Bøger af Chris Barsanti

Who has the time to waste on a bad movie? Hundreds of new movies opened in 2015. Nobody has time to see them all. To help you maximize your movie-going opportunities, critic Chris Barsanti runs down the best movies of 2015 that you should make sure to see-and those you shouldn't bother with. In this year's edition of Eyes Wide Open, you'll find: -Dramas (The Big Short, Room, Spotlight, Clouds of Sils Maria) -Blockbusters (Mad Max: Fury Road, Inside Out) -Science Fiction ('Star Wars: The Force Awakens, ' 'Ex Machina, ' 'The Martian') -Foreign films (Mustang, About Elly) -Indies (Experimenter, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter) -Documentaries (In Jackson Heights, Amy, Best of Enemies) -Disappointments (Bridge of Spies, In the Heart of the Sea, Steve Jobs) This guide to the year in movies also includes Best-Of lists, Honorable Mentions, DVD reviews, and the year's best quotes. From mega-budget blockbusters to tiny indies, Eyes Wide Open: 2015 covers it all.

Who has the time to waste on a bad movie? In this quick and informative annual guide, critic Chris Barsanti ("Filmology," "The Sci-Fi Movie Guide") runs down the 25 movies from 2014 you should seek out-and the 5 worst you should avoid at all costs, including: -Dramas ("Boyhood," "Selma," "Calvary") -Comedies ("The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Birdman," "Top Five") -Foreign films ("Two Days, One Night;" "Omar") -Musicals ("Into the Woods," "20,000 Days on Earth") -Indies ("Bird People," "Locke," "Under the Skin") -Documentaries ("Life Itself," "Tales of the Grim Sleeper," "Last Days in Vietnam") -Surprises ("Guardians of the Galaxy," "The Lego Movie," "Begin Again") This guide to the year in movies also includes Best-Of lists, Honorable Mentions, DVD reviews, and the year's best lines. From mega-budget blockbusters to tiny indies, "Eyes Wide Open: 2014" covers it all.

Who has time to waste on a bad movie? In this quick and informative guide, critic Chris Barsanti ("Filmology: A Movie-a-Day Guide to the Movies You Need to Know") runs down the 25 movies from 2013 you should seek out-and the 5 worst you should avoid at all costs. This guide to the year in movies also includes Best-Of lists, Honorable Mentions, and DVD reviews. Inside you will find indelible dramas ("Gravity", "12 Years a Slave", "August: Osage County"), hilarious comedies ("Blue Jasmine", "Much Ado About Nothing", "This Is the End"), foreign films ("The Hunt". "War Witch"), idiosyncratic indies ("The Canyons", "Upstream Color"), and riveting documentaries ("Stories We Tell", "Let the Fire Burn"). "Eyes Wide Open 2013" covers it all.

A rich and heartfelt look at a series that rewrote the rules of TV sitcoms

Gives readers a crash course in good film, pairing cinema's lesser-seen gems alongside blockbusters, great early works from the pioneers of film alongside often-overlooked films from great directors.

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday reality.Whether nostalgic for the future or fast-forwarding to the present, The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz covers the broad and widening range of science-fiction movies. From the trashy to the epic, from the classics to today's blockbusters, this cinefiles guidebook reviews nearly 1,000 of the biggest, baddest, and brightest from every age and genre of cinematic and TV science fiction. Youll find more than just Star Wars, Star Trek, and Transformers, with reviews on many overlooked and under-appreciated gems and genres, such as ... Monsters! Pacific Rim, Godzilla, The Thing, Creature from the Black Lagoon Superheroes: Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, The Amazing Spider-man, Superman Avant-garde masterpieces: Solaris, 2001, Brazil and many, many more categories and movies!!