SFotD: Martin Scorsese Channels Hitchcock for ‘The Key to Reserva’
Why Watch? This is a two-for-one deal. In 2007, Martin Scorsese – one of the biggest film geeks out there – took three pages of an Alfred Hitchcock movie and decided to “preserve” it by filming it in...
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Getting Drunk On the Intoxicating Soundtrack of ‘Smashed’
When one thinks of a party mix songs by artists like Bart Davenport, Cass McCombs, and Sonny & The Sunsets are not usually what come to mind, but then again, Smashed is not a film that simply...
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Exclusive Images from Graham Chapman’s Upcoming Posthumus Autobiographical...
Everybody knows the name Monty Python, but most people can’t name the individual members of the legendary British comedians. For the record they’re John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones,...
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26 Things We Learned From the ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Commentary
October continues, and we’re moving to our next batch of favorite on-screen monsters. This week we’re talking about zombies and all the glorious ways George Romero changed that sub-genre forever....
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Michelle Williams Eyeing Adaptation of World War II Era ‘Suite Française’
The story behind the publishing of Irène Némirovsky’s “Suite Française” is an interesting one. When World War II first started, Némirovsky was a successful writer living in Paris, but by the time 1942...
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Review: Find Beauty and Hope in ‘Middle of Nowhere’ Thanks to a Touching...
Editor’s note: With Sundance winner Middle of Nowhere hitting limited release, here is a re-run of our LAFF review, originally published on June 21, 2012. The concept of loneliness permeates director...
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AFI FEST 2012 Announces Dream Lineup of Centerpiece Galas and Special Screenings
It’s almost as if the programmers of this year’s AFI FEST cracked open my brain, poked around for a bit, and then pulled out a number of different film titles to use as part of their Centerpiece Galas...
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Trailer: That’s It, Jessica Chastain Is a Movie Star Now
Sure, this latest trailer for Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty is a lot of things: cool, collected, awesome, awesome, exciting, cool all over again, bold, vibrant, but it’s also dominated by one...
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A Kinder, Gentler New ‘Gangster Squad’ Trailer
“You’re going to be begging for a bullet before it’s over,” maybe isn’t the smartest line to end your preview with. Good thing it doesn’t look like The Gangster Squad is going to make for any kind of...
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NYFF: ‘The Last Time I Saw Macao’ Skillfully Blends Documentary And Fiction
There is no such thing as “pure documentary.” While classified as “non-fiction,” documentaries ultimately form narratives depending on how the director chooses to cut the footage together. In The Last...
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Review: ‘Argo’ Is a Nail-Biting, Cheer-Worthy Triumph Filled With Laughs,...
The November 4th, 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Iran by students and other revolutionaries was front page news around the world as 52 American hostages were held captive. Negotiations were...
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NYFF: ‘Holy Motors’ Dares the Audience to Figure it Out
There is a theory that Fellini’s La Dolce Vita is structured, quite schematically, like Dante’s Inferno. The idea is that this three hour film can be broken down into nine significant episodes, one...
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Here Are the Documentary Shorts That Will Mess Up Your Oscar Pool This Year
Let’s not pretend like anyone is any good at prognosticating which documentary short will emerge from the pack to stand on stage while the Get Off the Stage music swells. It’s one of the culprits that...
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31 Days of Horror: Death Spa (1989)
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...
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Move Over Mayans, Edgar Wright’s ‘World’s End’ Promises Total Annihilation in...
Many believe that the end of the Mayan calendar, which is estimated to be in December of this year, will mark the end of the world. Because those tricky Mayans had some sort of foresight that none of...
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‘Arrow’ Is on Target to Be The CW’s Next Great Superhero Show
There’s a promotional poster for Arrow, The CW’s new sleek and broody reimagining of DC’s Green Arrow comic, that looks a lot like the one for the first season of Smallville. Naturally, emblazoned...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘The Hunted and the Hated’ Exposes NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk Program
Why Watch? Imagine a world where you can’t walk down the street without being hassled by the police simply for “looking suspicious.” Most of us are lucky enough to have that stay in our imaginations,...
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Ralph Fiennes and Jason Schwartzman Check Into Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest...
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom followup, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is a movie that’s shrouded in a (relatively thin) veil of secrecy. Sure, we know that it’s going to be about a hotel, and we know...
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Ben Affleck: ‘Argo’ Shows ‘The Power of Storytelling’
It’s a real surprise how apolitical Argo is. There are parallels one could make from today’s headlines, but as director Ben Affleck sees it, the movie comes down to one key theme: the power of...
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New Documentary ‘Science Fiction Land’ Wants to Tell You More About That...
Anyone who’s seen the trailers for Ben Affleck’s new thriller, Argo, knows that it’s about a real life mission wherein the C.I.A. created a fake science fiction film as a cover for sneaking operatives...
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