Halloween’s over and it’s time for some hair of the dog that bit you. But forget Saw, Hostel and The Descent. Don’t bother with Freddy, Pinhead and Jason. Here’s a handful of creepy, moody movies we recommend for your weekend viewing. (Plus, everything we just listed, and greats like Halloween and The Exorcist, are probably still out of stock.)
:: Rosemary’s Baby […]
We shared our preview of The Mist during Labor Day weekend, and now I hear a little buzz building. So, here’s our latest poster encounter with this Stephen King adaptation.
First, notice the most unnecessary aspect of any Stephen King-based movie poster: The line “Stephen King’s Legendary Tale of Terror.” Yeah, they’re all legendary, we get it. […]
In addition to creating the 1990s crime classic Heat, Robert De Niro and Michael Mann have one major thing in common: they’ve each made slick, stylish movies about bad guys. Now they’re set to collaborate on another one, Frankie Machine, based on the novel “The Winter of Frankie Machine” by Don Winslow (he also wrote the book “The […]
UPDATE: See our most recent Tell Me You Love Me post
If you catch Tell Me You Love Me via HBO On Demand, we’re now through Episode 8: The sex continues, the therapy rolls on, and the series quality keeps improving. I would’ve never guessed it after those first two disappointing shows.
The Lobby continues getting inquiries about […]
Battleship Potemkin has been a film school mainstay for decades, and with good reason. Eighty-two years after its initial release, in films like The Untouchables and The Godfather, the influence of this silent Russian classic is unmistakable.
Remember Brian De Palma’s slo-mo shootout with the baby carriage in The Untouchables? That’s an homage to the “Odessa Steps” sequence in Battleship Potemkin. How about […]
At the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Richard Kelly premiered his long-awaited Southland Tales, the follow-up to his wacky stupendous 2001 mindscrew classic, Donnie Darko. Now, after a handful of release delays, Southland Tales finally hits US theaters on November 14th.
This recent Southland Tales movie poster is a visual circus. A modern ensemble piece (think Altman, P.T. Anderson), the […]
