10 Movie-Themed Newsweek Covers to Fuel Your Nostalgia for the Present
“Newsweek,” the 79-year-old magazine is stepping into the present by axing their print edition to go fully digital in 2013. Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown announced the shift yesterday (tellingly on the...
View ArticleHow ‘The Dark Knight’ Made Sam Mendes’ Take on Bond in ‘Skyfall’ Possible
After hearing a few filmmakers go back and forth about whose work is less important, it feels really good to see a noteworthy director give such praise and credit to a peer. In an excellent piece at...
View ArticleReview: ‘Alex Cross’ Is Ridiculous Dross
You’d think a thriller about a brilliantly dogged detective matching wits with a sadistically smart serial killer would be at least somewhat entertaining. You’d be right in thinking that too, and if...
View ArticleScariest Movie Ever: The Flicks That Didn’t Make the Cut
After laughing about the completely unplanned, totally-done-by-your-votes match-up between The Ring and The Thing in the Axe-Wielding Eight Round, I’d like to talk about two types of movies that...
View ArticleThe New Black List Wants to Put Your Script in the Hands of Hollywood
As it says on its website, The Black List — the annual guide to the most well-liked unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood — is responsible for over 200 scripts getting made into films. The...
View Article31 Days of Horror: Thirst (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...
View ArticleThe Offbeat Charm of ‘Bob’s Burgers’ is an Antidote to ‘Family Guy’ and ‘The...
Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard and his crew have come up with—hands down—the most captivatingly strange sitcom on network TV. Now in its third season and having recently been picked up for a...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Real Artists’ Wears Its Weird Heart On Its Head
Why Watch? Feeling like an updated cousin of the 90s MTV animation line-up with a hint of Real World via Tumblr thrown in for good measure, this freestyle multimedia short blends live-action...
View ArticleWin Scream Factory Goodness for a Full Year Starting with John Carpenter’s...
Shout! Factory has a long history as a quality Blu-ray/DVD label catering to fans of TV shows and films from years past, but earlier this year they stepped up their game even more by adding a genre...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: High Zombie Carnage Erupts As Our Survivors Look to Plant a...
Editor’s Note: While we might be a little late to the game on this one, we’re happy to announce that our own Caitlin Hughes will be blogging The Walking Dead on a weekly basis, starting right now....
View Article‘Alex Cross’ Director Rob Cohen: “I’m Not Going to Be One of Their Darlings”
Alex Cross director Rob Cohen has never been one what could label a “critical darling.” There are a few notable exceptions in Cohen’s filmography, like Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story or The Rat Pack, but...
View ArticleShailene Woodley Might Fit YA Adaptation ‘Divergent’ Into Her ‘Spider-Man’...
Recent months have been very kind to the career of young actress Shailene Woodley. Not only did she make herself ridiculously famous basically overnight by standing toe-to-toe with George Clooney in...
View Article‘Save the Date’ Trailer Packs the One-Two Punch of Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie
Will film audiences ever tire of watching indie romances about twenty-somethings struggling to find love set against the backdrop of their struggling to break into creative fields? Or is there...
View ArticleNicolas Cage May Be ‘Left Behind’ With Born-Again Bees!
Just how bad is Nicolas Cage‘s IRS bill? It’s no secret that Cage started taking any offer a few years back in an effort to stave off the tax man, and the result has been a series of films that not...
View ArticleReview: ‘Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes’ Gives Bigfoot Movies a Bad Name
Horror fans often get the short end of the stick when it comes to quality because the genre seems to have a higher percentage of utter dreck than just about any type of movie. Part of the problem is...
View ArticleReject Recap: Scary Movie Tournament, ‘Skyfall’ Reviewed and Pros and Cons of...
We are more than halfway through the month of October, which means we’re in the home stretch to Halloween and in the thick of great content pertaining to scary movies and horror films. So, welcome to...
View ArticleJunkfood Horror: The Urban Legend Of ‘Urban Legend’
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; our bubblegum is teeming with spider eggs. Legend tells of a bad movie column that resides in the darkest, stormiest parts of the internet. They say on this very day...
View ArticleReview: ‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Is the Sum of Its Predecessors, Minus Any...
Editor’s note: With Paranormal Activity 4 now officially released in theaters, here is a re-run of our Fantastic Fest review, originally published on September 27, 2012. Although the FF version was a...
View Article31 Days of Horror: Shock-O-Rama (2005)
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 ArticleReview: ‘The Sessions’ Tackles a Difficult Subject Matter with Humor and Grace
Editor’s note: With Sundance winner The Sessions (formerly titled The Surrogate) hitting limited release, here is a re-run of our festival review, originally published on January 25, 2012. Based on...
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