A Quick Apology to You
Posted by Leah on
1/21/2018 10:59:34 AM
Hi! Thank you for visiting my website. I hope, for the most part, you enjoy it.
I just wanted to let you know that I’m sorry. I’m sorry I haven’t been posting many new reviews, and I’m sorry that the most recent “news” item is from November. That’s certainly not the way I want things to be, and I hope to have them back to somewhat normal within the next month.
As happens from time to time, life has gotten in the way lately. I’ve had more health issues than I could’ve anticipated, which has kept me from getting on the computer much. Plus my dog has been ...
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6th Annual Rhode Island Comic Con is in the Books
Posted by Leah on
11/20/2017 11:31:31 AM
Initially it had been my hope to spend the entire 3-day weekend at Rhode Island Comic Con, interviewing celebrities and checking things out, but a family emergency came up at the last minute. In the final days leading up to the start of it I wasn’t sure I’d be able to go at all, but luckily I was able to squeeze one day out. That day was Saturday: the busiest and most crowded day of the three.
Everything I’d looked at about the event before attending said that the doors didn’t open until 10 am. Rhode Island is usually close to a three hour drive for me, so I left my ...
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2017 Rhode Island Comic Con is Here and Ready to Rock!
Posted by Leah on
11/6/2017 11:37:53 AM
Friday November 10th marks the start of the 2017 Rhode Island Comic Con in Providence, and I’ve honestly never been as excited to attend an event as I am for this one. Now I know…I can already hear you saying, “But Leah! You’ve said over and over how you’re not really a fan of comic books, or superheroes. Why on earth would you attend a comic con?” I understand your confusion, really I do, but let me explain…
While at its heart Rhode Island Comic Con is about comic books and the superheroes in them, there’s more to the show than just that. For starters, take a look a...
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New Year, New Look, New Films:
The 2017 New Hampshire Film Festival is Ready to Rock
Posted by Leah on
10/5/2017 12:45:06 PM
The leaves are changing, the kids are long since back at school, there’s pumpkin spice everything everywhere you look, (I would say there’s a chill in the air, but that seems to be late this year), and it’s once again time for the New Hampshire Film Festival!
While many things about this year’s film related festivities will be familiar, it will be obvious from the get go that much has changed as well. The most obvious is the festival’s logo. Gone is the logo that carried the festival through years past, with its bold, harsh colors. What’s taken its place is a more stre...
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"Weep Not For Roads Untraveled"
A Tribute to Chester Bennington
Posted by Leah on
7/24/2017 2:18:30 PM
*A note: All pictures on this page were taken by me. All except the one of my tattoo were taken in Mansfield, MA in the summer of 2015*
On Thursday July 20th news broke that the lead singer of Linkin Park Chester Bennington had died via suicide. While I know I tend to stick to writing about film, this has affected me too much not to write anything about it.
Hybrid Theory: My Linkin Park obsession began in 2000 with the release of Hybrid Theory. To understand why this album struck me the way it did it’s important to understand what was going on with me at...
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Introducing Leah's Indie Film Series @ Soundstage 909!
Posted by Leah on
6/9/2017 12:28:36 PM
After years of receiving short and feature indie films from filmmakers for review I had a thought: Why not start my own monthly indie film series? I’d seen hundreds of quality indie films, and I knew that the filmmakers are almost always looking for ways to get their films seen-it was a win win.
And so I started planning back in January. There was so much to do! I needed to find films to fill roughly two hours; I needed to interview filmmakers; and update the website to make submissions easier; and decide on an admission price, day of the week and time; I needed to figu...
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Podcast "Zoolaplex" to get Make Over as Animated Series
Posted by Leah on
4/25/2017 10:19:26 AM
Admittedly I haven't listened to that many podcasts, but they all seem to be roughly about the same: people talk about something to other people, who they either call, or interview in person, and usually there is very little in the way of audible interest, such as sound effects or music. Sure, the topics are different, but in general there is very little variety as to the sound and technique of them.
That is, until I found Zoolaplex. Zoolaplex is the brain child of voiceover actor Reece Bridger. Each episode features characters Drake, Leanne, Andy, Mike, Caroline, ...
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Kristen Wiig: Highly Skilled and Underrated?
Posted by Leah on
12/4/2016 11:05:00 AM
Article first published on FilmDebate.co.uk
I wasn’t sure what to write about next. My first thought was to do a contemplative piece on the best actor of our time. I poured over list after list, but all of them seemed to include the same few names, albeit in different orders. It appears that the staples are Tom Hanks, Tom Hardy, Leo DiCaprio, Jake Gylenhal, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey and a few others, but that the “controversy” (and I use the term lightly here) is over and done with. Everyone has come to the same conclusions; that this list of men are the best of the bes...
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2016 New Hampshire Film Festival was One for the Record Books!
Posted by Leah on
10/18/2016 1:24:55 PM
The 2016 New Hampshire Film Festival was held in Portsmouth (NH) over the weekend (Oct. 13-16), and was overflowing with films, panels, parties, beer, food and more.
Thursday kicked off with the New Hampshire Program, which means that all of the films shown had a New Hampshire connection of some sort, be it where they were filmed, where the cast was from, where the director or writer was from, etc. The program began at 10:30 am at the Music Hall Loft with the screening of several short films. Films were also shown at The Music Hall simultaneously throughout the day....
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16th Annual New Hampshire Film Festival Brings a Little Bit of Hollywood to the Granite State
Posted by Leah on
10/11/2016 9:12:44 AM
Thursday October 13 (2016) will mark the kickoff of the four day 16th annual New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth (NH). It also marks my 5th year covering the festival, which brings about reflection of how much things have changed over the years.
When I began covering NHFF five years ago I didn’t have an inkling of what I was doing. I was introduced to filmmakers, but the interactions were always awkward at best, since I had not the slightest clue how to interview people. I’d attend the cocktail and after parties, but mostly stand around by myself, not talking t...
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