Browsing Month November, 2009
Once Again, the THANKSGIVING Trailer
By Norm Schrager at November 27, 2009 | 7:10 pm | 0 Comment
Considering our admiration of and occasional passion for genre movies, we celebrate the holiday weekend with a poem. Followed by a particularly timely trailer from the film Grindhouse. Ode to Thanksgiving For the crackers, you cut the cheese. For the meal, you flipped the bird. You ate away most of the day, and your drunk uncle decided to stay. In the middle of more...
Behind the Scenes of FANTASTIC MR. FOX
By Norm Schrager at November 26, 2009 | 12:09 am | 4 Comments
If you're planning to see Wes Anderson's ambitious Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend (below, with Bill Murray), you'll want to check out Anderson's interview on NPR's Fresh Air. We'll periodically recommend the show and, simply put, it's one of the greatest forums to learn about writers' and directors' approaches, passions and personalities. Folks seem to be at ease with more...
Film/DVD Review: THE INFORMERS
By Norm Schrager at November 25, 2009 | 12:24 am | 0 Comment
by Norm Schrager, posted 11.24.09 1.5 / 5 stars When a movie about shallow people is equally as shallow, what's the point? That's the burning question for director Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly), and writers Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki, in their scattershot adaptation of Ellis' interconnected short stories. It's Los Angeles 1983 and everyone is vacant, vapid and more...
Early Preview: New Gus Van Sant Film Now Shooting
By Norm Schrager at November 22, 2009 | 12:27 am | 0 Comment
Whether you prefer the large scope of Milk or the quiet terror of Elephant, it's undeniable that Gus Van Sant has an indie sensibility regardless of a film's size or volume. With recent titles, that sensibility has death or murder in its midst: the two films mentioned above, Paranoid Park and Last Days. Van Sant's new untitled film just began production in Portland, OR more...
