‘What’s wrong with the human body, and sex? Why can’t we talk about it?’- Shari Solanis

Friday, February 18, 2011

Reverend’s Reviews: Sex on Screen, Now & Then

The depiction of sex on screen has been a source of controversy, titillation and even academic study since the early years of the film industry. While some moviegoers complain about increasingly graphic sex scenes, others defend them as important expressions of artistic freedom, albeit for adults only.
A great retrospective of films made in the last 30 years that are renown for their frank take on human sexuality — heterosexual, homosexual, and everything in between — will take place at the …

Look for El Súperstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Francès on SiTV this holiday airing Saturday 12/25 @ 2pm & 5pm EST, Sunday 12/26 @ 4pm, 9pm, and 12am EST and Saturday 1/1 @ 12pm & 3pm EST as part of the “Laugh your way into 2011″ Marathon!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
From Executive Producers Norman Lear and George Lopez
“EL SÚPERSTAR: THE UNLIKLEY RISE OF JUAN FRANCÉS”
A musical improv about race, ambition and family
“…offers infectious pleasures in the endearing French and in its OFF-THE-WALL HUMOR.”
- Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times

COMING TO DVD JANUARY 18, 2010
LOS ANGELES (November 29, 2010) – When you mix a classic case of identity crisis, add in a sincere character and top it off with some Banda music, it can only be  a recipe for LAUGH OUT LOUD comedy. With Los Angeles’ multi-cultural landscape as the …

For Immediate Release
From Executive Producers Norman Lear and George Lopez presenting
“EL SÚPERSTAR: THE UNLIKLEY RISE OF JUAN FRANCÉS”
A musical comedy on race, ambition and family…Angeleno style
EXCLUSIVE LOS ANGELES ENGAGEMENT STARTS SEPTEMBER 17th
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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles’ multi-cultural landscape is hilariously skewered in Amy French’s musical comedy from Executive Producers Norman Lear and George Lopez. A native angelena and first time director, French mines her Hollywood upbringing in this tongue-in-cheek narrative about music, aspiration and race.  “El Súperstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Francés” starts an exclusive engagement at Laemmle’s …

At age 33, in his “Jesus Year,” Juan Francés, is a gardener, valet-parker, short-order cook, nanny and janitor by day, but has been blessed by the Virgin of Guadalupe with the talent to sing like the angels. He takes his ranchero act from the small, half-empty soccer bars in East L.A., to a larger music festival audience where he is discovered and quickly swept into Mexican pop stardom.

Coming June 11th!