Browsing Month November, 2007
Sundance Film Festival ’08: Top Ten Films to Watch
By Norm Schrager at November 28, 2007 | 11:22 pm | 22 Comments
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival announced its lineup today and, as usual, you need a GPS to navigate your way through the 121 feature films. So we've come up with a Top Ten for the Dramatic and Documentary Competitions. (This doesn't include World Cinema categories -- we'll do that later.) Sundance 2008 Top Ten to Watch (no particular order) DRAMATIC more...
Holiday 2007 Box Office News: Disney “Enchants”
By Norm Schrager at November 28, 2007 | 12:03 am | 1 Comments
Disney makes fun of its own movies... and wins big at the Thanksgiving holiday box office. Enchanted, the studio's apparent farewell to their modern animated classics, grossed just under $50 million in its first five days. LOBBY REVIEW Enchanted is an average movie stuffed into an above-average concept: Characters from an animated fantasy world -- like those more...
Debate: “No Country for Old Men” Ending
By Norm Schrager at November 25, 2007 | 1:25 pm | 396 Comments
UPDATE (2/25/08): ... and now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has spoken in favor of this superb film... Let the debates and analysis continue! UPDATE (2/1/08): This post has been up for about three months now and the response has been overwhelming. Because of the amazing Lobby community, we've been recognized (by "we," I mean all of us) by more...
Demand for “The Mist” Spoiler
By Norm Schrager at November 23, 2007 | 10:38 am | 14 Comments
No big surprise that we've received reader requests to get into the specifics of The Mist ending, especially since it differs from Stephen King's original novella. We just can't do it. Not because King -- who loves the "new" ending -- said anyone who discloses it should be "hung from their neck until dead." (Ouch.) We just don't think it's an upstanding idea more...
