Author Archives: Kendra Beltran

The phrase "less is more" can be applied to a lot of things in our everyday life, whether it's a day job, our wardrobe, or the plot to a movie. In this case, it's the plot to a fantastic movie viewed a few months ago from the comfort of my couch. Now Read More

When it comes to the best Halloween attraction, Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights is only ever in a competition with itself. Always looking to outdo themselves, they have achieved ultimate modern-day nostalgic realness by announcing the Read More

© Emily Kneeter for the Paley Center/© Michael Bulbenko for the Paley Center For someone who spends 90% of her free time in front of a television, Paleyfest is Christmas, New Year's Eve, and my birthday all wrapped up into one. It's not even about Read More

This time last year Alex Haughey and his creative partner Brian Vidal were making their film festival rounds across the country with their sci-fi thriller, Prodigy. Taking home Best Narrative Feature at the Santa Cruz Fest, they got to sit down with Read More

In a city like Los Angeles, it can be hard to find something both affordable and family friendly to do. That’s why it’s a shame that Stan Lee’s L.A. Comic Con (formerly known as Comikaze) only happens a few days out of the year. It’s a grand place to Read More

Everyone has their favorite form of entertainment, and for as long as I can remember mine has been television. Nights when my mom worked late, weekends in high school when I had no plans (more often than not), most days when I was avoiding learning in Read More

This was a rough one, ya’ll, but for those of us who are still standing come January 2017 — we did it! We made it out of one hell of a year. An Olympian lied, a lot of icons died, and when it came to the odds, a reality star defied. If 2016 was an Read More

Over the course of this year I sat down and watched almost 50 series finales. When I started this, it was to see if you could actually care about characters and their stories without having ever seen their history. That’s how TV shows I think vary the Read More

Here we are, the final finale for this article series. Wish we could’ve ended with one as epic as where we started, but who knew Scrubs went out so weak? Did they not know they weren’t returning for a tenth season? I mean they had to since Zach Braff Read More

Just a few more to go in this series and we’re wrapping it up with a couple of medical shows — one a comedy and the other a drama, which we’re starting off with. House, M.D. was one of the best shows on Fox when it was on top of its game and when it was Read More

This is the first show in a long time in this series about which I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I did know Oz was set in a prison, but other than that I was clueless as to who, what, when, where, and why anything was going to happen. I also Read More

This month we’ll look at shows based around crime. Whether they were about prisons, cops, or the bad guys on the outside, November explores our love of the outlaws. So I was going to go with Oz first, but I am in the middle of moving and had to do a Read More