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No, We Didn’t All Dream That ‘Twins’ Sequel; Studio Hires Scribes for ‘Triplets’
Back in March, our own Rob Hunter eloquently expounded on the implications of Universal Pictures’ desire to create a sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger- and Danny DeVito-starring minor comedic...
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‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ Trailer Shows Us a World We Can’t See
A seemingly average girl who’s not all that happy with her life discovers that there’s a magical world beyond the boring one and that she, surprise, has special powers to see into and affect that...
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Watch: Alfred Hitchcock’s Earliest Surviving Movie, ‘The White Shadow’
In 1924, a title designer and budding writer/director named Alfred Hitchcock took the unpublished novel “Children of Chance” and adapted it into The White Shadow for director Graham Cutts. He had...
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29 Easy Steps to Getting Hollywood to Greenlight Your Movie
If you thought it was hard to get a major Hollywood studio to give you a bunch of money to make a movie, you’ve been wrong all this time. In fact, not only is it pretty easy, there are only 29 steps...
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31 Things We Learned From the ‘Escape From New York’ Commentary
It’s time to round out this trifecta. We’ve already covered John Carpenter and Kurt Russell talking about their collaborations on The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China, and today it’s Snake...
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14 Great Movie Moments Featuring Actors In Multiple Roles
It’s got to be difficult enough to simply stand there in front of all those people and equipment and play costume make-believe. So that must go double the moment you’re asked to interact with anything...
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Of Course Paul W.S. Anderson is Going to Destroy ‘Pompeii’
Who wants to see an overly CGI’ed version of a volcano erupting while people in gaudy non-historically accurate togas are covered in ash? If you raised your hand, you should know you’re reading the...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Sudden Death!’ is a Hilarious Musical Where Everyone Dies
Why Watch? Sudden Death! is a triumph of concept and execution. In it, a disease spreads through L.A. County that forces people to break into song and die soon after. Two scientists afflicted with...
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Review: Immersive and Accessible ‘Lincoln’ Belongs to Daniel Day-Lewis (And...
Editor’s note: Lincoln gets its full theatrical release tomorrow, so please enjoy a re-run of our AFI FEST review of the film, originally published way back on November 9. It opens with a battle. Not...
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Red Band ‘ABCs of Death’ Trailer Offers a Glimpse of 26 Ways to Die, Many of...
There’s a danger to anthology films in that the films often lack consistency when it comes to quality. They consist, after all, of multiple short films, each with their own writers, directors, and...
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Casting Couch: Isla Fisher to Get Stoned in ‘The Switch,’ Next ‘Spider-Man’...
What is Casting Couch? Today it’s a casting column that’s relying on the dreaded “short list” for content. You can’t really say that The Switch is a Jackie Brown prequel. Its story doesn’t really...
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Review: ‘The Night of the Devils’ is Wonderfully Lurid Italian Horror Done Right
Editors’ Note: The Coroner’s Report and Foreign Objects are distinct columns covering horror and foreign films respectively, but a mash-up of the two feels more appropriate on the rare occasion when...
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‘On the Road’ Trailer Invites You to Meet the Mad Ones
If you’ve ever spent any extended time in a coffee shop or a freshman dorm, chances are you’ve seen a good number of young people with open hearts and confused eyes dutifully thumbing through the...
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Review: Uneven and Unfunny ‘Price Check’ Still Features a Great Parker Posey...
Editor’s note: Sundance premiere Price Check hits limited release tomorrow. Here’s a re-run of our Sundance review of the film, originally published on January 26, 2012. Michael Walker‘s feature...
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Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Movie Will Only Have Three Scenes and You Will Love...
Aaron Sorkin‘s Steve Jobs film will consist of only three scenes – and you will love each of them equally, you will cherish their rapid-fire dialogue and wit, you will feel as if you know Steve Jobs...
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Screenwriter Jane Goldman May Make Tim Burton’s ‘Pinocchio’ Real
Early this year Tim Burton said he wouldn’t know a good script if it was thrown at him. Based on some of his recent works, that self-deprecation rings a little too true, especially considering how all...
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This Exclusive New TV Spot Exposes Our Man-Crush on ‘Red Dawn’
“A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky – shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and...
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Review: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ is a Sparkling Example of...
As someone who’s somehow resisted the pull of Stephenie Meyer‘s Twilight books but has seen all five films, I feel confident saying the first three movies (Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse) exist on a...
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‘In Our Nature’ Trailer Features a Mad Man on a Lost Weekend
Writer/director Brian Savelson‘s In Our Nature features a ton of pithy bits of wisdom. Along with John Slattery, Gabrielle Union, Jena Malone and Zach Gilford, these poetic nuggets are on display in...
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Boardwalk Empire’s Third Season Misfire
This season, the most consistently compelling part of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire has been its opening title sequence. (Impossibly cool Steve Buscemi smoking a cigarette on the beach as the clouds morph...
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