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Review: Uplifting ‘Brooklyn Castle’ Will Take Your Heart
Editor’s note: With SXSW Audience Award winner Brooklyn Castle hitting limited release, here is a re-run of our festival review, originally published on March 15, 2012. Why do we like to watch...
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Review: ‘Bestiaire’ is the Zoo Made Into Modern Art Museum (or When You Stare...
Editor’s note: With Bestiaire hitting limited release, here is a re-run of our Berlin Film Festival review, originally published on February 15, 2012. Before the screening of Bestiaire,...
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Our 6 Favorite Films of the 2012 New York Film Festival
This year’s New York Film Festival ended on Sunday night with the world premiere of Robert Zemeckis‘s Flight, a big Hollywood movie that many saw as too mainstream a selection for the event. But it’s...
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Review: ‘Tai Chi Zero’ Aims For Stephen Chow Meets Scott Pilgrim, But Intent...
Editor’s note: With Tai Chi Zero now officially released in theaters, here is a re-run of our Fantastic Fest review, originally published on September 30, 2012. The martial arts genre has always...
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A Monstrous Gallery of Images From The Mondo Gallery Universal Monsters Show
As we mentioned early last week with our debut of Francesco Francavilla’s Invisible Man print, the folks at Mondo opened up their latest gallery show this weekend, unleashing their rogues gallery of...
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Who is Robbie? How ‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Adds to a Franchise That’s Already...
We are now four installments into the Paranormal Activity series — five if you include the first spin-off, Tokyo Night — and the movies are starting to feel like episodes in a long-running TV show...
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31 Days of Horror: The Boogens (1981)
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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‘Iron Man 3′ Trailer Gets Its Own Teaser
Iron Man 3 does not drop into theaters until May 3, 2013, but seeing as it’s the next movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s safe to assume that all eyes will be watching. Those eyes will likely...
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8 Scenes We Love From ‘Reservoir Dogs’
This Tuesday is the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release of Reservoir Dogs, the film that not only put Quentin Tarantino on the map as an era-defining filmmaker but also gave the 3rd wave ska...
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The Cynic’s Oscars: Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard for Most Original Screenplay
“In a perfect world, ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ would be a lock for a Best Original Screenplay nomination.” – Joey Magidson, The Awards Circuit It must be frustrating to write for an awards blog (aka an...
View ArticleWatch How Stan Winston’s Team Built the Raptor Suit for ‘Jurassic Park’
How does a human fit inside a raptor? The standard way would probably be as bite-sized chunks, but if you’re Stan Winston and the effects team behind Jurassic Park, you’d want the human being to be in...
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The Walking Dead: Laurie Officially Gives Up That Mother of the Year Award
On last week’s episode, our intrepid group of zombie apocalypse survivors found a prison and killed a lot of zombies to enter said prison. Hershel got bitten in the leg, Rick cut off said leg, and...
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Scariest Movie Ever: Two Slasher Icons Are Dead and Only Four Films Remain
And then there were four. After the tournament’s closest battle came to an end with a come-from-behind winner, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre eked its way into The Final Four alongside The Thing, Alien...
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This Week In Discs: Abraham Lincoln and Magic Mike Hunt Vampires in an...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs… now on Mondays for your reading pleasure one day early! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Isn’t Anyone Alive? It’s afternoon...
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31 Days of Horror: Abominable (2006)
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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Official ‘Iron Man 3′ Photos Reveal Iron Patriot, Mark XLVII Armor and The...
This would appear to be the week of Iron Man 3, at least where marketing is concerned. Yesterday we showed you a look at the teaser for the trailer that will debut online tomorrow morning. Today, we...
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Flipping Through ‘Pictures of Superheroes’ With Don Swaynos
Like an absurd psychological study of the multiple personalities of modern life in Austin, writer/director Don Swaynos’ Pictures of Superheroes cleverly juxtaposes a slackerish man-child with a...
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‘Skyfall’ Clip Introduces 007′s New Quartermaster
Keep your superheroes and demigods, I’ll take a sharp-dressed Brit with a gun and a penchant for philandering any day. James Bond has returned after a time of uncertainty and he’ll be gracing the big...
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Boo! It’s Time For Cheap Scares in Horror to Die
Halloween is nearly upon us and for once I’m not railing against the studio system for a lack of horror in theaters. It seems five years of complaining has finally gotten through to them. Just...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘I’m Dead’ Offers a Bloody Reason Not to Go Camping in Italy
Why Watch? While setting up their tent, a young man tells his friend Lisa that he loves her and wants to be something more. Big mistake. She storms off, leaving him to angrily carve her name in a log,...
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