Enough With ‘A Christmas Story,’ Let’s Start Doing 24-Hour ‘Gremlins’ Marathons
Sometime around fifteen years ago, A Christmas Story was something of a modern cult classic. It was kind of amusing and kind of off-beat, and you could make a connection with someone if you mentioned...
View ArticleReview: Find Out What It Truly Means to Love in ‘Amour’
Editor’s note: With Haneke’s latest masterwork finally hitting limited release this week, please fall in love with our AFI FEST review all over again, originally published on November 4, 2012. In...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Josh Hutcherson Will Meet Pablo Escobar in ‘Paradise Lost,’...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting column that has updates on the careers of some promising young talent. And Matthias Schoenaerts. Josh Hutcherson is one of the hottest young actors in the...
View ArticlePrepare Yourself for the Magic of These First Stills from ‘The Incredible...
First looks at films by way of photographic stills tend to be dry affairs that are nearly always impossible to contextualize (“look, there is someone standing there, next to someone else, can’t wait...
View ArticleReview: ‘Not Fade Away’ Is a Small Coming-of-Age Story Ruined by Its Own...
Editor’s note: David Chase’s feature debut hits theaters this week, so please feel free to rock out with this New York Film Festival review, originally published on October 7, 2012. Into a quiet...
View ArticleSecond ‘Identity Thief’ Trailer Features Even More Attempted Vehicular Homicide
Given the fact that Identity Thief stars Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, it wasn’t all that much of a surprise that its first trailer was full of laughs. But what kind of came out of nowhere was...
View Article‘The Matrix,’‘Dirty Harry,’ and More Added to National Film Registry
We’ve lost something close to 3/4 of black and white films. It’s easy to imagine that we have all of them at our fingertips, and that they’ll be there forever, but that’s simply not the reality, and...
View ArticleNRA: Guns Don’t Kill People, Violent Movies Do
The National Rifle Association is breaking its silence after the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, promising a full news conference on Friday and “meaningful contributions to help make sure [something...
View ArticleAfter 9 Years, ‘Riddick’ Returns to Theaters in 2013
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal will be putting Riddick – the third movie in the sci-fi franchise – in theaters on September 6, 2013, ending what will be a 9-year drought without Vin...
View Article‘To The Wonder’ Trailer Shows Terrence Malick Waiting to Be Transformed Into...
The theme of the first trailer for Terrence Malick‘s To the Wonder might be the inevitability and unpredictability of love. This sweeping emotion that takes hold of us even when we’re not looking for...
View ArticleNew ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’ Poster Gets Wicked
Sam Raimi‘s Oz: The Great and Powerful crashes down on audiences in March, and while we’ve already gotten a great look at the world they’ve built for it (while crossing our fingers that it won’t be an...
View Article6 Filmmaking Tips From Kathryn Bigelow
Hanging with bikers, vampires and surfing bank robbers, Kathryn Bigelow has made a name for herself chasing after adrenaline. After mixed reviews and a bad box office break for her Soviet submarine...
View ArticleReview: ‘On The Road’ Is A Failed Attempt to Adapt the Unadaptable
Editor’s note: On the Road cruises into limited release this Friday, so put your brains into gear and enjoy this re-run of our Cannes review, originally published on May 23, 2012. Some books demand...
View Article‘Pain & Gain’ Trailer: This Is A True Story (No, Really)
“I’ve watched a lot of movies, Paul, I know what I’m doing!” If you think that the plot of Michael Bay‘s Pain & Gain is insane, or clearly just rooted in action cinema lore, or too damn bizarre to...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Ben Affleck Bails on Kristen Stewart, ‘Walk of Shame’ Finally...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting news roundup that finally gets to stop talking about Walk of Shame, which was really being something of an attention hog lately. Some real bad news hit today...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie In Talks to Direct ‘Unbroken,’ Another Tale of War Camp...
After completing her feature directorial debut with 2011′s Bosnian War-set drama, In the Land of Blood and Honey, multi-hyphenate Angelina Jolie has been mum on what her next directing gig will be...
View ArticleRebel Wilson Is Thinking About Warming Up Her Vocal Chords For a ‘Pitch...
Given its success at the box office, and the fact that movies about singing, or cheerleading, or whatnot always seem to get sequels, it was probably something of a given that this year’s surprisingly...
View ArticleGet Classy and Literary With This Gallery of ‘The Great Gatsby’ Character...
How awkward that the first piece of marketing for Baz Luhrmann‘s still-ludicrously-3D take on F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s most famous work to strike any sort of literary chord is this brand new batch of...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Lena Dunham and The Best Action of 2012
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the coolest movie column of the year. Most nights, at least. Coolest Person of the Year – It’s a fascinating thing, for Time’s Joel Stein to name someone like Lena...
View Article‘The Heat’ Red Band Trailer: Has Anyone Seen The Captain’s Balls?
Here comes the best way to start your Thursday morning: Melissa McCarthy and her gratuitous yet creative use of the f-word. It comes in the form of the new red band trailer for Paul Feig’s The Heat,...
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