Browsing Month June, 2009
2009 Box Office Update: Through June
By Norm Schrager at June 30, 2009 | 11:38 pm | 0 Comment
UPDATE (07.02.09) The summer box office numbers do move fast... The dollars below have been updated to reflect business on June 30 and July 1. The biggest additions affected -- no surprise -- Transformers and Up. ORIGINAL POST In June, four new films landed on the box office Top Ten list for the year. The newest opened last Wednesday (and is doing astounding more...
Movie Review: WHATEVER WORKS
By Norm Schrager at June 28, 2009 | 4:27 pm | 0 Comment
Describe a movie as a "Woody Allen New York comedy" and most people know exactly what you mean. A film with romantic hits and misses, urban excitement and angst, and a focal character full of both hope and ridiculous anxiety. Whatever Works is a quintessential version of this sub-genre, one that Allen actually first wrote in the 1970s; it's also the filmmaker's first more...
DAYBREAKERS Movie Trailer
By Norm Schrager at June 26, 2009 | 11:28 pm | 0 Comment
We shared the Daybreakers teaser poster with you earlier this week. Now we've got the official trailer. Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe star. This looks like an awfully blue-colored film, sorta reminds me of that glowing blue James Cameron was so fond of for Terminator 2. If you've gotta see more, here's the Daybreakers official site. You can catch the film in more...
ALIEN Named Greatest Movie Trailer of All Time
By Norm Schrager at June 26, 2009 | 10:27 pm | 1 Comments
Ridley Scott's intense space thriller has held up so well over the decades -- but the movie trailer has too. IFC just listed Alien at the very top of their list of Top 50 movie trailers of all time. It spooks from the get-go, shows off the film's awesome title animation, and probably focuses too much on a cat. You'll see. Here's what IFC's Aaron Hillis had to say more...
