‘Dark Skies’ Trailer Answers the All-Important Question: “What Would Happen...
Over the years we’ve seen so many alien home invasions in movies that we’ve grown to believe that visits from extraterrestrial beings aren’t necessarily a big deal. Maybe the alien who comes for a...
View ArticleBeyonce Directs New Documentary About Beyonce That Was Also Shot on Beyonce’s...
HBO has today announced their acquisition of a star-studded new feature-length documentary that they will debut early next year. In this case, “star-studded” applies only if you’re willing to “stud”...
View Article‘I Dreamed a Dream’ Will Capitalize On Your Nostalgia For 2009
The sort of fame that comes from appearing on reality television can be fleeting. Remember Puck, the filthy bike messenger who put his finger in Pedro’s peanut butter on MTV’s The Real World? No?...
View ArticleWith Native IMAX Shooting, You Too Can Live the Terror of ‘The Hunger Games:...
Obviously the one thing that movie-goers desperately wanted from The Hunger Games was to somehow feel closer and more involved with the child-on-child murder-for-sport that played out before their...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Let’s Catch Up On This Business About ‘The Hobbit’
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column that counts down the best links and notes of the day. Today, it has a theme. Because who doesn’t love a good theme? We begin our unexpected journey...
View ArticleIs Joseph Gordon-Levitt Our New Batman?
For those of you clamoring for a Robin movie after the underwhelming ending of The Dark Knight Rises, your dreams may have just been dashed. However, a new dream may have arrived as its replacement:...
View Article‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Synopsis: Captain Kirk Fights a One-Man WMD
Would it be cool if Chris Pine fistfights a sentient nuclear bomb named Fat Man in J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek Into Darkness? Of course it would. Unfortunately, they’ve gone with a human villain which...
View Article4 Things Film Critics Should Learn From That Amazing New York Times Review of...
Two weeks ago, thousands of people read a restaurant review in full for the very first time. Many of these people don’t live anywhere near the restaurant, or would have no intention of visiting it if...
View ArticleTeaching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Watch a Film Masterclass with Ang Lee
Fans of our Filmmaking Tips feature and those who love to hear how the sausage is made might especially enjoy this lengthy video featuring a discussion with Ang Lee about the art of movies. The...
View ArticleEnjoy Some Spirits with this ‘ParaNorman’ Drinking Game
Even though October passed us by almost a month ago, Focus Features has decided to drop its brilliant stop-motion animated film ParaNornman during the Christmas season. Consider it a gift to all of us...
View Article‘V/H/S’ Sequel ‘S-VHS’ Has a Bloody, Nearly Naked Present For You
As we all know, S-VHS stands for Super VHS, so either the filmmaking team behind V/H/S has gotten marketing savvy and is dipping into the comic book genre, or they’re sticking with cleverness over...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Memorize’ Shows Off CGI Tricks in a Sci-Fi World Where You Record...
Why Watch? In the near future, we’ve all been implanted with chips that constantly record everything we see. That could get kinky, but the police state in this short from Jimmy Eriksson and Eric...
View ArticleFilm Independent Spirit Awards Announces 2013 Nominees, Including ‘Safety Not...
And, with that, awards seasons is off with a major bang. On the heels of last night’s Gotham Awards announcements, the Film Independent has now announced their nominations for the 2013 Film...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen Are Back For ‘X-Men: Days of...
What is Casting Couch? Despite the fact that the movie business seems to be slow to get back to work after the long weekend, it’s a column that’s managed to dig up a couple exciting casting coups....
View ArticleSci-Fi Classic ‘The Forever War’ Being Adapted For Ridley Scott
After making a real stinker with Robin Hood, veteran director Ridley Scott seemed to get some of his mojo back by revisiting his Alien roots with his most recent film, Prometheus. Script problems...
View ArticleSyFy Seeks to Expand Its Notorious Bad Movie Brand With Possible ‘Waterworld’...
While we’ve all come to expect truly terrible made-for-TV movies with hilariously intuitive titles from the SyFy cable network (ones with names like Aztec Rex, Dinoshark, Flu Bird Horror, Mega Python...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: The Greatest Photo of All-Time and Other Items of...
What is Movie News After Dark? Tonight, it’s beside itself… We begin this evening with a photo of Gary Oldman and Michael K. Williams on the set of Robocop, in which they both will undoubtedly bring...
View Article‘Pacific Rim’ Emergency System is on High Viral Alert and It’s Counting Down...
According to this video, we’re still safe, but it doesn’t seem like it will be that way for long. Guillermo del Toro‘s Pacific Rim has launched its first viral attack, and its official website is...
View ArticleApparently ‘Flight of the Navigator’ Was the Beloved Movie Remake Colin...
We recently found an interview with Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow where he proclaimed to be prepping a movie in a universe we all knew and loved while promising not to make it suck....
View ArticleWhy ‘Heaven’s Gate’ Deserves the Second Chance that Criterion Didn’t Give It
Sometimes the greater cinematic spectacle ends up not being the film itself, but the ability to watch the film crash and burn. And Hollywood history has arguably seen no greater spectacle of failure...
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