You Might Get to See Brittany Murphy’s Final Film Soon
At the very least, it’s finished. According to the LA Times, Something Wicked, an indie project with the ignoble distinction of being Brittany Murphy‘s last film appearance before her death in 2009,...
View ArticleRead 19 Screenplays Vying for This Year’s Oscar Attention
It’s time to put yourself in the shoes of the Academy voters. All of them. Thousands and thousands of shoes. When you’re done, head over to Rope of Silicon where Brad Brevet has amassed (and will...
View ArticleNew York City Rejects! See ‘Only the Young’ For Free This Weekend
The exclusive clip above is from the new documentary, Only the Young, from directors Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet. The pair followed teenagers in a small Southern California town around and...
View Article‘Les Miserables’: A Guide to the Surprising Depth of Its Stars’ Singing...
Let it never be said that director Tom Hooper took the easy road with his follow-up feature to his Oscar-winning The King’s Speech. While Hooper’s decision to again tackle a period piece with a new...
View ArticleHow Long Can Netflix Last?
It would be easy to think that the recent announcement that Netflix beat out pay television for the rights to Disney/Marvel/Pixar/LucasFilm releases is a positive step forward, but the good news is...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘The End’ Comically Shares One Man’s Misery and Packs a Timely Punch
Why Watch? The title of Cameron McHarg‘s short film is the kind with countless meanings. No doubt you’ll catch them all. In a way, the movie is an epic condensed into 8 minutes of one man’s life as...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher Is Totally Stoked About How Much He Looks Like Steve Jobs in...
While some of might still be holding out for that Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs biopic, there’s still Joshua Michael Stern‘s Sundance-premiering, Ashton Kutcher-starring jOBS to look forward to. Yet,...
View ArticleNational Board of Review Awards Honor ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’‘Silver Linings...
Consider awards season fully, totally, and irrevocably on as of this very moment. The National Board of Review has just announced their winners for the 2012 movie-going season, and their list is...
View Article‘Only the Young’ Directors Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims on Capturing Real...
Don’t call it a skater film. And definitely don’t dismiss it for being a documentary. Only the Young is simply an extraordinary real-life teen movie, one I’ve previously compared favorably to the...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Matt Damon Latest to Join George Clooney’s ‘Monuments Men,’...
What is Casting Couch? It’s not so much a couch as it is a list, a list of recent castings. And it seems to be talking a lot about World War II today. George Clooney and Matt Damon must have decided...
View ArticleJohnny Depp and Disney Are Hoping You Want a Modern Retelling of Don Quixote
Let’s take a trip back in time to the magical year of 2010. If someone with modern eyes were to go back and try to live in these olden times, they’d discover themselves in a topsy-turvy bizarro world...
View Article‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Teaser Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch is Pissed
There has been plenty of speculation over whether Khan (Khan!!!!) will appear as Star Trek 2‘s villain. This trailer — which is packed with tons of footage for a teaser — almost feels like a...
View Article‘Tron 3′ is Still a Thing
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney wants to push ahead with its sequel to Tron: Legacy and has hired screenwriter Jesse Wigutow (who worked on the forthcoming Crow remake and an adaptation of...
View Article‘The Croods’ Trailer Lets Nic Cage Scream Like a Crazy Cave Man
With a monkey slapping a man, a young girl going crazy for shoes, and a cranky grandma, The Croods isn’t straying too far from the formula for harmless family comedy. It just happens to feature the...
View ArticleWhat We Learned From Watching Sight & Sound’s Top Ten Movies
From placing Citizen Kane in a modern, Murdoch-filled context to getting really close up with Joan of Arc, Landon Palmer and I have been re-examining the Sight & Sound Top Ten, and we’re hoping we...
View Article48 Things We Learned from the ‘Casino Royale’ Commentary
And you thought we were done with James Bond articles for a while, didn’t you? Not so. With Skyfall continuing to tear up the box office in both North America and overseas, and with it officially...
View Article15 Downright Brutal Attacks On Inanimate Movie Objects
Sometimes you just have to punch a wall, or perhaps a car door, or a ceramic cat – really, it’s whatever is closest. Whether it is rage, retribution, or legitimate hatred, sometimes an inanimate...
View ArticleRole Reversal: Filmmakers “Composing” for Music and a Look Into Sigur...
You may have watched, or even just heard of, the slightly strange video featuring Shia LaBeouf and dancer Denna Thomsen that hit the web a few months back. The video features the pair dancing,...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Epithet’ Stars a Laugh Out Loud, Profound Patrick Stewart
Why Watch? It’s a short film starring Patrick Stewart with NSFW language and some truly bizarre adult situations. If you need more than that to coerce you (and if you do, I question your dedication to...
View ArticleReview: ‘Lay The Favorite’ May Have Bet Too High
Editor’s note: Lay The Favorite hits limited release this Friday, though it doesn’t seem like a solid bet for your movie-going dollar. Find out why with the following Sundance review, originally...
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