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Fund This Film: Only You Can Give ‘Tony Phillips’ One Last Push Toward...
Long-time readers of our site will note that we’ve been following the career of director Emily Hagins (Pathogen, My Sucky Teen Romance) for years. She’s a local kid, based right here in Austin, who...
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Remixing ‘Seven Psychopaths’: An Exclusive Look at Some Alternative Marketing...
In theaters this weekend is Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, best known to us as that one movie with all of those crazy-fun actors we’ve always wanted to see brought together on-screen. It’s got a...
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Transcend Time and Space With This Massive, Gorgeous Gallery of ‘Cloud Atlas’...
We can’t show you the upcoming Wachowski Starship mega-film Cloud Atlas. That would be piracy, and piracy is illegal. We can tell you all about the film in our glowing review from Fantastic Fest. But...
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Junkfood Horror: How All Family Films Grow Up To Be Horror Movies
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; the only thing we haunt is casino breakfast buffets. You’ve arrived at the most unsettling of bad movie columns on the perfidious den of wickedness known as the...
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Review: Everyone Involved Is Aces But ‘Seven Psychopaths’ Is the Sam Rockwell...
Marty (Colin Farrell) is a screenwriter with a serious case of writer’s block. “Seven Psychopaths” is his latest script, but there’s one big problem with it. The title is all he’s written so far. He...
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NYFF: ‘First Cousin Once Removed’ is a Scary and Personal Look at An Artist...
Alzheimer’s is one of the most tragic diseases for a creative person. While physically painless, the dementia and memory loss are dreadful impairments that no mind should have to bear, and that seems...
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Will You Help Fund David Fincher’s Animated ‘Goon’ Adaptation?
It’s been four long years since we first talked about comic creator Eric Powell and his series “The Goon,” which had just begun to spurn talk of a film adaptation. Back then it was Powell on stage at...
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‘Van Helsing’ Rumor: Rupert Sanders May Make Another Legend Boring
Snow White and the Huntsman may have been a moderate hit this summer, though it was probably not the huge success Universal was hoping for. That, along with the picture’s critical lashing, hasn’t...
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Reject Recap: ‘Lincoln’ Reviewed, ‘Prometheus’ Revisited and More Halloween Junk
Movies introducing slang prefixes are all the rage right now, with Pitch Perfect prompting us to put “a-ca-” ahead of numerous words and now Argo giving us a funny reason to put “ar-” before “go”...
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An In-Depth Look at Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection
It takes some bravado to call something “The Essential Collection,” but Universal, over the course of its 100-year history, has basically written the rule book on monster movies, so a bringing...
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31 Days of Horror: Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010)
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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The Sound of ‘Argo’: Oscar Nominee Erik Aadahl on the Importance of Location...
Ben Affleck‘s Argo is a good movie, very well-made and well-acted but not really a stand-out picture on any level. It may not seem like it, but that’s a positive response. This is a story that should...
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Early ‘Skyfall’ Reactions: How Does It Figure Into the James Bond Tradition?
Last night a bunch of critics in the UK were treated to an early screening of Skyfall, and while nobody invited any of our diehard 007 junkies, I figured it’s worth our while to take a look at the...
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NYFF: ‘No’ Is a Cleverly Filmed Celebration of Freedom in Advertising
The revolution will not only be televised, it will have commercials. At least that’s how it happens in No, Pablo Larraín’s new chronicle of the last days of Augusto Pinochet’s rule in Chile. It is the...
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Agent Coulson Lives in ‘The Avengers’ TV Spin-Off ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’
If you’ve been wearing a black armband in tribute to Agent Phil Coulson since The Avengers opened last May, it’s time to rip the thing off, because you’ve been mourning a decoy. Well, we can ramp up...
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31 Days of Horror: Dark Country (2009)
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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Movie House of Worship: Atlanta’s Starlight Six Drive-In
photos by “Ferret111″ via Flickr “Movie House of Worship” is a regular feature spotlighting our favorite movie theaters around the world, those that are like temples of cinema catering to the most...
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Should ‘Argo’ Have Been More Accurate? Minor Points About the Fake Movie and...
Movies based on true stories are rarely — if even ever — 100% accurate. To make it an engaging story for an audience, obviously some dramatic license must be used. And for the time constraints of a...
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NYFF: ‘Flight’ Is The Right Kind of Manipulative
For anyone who has been clamoring for Robert Zemeckis‘s return to live-action, Flight should appease those fans of the director who haven’t embraced his recent motion-capture adventures. This isn’t...
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The Cynic’s Oscars: Dividing Acting Into “Original” and “Adapted” Categories
Some of you may already know me by my Twitter handle: @thefilmcynic. It’s a name I’ve gone by for nearly a decade (so, before current social media outlets), because I’m very cynical about the film...
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