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9 Creative Cinematic Portrayals of Prehistoric Times
The great thing about prehistory is that you can speculate pretty much any old hogwash about it. Sure – science has given us a reasonably educated guess, but when has science ever stopped us from...
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33 Things We Learned from ‘The Hurt Locker’ Commentary
Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty is currently in limited release and about to go wide, but while it’s unclear what the film’s box-office reception will be the critical one has been fairly unanimous....
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Good Taste’ Takes Record Collecting Deadly Serious
Why Watch? If this short from Greg Hanson were a person, it would be a punk singer in crushed velvet doing a set at the Holiday Inn lounge. Style is on the menu here, using the story of a vinyl...
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Would ‘Gangster Squad’ Have Benefitted From a Little More Hip-Hop?
The trailer for Gangster Squad brought us right into the world of 1940′s Los Angeles, where gangsters ruled the city under the unflinching thumb of Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) as ominous undertones...
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Sundance 2013: Kate’s 10 Most Anticipated Films
Film festival scheduling is a delicate art, a precarious balance of needs and desires, a rigorous exercise in making puzzle pieces fit. It’s hard, is what I’m saying, and it’s harder still when a...
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Review: ‘Gangster Squad’ Is ‘The Untouchables’ Remade as a Cartoon, and...
A good and pure officer of the law frustrated in his attempts to bring down his city’s top criminal. A vicious kingpin intent on ruling the town through violence and fear. A team assembled to fight...
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’42’ Trailer Hits an Oscar Bait Trifecta
The historical drama, the meditation on race relations, and the inspirational sports story: separately they’re all crowd-pleasing film genres that tend to do well at the box office and earn plenty of...
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Casting Couch: Robert Downey Jr. Could Be Teaming Up With P.T. Anderson,...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a column that’s trying to talk about casting news on a day when Oscar nominations are king. Pity it. Paul Thomas Anderson is the sort of filmmaker who casts amazing actors...
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It’s Official: Ben Affleck Might Not Be An Oscar Nominee, But He Is Directing...
Hot off of his Oscar non-nomination for directing Argo, increasingly beloved on Twitter Hollywood personality Ben Affleck has confirmed that his next project as a director is going to be an adaptation...
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Movie News After Dark: Time to Get Honest About Hunger Games and Inception
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a movie news column that cares. Bring Me Your Katniss! – We begin this evening with one of a few new images from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the...
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Broken Projector Podcast: The Great Indy Debate
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Broken Projector! This week, hosts Scott Beggs and Geoff LaTulippe ask you to vote for which historical wrong Quentin Tarantino should right next and Rob Hunter...
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’21 and Over’ Trailer is Technically Doing What You Told It To Do
21 and Over didn’t really need the “From the Makers of The Hangover” tag. It’s sort of one big audio/visual “From the Makers of The Hangover” tag, but they spell it out in plain english anyway....
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Film Jockeys #5: The Snubbies
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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The 5 Most Promising Midseason Television Premieres
We had a tepid fall season, as far as new shows go. But finally, the midseason is upon us — that wonderful time of the year when the disappointments of the Fall (The Mob Doctor, Animal Practice) are...
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Review: ‘Let My People Go’ is a Flight of Fancy
French director Mikael Buch’s first offering Let My People Go is a lighthearted and occasionally thoughtful attempt to tease out the appeal of the ties that bind a gay and Jewish identity together....
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Why ‘Space Jam’ is a Dunk-Slamming Remake of ‘Seven Samurai’
In the game of bad movie coverage, we are poised on the same lofty levels of excellence as either the 1975 Washington Capitals or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers back when they had those supposedly...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Lisa’ is the Perfect Sci-Fi Woman Built in a Basement
Why Watch? Anders (Dominic Bogart) works an unfulfilling job making something the mainstream public will probably love (which makes him gag), but at night, he gets to labor away at his passion...
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On This Year’s Oscar Nominations: What A Glorious Mess
Everyone calm down. The Oscar nominations are not a disaster. They actually make for the most exciting awards season in recent memory. I know that for many of us this took a few minutes to notice. I...
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Sundance 2013: Rob’s 10 Most Anticipated Films
Expectations? This is my first Sundance Film Festival, so the only things I know I’ll encounter are movies, cold snow, overpriced sandwiches, and familiar faces. It should be a great time provided the...
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Casting Couch: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Steps Into the Path of ‘Godzilla,’ Larry...
What is Casting Couch? Today it’s the whitest casting round-up you know. Even though everyone knows that Godzilla is the true star of any Godzilla movie, there usually has to be some sort of human...
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