Review: ‘Red Dawn’ Will Make You Yell WOLVERINES!
Editor’s note: we first reviewed the new Red Dawn back at Fantastic Fest, so please enjoy a re-run of that review, originally published on September 27, 2012, no guns necessary. Possibly the biggest...
View Article‘How Starbucks Saved My Life’ Given a Second Chance By Weinsteins
Once upon a time, Michael Gates Gill’s memoir, “How Starbucks Saved My Life,” was optioned by Universal to become a film that would be directed by Gus Van Sant and would star Tom Hanks. Chances are,...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Bill Murray to Play Another Curmudgeon, Liam Neeson to Play...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting roundup that’s got news about what weird, clown-related thing Peter Stormare is going to do next. Read on for the juicy details. If your name is Dan Aykroyd or...
View ArticleAre ‘Star Wars 7′ Rumors Not Enough for You? Good, Here Are Some Rumors for...
We’ve known about Star Wars: Episode VII and its subsequent planned sequels for less than a month, but already the Internet has cycled through enough rumors that we now have to put the seventh film...
View ArticleBe Our Friend, Win ‘Friends’ on Blu-ray
We’ll be there for you. When the rain starts to pour. We’ll be there for you. Like we’ve been there before. We’ll be there for you. ‘Cuz you’re there for us too… At least you will be there for us if...
View ArticleConfirmed: Mike Myers Isn’t Even Working On a ‘Wayne’s World 3′ Script
Earlier today, a rumor flooded the internet saying that Mike Myers had completed a script for Wayne’s World 3 that would see the headbanging duo fighting back against bad modern music and trying to...
View ArticleSecond ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ Trailer is Almost as Bad as the First
How many people out there in the world have Jack the Giant Slayer as their most anticipated movie of 2013? With the exception of maybe Bryan Singer‘s mother — and that’s a big maybe — probably not...
View ArticleReview: ‘Life of Pi’ Is Visually Beautiful but Shallow, Insulting and Devoid...
Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan) is a middle-aged professor visited at his home in Canada by a stranger in search of a story. The two men share an acquaintance who pointed the writer (Rafe Spall) Pi’s way for a...
View ArticleThe 10 Craziest Movie Moments To Ever Go Down At A Shopping Mall
Exactly one billion years ago today, a group of settlers had an early dinner with the Wampanoag Native American tribe before playing an unsettling game of touch football in their back yard. They then...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Aaron Burr, Part 2′ is the Best Kind of Revisionist History
Why Watch? Dana O’Keefe and company take up the task of humanizing Aaron Burr, an incredible figure whose memory has been reduced to one label: the man who killed Alexander Hamilton. In this...
View ArticleWhat the Rejects Are Thankful For
Before we’re all full of turkey, mashed potatoes and that experimental vegan dessert Aunt Trina keeps trying to make work, we’d like to take a pre-coma moment out to take stock of what’s worth...
View ArticleCriterion Comparison: Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ vs. John Ford’s ‘Young Mr....
Since his infamous assassination in Ford Theater was re-imagined for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, American movies have been just as fascinated by Abraham Lincoln’s image and legacy as American...
View ArticleSoundtracks Go Old School With New Vinyl-Only Releases
We may stand in line to get our hands on the latest technology and watch as record stores close their doors as more and more music fans turn to iTunes and digital downloads instead of physical CDs,...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Bryan Cranston Boards ‘Eye of Winter,’ Shia LaBeouf Bails on...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a casting news column that has a theory casting agents are kind of just coasting going into the Thanksgiving holiday. Bryan Cranston. For a long time he was viewed as being...
View ArticleA Moment of Thanks on Thanksgiving
There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you’re avoiding some sort of family interaction on your Thanksgiving afternoon. Or you’re bored with a football game that hasn’t lived up to the...
View ArticleWatch How Paul Franklin Blew Up a Football Field for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
Video: The Dark Knight Rises: Bane’s football explosion As you may know, The Dark Knight Rises is hitting home disc formats on December 3rd. It’s almost like there’s a major purchasing season in the...
View Article40 Things We Learned from the ‘Prometheus’ Commentary
Whether you loved Prometheus or hated it with every fiber of your being, you can’t deny the fact that it was at least successful in continuing a cinematic conversation about it long after it debuted...
View ArticleReview: ‘Rust and Bone’ Drips Blood from a Powerful Heart
Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone is a beautifully shot film, filled with unexpected turns, raw scenes of bloody violence and emotion, and contains some of the best performances of the year. Based on...
View ArticleIs Ben Affleck The Filmmaker of 2012?
We’re entering Awards Season, folks. For most of you, that usually means seeing your favorite films of the year lose to what you’d consider the “lesser” Weinstein picture. It’s always very...
View ArticleReview: Stand-Out Performances Are the Silver Lining to the Slightly...
Editor’s Note: Allison’s spot-on review originally ran way back at the beginning of the month, but the film is opening wide today so we’re sharing it once again. Sharing is good. Maybe we are all a...
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