Over a decade ago, Chris Brochu took a trip that would change his life forever. He packed everything he owned into a U-Haul and headed West in hopes of pursuing his dreams. His dedication and perseverance landed him starring roles in The Vampire Diaries, Soul Surfer, and Lemonade Mouth. This Spring, we’ll see Chris embarking on another journey—this time for his new film, Baja, out now in select theaters. It’s a coming-of-age tale that’s sure to make you laugh and remind you how important it is to experience new people and
And that’s not going to change anytime soon. Episode one is thick—like fresh syrup coming out of a maple tree in the northern-most forest of Canada during the dead of winter type of thick. While the first two seasons of The Expanse introduced and set up the pieces on the chessboard, season three starts off by flipping the whole damn table over. There is a lot to unpack in this first episode. What I’ve said about previous seasons of The Expanse still holds true here: the special effects are still
16 year-old Bernadette is many things: a child of a marriage on the rocks, a boarding school student, a wannabe writer, a wannabe actress, a dedicated girlfriend, and, sometimes, a liar. In The Edge of Our Bodies, we get a quick coming-of-age story. Bernadette has ditched school for the day. She’s traveling from Connecticut to Brooklyn in order to surprise her 19 year old boyfriend, Michael, with the news that she’s pregnant. She never actually encounters Michael, but along the way she encounters a whole cast of characters. She meets
Sharon Washington spent part of her childhood (from 1969 to 1973) living in a library. Her father, George, was charged with keeping the furnace of the St. Agnes branch of the New York Public Library running for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. So, up on the top floor of the library, there was an apartment for him to live in with his family (Sharon, her mother, Connie, her grandmother, and their dog). For a bookish young girl, this living arrangement was heaven. As Sharon shares memories of helping