We’re already skeptical of the Golden Globes, so Sunday night’s awards announcement was surely a gift from the movie gods: It lasted 35 minutes. The downside: It was hosted by personalities from the flashy gossip shows. C’mon, folks like Mary Hart presenting award-worthy movies is like Perez Hilton hosting CNN Reports. With Billy Bush.
Best Picture winners: […]
January 14th, 2008
Categories: On TV, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
So there’s no Golden Globes awards presentation tonight. Boo-freakin’-hoo. The world could use one less back-patting, ass-kissing, fake-smiling Hollywood freakfest. (Even if this is the one where half-blitzed actors forget they’re on camera…)
Instead of a full-blown, Dick Clark-produced live TV program, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will have a press conference-style announcement of the winners, […]
January 13th, 2008
Categories: On TV, Comedies, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
It’s out there, one week before the film’s release. An entire Cloverfield plot revelation, complete with ending spoiler.
I’m torn, and you regular readers know it. In the world of live conversation, giving away the ending to a movie sucks. Who the hell asked you, Mr. Fanboy-Put-On-His-Best-Zit-Cream-And-Went-to-a-Screening? Nobody. But online is different.
People do ask online. They search […]
January 11th, 2008
Categories: Movie Posters, Science Fiction, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 5 Comments
In November, we offered our first-look Top Ten Sundance Films to Watch. Then we previewed Sundance Opening Night film In Bruges. Well, if you’re heading to the Utah slopes and screens, here are ten more to seek out from the World Cinema and “Park City at Midnight” categories.
:: Stranded: I’ve Come From A Plane That Crashed On […]
January 10th, 2008
Categories: Horror Movies, Independent Film, Comedies, Lists, Movie Previews, Science Fiction, International Cinema . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 1 Comment
In the seven years Anna Faris has been on the big screen, she’s given us plenty of her impossibly clueless, ridiculously cute, blond comic acting. The girl never blinks while she plays it straight-up dumb — or just straight — in the Scary Movie series or the redneck comedy Southern Belles. (See Ty Burr’s ode to Anna Faris.) But […]
January 8th, 2008
Categories: Independent Film, New on DVD, Comedies . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 3 Comments
After roughly seven months, the faux secretive Cloverfield promotional machine has two weeks left until the monster mash hits theaters. In that time, everyone from Lost junkies to overstoked sci-fi fanboys has been salivating.
So you’re all revved up over shadowy trailers and creepy websites. Well what if the movie sucks?
We didn’t ask “What if the movie bombs?” It won’t. But […]
January 5th, 2008
Categories: Action Movies, Science Fiction, Movie Previews . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 3 Comments