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6 Veteran Scenes We Love
This week’s Scenes We Love goes out to the many men and women who have served in the military, whether in combat or not. Today is, of course, Veteran’s Day, with national observance tomorrow, and we...
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Weinsteins Acquire Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 Film ‘Snow Piercer’; Immediately Push...
Whether due to coincidence or collusion, 2013 is the year three of South Korea’s best film directors will premiere their English language debuts. Kim Jee-woon’s The Last Stand will hit screens first...
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Review: ‘The Details’ Could Have Used a Lot More Devil In It
Hollywood does not look favorably upon suburbia. It’s understandable of course, what with all the illusory perfection and white picket fences, but from Little Children to American Beauty to Home Alone...
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Box Office: ‘Skyfall’ Is The Best Bond Debut Ever
Put simply, Skyfall performed just as expected — it went big. Led by strong performances from Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Javier Bardem as a delicious entry into the James Bond rogues gallery, Sam...
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This Week In Blu-ray & DVD: Bill & Ted are Brave and on The Watch for Savages...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Nitro Circus: The Movie Nitro Circus is a group of friends who routinely perform dangerous...
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Oscar’s Shortlist for Best Animated Short: Everything You Need to Know
This year’s shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an esoteric bunch, as always. The spread is international, including work from Japan, France, the Czech Republic and the...
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The Walking Dead: Michonne Knows The ‘Word’ Up
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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Boiling Point: The ‘World War Z’ Trailer Illustrates All That’s Wrong in...
It’d be beating a dead horse to gripe about Hollywood’s reliance on sequels, prequels, and adaptations, but not all is right in the world with the recent release of the trailer for the World War Z...
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Fruit Preserves and Infinite Torture: Fond Memories of the 2012 LA Horror Fest
“Mami Jolly” at LA Horror Fest As I write this, I’m marveling at how much an ordinary Film School Reject’s life can change in a couple of weeks. A couple Saturdays ago, I was kickin’ it in Hollywood at...
View ArticleSFotD: Can ‘The Sleepover’ Do For Slashers What ‘Cabin in the Woods’ Did For...
Why Watch? Bursting with iconography and horror know-how, this proof of concept was picked to play at Fantastic Fest after winning the Lionsgate-sponsored Cabin in the Woods filmmaking competition...
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Austin Cinematic Limits: So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night…
As many of you probably know, I have been juggling an all-consuming day job with various writing gigs, essentially leaving no time for anything else (life, sleep); and, as the saying goes, all work...
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You’re Right, This News Make No Sense: ‘Insidious’ Director Could Helm...
While we’re all busy dreaming of a new MacGruber movie, New Line has gone ahead and started to put together the pieces of their new MacGyver feature like so many bits of paper clip, string, tiny...
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You Should See ‘King Kelly’ in Spite of This Exclusive, New Alternative Trailer
King Kelly is a divisive movie, and it has an uphill battle to fight in order to win viewers. Why? Two reasons… first, it’s shot (almost) entirely on iPhones. And second, the title character is the...
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’21 & Over’ Trailer Realizes That Teenagers Buy Tickets to Party Movies
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore hit a goldmine when they wrote the script for The Hangover. It turns out young people like to watch movies where the characters on screen are partying so much that they’ll...
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‘The Dark Knight’ Writer Readies End of the World Epic ‘The Breach’
Given his writing credits on superhero epics like The Dark Knight, Man of Steel, and even the first three Blade movies, David Goyer is no stranger to high profile filmmaking. Which is experience that...
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Casting Couch: George Clooney Circling Brad Bird’s Top Secret Project, Anne...
What is Casting Couch? The day’s casting news, all in one place, because you’re a very busy person. At this point we don’t know anything concrete about the secret project Brad Bird is directing over...
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Drink to Survive the ‘Twilight’ Marathon Your Girlfriend Makes You Watch
The wait is over. The saga is nearly complete. The second half of Breaking Dawn comes to theaters this week, and the estrogen will flow. Twi-hards and Twi-moms around the world will be watching all...
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Get Off My ‘Skyfall’: How James Bond Makes the Old New Again
Warning: this post contains mild spoilers for Skyfall. At some point during the middle of the first decade of this century, it felt like the practice of rebooting franchises would not see an end...
View ArticleThe Sound of ‘Skyfall’
As they’ve done a great many times, the folks at The Soundworks Collection have yet another awesome look at the sound of one of the year’s biggest releases. This time their digging into the...
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How Zack Snyder Will Take Superman More Seriously
There’s been this prevailing notion for a while now, that director Zack Snyder will be going for a far more gritty, realistic look at Superman in his upcoming reboot Man of Steel. It’s a notion only...
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