4 Films That Helped Define Production Design

While Avatar’s visual design continues to stun audiences (and will snag a couple in-the-bag Oscars) we got to thinking… specifically about science fiction/fantasy films that, much like Avatar, delivered groundbreaking production design. In no particular order, here’s a quartet of movies with look and feel that still resonates. Rent them again. And watch closely.
:: Blade […]

An Oscar Night Must: Snacks

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 […]

Muppets on the Big Screen: A Movie History

With the recent online chatter about Jason Segel’s script for the upcoming The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time, we were thinking about exactly that: the greatest Muppet movie of all time. The greatest one up until now, that is. So here’s our look at every Muppet film (six) to have hit theaters. It’s Our […]

The Kate Hudson Curse

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 […]

Ten Best Movies of 2009. And Then Some.

Now that we movie reviewers have crammed in the final films of the year, I’m happy to deliver my 2009 Top Ten Movies (And Then Some). This is my 10th year making said list (I’ll share a decade of #1s sometime soon.) If you’d like to see how my list compares with those of my […]