Court Denies ‘Ghost Rider’ Creator Film Rights, Marvel Rejoices
There has long been a debate in the comic book world about what’s fair as far as creator’s rights are concerned. If you self-publish or work for one of the smaller companies, it’s possible to maintain...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Affleck Argo, Dark Knight Spoilers, Two-Gun Mickey and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly thing that collects things about movies, television and other things. Lots of things in store for you tonight, including some more Dark Knight Rises...
View ArticleBlack Widow Has Home Field Advantage in the Russian ‘Avengers’ Trailer
Since moving to Germany, I’ve gotten used to watching movies overdubbed in Deutsch (last night was Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik). Still, there’s no amount of dubbing that could prepare me for...
View ArticleLizard From ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ or Goomba from 1993′s ‘Super Mario...
Now, normally I don’t post stuff like this because staring at plastic toy designs in order to determine what a character might look like in an upcoming movie is less fun than, say, flying a kite or...
View Article‘Game Change’ Trailer Teases Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin
When HBO wanted to create an adaptation of the best-selling book “Game Change,” about the 2008 presidential race between John McCain and Barack Obama, they picked up the phone and called Jay Roach –...
View ArticleInterview: Author Marcus Hearn Cracks Open The Hammer Vault
To classic horror fans, the word “hammer” does not simply denote a tool or a now defunct 80s rapper, it is a six-letter seal of excellence. For years, Hammer Studios reached into the cache of our...
View ArticleYear In Review: The 11 Best Short Films of 2011
Over the course of the year, curating the Short Film of the Day feature has given me a deep and affecting appreciation of the art form. Before, I hadn’t given much thought to the little bastards, but...
View ArticleThe Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks
As you may have noticed, this final week of 2011 has been almost completely taken over by our third annual Year in Review. It was born in 2009 out of our love for lists and your thirst for reading,...
View ArticleYear In Review: The 11 Best Foreign Films of 2011
The title of this post is pretty self explanatory, so no introduction is really needed here. But… I do feel compelled to point out the same thing I point out every year. Nailing foreign releases down...
View ArticleYear In Review: The Bestest and Baddest Villains of 2011
As we all sit here at Reject HQ, gathered around an absurdly long, but incredibly imposing, table discussing what to do with the nuclear missiles we just “creatively appropriated” from a breakaway...
View Article‘Piranha 3DD’ One Fin Closer to Going Straight to DVD
The 3D reboot of Piranha from 2010 was one of my favorite movies of that year. And I don’t usually much like horror stuff, especially winky, self-aware horror parody: that means they did something very...
View Article12 Most Awesome One-Sided Cinematic Fight Scenes
If I had to pick two things that I just can’t get enough of in films, it would have to be a good underdog story and gratuitous physical violence. It is only natural then that I would build a humble...
View ArticleInterview: Mark Strong on Lonely Spies, the Smell of Damp Tweed and ‘Tinker,...
As I wrote in both my review and interview with Gary Oldman and Tomas Alfredson, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is not one’s average spy thriller. Nothing portrays the spy lifestyle as exciting or...
View ArticleThe Inexplicable 2nd Annual Junkfood Cinema Awards
When we at Junkfood Cinema heard that we had somehow again avoided outright cancellation, clearly an oversight on the part of hectically busy and woefully unobservant management, we decided to...
View ArticleExploring The Twilight Zone #128: Uncle Simon
With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with...
View ArticleYear in Review: The 11 Best TV Shows of 2011
Because it’s Saturday, we’re talking television. That’s when Amber Humphrey publishes her weekly entry of Channel Guide, our twice-weekly column on all things television. But there’s something else at...
View ArticleYear in Review: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Drive’ Elevator Stomping is the Definitive...
In our final 2011 edition of Scenes We Love, a column you’ll be seeing a lot more of in the coming year, we’d like to celebrate the scene that, in our humble opinion, was the definitive and most...
View ArticleYear In Review: The 11 Best Movie Trailers of 2011
They say it’s hard to judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to world of cinema and movie marketing (and the plethora of films that hit theaters each weekend), it’s hard not to use a film’s...
View ArticleYear In Review: Our List of The Best Lists of 2011
I bet you didn’t think we could get any more meta than we did with last year’s Our List of the Best Lists of 2010, but boom, we have – by making that exact list feature a recurring Year In Review...
View ArticleYear In Review: 11 Fantastic Movies That Failed To Find An Audience In 2011
Hundreds of movies are released each year in theaters or straight to DVD, and a large percentage of them suck. A much smaller group though are fantastic slices of cinema that thrill, excite,...
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