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Meet In the Lobby is cinema news, discussion and contests somewhere between fanboy and film snob. Created by filmcritic.com senior writer Norm Schrager.

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  • Film Review: THE MESSENGER on Nov 20, 2009 in Reviews

    by Norm Schrager, posted 11.19.09 4 / 5 stars From Coming Home and Platoon to Jarhead and Stop-Loss, it sometimes seems like every angle of the war experience has been told in recent decades.Then a film like The Messenger quietly surfaces, not only i...

  • The Quirky Queue: BLACK CHRISTMAS on Nov 17, 2009 in Reviews

    by Scott David, posted 11.16.09 4 / 5 stars Transitioning from Halloween to the winter holidays, next up on the queue is Black Christmas (aka Silent Night, Evil Night). This 1974 horror movie, directed by eclectic filmmaker Bob Clark (Porky’s, A C...

  • Jackie Chan Joins Martin Lawrence and Vin Diesel on Nov 17, 2009 in Movie Posters

    No, we’re not reporting on some piece of curious casting news. It would seem that with Jackie Chan’s upcoming 2010 movie The Spy Next Door, the chopsocky charmer has begun heading down a path familiar to former badasses Martin Lawrence an...

  • 20 Animated Films in Oscar Contention on Nov 16, 2009 in Lists

    Attention fans of animated film: Late last week, Variety weighed the odds on the 20 animated movies of 2009 eligible for the five Best Animated Film Oscar nominations. Disney / Pixar’s Up is a guarantee. Monsters vs.  Aliens will probably gra...

  • Film Review: 2012 on Nov 13, 2009 in Action Reviews

    by Allison, posted 11.13.09 3 / 5 stars 2012, opening in theaters today, is actually a great throwback to the old 70s disaster films like Earthquake and The Towering Inferno. Meaning: Anything and everything is destroyed. Making it a heck of a lot of...

  • Listening to PIRATE RADIO on Nov 11, 2009 in Movie Previews

    If you’re eagerly awaiting this weekend’s release of Pirate Radio (or The Boat that Rocked for you UK Lobby readers), you can get a taste of the 1960s period playlist now, thanks to the musical marketing efforts from Focus Features. First...

  • New Images, Trailer: DESPICABLE ME on Nov 7, 2009 in Movie Previews

    The good folks at Universal sent over fresh goodies for their Summer 2010 animated feature, Despicable Me, starring Steve Carell as the miserable madman named Gru. Here are images for the tale of the crazed scientist and the three orphaned girls that...