At 110 Years Old, These Are the First Color Movies Ever Made
His entry in the Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema claims that Edward Raymond Turner (along with Frederick Marshall Lee) patented the first three-color film process that led to a usable system. After you...
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Room 237′ Seems Inviting But Quickly Wears Out Its Welcome
There is something of a perfect storm of artistry in 1980′s The Shining that more than accounts for that film’s widely held distinction as a classic. The novel was written by Stephen King, a guy even...
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Nathan Johnson’s ‘Looper’ Score: A Revelation That Plays on Repeat
Unlike most films, Looper starts off with only ambient noise – the sound of the wind and the rustling of leaves fill the space, but as we look upon a stone faced man wielding a gun these every day...
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Dredd’ Writer Alex Garland Shoots Straight, Takes No Prisoners
In many ways, Alex Garland is not dissimilar from Judge Dredd. He’s tough, he’s fearless, and he doesn’t mince words. Arguably, no one was more qualified to reboot the 70s comic book antihero than...
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Reject Radio’s 150th Episode Nostalgia Extravaganza
For our 150th episode, we decided to go back to the first show’s conversations, and we discovered something mildly depressing: that the discussions are pretty much the same. In 2012, we’re still...
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Fantastic Fest: If You’re Into Wanton Semen and Booze, ‘New Kids Nitro’ Is...
Some movies are masterpieces. Some movies are utter garbage. Then there are the two New Kids movies. New Kids, the Dutch comedy series that brought to life a group of trailerpark hooligans, is back...
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‘Hotel Noir’ Trailer Drips with Black and White Indie Sensuality
Sebastian Gutierrez is that rare director who can make a sleek-looking film while getting actors to say the strangest things in the most sincere ways. His work on Women in Trouble and Elektra Luxx...
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Tower Block’ Takes Aim On the Section-8 Crowd With a...
The residents of the Serenity House highrise are in a rough patch. Most of them are broke, the building’s meaner occupants are threatening and extorting the rest and now the owner is evicting everyone...
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The 8 Coolest In-Camera Movie Train Crashes
Not to take anything away from the fine people who create digital effects in films, but there are certain things that just look better when done for real. One of which has and always will be chases,...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Moving Takahashi’ is a Stirring Poem About Life and Death
Why Watch? High concept stories aren’t usually meant for the realm of drama. They tend to need an action backbone, but there’s a raw sense of urgency to this film from Josh Soskin. In it, a mover...
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AFI FEST 2012 to Open With ‘Hitchcock,’ Get Free Tickets and Take Your Mom
As we draw ever closer to Hollywood’s own AFI FEST, the film festival’s little elves are hard at work issuing tantalizing press releases that clue us into some of the treats that await fest-goers this...
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A Supernatural-Related Giveaway! Win A Signed Poster from ‘Red Lights’
Do you want to believe? Or do you want to think you believe? In Rodrigo Cortes‘ Red Lights, paranormal researchers Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) make it...
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Fantastic Fest: Rian Johnson Talks ‘Looper,’ ‘Back to the Future’ and What...
Photo Courtesy of Fantastic Fest Rian Johnson is a director you’re going to want to get to know, if you don’t already. He’s one of the more innovative filmmakers around and his previous films, Brick...
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Mark Millar to Consult on Fox’s Marvel Movies; More ‘X-Men’ and ‘Fantastic...
Fox hasn’t always been the most successful studio, as far as adapting Marvel comic books is concerned. Though their 2000 film version of X-Men is largely responsible for launching the current comic...
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Is the Sum of Its Predecessors, Minus...
Another set of cameras and another hopeless family that can’t help themselves. They can’t rid themselves of a demonic presence that is purposefully in their home for a reason, nor can they keep from...
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Second ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ Trailer Adds Xbox Kinect to Stable of Glitchy...
The producers behind the Paranormal Activity franchise have created a lucrative money-making machine based solely on giving us faux found footage of ghosts making various bits of technology go glitchy...
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Fantastic Fest: In ‘Hellfjord,’ The Fjords Are Not What They Seem
In a day where shows are made, remade, and rehashed to remade again so that they become a Möbius strip of canned tedium that screams into a void paying as much attention to it as it does a mosquito...
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Richard Kelly and Nicolas Cage Will Go Crazy For Crazy on the Set of ‘Amicus’
Richard Kelly’s first feature film, Donnie Darko, was pretty off the wall, and a little bit of a mess, but generally it was well-liked by most people who saw it. His next couple of films, Southland...
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Red Dawn’ Will Make You Yell WOLVERINES!
Possibly the biggest challenge in creating a Red Dawn remake is that the original was such a product of its time. By 1984, tensions from the Cold War were at their peak and Red Dawn deftly played on...
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Review: Sassy, Clever ‘Pitch Perfect’ Is the Comedy Surprise of the Season
The good news is that Glee has not ruined a cappella singing-centric entertainment. The better news is that first-time feature director Jason Moore‘s Pitch Perfect nearly resurrects the entire...
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