With WALL-E now out on DVD and Blu-ray, just about every cinema fan is watching this exceptional film again — or, for the first time. Seeing it this weekend reminded me: In a movie with remarkably sparse dialogue, the Pixar minds still found room for the one voice actor that’s been in every Pixar feature film. Every one. He […]
December 3rd, 2008
Categories: Lists . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: No Comments
Admit it: If you truly adore film, like you’ll watch anything, you’re a geek on some level. If you devour documentaries (guilty here), you’re another kind of movie geek. But what if you’re really into documentaries about geeks? Oof.
IFC Film News just released a five-film list of “nerd culture” documentaries, true tales of dork love for some corner […]
November 14th, 2008
Categories: Documentaries, Lists . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 3 Comments
A new list from the National Society of Film Critics will have movie fans asking “What’s your favorite B movie?” The new marathon-titled book The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love, rounds up the “lesser” movies that really mean something.
How is a B movie […]
October 22nd, 2008
Categories: Independent Film, Drama, Action Movies, Horror Movies, Lists, Science Fiction . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 2 Comments
The Defamer has posted a video containing clips from their 10 favorite TV Halloween specials. Their list includes:
10. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
9. Halloween with the New Addams Family
8. Halloween is Grinch Night
7. The Flinstones Meet Rokula and Frankenstone
6. The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t
5. The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
4. South Park “Pinkeye” (beware, it’s […]
October 18th, 2008
Categories: On TV, Lists . Author: Allison . Comments: 3 Comments
Every Thursday until October 30th, I’ll be sitting in front of a big screen live-blogging some super scary (and maybe sometimes super cheesy) films all in the spirit of Halloween. I’ll be breaking down the movie moment by moment and adding in whatever trivia tidbits I cough up. Feel free to watch along and live-comment!
Our […]
October 9th, 2008
Categories: Reviews, Lists, Movie Previews . Author: Allison . Comments: 1 Comment
As proud media sponsors of this week’s Independent Film Festival of Boston, we’ve been regularly asked which movies to go see. Either because people don’t want to wade through nearly 100 movie descriptions… or because they value and respect our opinion so very much. Since it totally has to be the latter, we’ve decided to give it up to […]
April 24th, 2008
Categories: Independent Film, Documentaries, Lists, Movie Previews, International Cinema . Author: Allison . Comments: 2 Comments