Year In Review: The Best Official Movie Posters of 2011
Movie posters can rise to level of works of art, can be tame or daring. They are of course advertising. A good poster makes you want to know more about the movie and the more you want to know the more...
View Article‘World War Z’ Scores Marco Beltrami
Marco Beltrami is one of the most recognizable names in film scoring, and he’s earned that celebrity by scoring 4-8 high profile films every year for the past decade. For the most part, his work ranges...
View Article2011: The Year Ron Perlman Silently Took Over
Ron Perlman has been a force in television and film for three decades. He’s no stranger to fans, especially those he won as Hellboy and as Clay Morrow on Sons of Anarchy, and he’s appeared in a...
View ArticleBoiling Point: Revisiting 10 Things I Thought I’d Hate in 2011
Way back in January of 2010 I crafted a list of ten things I figured I’d hate in the following year. I tried to predict my own hatred, which can be difficult. Hate is the most wily and evasive of...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: The Code
Why Watch? In a world populated by terrifying horror movie monsters, you’ve got to organize who gets to kill on what nights, right? This short from Mark Blitch had me at the male porn star’s giggle...
View ArticleThe 52 Most Anticipated Movies of 2012
It’s already the second day of 2012, which means we’ll all be sober within the next day or two. It also means that we can officially start looking (through blurry eyes) ahead to the future. A future...
View ArticleGet Your Piercings Ready for ‘Dragon Tat-two’
Sony isn’t slowing down on its adaptations of Steig Larsson‘s best-selling novels, so according to Entertainment Weekly, we’ll get a healthy dose of Lisbeth Salander and The Girl Who Played With Fire...
View ArticleExploring The Twilight Zone #129: Probe 7, Over and Out
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 ArticleThis Week In DVD: January 3rd
Welcome to 2012 and the last year of your life! That’s not me threatening you by the way, it’s the Mayans. And who better to predict the end of civilization than a culture that’s long since gone...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Occupational Hazards
Why Watch? I fell in love with Finite Films, the crew of creators who give themselves (and ask for) constraints on their short film projects, with their horror short Forest Falls. With this one, they...
View ArticleOver/Under: ‘Reservoir Dogs’ vs. ‘Jackie Brown’
I break Quentin Tarantino’s career up into two stages. The first stage consists of his first three films, which are all crime movies, are all set in L.A., and which all just feel very much like...
View ArticleWeekly DVD Drinking Game: Contagion
January doesn’t just mean it’s time for colder days and snowfall that makes traffic a mess. January also means that cold and flu season is fully upon us. And what better movie to watch during cold and...
View ArticleAlcon Producer Andrew Kosove Talks New ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Point Break’
The holidays are over now, so it’s back to business as usual in the movie blogging world. You know what that means: freaking out about prequels and remakes. Thankfully for us, some new reasons for...
View ArticlePost-Schwarzenegger Collaboration Kim Ji-woon Heading Back to South Korea for...
After finally turning enough heads in the U.S. and getting a little recognition from Hollywood by making things like The Good, The Bad, The Weird and I Saw the Devil, director Kim Ji-woon finally got...
View ArticleThings That Make Me Feel Ancient: Patricia Arquette is Old Enough to Play...
There’s new movement over on Jake Scott’s upcoming Jeff Buckley biopic, which may or may not have been titled Mystery White Boy. We’ve already reported that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’s Reeve...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Alien Biker Jemaine, Portlandia, Film Studies Ryan...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column born exactly one year ago today. And it’s very happy to still be around and well on its way to taking over the planet. It is convinced...
View ArticleAmanda Seyfried and Taylor Swift Offered Roles in ‘Les Miz’? Cue Tween...
On the heels of the news that director Tom Hooper will likely make the cast of his upcoming Les Miserables adaptation sing “live” on camera (versus inserting vocals after they’ve been polished up in a...
View ArticleA Claustrophobic and Uncomfortable Trailer for ‘Return’
I heard good things about Liza Johnson‘s Return after its Cannes premiere, and since then I’ve been watching out for it. Why? Well, for the most ultimate of starters, it starts Linda Cardellini, an...
View ArticleDisc Spotlight: Frank Henenlotter’s ‘Frankenhooker’ on Blu-ray
Director Frank Henenlotter is a bit of an acquired taste. His films, including the Basket Case trilogy and Brain Damage, mix horror, comedy and low-budget special effects with mixed results, and the...
View ArticleOG Offspring Might Play Their Papas for N.W.A. Biopic
Arabian Prince. Easy-E. Ice Cube. DJ Yella. MC Ren. Dr. Dre. Wanna resolve things in a bloodier way? Then just study a tape of N.W.A. Truer words have been spoken, but not many. Now, in a strange video...
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