Browsing Month January, 2010
Before You Go: Weekend Trailers and Reviews 01.29.10
By Norm Schrager at January 29, 2010 | 7:03 am | 1 Comments
We skipped Before You Go last week, primarily due to a packed schedule. Secondarily, because all of last weekend's major releases sucked. Yes, there are plenty of posts out in bloggy world that say January is not the cinematic wasteland of its reputation, but I say it's damn close. Clearly, it's been the perfect atmosphere for Avatar to continue topping the weekly box more...
The Kate Hudson Curse
By Norm Schrager at January 27, 2010 | 11:37 pm | 3 Comments
If an actress were to make a nearly unending series of duds, would she be considered second-rate? A joke, perhaps? Maybe even a business liability? Well, there is such a performer with that unenviable track record. And she appears to continue emerging fairly unscathed. We give you the film career of one Kate Garry Hudson. In 1999-2000, Kate Hudson debuted on the big more...
New Edition of Screen World: The Films of 2008
By Norm Schrager at January 26, 2010 | 10:39 pm | 0 Comment
As a kid, I was hooked on the annual yearbook published by the Encyclopedia Britannica. A complete summary of a year's news and cultural events in one smartly bound volume, 12 months of important stuff finely edited and infinitely addictive. For the 60th year, Screen World has done the same for movies, chronicling an entire year of film, 325 pages of nearly every domestic more...
Film Review: POLICE, ADJECTIVE
By Norm Schrager at January 25, 2010 | 11:23 pm | 0 Comment
by Norm Schrager, posted 01.25.10 4 / 5 stars Police, Adjective is a difficult film to describe. It's also a tough one to watch -- not because there's graphic violence or brutal subject matter, quite the opposite. This quiet character study and Cannes Jury Prize winner from Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu (award-winner 12:08 East of Bucharest) exercises an almost daring more...
