Relive the fun, excitement, heart, and adventure of the inaugural 4-day ‘Back to 1885’ fan event that celebrates everything ‘Back to the Future Part III’. The historic towns of Columbia, Jamestown, and Sonora, California set the stage for the biggest tribute of the third installment of the beloved ‘Back to the Future’ time travel trilogy. Witness stunning footage of the world’s most dedicated fans reliving scenes from their favorite film, jumping off the ‘clock tower’ down a 1500’ zip line, then kicking up their heels in jubilation at the Hill Valley Festival. The ‘Citizens of Hill Valley’ are interviewed as they mingle with the real life musicians, extras, production crew, and even some high-falutin’ celebrities from the film. The biggest star of all, the famous Sierra #3 steam train, makes a historic debut dressed as it was in ‘Back to the Future Part III’, 30 years ago. Get ready to steam ahead and ride into the sunset as you venture ‘Back to 1885’ one more time!

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Beyond the Marquee once again partnered with BacktotheFuture.com to capture the fun and excitement of the latest Back to the Future Celebration. This most recent event brought together fans of the classic time-travel series, as well as fans of turn of the century architecture to the historic Gamble House in Pasadena California (known to film BTTF fans as Doc Brown’s mansion).

Along the way, assorted crew, filmmakers and colorful personalities were on hand to ensure that this was to be a red-letter date in history!!!

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There’s something about the deadpan humor of the Irish that always seems to work—and Owen Dara’s THE HOLY FAIL is no exception. Set in Dara’s hometown of Cork, Ireland, the story centers around a newlywed couple already headed for divorce. Dara, the multi-hat-wearing writer, director, producer, and songwriter of the film, also stars in the lead role as the obsessively clean and boringly predictable, Brendan.

As a last ditch attempt at saving his marriage, Brendan adds a little salt to his bland personality by telling his adventurous American wife, Nicole (Jessica Lancaster), that he’s planning to rob a safe— a hackneyed plan dreamt up by Brendan’s best friend, the determined and daft, Colm (Stiofán Wyley). This being a comedy, of course nothing could be further from the truth. Soon Brendan’s little green lie entangles him in a web of untruths (and his re-aroused new bride’s legs). As Brendan struggles with either sticking to his morals or standing by his heart, the dominos begin to fall every which way, leading Brendan and his troupe of robbers-to-be toward apocalyptically epic failure.

Dara’s prowess as a longtime standup comic expertly manifests as he, quite impressively, sets up and pays off every nook and cranny of the story. And nowhere is this more evident than in the storyline of the two bumbling, prankster police guards, Garda Jim and Garda Kieran (Kevin McCormack and Frank Prendergast). Just when you think the twists and turns can’t get any more ridiculous, they do. Thanks to Dara’s meticulous writing skills, running gags land precisely and perfectly — and are face-palmingly funny to boot.

The biggest punny of all is where THE HOLY FAIL gets its moniker. Dara’s most daring of robbery complications takes place within the sanctity of a Catholic nunnery, led by the no-nonsense head nun, Sister Assumpta, played by Mairin Prendergast— an actress not only a pleasure to watch in a role as a Mother Superior, but also as an actual mother to Garda Kieran’s Frank Prendergast.

Utilizing Cork’s finest scenery, some of its best actors, and one local Corker cast straight from his barstool, THE HOLY FAIL is an accomplishment that should make Dara and his team quite proud. There are moments that leave the audience laughing well after a punchline lands (a difficult feat even many above-the-line comics struggle with), and the well-crafted scuffle of oh-Brendan-boy’s ethics versus his vows is truly a delight to watch.

Perhaps the most appetizing aspect of THE HOLY FAIL lies in its ability to never feel like a joke (or the film) runs too long. Running at a comedy clip of 85 minutes, THE HOLY FAIL has the luck of the Irish behind it—and hopefully pots of distribution gold lie in its future ahead

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Reviewed by Natasha Lewin–March 16th, 2018

Photographed: Owen Dara (producer/writer/director/composer), Virginia Williams (soundtrack vocalist), Jessica Lancaster (producer/actress)
Photo Credit: Jenny Rolapp

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Now that the Super Bowl is over and your favorite team has won (or lost), the real game can begin — the 90th annual Academy Awards. Specifically wagering on the Academy Awards, which will be broadcast in a few short weeks.

The Oscars are just as popular as football when it comes to home and office betting pools. Or March Madness. Or death pools. I don’t know anything about those. I do, however, know a thing or two about the Oscars. Otherwise I wouldn’t be writing for this website.

Each and every year I look forward to whichever Oscar-viewing party that I’ll be attending, and I’ll be intending to win the pool hosted therein. Here are my picks, and the logical reasoning behind them, in no particular order…

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Woody Harrelson — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Sam Rockwell — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins — The Shape of Water

Willem Dafoe — The Florida Project

Christopher Plummer — All the Money in the World

Harrelson and Rockwell block each other by being in the same flick. I didn’t even know Jenkins was in The Shape of Water, so he’s out. That leaves Dafoe in one corner and Plummer in the other. As much as I’d like to see them duke it out à la Celebrity Deathmatch, the award will clearly go to Christopher Plummer for one simple reason — he’s NOT Kevin Spacey.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mary J. Blige — Mudbound

Allison Janney — I, Tonya

Lesley Manville — Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf — Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer — The Shape of Water

How did Mary get in here? She’s a singer nominated in the Best Song category. Obviously this is a typo. Octavia can only play the same role so many times, so better luck next time. Manville is out because Phantom Thread sounds too much like Phantom Menace and mesa nosa want to be reminded of dat. Personally I’d love to see Sheldon Cooper’s mom win, but my Monopoly money is on Janney.

LEAD ACTOR

Timothée Chalamet — Call Me by Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis — Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out

Denzel Washington — Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour

Timothy knocks himself out of the running by spelling his name Timothée. The two Daniels cancel each other out, though not The Two Daniels, which is coming soon to NBC’s Must See TV line-up (circa 1994). Where the hell did Roman J. Israel come from? That movie totally snuck up on me. Through process of elimination, I eliminate it. That leaves Gary Oldman as the obvious winner, which most bookies are predicting, though most likely not with the same algorithm that I employ. Their loss.

LEAD ACTRESS

Sally Hawkins — The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie — I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan — Lady Bird

Meryl Streep — The Post

Five great actresses. Five great performances. In any other year, any one of them could easily nab the trophy. But in the year of the Me Too/Time’s Up movement, where women stand united and catfights are a thing of the past (except on Dynasty), there can be only one winner — all of them.

Odds are that whoever wins is going to thank the others and “share” their award with them anyway, so the Academy may as well just hand out awards to all of the actresses. This includes actresses not even nominated, as well as retired ones, deceased ones, ones still in utero. Place your bets on any of ’em and you’re bound to walk away from your house or office party with some amount of the kitty.

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BEST PICTURE  

Call Me by Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

No one really pays attention to this category, do they? Moving on.

DIRECTOR

Jordan Peele
 — Get Out

Greta Gerwig
 — Lady Bird

Christopher Nolan — Dunkirk

Paul Thomas Anderson — Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro — The Shape of Water

First-time directors Peele and Gerwig should win a beginners luck trophy, not an Oscar. Anderson directed a movie that reminds me of Jar Jar Binks, so naturally he’s excluded. Del Toro will probably win, but I’m rolling the dice on Nolan. He’s British like James Bond, who gambles in casinos much like we’re gambling in Oscar pools. Logic dictates that if 007 has good luck with poker, or Macau, or  Williamhill.com, then so too would fellow Brit, Chris Nolan.

ANIMATED SHORT

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

Based upon the ever popular only-film-I’ve-heard-of process of selection, I vote for Dear Basketball.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me by Your Name — James Ivory

The Disaster Artist — Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

Logan — Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green

Molly’s Game — Aaron Sorkin

Mudbound — Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Don’t waste your bets on Disaster Artist. James Franco’s sexual misconduct allegations kick that movie out of the race. Mudbound doesn’t stand a chance because screenwriter Dee Rees sounds too much like Diddy Riese, a cookie shop in Westwood Village, and who’s gonna award an Oscar to a cookie? They’re tasty cookies, don’t get me wrong, but they’re not Oscar-worthy. Ditto (Diddy?) for Logan. I want to see Sorkin win, though on one condition — he has to deliver his speech via a walk-and-talk throughout the Dolby Theatre.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)

On Body and Soul (Hungary)

The Insult (Lebanon)

Loveless (Russia)

The Square (Sweden)

I haven’t globetrot to Chile, Lebanon, Russia or Sweden. But I have been to Hungary, therefore Hungary will win.

VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Kong: Skull Island

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

War for the Planet of the Apes

This one goes straight to the apes (the Caesar kind, not the Kong kind) and it has nothing to do with special effects. I haven’t seen any of the rebooted apes movies, but I have read their titles:

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Both use the word “of” twice in the same title, which is redundant. As evidenced by the universally panned Indiana Jones and THE Kingdom of THE Crystal Skull, two identical syncategorematic terms in one title are way too much.

The filmmakers could’ve played it safe and named the third film War OF the Planet OF the Apes, but instead they took a risk. They took a grammatical gamble with War FOR the Planet of the Apes and now it’s paying off with Oscar glory. My 10th grade English teacher, Mrs. Hagan, must be stoked.

OK, that’s it. There’s more categories of course, but these ought to get you thinking in regards to your own Oscar pool. Next article — death pools!

If you can’t win one, steal one.

Hot off it’s Super-Bowl teaser comes the new trailer for SOLO (a Star Wars story), based on the early days of everyone’s favorite scoundrel, gambler and hero, Han Solo. What are his origin stories? Hopefully some answers will be found not just in the movie, but in the teaser. How did he acquire the Millenium Falcon? How did he meet Chewbacca? Will we see the infamous Kessel Run? Lets watch and find out.

Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters May 25.

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Paddington 2, in theaters on Friday January 12th, 2018

Oprah Winfrey speaks out about the recent global women’s movement during her acceptance speech at the 2018 Golden Globe awards

The solution to many of world’s problems including war, sexual harassment in the workplace, pay equality, lack of compassion, lack of empathy, treatment of animals (the list goes on) is really quite simple. WOMEN NEED TO BE IN CHARGE! Men have been in charge for a very long time and our antediluvian approach to conflict, politics, business, tech, and of course the treatment of women has failed our society.

It’s now time to try something else. I have no shame, no embarrassment nor do I feel like less of a man in saying that a switch-over from this Toxic Patriarchy (and ridding the men in charge who continue to reinforce it) to a full-on Matriarchy would change the world in ways never before comprehended. I’m willing to bet if a woman were running the United States, Iran, North Korea, and many of the middle eastern countries we wouldn’t be in these testosterone fueled messes and the world be much more peaceful. As for sexual harassment? Can you imagine what would happen if a man working for Kathleen Kennedy, Sheryl Sandberg or Oprah Winfrey made lewd sexual comments or exhibited inappropriate behavior directed at them? Unless they were on a career suicide mission they wouldn’t dare even think about it.

Participants march against sexual assault and harassment at the #MeToo March in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

The fact that women are exceptional, smart and remarkable on so many levels is not exactly news. Those of us men who have been paying attention have long known this to be an irrefutable truth. But, my fellow gentlemen, let us not get to priggish because we think we are “the select few” who treat women with the respect they deserve. That is not enough. The time has come for us to act.

It’s time to use our power and influence to disabuse other men of the notion that women are subordinate or worse, somehow our play things. They are not. They certainly do not exist to serve our concupiscence. When we see offensive and unacceptable behavior… man up, confront it and shut it down. Since confrontation is what we seem to excel at, lets direct it in the right place. Living in some idol state of acedia is not acceptable any longer.

But let’s also be clear. Women are not damsels in distress. They are not powerless timid creatures praying to be saved. They do not need knights in shining armor, nor do they need men to “rescue” them. What they do need are allies. Men have shown a remarkable power to be exceptional allies when we choose to be.

The tables have turned and women have found the strength and confidence to come forward and speak out.

Now, the good news is that more and more men are stepping up and standing shoulder to shoulder with women to share the fight for equality. Many are speaking out and they are using their clout and authority to do what is right. Actress Emma Stone recently revealed that male co-stars have taken salary cuts for her in order to close the pay gap because it was both right and fair. In other industries as well, men are coming forward and are openly discussing parity for their female co-workers. In short, many men have had it with the ignominious indignities that women have had and continue to suffer. They are fed up and actually doing something about it.

But perhaps its time to think beyond just equality. Now I’m not suggesting that men be reduced or relegated to imbecilic half-wits who’s only useful purpose in society is to lift heavy things and make babies. Not at all. But my masculinity is also not threatened by a smart powerful woman in charge. It does not emasculate me nor does it suddenly make me pusillanimous. I don’t loose my ability to speak my mind or waiver from a firm conviction or position. In other words, in the presence of a woman in a position of power or authority I am still a self-possessed, assertive,confident male.

The time has come for men to assist in putting women forward so they may move more quickly into positions of authority and influence. Our country and the world will be a better place for it.

Warner Bros “Ready Player One” hits theater in March 2018

Virtual reality is one of those pieces of technology that is hugely impressive, but it’s still not become a mainstream piece of kit. VR was talked about long before its time. Films which looked into the future and attempted to predict what new technology there would be, often mentioned a virtual reality world and this is still very much a possibility. When the technology dropped though, it failed to live up to expectations by a long way and in some cases you could say it failed.

But with the recent anticipation of the upcoming Spielberg film; “Ready Player One” in which a destitute society in the year 2045, finds escape thru the use of virtual reality into a world called the Oasis, it seems that VR may once again be ready to take the world by storm.

What is the future of VR?

As mentioned above virtual reality’s initial arrival was extremely underwhelming. A lot of questions were asked in regard to both the hardware and the software. On the hardware front, it was extremely expensive and users needed high spec PCs for example, in order to use the better headsets. Content wise, it was more quantity over quality. The top developers were not on board from the off, as they were most likely waiting to see how it fared as whole before getting involved.

What everyone is waiting for really is that big bang moment. The prices of the hardware have dropped and there have been improvements to it too. This ultimately means that more people will feel more inclined to buy the kit, even if it’s just to try it out. The need for a really high end, top spec PC, is no longer required either. People can use virtual reality technology with more realistic specifications required. This opens it up to a much wider range of people and a bigger audience.

Attendees at the Oculus Rift conference in 2013

In terms of content, things are definitely changing for the better. Nowadays there is certainly more quality on the market. The Oculus Rift for example, boasts a huge gaming library that has plenty of titles that really push the capabilities of the hardware. We’re also seeing the top developers getting involved too. There’s a virtual reality version of Resident Evil 7 Biohazard for example, which shows that game developers such as Capcom are now taking virtual reality a lot more seriously.
There’s also been stronger interest from other industries too. Many expected online casino operators to use virtual reality in order to provide players with a new and more exciting way to play. The online casino industry is always looking for new ways to engage their audiences and what better way than to create virtual reality casinos? It would be an authentic casino experience from the comfort of a person’s own home, and the move to incorporate VR technology could see the industry move in a whole new direction.

So really you could say that virtual reality has been on a real rollercoaster, even though it’s not actually been around for that long. It hasn’t actually failed either, like any technology, it has experienced a few teething problems; but it seems to be back on track now. It will have to grow pretty quickly though, as there are other sorts of technology already proving to be hits such as Augmented Reality; and they could certainly rival, if not out do VR.

We’ll see how the VR playing field changes after “Ready Player One” hits theaters in March of 2018.

What are your thoughts about Virtual Reality? Let us know in the comments below.