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Your Guide to the Best Documentaries of 2012 as Nominated by the Cinema Eye...
Last night, at a special event in conjunction with the AFI FEST, the nominees for the 2013 Cinema Eye Honors were announced. And once again, the titles contending for the ten feature categories, all...
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5 Ways ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ is Too Much of a Rehash of the ‘Toy Story’ Films
People like to see the same plots rehashed over and over again. That’s how James Bond became such a long and successful series, isn’t it? Following Pixar’s success with Toy Story, the animation studio...
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Review: ‘The Loneliest Planet’ Takes the Road Less Traveled and Gets Lost in...
Is it a bad idea to test your love? It could be argued that a life spent together is one long test, and obviously arranged tests like hiring someone to try and seduce your partner is a recipe for...
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Review: ‘Lady Snowblood’ is Equal Parts Blood and Beauty
Quentin Tarantino has never shied away from the debt he owes to foreign cinema when it comes to his own films, and whether they’re called homages or ripoffs the bottom line remains that certain movies...
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Movie House of Worship: Lexington’s Historic Kentucky Theatre
“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 religious-like film geeks. This...
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AFI FEST 2012 Review: Confusing and Terrifying, It Is Worth the Trip to Get...
There are many aspects to making a film – the actors, the script, the director, the music – but there is another aspect many people forget about: the sound mix. The process of combining an actor’s...
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AFI FEST 2012 Review: Find Out What It Truly Means to Love in ‘Amour’
In Michael Haneke‘s Amour, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) and Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) are an older couple who have clearly been together for years, but their loving glances and compliments prove...
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6 Scenes We Love from the James Bond Films
There are now 23 official James Bond movies, so coming up with only six clips from the entire series for this week’s Scenes We Love was difficult. But where do you draw the line? One scene per film is...
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AFI FEST 2012: ‘The Sessions’ Star John Hawkes Reveals His Secret Weapon
One of the highlights of any film festival is the panels and discussions that take viewers beyond simply watching the films into understanding the process behind getting them to the screen. In...
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Box Office: ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Gets a High Score
On the leaderboard at the box office arcade this weekend, the initials read WIR, for Wreck-It Ralph. They could also read WDP for Walt Disney Pictures, as it was Disney’s incredible marketing push...
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AFI FEST 2012 Review: ‘On The Road’ Is Not Quite Worth The Trip
Based on Jack Kerouac’s novel of the same name, On The Road begins in 1947 in New York City, where a young writer, Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), finds himself introduced to the larger-than-life Dean...
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This Week In Blu-ray & DVD: Celebrate Christmas Early with Arthur, the...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Your Sister’s Sister Jack (Mark Duplass) is still suffering bouts of depression a year after...
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The Walking Dead: Carl Finds ‘The Killer Within’ (and Carol Wears a Babushka...
Editor’s Note: These blog entries are meant to be a discussion of the most current episode of The Walking Dead, so we recommend you watch said episode before reading to avoid spoilers. Keep your eyes...
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Disney Buying Lucasfilm Is the Best Lucasfilm News in 20 Years
A strange thing happened when it was announced that Disney had purchased Lucasfilm and was intent on continuing the Star Wars franchise: people forgot how shitty Lucasfilm has been. That’s the only...
View ArticleShort Film of the Day: ‘No Way Out’ is Classically Trained, Delightfully...
Why Watch? “Isolated in a place where twisted creatures torment him from the dark, a man desperately tries to find an escape.” From a director we known for a while (Kristoffer Aaron Morgan) and a...
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Can’t Wait to See ‘Silver Linings Playbook’? You’re In Luck!
UPDATED: The Playlist now reports that the cities getting an early release include NY, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, DC, Miami, San Diego, and Austin. David O. Russell‘s Silver...
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Did Matthew Vaughn Ditch ‘X-Men’ Sequel for New ‘Star Wars’?
Ever since the surprising announcement that we have a new Star Wars on the way, just about every movie site on the web has started running lists (including us!) of who they’d love to see direct it....
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Bret McKenzie Returning to Write More Happy-Making Music for ‘Muppets’ Sequel
James Bobin’s relaunch of Jim Henson’s fuzzy felt creations, The Muppets, was one of the big success stories of 2011. It proved that The Muppets could still be box office draws, it won over fans who...
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Joe Dante Will Make You Afraid to Fly With ‘Air Disturbance’
It should be a cause for celebration any time horror legend Joe Dante gets a chance to bring his unique blend of chills and chuckles to a new project. Over the course of his lengthy and awesome career...
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Casting Couch: Nic Cage Is ‘Expendable,’ Kristen Stewart Is Eyeballing Ben...
What is Casting Couch? It’s your Monday look at all of the great work casting agents and PR people did over the weekend to keep those Hollywood gears turning. It seems like Sylvester Stallone is fully...
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