SFotD: ‘Mario Warfare’ Turns Our Favorite Plumber into a Fighter
Why Watch? With nods to Leon, Equilibrium and others, this action-beat celebration features a gun-toting Toad, an emotional Princess, and an unlikely plumbing hero. Fan films get a lot of attention on...
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Mondo Celebrates ‘The Hobbit’ In Best Way Possible: By Releasing New Posters...
While some might think that the best way to celebrate the release of a new film is to perhaps craft some art based on said new film, the folks over at Mondo have decided to use their poster...
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Casting Couch: Michael Shannon Picked For ‘The Harvest,’ Joel Edgerton Goes...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the roundup of casting news that knows what Gillian Jacobs is going to be doing with her upcoming break from Community. All that time in the bushes finally paid off. Most...
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Screen Actors Guild Announces 2012 Nominees Or, Here’s A List of People Who...
While we’ve already railed against the use of the word “snub” when it comes to awards season, the term is still getting tossed around when it comes to any list of nominees and winners that at all...
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‘Pacific Rim’ Trailer Has Everything a Summer Movie Needs
At last weekend’s Ain’t It Cool News Butt-numb-athon, Guillermo del Toro called Pacific Rim a “film made by fans, but not a fan film,” and it’s easy to see what he’s talking about in this first...
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New ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Trailer Is Willing to Admit That Channing Tatum...
When the first trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation hit about a year ago, expectations for the sequel were pretty low. That was due to the first film, G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA, pretty much sucking....
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Movie News After Dark: Pacific Rim Invasion, Reviewing The Hobbit and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column recapping news, updating you on the trends of today and bringing you thoughts on what is going on in this world gone mad. We begin this evening...
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‘The Underwater Realm’ Trailer: An Indie Film That Looks Like a Blockbuster
Bonus points for ambition. It’s the absence of any big name stars (or massive crowd shots) that stands as the only hint that The Underwater Realm isn’t a tentpole movie set to light the summer on...
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The Final Reject Radio: 2012 and the End of Film
Transformative technology. Fips. The Marvel Model disrupting superhero movies (and how it can survive alongside perpetual reboots). The literal death of film. Megan Ellison saving movies. The sleeper...
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Guillermo del Toro: ‘Pacific Rim’ is “A Film Made By Fans, But Not a Fan...
The trailer for Pacific Rim crashed through a few bridges and buildings, but it’s here now for our viewing pleasure. With all the extra-dimensional monsters and giant robots clashing, is there any...
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10 Unforgettable Voices In A.I. Movie History
Look – computers will never have souls. It’s disappointing to admit, but we all have to face facts at some point in our lives. Maybe one day they’ll manage to act alive, but they will never feel our...
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26 Things We Learned From the ‘Miami Connection’ Commentary
A rock band who practice Tae kwon do and sing about the joys of friendship. Ninjas who move noisily between drug deals on speeding pocket rockets. Welcome to the dangerous world of Orlando, circa...
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‘Brave’ Director Mark Andrews Wants Pixar to Make Movies Faster
“It’s like filling an ice tray. They like to fill it very carefully, one cube at a time, until it’s all even. I’d rather fill the sink with water, stick the ice tray under the sink, and pull it out....
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SFotD: Swans Documentary ‘The Seer’ is Thick with Sound
Why Watch? Swans was formed in 1982, emerging from the New York No Wave scene with explosive shows where the band played at notoriously loud volumes. Word spread that audience members had vomited from...
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Review: ‘Save The Date’ Is Standard Sundance Fare With a Wasted Comedic Cast
Editor’s note: Save the Date arrives in theaters this Friday. RSVP now with a re-run of our Sundance review, originally posted on January 25, 2012. It would be foolish to deny that there is a certain...
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‘The Wolverine’ Motion Poster: Hugh Jackman Now Lives in Eurythmics Song
Here comes the rain again indeed. If there was any doubt that James Mangold‘s The Wolverine wasn’t going to be a seriously emo(tional?) outing for Hugh Jackman‘s eponymous mutant, please direct your...
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Casting Couch: Garrett Hedlund Will Be Re-Digitized For ‘TRON 3,’ Johnny Depp...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting news roundup that was compiled today with the help of Daft Punk musical accompaniment. You may not remember much about TRON: Legacy’s story, because other than...
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It’s Time to Start Bitching About the Golden Globes Nominations Again
The road of awards season is a long one to travel – one full of shameless politicking and indulgent self-congratulations – and today marks the first big stop on this arduous journey: the announcement...
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Studio Ghibli Announces New Miyazaki and Takahata Films For 2013
It’s long been rumored that legendary Japanese animation studio, Studio Ghibli, was working on two new film, one each from its two founders, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, but today the studio went...
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Are All Those Critical Lauds Not Doing It For You? Fine, Here’s a New ‘Zero...
If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the massive praise that’s already been heaped on Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty – so far, they include four Golden Globe nominations, three National Board of...
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