Movie News After Dark: A Dwarf-Filled Poster, Sakai’s 47 Ronin, And A...
The week has flown by, and I’ve had a blast sharing links, videos, and images with you all. I still have one more day behind the wheel of this ship, and I intend to bring you all kinds of goodies....
View Article10 Halloween Costume Ideas Based on Recent Movies
Continuing a yearly tradition that began at the defunct movie blog Spout, this is my 5th annual list of mostly original yet highly unlikely Halloween costume ideas. You can take any of these...
View Article‘Searching for Sugar Man’ is the First Guaranteed Lock for an Oscar Nomination
One of the most difficult Oscar categories for pundits (let alone regular folk) to predict is the one for feature documentary. And this year more than ever it’s going to be hard to pick the five...
View ArticleThe Section in ‘V/H/S’ That Keeps Making People Pass Out
It turns out that someone else fainted while watching V/H/S. This time it happened at the Friday 9:40pm Nuart screening in Los Angeles, but tales of people getting sick floated around after the film...
View ArticleMichael Fassbender to Have Chance at Being Cut from Malick Film
According to The Film Stage, Michael Fassbender has been spotted on set with Ryan Gosling for Terrence Malick‘s untitled movie about two love triangles colliding against the Austin music scene. It’s a...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Dissects James Bond’s Gadgets
We’re doing our own Countdown to Skyfall, but over at NPR, they’ve gone to folk hero/scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson to get the good word on believability when it comes to James Bond’s ridiculous toys....
View ArticleStay After the ‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Credits For a Special Latino-Themed...
Paranormal Activity 4 hits theaters October 19th, and if you’re already planning on going, then you are really, really dedicated to this franchise. Seriously. You’re sticking it out, and there’s...
View ArticleAustin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Turns 25 and Matures to...
I have been attending the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) religiously for the last six years (and a bit more sporadically for the eight years prior to that). Sure, I do not...
View Article31 Days of Horror: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
They said it couldn’t be done. A fifth year of 31 Days of Horror? 31 more terror, gore and shower scene-filled movies worth highlighting? But Rejects always say die and never back away from a...
View Article‘Tarzan 3D’ Trailer: Kellan Lutz Grunts His Way To the Top
As of this summer, there was still a considerable interest in Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ mostly hairless ape. Writer Adam Cozad revealed some heavy interest from directors for his take, Hustle & Flow...
View ArticleWhen Originality is Overrated
There has been a constant war against sequels, prequels, and remakes for a decade now, one draped in the flag of “Originality.” There are no original films anymore, they say, as everything is in...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Nitro Warriors’ is a Clever Stop-Motion Car Chase
Why Watch? This might cause a flashback to playing the Micro Machines game on Nintendo. Director Paul Greer has crafted a thrilling car chase complete with an army of police cars, a mystery Corvette...
View ArticleBlast, Cameron! ‘Mythbusters’ Finally Proves What We’ve All Known Since 1997
“I’ll never let go, Jack, I promise,” Kate Winslet tearfully promises Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron‘s 1997 blockbuster classic, Titanic. She clutches his hand as they both prepare to meet their...
View ArticleBlack List Screenwriter Plucked to Adapt ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Consider this the first truly meaningful piece of in-development news about the cinematic adaptation of E.L. James‘ nutty-cuckoo-popular “Fifty Shades of Grey.” With the bestselling novel currently in...
View ArticleIndie All-Stars Round Out Cast for Angus MacLachlan’s ‘Goodbye to All That’
Schneider. Lynskey. Sedaris. Weston. Sold! Variety reports that indie film MVPs Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey, Amy Sedaris, and Celia Weston have all joined the cast of Angus MacLachlan‘s feature...
View Article‘The American Scream’ Trailer: The Perfect Doc for Halloween
For tons of film geeks, Halloween is the best time of the year. We get to layer our movie weight under comfy sweaters, the squares suddenly show interest in makeup and demons and all sort of other...
View Article‘Johnson’ Finally Cuts to the Chase and Turns Dick Jokes Into Entire Film
Do you love all of the dick jokes in today’s raunchy, R-rated comedies, but hate it when the movies stray away from its protagonists’ penises and try to put their focus on something else, like flash...
View Article‘Room 237’ Teaser Is as Obsessed With ‘The Shining’ as You Are
There are a ton of horror classics that get revisited by movie fans around this time of year, but perhaps none are more dense, rich, respected, and downright creepifying as Stanley Kubrick’s unique...
View Article‘The Canyons’ Teaser: Bret Easton Ellis Took a Break From Twitter and Wrote a...
With all the time Bret Easton Ellis spends on twitter voicing his unpopular opinions, it was a bit of a shock to discover he found even more time to develop a project with Paul Schrader. That movie,...
View ArticleNYFF: ‘Lincoln’ Builds an American Icon Through Outstanding Performances
In America we have neither kings nor gods. Our brief experiments with any cult of personality ended badly, though they inspired some excellent movies along the way (All the Kings Men and Gabriel over...
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