Year in Review: Why Movies in 2012 Were About Personalities, Not Characters
In this end-of-year editorial, Landon Palmer discusses the pattern that movies demonstrated in 2012 for telling stories through protagonists defined by their various personality traits rather than...
View ArticleOver/Under: ‘Moon’ Offers Up All the Joys of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Without...
Ask any movie geek what their favorite horror movie is, and there’s a good chance they might say Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Ask them what their favorite war movie is, and there’s a good chance...
View ArticleSFotD: A Small Boy Tries to Solve the Mystery of Babies in the Endearing ‘Oru...
Why Watch? There’s no doubt that Oru Kutty Chodyam (A Little Question) is a bit sweet in its delivery. This charming short film is covered in syrup, but the combination of an adorable child demanding...
View ArticleYear in Review: The 12 Best Movie Trailers of 2012
Everyone knows you can’t judge a book by its cover, but were you aware that movies shouldn’t be judged by a trailer either? I know, seems counter-intuitive, but while the trailer advertises a feature...
View ArticleThe Top 12 Movies of 2012 (According to the Internet)
Earlier this year, we organized a vote between a bunch of internet film critics (and a handful of filmmakers) to come up with what they would cumulatively exalt as the best movies of all time. It’s...
View ArticleJay-Z Creating “Dope” Score for Luhrmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’
At what point can we start calling Baz Luhrmann a troll instead of a filmmaker? If Australia – the flabby apotheosis of a supposedly beloved country — doesn’t count, then maybe having Jay-Z score an...
View ArticleThe Movie Star (1910 – 2012)
As if answering our well-established hypothesis about Hollywood shutting down the production of genuine movie stars, the industry offered a positively scientific blitz of testing this year to...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘We Will Forget’ Remembers a Prophet Who Got it Wrong
Why Watch? If its provocative title isn’t enough, this short documentary focusing on failed Doomsday Prophet Robert Fitzpatrick pours on the intrigue by giving him a wide berth to share his thoughts....
View ArticleYear in Review: 12 Great (and 6 Terrible) American Films You Didn’t Bother...
The movies listed here aren’t necessarily the year’s best, but they’re still great movies that never found an audience during their theatrical run for one reason or another. At least one of those...
View ArticleJoseph Gordon-Levitt Hops in the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Casting Pool,...
Now that Marvel Studios has been wildly successful at turning some of their most popular comic book properties into hugely profitable feature film series, the publisher turned movie house is taking...
View ArticleYear in Review: The Best Movie Posters of 2012
This is the kind of Year in Review article that could get out of hand. Long-winded explanation of the intricacies of studio marketing and boutique-driven movie art prints. But lets be honest with...
View ArticleA Sexually Inappropriate Super Spy-Related Giveaway! Win ‘Archer’ Season 3 on...
Did you hear that Skyfall passed the one billion dollar mark recently at the international box-office? Yeah, pretty cool. But you know who’s not impressed with James Bond’s latest accomplishment?...
View ArticleThe Second Annual Reject Awards
It’s funny. We spend so much time honoring the triumphs of 2012, and the big game won’t even roll around until February. The Academy Awards aren’t a paragon of perfection for some, and they aren’t the...
View ArticleBong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Gets Some Fine Concept Art
In 2031, a massive train presses its way through the frozen wasteland of a planet with a desperate crowd of passengers unsure of whether they’ll survive or if surviving is worth it. Trapped and...
View ArticleThe 52 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013
Just yesterday, a friend of mine posted a message to her unborn child on Facebook, saying that if the little bugger came a week before the due date and ruined her chance to see Star Trek Into...
View Article38 Things We Learned from the ‘Star Trek II’ Commentary
One of the most anticipated films of 2013 is Star Trek: Into Darkness, which finally comes out this May. After the trailer dropped late last year, there was plenty of speculation about how it connects...
View ArticleCasting Couch: The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Casting Saga Continues, Ashley...
As if the casting situation regarding the lead role for James Gunn’s upcoming Marvel movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, needed to get even more heated, today brings news that yet another candidate has...
View ArticleUnfortunately, These New Pieces of Concept Art From Pixar’s Cancelled ‘Newt’...
It’s not often that Pixar misfires on something but, if these newly-posted pieces of concept art for their cancelled feature Newt are any indication, the animation studio might have slipped up when it...
View ArticleThe 5 Must-See Movies of January 2013
2012 is over. Gone forever. Never coming back. Based on our staff picks for the best features of 2012, it was far from a bad year. We had all kinds of good-to-great films, and we’d be lucky to have...
View ArticleFilm Jockeys #4: A Year at the Movies
What happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the...
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