Looking Forward to 2026’s Award Season from The Golden Globes to the Oscars – Who Should Win and Will Win
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Looking Forward to 2026’s Award Season from The Golden Globes to the Oscars – Who Should Win and Will Win

Looking Forward to 2026’s Award Season from The Golden Globes to the Oscars – Who Should Win and Will Win by Brad Balfour With this weekend’s broadcast Sunday, January 11, 2026, on CBS, the 83rd Golden Globes set up the award season finale to come – The Oscars. The 98th Academy Awards will take place on … Continue reading

Candace Bushnell Tells True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City at Her Upcoming One-Person Show This Friday
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Candace Bushnell Tells True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City at Her Upcoming One-Person Show This Friday

Candace Bushnell Tells True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City at Her Upcoming One-Person Show This Friday by Brad Balfour When scribe Candace Bushnell created Carrie Bradshaw as her alter-ego while writing her “Sex and the City” column, she didn’t want her parents to know that she’d just been to a sex … Continue reading

Josh Brolin Goes from Angry Man To Hero In Weapons
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Josh Brolin Goes from Angry Man To Hero In Weapons

Josh Brolin Goes from Angry Man To Hero In Weapons – Making Such a Turn is a Skill He’s Demonstrated in His Many Movies by Brad Balfour Thanks to the success of director Zach Cregger’s astoundingly weird horror film, Weapons, its male lead, actor Josh Brolin, is getting attention way beyond expectation. Everything about the … Continue reading

Beatrice Minger – Swiss Filmmaker Grapples with the Legacy of Irish Designer Eileen Gray
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Beatrice Minger – Swiss Filmmaker Grapples with the Legacy of Irish Designer Eileen Gray

Beatrice Minger Swiss Filmmaker Grapples with the Legacy of Irish Designer Eileen Gray by Brad Balfour Irish designer Eileen Gray built a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Though she built the house for herself, it turned out to be a masterpiece and many people wanted to experience it years after she was gone. … Continue reading

Star Wars Creator George Lucas Debuts at San Diego Comic-Con to Announce His Museum and Raises Questions of “What’s it All About Anyhow…”
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Star Wars Creator George Lucas Debuts at San Diego Comic-Con to Announce His Museum and Raises Questions of “What’s it All About Anyhow…”

Star Wars Creator George Lucas Debuts at San Diego Comic-Con to Announce His Museum and Raises Questions of “What’s it All About Anyhow…” by Brad Balfour It’s hard to believe it but legendary director George Lucas – the mastermind who created the Star Wars saga had never appeared at San Diego Comic Con (last weekend, … Continue reading

Filmmaker Beth Lane Celebrates her Family As Holocaust Survivors in the Documentary UnBroken
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Filmmaker Beth Lane Celebrates her Family As Holocaust Survivors in the Documentary UnBroken

Filmmaker Beth Lane Celebrates her Family As Holocaust Survivors in the Documentary UnBroken by Brad Balfour In light of all the attention on antisemitism and the Jewish people since the October 7th massacre by Hamas terrorists, there’s been a desire for a story of triumph in the face of bloodshed and slaughter. So when filmmaker … Continue reading

Rima Te Wiata – In We Were Dangerous, Māori Actress is a Commanding Presence
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Rima Te Wiata – In We Were Dangerous, Māori Actress is a Commanding Presence

Rima Te Wiata In We Were Dangerous, Māori Actress is a Commanding Presence by Brad Balfour Though the nation of New Zealand may seem like a far-off isolated place, disconnected from much of the world, it is in fact a fount of creative filmmaking, and a major global cinematic center. Much of that is thanks … Continue reading

Classic Rocker John Cafferty Returns with a New Album After 37 Years
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Classic Rocker John Cafferty Returns with a New Album After 37 Years

John Cafferty Classic Rocker Returns with a New Album after 37 Years – Sound of Waves by Brad Balfour For many bands having a song is a film can boost one’s career. But for John Cafferty and his Beaver Brown band, they not only wrote and performed songs for the soundtrack to Eddie And The … Continue reading

Larry Kirwan – Rocker-turned-Writer Debuts His Latest Novel, Rockin’ the Bronx and Spurs ’80s Recollections
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Larry Kirwan – Rocker-turned-Writer Debuts His Latest Novel, Rockin’ the Bronx and Spurs ’80s Recollections

Larry Kirwan Rocker-turned-Writer Debuts His Latest Novel, Rockin’ the Bronx and Spurs ’80s Recollections by Brad Balfour During the annual Origin First Irish Festival, legendary Irish rocker Larry Kirwan presented a book launch, reading and performance of his latest novel, Rockin’ the Bronx, in April. Hosted by the New York Irish Center, this rare event added … Continue reading

Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and Cast Talk About Sinners
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Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and Cast Talk About Sinners

Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Li Jun Li, Wunmi Mosaku, Omar Benson Miller, Jayme Lawson and Ryan Coogler Talk About Sinners by Brad Balfour While continuing with the Creed and Black Panther franchises, director/writer Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan’s latest team-up surfaced when it was reported that the … Continue reading