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The 6 Must See Movies of January 2012
With the gut-wrencher Shame, an uncomfortably funny Young Adult, Spielberg’s heart-string pullin’ War Horse, a high-flying Tintin adventure, the shining return of Cameron Crowe, the oversized popcorn...
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Culture Warrior: The Allure of Horrible Protagonists
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Young Adult, Shame, and The Descendants. 2011’s holiday movie season ended the year with a barrage of relatively conventional heroes. From Ethan Hunt saving...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Not Where You Saw
Why Watch? One day, the Ramsey Brothers got together to watch old home movies and deliver some incredibly insightful DVD featurette-style commentary. The result is nostalgia relived as art and as...
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Criterion Files #117: ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ and the History of Buñuel
Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s novel “Diary of a Chambermaid” (1964) was made at a decisive point in the master filmmaker’s long, dynamic, and illustrious career. The film marked Buñuel’s...
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Channel Guide: The Positives, Possibilities and Puke-Worthy Shows of the 2012...
Ah, the television midseason. By now, the public has decided which new shows they’ll stick with (Revenge, 2 Broke Girls, New Girl), which they’re unsure about (Pan Am, Prime Suspect, Once Upon a Time)...
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Reject Radio #117: A Clean Slate
In our first show of the 2012 season, we set off the filmmaking fireworks by finding out why Innkeepers director Ti West doesn’t believe in spooks, and by talking to indie icon Ed Burns about the...
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Kristen Wiig Wants to Always Be a Bride and Never Again a ‘Bridesmaid’
Last year’s lady-centric comedy Bridesmaids cost Universal $32 million to produce and ended up banking over $288m at the box office. Plus it made viable, hit anchoring stars out of both Kristen Wiig...
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More Bosses, Likely Still Horrible: New Line Going Ahead with ‘Horrible...
While Universal may be scraping to get together a sequel to their comedy hit, Bridesmaids, New Line and Warner Bros. are having significantly better luck with their latest incarnation of a comedy hit....
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Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken, and Kristen Wiig May Join Paul Rudd in...
Of all the films being developed in the Hollywood-sphere right now, perhaps no other has more reasons to be excited about it than the upcoming, based-on-a-true-story shocker Freezing People is Easy....
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Good Remake News: Kimberly Peirce May Be the One to Remake ‘Carrie’
We’ve all heard the grumblings and complaints over the prospect of a new remake of Brian De Palma‘s adaptation of Carrie. What’s to care about with this remake? We’ve already got a pretty perfect...
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The ‘Evil Dead’ Remake’s New Ash Is…Phil Collins’ Daughter?
Get ready to cringe, people who hate the idea of remakes, reimaginings, and redos, the latest news about the Evil Dead remake is a doozy. Anybody who is a fan of the original Evil Dead movies, or any...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Will Boldly Go for ‘Star Trek 2′
As pre-production on the J.J. Abrams directed sequel to 2009′s Star Trek intensifies, we are beginning to see some updates from the folks at Paramount. Namely casting rumors about villains, rumors...
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Movie News After Dark: Gwen Stacy, Deep Avengers, Inspector Spacetime and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie and entertainment news column that, now that it’s a year old and feeling mature, is looking to bring you only the best links of the day. Think of it...
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Foreign Objects: King of Devil’s Island (Norway)
The doors of Norway’s Bastoy Residential School remained open from 1900 to 1953, and in that half century hundreds of wayward boys called it home. They found themselves there for crimes big and small,...
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See the Fantastic ‘Louder Than a Bomb’ From Your Couch Thanks to Oprah
Since your plans to go meat bowling fell through, why not stay home and watch a thrilling documentary about high school students in Chicago delivering their experiences through the energetic art of...
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James Bond Recruits Ten-time Oscar Nominee Thomas Newman to Score ‘Skyfall’
Thomas Newman had his first feature job as an Orchestrator on Return of the Jedi, and has since crafted a career scoring more movies than you can shake a stick at (go ahead, try it). His most recent...
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Sarah Polley to Commit Double Homocide for ‘Alias Grace’
It looks like fans won’t have to wait five years between Sarah Polley directorial projects this time around. Even though it took that long between Away From Her and Take This Waltz, The Hollywood...
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Reel Sex: The Many Shapes of Cinematic Beards
One of my greatest loves, besides full-frontal male nudity in films, is a beard. Normally I would get up on my soap box and spout out tributes to the greatness of male facial hair, how it can...
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Rumor: Matt Damon Drops Out as Director of Movie Co-Written By Matt Damon
This is the kind of story that sounds too absurd to be true. According to an insider for Vulture, Matt Damon will no longer be making his directorial debut with the project previously reported on. The...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Road Rage
Why Watch? You’ve been cut off before, right? Director/animator Nick Khoo decided to channel the aggression that comes with traffic into a short that he made, somehow, only using After Effects. It’s a...
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