Browsing Month June, 2008
Preview, Trailer: GENERATION KILL Miniseries
By Norm Schrager at June 30, 2008 | 10:49 pm | 0 Comment
In the past couple of years, HBO has offered plenty of programming focused on the Iraq War, nearly all of them painful documentaries: Baghdad Hospital, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Alive Day Memories. Now the network takes the narrative approach with the seven-part series Generation Kill, based on the first 40 days of the war as seen by the U.S. First Recon more...
Movie Poster Monday: YEAR OF THE FISH
By Norm Schrager at June 30, 2008 | 12:29 pm | 0 Comment
While WALL-E continues being hailed the new standard for animation excellence, today's movie poster is for an alternative animated style: rotoscoping, in which live action footage is "traced" over. The film is Year of the Fish, a Sundance 2007 selection and festival favorite from Boston to Dallas to San Francisco. Rotoscoping results in a type of "animated more...
Independent Film , Movie Posters , Movie Previews , Trailers
SIXTY SIX Preview, Trailer, Movie Poster
By Norm Schrager at June 29, 2008 | 9:39 pm | 1 Comments
UPDATE (07.31.08): Read my review of Sixty Six on filmcritic.com. ORIGINAL POST What's more uncomfortable than being a 12-year-old? How about being a 12-year-old preparing for a Bar Mitzvah? Wait, it gets worse. Your Bar Mitzvah is the same day as a major event that has the country in its grip. This is Sixty Six, a 2006 production finally getting a U.S. more...
Comedies , International Cinema , Movie Posters , Movie Previews , Trailers
Free DVD Giveaway: MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
By Norm Schrager at June 27, 2008 | 9:49 pm | 223 Comments
THIS CONTEST HAS NOW ENDED. We're accepting all entries that were posted by the 5pm deadline, and will select a winner some time next week. If you entered, thanks for participating and good luck! Rachel Weisz. Natalie Portman. Norah Jones. Jude Law. This is definitely not a collection of unattractive people. This is the cast of Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights, more...
