Schlock Value

by Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper, like the rest of us, adores the movies. In this uproarious, offbeat book, he gives the reader a whole new set of critical lenses for assessing the movies and the people and the industry that make them. With his characteristic acerbic wit, he weaves short essays with lists that work together to explain where Hollywood succeeds-and where it so often frustrates, disappoints and fails. But while Roeper devotes most of the book to mockery and ridicule, this book is, in the end, a love letter to film. SCHLOCK VALUE is the perfect book for anyone who loves grumbling and complaining about the movies-but still can't help spending the weekends and evenings in front of the screen. OFF-BEAT SCRUTINY OF HOLLYWOOD, to name a few examples- Comical statistical analyses, including career batting averages of actors A proposed moratorium on pet projects, e.g. Kevin Costner's "The Postman" or John Travolta's "Battlefield Earth" Dish from behind the scenes at Oscar Parties, featuring anecdo