Author Archives: Billy Bennight

Billy Bennight

About Billy Bennight

Billy Bennight is a writer and photographer with expertise and years of experience in these disciplines. His musical youth started as a Punk Rocker and has expanded into exploring many genres of music, with a keen interest in art, fashion, photography, and writing. He shoots celebrity and red-carpet events for ZUMA Press. He is also a member of the Los Angeles Art Association. His images have been published in The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Parade, Wall Street Journal, and French Elle, both Vanity Fair and Vanity Fair Italia. He's very engaged in life. You an see more of his work at ZUMA Press at http://zuma.press/srp.html?SRCH=Billy+Bennight&timerange=&viewType=&PDS=&PAGENO=1 You can follow him on his Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/billybennightartist and on Instagram and Twitter @billybennight

Movie Review: “Stan & Ollie” Screening at AFI FEST Presented By Audi

A biopic about one of the greatest American comedy duos of the 20th century is long overdue. In all, the comedy duo released 106 films between 1921 and 1951. “Stan & Ollie” is the vehicle to tell their story—not of their epic … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Vox Lux’ Screening at AFI FEST Presented By Audi

“Vox Lux”, the second feature film from edgy director Brady Corbet, is disturbing and anxious, yet luminously gilded. From a nest of tragedy, hope blossoms and finally dissipates in tinsel. The main character, Celeste, played by Raffey Cassidy (Tomorrowland, Snow … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “The Favourite” Screening at AFI FEST Presented By Audi

In the opening minutes of  The Favourite, a film set during the reign of Queen Anne of England and the last monarch of the House of Stuart, during The Caroline era, a tempest brews in courtly fashion of the period. … Continue reading

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Michelle L’amour Presents “Naked Girls Reading” at Bar Lubitsch

For those of you who are familiar with Nude Art LA you’ll remember Michelle L’amour as part of the evening entertainment with her unique Burlesque act. Michelle will be presenting “Naked Girls Reading” at Bar Lubitsch on Friday, December 8, … Continue reading

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Gallery: The 41st Occasional Doo Dah Parade

It was another glorious whoop-de-do day at the 41st Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade on Sunday, November 18, 2018, in East Pasadena. Presided over by Queen Jennipha Lauren Wilson, “Trashy but Classy” and King Earl Clayton Louckes, the regulars were … Continue reading

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Art at The Rendon: STORIES

It was with considerable success when Hidden Rooms, Art at The Rendon’s first installation, was launched early this summer in the three-story brick Rendon Hotel by Event Producer Cindy Schwarzstein of Cartwheel Art. With its fantastic and varied approach to performance and encounters … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Softness of Bodies’ at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival

Charlotte Parks lives in Berlin; Charlotte hula hoops; Charlotte is a cyclist, Charlotte is a poet; Charlotte rolls her own cigarettes; Charlotte is a shoplifter and Charlotte is going to face a reckoning . . . maybe, maybe not. Charlotte, … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Brian Banks’ at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival

Brain Banks‘ story is a familiar and a tragic one that has gotten a lot of attention over the years. Now it’s being told in a major feature directed by Tom Shadyac. Tom Shadyac took on this independent project as director … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘The Chaperone’ at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival

“The Chaperone” is a creation of Academy Award-nominated actress Elizabeth McGovern and is adapted from the Laura Moriarty novel and the screen play is written by Julian Fellowes, who is best known for writing of the Edwardian drama Downton Abbey. The … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘In Reality’ at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival

“In Reality” is a millennial “love story” or really not a “love story” at all, but an analysis, or an observation of the breakdown of what “romantic love” is, is not, and never was as seen by the humorously watchful eye … Continue reading

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