SoCal Cravings: The Sip and Savor Diaries, March/April Edition There is still time to savor the "Food & Wine" Festival at Disney's California Adventure

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It just would have been nice to see a vampire movie win Best Picture at the Oscars tonight 🩸😏🦇🧛 #sinners

Congratulations Michael B. Jordan for Best Lead Actor Award at the Oscars! Great job playing both twins Smoke and Stack in "Sinners." 🩸🧛🦇

Congratulations to Ryan Coogler for Best Original Screenplay at tonight's Oscars ✊🦇🧛🩸

A Toast to 7 Decades of Disneyland Resort Disney's California Adventure offers a special cocktail for 70 years of Disneyland Resort

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‘Melania’ Review: A Tedious, Criminally Shallow Propaganda Puff Piece The ‘Rush Hour’ director returns with a shameful cinematic suck-up masquerading as a real documentary.

Heed my words: If you're doing it right, film criticism is a full-contact sport.

Let the professionals take this cinematic concussion for you. It's not worth it, I swear.

My review of MELANIA, the feature film version of that creepy obsessive wedding video from LOVE ACTUALLY, is at @thewrap.com.

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This isn't a doom scrolling kind of day 😌🏳️‍🌈💙🤘🏙️ #mamdani #election

Now that New York City elected a mayor running on a working class, Democratic-socialist platform, I look forward to my own city of Los Angeles getting its own version of a Mamdani.

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani with his mayoral race victory! In a year filled with so much despair, I woke up feeling hopeful today with his, and other election results, around the nation.

And the MVP of tonight's game is fruit tray 😄💙 #gododgers #losangelesdisgers #dodgers

It's almost tomorrow, but finally, The Dodgers win game 3 of the world series 💙

Unconventional weapons threaten suburbia Movie review: "Weapons" (2025)

How would your community respond if impacted by large-scale misfortune involving children? 🕵️
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This is a book, NOT a VHS clamshell "My Best Friend's Exorcism" (2016) by Grady Hendrix is about strong women and even stronger friendships in the face of paranormal horrors.

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Back in the 90's, I read "The Heart and Soul of Nick Carter: Secrets Only a Mother Knows" by Jane Carter.

As a die-hard Backstreet Boys fan in my teens, it was basically required reading for me. I kind of wish I still had my copy of that terrible book.

Top 3 horror movies (old and new) I saw in April:

Sinners (2025)
Grafted (2024)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

The movie "Sinners" really made me realize how Led Zeppelin were real life musical vampires.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

PARANORMAL ROMANCE REVIEW: "Bite Me, Your Grace" by Brooklyn Ann Sometimes, you don't have to choose between marriage and career goals. You just have to find the right Duke (but only after sundown.)

For paranormal regency romance fans.
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Why do most of my creative, inspired ideas come to me at inconvenient times (example: while driving, or at the wicked hour of 3 a.m.?)

Ryan Coogler on duality and the song that shaped ‘Sinners’ Filmmaker Ryan Coogler joins for an extended chat about “Sinners” — his first non-franchise film since 2013 and latest collab with actor Michael B. Jordan.

I appreciate the movie "Sinners" even more after hearing Elvis Mitchell's interview with writer and director Ryan Coogler.

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Just watched "Vampire in Brooklyn" (1995) for the first time. It's like a scarier and funnier version of "Coming to America."

The Underrated Ben Stiller Sci-Fi Flop That Should Have Spawned A Franchise - SlashFilm

Ben Stiller once starred in a sci-fi flop that could have spawned a franchise, but audiences were busy seeing other films in theaters instead.

Ending a great weekend by watching "Sinners" in the theater. This Gothic horror has to be appreciated in the big screen, especially by vampire freaks such as me.

So excited to see this on the big screen!

Happy Rex Manning Day! Can't believe "Empire Records" is 30 years old. #empirerecords #rexmanningday

Mookie didn't do the right thing.

If they wanted to include a great fashion designer, why not Elsa Schiaparelli instead?

I'm at the "You look good for your age" age. #raisinghope

Why is he posing like a North Korean dictator?!