UPDATE: See our most recent Tell Me You Love Me post
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve changed my mind about HBO’s series Tell Me You Love Me. The first few episodes seemed dedicated to two things: couples having lots of sex and couples complaining. The whole thing seemed narratively weak and often gratuitous.
Aside: The whole “is […]
October 18th, 2007
Categories: On TV . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 5 Comments
If you didn’t see the 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, you surely saw its director, Robert Greenwald, as he hit countless talk shows stating his case against Fox News. Well, Greenwald’s been producing a series of short online films skewering Rudy Giuliani and his handling of the 9/11 NYC terrorist attacks. His latest, The REAL Rudy: Radios […]
October 15th, 2007
Categories: Independent Film, Documentaries . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
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She’s a badass stripper with a heart of gold, a zombie-killing savior. She’s Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan) from the Grindhouse film Planet Terror – and she can be all yours.
WIN THIS Grindhouse collectible action figure, complete with prosthetic machine gun accessory (attached here, as you […]
October 11th, 2007
Categories: Contests, New on DVD . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 8 Comments
Fans of relationship comedies can now add He’s Just Not That Into You to their 2008 movie wish list (added to Sex and the City of course). The film version of the Greg Behrendt-Liz Tuccillo book just started shooting this week in L.A.
THE CAST: A string of beautiful women, just waiting to rip on men and […]
October 11th, 2007
Categories: Comedies, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: No Comments
In the grossly underrated Casualties of War (1989), director Brian DePalma makes it clear that the horrors of war affect everyone: soldiers, civilians, the innocent, the young, the evil. In Redacted, DePalma’s new film about the Iraq War, the latest casualty is truth.
Redacted focuses on the media and government controlling what the public sees — […]
October 9th, 2007
Categories: Movie Posters, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments
UPDATE: See our most recent Tell Me You Love Me post
HBO’s new series Tell Me You Love Me started off with lots and lots of sex. Lots of it. Fast, panting super humps, maybe even the real thing. At first, all that banging just seemed like a sad attempt to ensure the show would be called […]
October 7th, 2007
Categories: On TV . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 5 Comments