by Norm Schrager, posted 02.26.10
2.5 / 5 stars
In this era of lightning-fast flesh-eating zombies and the relentlessly pugilistic diseased, you’d expect a remake of George Romero’s The Crazies to be full-blast nuts. It’s not. That’s okay, you can appreciate that director Breck Eisner would rather inject his update with a more traditional flavor — but […]
Here at The Lobby, we’re not just film freaks. We also pride ourselves on being amateur foodies. If we’re not watching movies, it’s all about Iron Chef, Chopped or The Best Thing I Ever Ate. So we want to share these ridiculously named recipes from The Food Network, created just for the Oscars. The chomping […]
What movie has been the greatest influence on Avatar creator James Cameron? 2001: A Space Odyssey. Cameron saw the film 18 times in its first two years of release, soaking in the story, and then pondering the special effects. Oh, and his favorite movie of all time? The Wizard of Oz. These are […]
by Norm Schrager
4.5 / 5 stars
For decades, Martin Scorsese has been peering into the psyches of troubled men, from Travis Bickle to Howard Hughes. Teddy Daniels may very well be the most troubled of them all. Played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island, Daniels is a U.S. Marshal in the 1950s with buried nightmares from […]
He started his career as a studio player at Universal, earning $100 a week while being told he didn’t have the looks or speech to make it in the movies. Fifty-six years later, Clint Eastwood is seen as one of American film history’s finest directors, and one of acting’s most iconic figures. No matter what […]
