going In Style, Jane Fonda, Kevin Kline, Last Vegas, Let Them All Talk, Mary Steenburgen, Meryl Streep, Michael Caine, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert DeNiro, Steven Soderbergn, Wallace Shawn

Geezers need excitement, too

Hearts of Darkness

Famous Film Fiascos Before ‘Megalopolis’

January 16, 2023January 19, 2023 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo, Francis Ford Coppola, Hearts of Darkness, Klaus Kinski, Megalopolis, Richard Stanley, Roar, Terry Gilliam, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Tippi Hedren, Werner Herzog

As reports come in about “chaos” on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, here are some other legendary Hollywood fiascos, including four that Coppola didn’t direct

The Last Movie Stars

Newman And Woodward’s Own

September 7, 2022September 9, 2022 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Ethan Hawke, Harper, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, The Last Movie Stars, The Long Hot Summer

‘The Last Movie Stars,’ an intimate look at an old-school Hollywood power couple

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, 2020December 12, 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

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