What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday


Updated 12/31/08 10:08 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 5 comments

What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. Nip/Tuck: Season Five Season five finds Sean McNamara and Christian Troy making the leap from Miami to Los Angeles. While the new city provides a welcome change of scenery, the satisfaction is for the Read more

Towelhead: Sad, Disturbing, Just Like the Book


Updated 09/22/08 10:03 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 6 comments

Towelhead: Sad, Disturbing, Just Like the Book

There's been some controversy and outrage surrounding Alan Ball's adaptation of Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead, which I might understand more if I hadn’t read the original work. People are calling the film "abhorrent," "ethically reprehensible and irresponsible," and "gratuitously offensive." And yet, this isn't really Ball’s fault. His adaptation is completely faithful to the novel — I Read more

Box Office: Burn After Reading Sets Box Office on Fire


Updated 09/15/08 6:24 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 11 comments

Box Office News, Sept. 15

The Coen Bros. helped give the box office a needed Autumn boost with their comedy Burn After Reading, which debuted at No. 1 with an estimated $19.4 million. It was a lucrative weekend overall, actually, with many of the week's new releases doing better than expected despite a "crowded marketplace for adult-skewing films." In second place came Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys earning $18 Read more

Book Review: Towelhead


Updated 04/30/09 4:00 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 9 comments

Book Review: Towelhead

I first heard of Towelhead when I caught a trailer for the Alan Ball-directed film adaptation of Alicia Erian’s novel. The trailer looked like a sweet (perhaps a little bittersweet) coming-of-age story with moments of dark humor. The book is all of these things, but I was not at all prepared for exactly how disturbing it would be, or how utterly sad. Towelhead is written in the frank and Read more

Movie Preview: Towelhead


Updated 04/30/08 3:08 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 6 comments

Movie Preview: Towelhead

Towelhead (which also goes by the title Nothing Is Private) was one of the movies on my to-see list at Sundance that kept getting edged down by other movies, partially because of other priorities, though I also worried that it would be really disturbing. Now the film, based on the novel by Alicia Erian, has a theatrical release date of August 8 and a trailer that has only made me more uneasy Read more