Carla Renata
I love, love love movies, watching them and discussing them...thus the birth of The Curvy Film Critic!!! Host/Producer/FilmCritic, Carla Renata is a member of such esteemed organizations as Critics Choice Association (Former Co-President Documentary Branch and Board Member), African American Film Critics Association and Online Association of Female Film Critics. My op-eds or features have been seen in Variety , RogerEbert.com, The Wrap,as well as being a frequent Guest Contributor to Fox 11-LA, Good Day LA, RogerEbert.com, ITV, BBC and CNN Catch my reviews on The Curvy Critic with Carla Renata - LIVE!!! weekly via You Tube. If you like what you read please shout me out and subscribe to The Curvy Critic on YouTube. You can chat with me across all social media platforms @TheCurvyCritic and as always, thanks for supporting a sista'
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NASTY BABY
At one time in America, it was considered unheard of to have a baby out of wedlock…on purpose. It was even more shocking when a woman wanted to give birth…
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13 Days of Halloween – Poltergeist
in 1982, Steven Spielberg introduced America to a family whose home is haunted by a host of ghosts. Strange events begin to occur when Carol Anne (Heather O’ Rourke) begins sleepwalking…
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#TBT 60th Anniversary of OKLAHOMA!
As I have mentioned numerous times during the course of writing this blog, many of my weekends were spent watching old movies with my Mom. I particularly loved musicals that…
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13 Days of Halloween – The Omen
Baby, in the 70’s Hollywood was obsessed with all things occult and another film that joined the ranks was “The Omen”. “The Omen” has an American ambassador being surrounded by…
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R.I.P. Maureen O’Hara
In St. Louis on KTTV-Channel 11 on Sundays they would show old movies all day long-usually in a theme (ie…Tarzan Day, Bowery Boys, Garland & Rooney…you get the idea). Having…
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13 Days of Halloween – Rosemary’s Baby
Mia Farrow was un-arguably one of the biggest movie stars of the 1960’s and her star twinkled very brightly after marrying the “Chairman of the Board” Frank Sinatra. However, It…
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13 Days of Halloween – A Nightmare of Elm Street
I thought I would keep with Wes Craven theme for a minute and talk about the one film that put him on the horror map…Nightmare on Elm Street, where a dead…
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I’ll See You In My Dreams
Being a teen, a young adult in your 20’s, 30’s and 40’s are all phases that one at least has some idea of what to look forward to. Growing old…
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13 Days of Halloween – Scream
In 1996, Wes Craven, right off the success of his “Nightmare On Elm Street” created yet another little nugget for us called SCREAM. One might think of it as the…
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13 Days of Halloween – Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favorite filmmakers for a variety of reasons, but mostly because he was an expert at cinematically unfolding a mystery in a way that captures…
