Casting Couch: Christoph Waltz Is a Muppet, Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman Are...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a daily roundup of all the casting news you care about, and maybe (probably) one or two items you don’t. Some info has finally leaked about James Bobin and Nicholas...
View Article‘Heaven Sent’: Guillermo Del Toro May Be Planning a Massive DC Comics Team-Up...
Latino Review has been a pretty reliable source of breaking comic book movie news in the past, so when one of their tried and true informants reports something with a scoop, it shouldn’t be scoffed at...
View Article‘Castle Wolfenstein’ Will Finally Combine Nazis, Mysticism, and Chain Guns on...
Producer Samuel Hadida announced at the American Film Market that he and Panorama Media have put a plan together to finally bring us a movie version of all those classic Wolfenstein video games. A few...
View ArticleReview: ‘Flight’ Soars for a Great Thirty Minutes Before Becoming a Mundane...
Flight has without a doubt the best opening scene of any film in Robert Zemeckis‘ career. Granted, that’s due more to the glorious and fully nude form of Nadine Velazquez walking around a motel room...
View ArticleThe Best Damn Oscar Blog: Is Ambition Enough for Cloud Atlas?
If you can find a review of Cloud Atlas that doesn’t use the word “ambition,” I will give you a quarter. Everyone is talking about the sheer grandiosity of the project, an adaptation of a book that...
View Article5 Weird Ways Disney Buying Lucasfilm Just Changed The Future
Though it’s definitely the biggest and most immediate piece of news, there’s more going on with Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm than just the release of Episode 7. For starters… 5. According to...
View ArticleThe Brief Wondrous Life of ‘Pushing Daisies’
If Bryan Fuller’s Pushing Daisies were one of the March sisters from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, it would be Beth: the show was too good and gentle for this world, so it had to die a tragic,...
View ArticleReview: ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Is Pure Nostalgic Goodness
Wreck-It Ralph is a nice trip down memory lane. During a packed screening for the film I could hear whispers and gasps, and I saw audience members pointing to the screen in awe and excitement of...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘The Reliable’ is a Portrait Series That Tackles Noise and Politics
Why Watch? A Confiavel, or The Reliable, doesn’t shout it’s message. It rarely even raises its voice. Instead, through bitterly calm narration, it floats through a series of personal portraits of...
View ArticleThe 10 Must-See Movies of November 2012
October offered up plenty of films to give this awards season a proper start. Ben Affleck once again showed he’s got one of the best eyes for tension working today; John Hawkes gave another year’s...
View Article‘Side Effects’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh Celebrates That Imminent Retirement...
Rumors of Steven Soderbergh‘s retirement have been greatly exaggerated (seriously, guys, that’s just not happening), but the director’s supposed “next-to-last” film, Side Effects, has perhaps been the...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Colin Firth and Michael Fassbender Team Up, Saoirse Ronan Will...
What is Casting Couch? It’s where you go to make sure Elijah Wood is adding another new job to his calendar every day. Turns out, today he kept the streak alive, read on… Colin Firth and Michael...
View Article‘West of Memphis’ Trailer: One of the Best Docs of the Year Is Also the Most...
There’s no easy or fun or quick or flashy way to lead off a story about Amy Berg‘s phenomenal documentary, West of Memphis. The film is crushing and wrenching and frequently hard to watch, but that’s...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Man With The Iron Fists’ Delivers With Impressively Directed...
A movie like The Man With The Iron Fists, with the tagline of “They put the F.U. in Kung Fu,” can really go either way. While such a tagline promises some cool fight scenes and much bad-assery, do the...
View Article17 Posters for ‘The Hobbit’ and 7 Other Things You Should See Tonight
What is Movie News After Dark? It happens thrice times per week. It’s awesome. You can read it. Right now. We begin this evening’s marketing-heavy edition of Movie News After Dark with the absurdity...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Bay’ Brings Some New and Effective Ideas to Found Footage Horror
Found footage, no matter your thoughts on it, appears to be here to stay. Horror fans were just recently treated to the latest slice of Paranormal Activity, and both the series and the sub-genre...
View ArticleReject Recap: ‘Star Wars 7′ Expectations, Del Toro Does DC and AFI FEST Begins
Last weekend seems like such a long time ago. It seems like it was in another galaxy far, far away, in fact. We now live in this strange new world in which Disney not only owns Lucasfilm but is also...
View ArticleReview: ‘This Must Be The Place’ Offers Yet Another Brilliant Performance By...
Editor’s note: With This Must Be the Place now officially released in theaters, here is a re-run of our Cannes review, originally published on May 20, 2011. Sean Penn‘s second appearance at this...
View ArticleReview: ‘Miami Connection’ Is the Reason We Have Eyes, Ears and Souls
Editor’s Note: This review appeared as part of our coverage of the 11th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, and we’re bringing it back as the film opens this weekend in limited theatrical release....
View ArticleAFI FEST 2012 Review: Stand Out Performances are the Silver Lining to the...
Maybe we are all a bit crazy – whether we are lying to ourselves about the relationships we are in or why we believe holding a handkerchief or having the remote at a certain angle will determine the...
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