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Culture Warrior: Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ and the Death of Celluloid
The self-reflexive practices of the meta-film take various forms. On the one hand, there’s the legacy of cinephilic directors from Brian De Palma to P. T. Anderson to Robert Rodriguez who shout out to...
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New York Film Critics Choose ‘The Artist’, Get Overshadowed by Fake Armond...
The major criticism I saw this morning of the New York Film Critics Circle and their live-voting awards show, as broadcast to the world by several member Twitter accounts, was that they seem to be...
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This Week in Blu-ray: Tucker & Dale, 30 Minutes, Smurfs, Blue Velvet,...
This Week in Blu-ray we celebrate the post-Black Friday hangover with a very light week. If you didn’t buy The Matrix trilogy for $28 dollars today, you should do that. Then move on to more pertinent...
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Exploring The Twilight Zone #112: No Time Like The Past
With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with...
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Steven Soderbergh Re-Thinks Retirement, Swallows ‘The Bitter Pill’
Remember back when Steven Soderbergh was going to retire? Yeah, that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. Recently the director was all set to make a big screen adaptation of the old TV show The Man...
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Sony Classics to Unleash ‘The Raid’ Next Spring
There’s a movie out there that’s on a collision course with you, me and everyone we know. It’s called The Raid and it’s from director Gareth Evans, the guy who brought us the excellent martial arts...
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Art for Movie Lovers: Josh Cicci’s Muppets
Before we begin with this particular feature, we feel the need to apologize. This particular feature was due to be part of our Guide to The Muppets feature, but somehow it got lost in the shuffle....
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Daniel Radcliffe is Going Ginsberg For ‘Kill Your Darlings’
James Franco isn’t just known as the greatest Oscars host of all-time, he’s also an actor. An actor who up until now was the most recent man to portray legendary beat poet Allen Ginsberg on screen....
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Watch a Clip from the ‘Chillerama’ Blu-ray That You Can’t See Anywhere Else
Sure, Film School Rejects is an international publication. But as far as the IRS is concerned, we’re a resident of the great city of Austin, Texas. And as residents of Austin, we’re required to...
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New ‘Shame’ Red Band Trailer is Too Sexy For the Subway
There has been a lot of talk about the sexual content in Steve McQueen’s upcoming drama about sexual addiction and bratty little sisters, Shame. How explicit does it get? Exactly how many seconds is...
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Don’t Get Caught Out in the Cold: Follow Along With Our 2011 Holiday Survival...
In the coming weeks, Film School Rejects will, for the first year on record, perform a valuable public service. Instead of counting down our favorite Christmas movies in a 12 Days of Christmas style...
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Review: Michael Fassbender and His ‘Shame’ Burn Through the Screen
Years from now, cinephiles and film fans will likely remember the stipulations that brought Steve McQueen’s Shame to regular, film-going audiences after running through film festivals like some men go...
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Movie News After Dark: Justified, Scorsese’s Hugo, Batsuit Nipples, J.J....
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that doesn’t mess around. If it tells you to leave town or else it will shoot you on the spot, then you’d better believe that it will...
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This Week In DVD: November 29th
It’s the last DVD release week of November, and judging by the stellar releases out today it’s fair to say Christmas has come early. There are several titles, big and small, deserving of a purchase or...
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31 Things We Learned From the ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Commentary
Brett Ratner. Tower Heist. The Oscar debacle. I think it’s time we gazed into our crystal balls – heh, heh, heh – to a much simpler point in Eddie Murphy’s career. He found success on Saturday Night...
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M. Night Shyamalan Joins Twitter, The Internet Responds
When M. Night Shyamalan join the world of Twitter, I immediately thought, “This guy’s going to get slaughtered.” So far, it hasn’t been a slaughter, but neither has it been the warmest of welcomes....
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A Look at The Amazing Spider-Man’s Lizard That Doesn’t Involve a Pez Dispenser
Yesterday the web was all aflutter with a “first look” at The Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man that came via a Pez dispenser mock-up. Yes, it’s come down to this. Waiting to see a wicked new baddie...
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All This ‘Scarface’ Remake Has Is Its Word, Its Balls and a Screenwriter
Such an obviously lame idea deserves that terribly puny title. Screenwriter David Ayer — the man behind such films as U-571 and Training Day – has been assigned the task of reworking the concept of...
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Channel Guide: The Walking Dead Character Annoyance Index
AMC’s zombie-pocalypse drama The Walking Dead should have everything going for it. It holds a spot on the Sunday night lineup of a network with a seemingly can’t-miss scorecard when it comes to...
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Short Film Of The Day: How To Eat Your Apple
Why Watch? Surreal, mesmerizing work from a Pixar veteran. Erick Oh doesn’t have a ton of movies under his belt, but he’s working with the best animators in the business, and it’s shorts like these...
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