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Review: Restrained ‘Albert Nobbs’ Benefits From Both Dramatic Wonder and...
Albert Nobbs is a study in tasteful restraint. But that doesn’t mean it’s slow, passionless or dry. Rodrigo Garcia’s film trades in subdued emotions and subtle currents of longing that are deeply...
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This Week In DVD: December 27th
Welcome to the last DVD column of 2011! There’s been quite a bit of chatter about how dismal of a year it was for film, but while there’s no doubt the box office haul is lower than the year before the...
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Pain is Satisfaction: The Percussive Trailer for Crime Film ‘Black’s Game’
Cinematographer of many a short film, Óskar Thór Axelsson, is making his feature directing debut with a Stefán Máni novel. Black’s Game focuses on the evolution of the 1990s Reykjavik underworld from...
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Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘The Devil’s Carnival’ Gets an Extended, Ruffled Tease...
If you had asked me about The Devil’s Carnival yesterday, I wouldn’t have known what you were talking about. I probably would have assumed it was a 70s exploitation flick that took place behind a...
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Year In Review: Harry Potter Takes the 2011 Reject Report Bowl
Here’s how the Christmas weekend broke down: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – $29.5m (+130.7%) $61.9m total Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $20.2m (-48.9%) $79m total The Girl With the...
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Austin Film Critics Laud ‘Hugo,’ ‘Drive,’ ‘Attack the Block’ and Jessica...
Of all the various critics groups around the country, the one you should care most about is the Austin Film Critics Association. Why? Well, there’s two very solid and in no way biased reasons that I...
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Slumping Film Industry Looks to Home Video For Economic Salvation in 2012
Coming off a year where box office sales showed some of the most disappointing weekends in quite a few years, and where the DVD buying bubble has now clearly burst, you could say that it’s starting to...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Soundtracks and Scores of 2011
It has been quite the year in film, but even more so when it came to the music in those films. We got scores that pushed the envelope, soundtracks that were full of nostalgia and orchestration that...
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Reel Sex: The Many Faces of Sadness and How Sex Hurts More Than it Helps
Most people, as they recover from seasonal snacking comas and hangovers brought on by liquid medication for too much concentrated family time, spend these last few weeks of December reflecting on the...
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Movie News After Dark: Frankenweenie, Hell on Wheels, Things, Lists,...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly entertainment news column that collects all the best links of the day, then adds commentary. It is also glad to be back from its Christmas break and hopes...
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Cancel the Craft Service: Ewan McGregor’s Directorial Debut is Done For
It’s really a shame. One of the positive by-products of the studio system’s reluctance to hire strong, visioned directors has been a decent uptick in actors and writers stepping into the director’s...
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The 70s Style Poster for Lee Daniels’s ‘The Paperboy’ Gets Mascara All Over...
In The Paperboy, Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey play reporters from Miami hired to prove the innocence of a death row inmate (John Cusack). The woman who hires them is the highly sexual Charlotte...
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How Hedy Lamarr Inspired Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
Hedy Lamarr was a darkly beautiful, iconic star of the 30s and 40s, probably best known for her starring role in Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah. She is also, apparently, a great inspiration for...
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Year In Review: The 11 Best Horror Movies of 2011
It seems like every year I find myself disappointed in the horror offerings of the preceding twelve months. Especially if you think of widely released theatrical flicks, few of which ever make the...
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Peter Jackson Promises ‘The Hobbit’ Will Be ‘More Playful’ Than ‘The Lord of...
Audiences expecting more of the brand of large maturity found in The Lord of the Rings trilogy might be surprised when they check out The Hobbit. Especially people who’ve never read the books. Same...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: The Arts and Crafts History of the Universe in ‘Thick...
Why Watch? The end of the year is a time to reflect, and this outstanding music video let’s us remember everything from the Big Bang to…the end. And what a splendid thing it all is. The animation has...
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Review: ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ Delivers a New Director to Watch in...
On the surface, In the Land of Blood and Honey seems like a vanity project of sorts for its maker, Angelina Jolie. After all, the actress/humanitarian/super-mom is one of the few figures in Hollywood...
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First Feature Doc About Occupy Movement, ’99% – The Occupy Wall Street...
With the Occupy movement continually growing and changing, it’s no surprise that films about the nationwide movement are starting to take shape – but it is a (very pleasant) surprise that one of the...
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UPDATED: Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be An Avenging Angel in ‘Black Sunday’
UPDATED: Looks like this baby is still called Black Sands. One of TheArnoldFans sent us this – “SORRY…Okay, it looks like we are back to the film title ‘Black Sands!’ An Arnold rep contacted us and...
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Aural Fixation: The Year of Cliff Martinez and the Scores that Electrified...
2011 gave us a lot of great music (as I rounded up here), but there was one composer who stood out from the pack with his distinctive scores (two of which made my year-end list) for films that ranged...
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