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Sundance 2013 Review: You Don’t Need to Be Nuts About Jane Austen to Enjoy...
Obsession with fictional literary heroes is nothing new, but Austenland’s Jane Hayes (Keri Russell) has taken her love for Jane Austen’s (again, fictional) Mr. Darcy and the Regency-era world he (as...
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Watch ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Director Tommy Wirkola’s First Film...
If you already have low expectations for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, you might not be interested in seeing the first film by Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola. It won’t exactly do much for your...
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Sundance 2013 Review: The Year of McConaughey Continues with His Outstanding...
What would be most exciting to two young boys living a slightly boring life along a river bank in Arkansas? An adventure, of course. And that is exactly what Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob...
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7 Scenes We Love From the 2003 Sundance Film Festival
While the 2013 Sundance Film Festival is in full swing this weekend, we thought it would be fun to look back a decade and remember the best films of the 2003 event. The award winners that year include...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘History of the Eagles Part One’ Doesn’t Quite Soar But...
History of the Eagles, Part One starts off with backstage footage of the band before a concert in 1977 as they warm up in perfect harmony, reminding you from the forefront there is a reason this band...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘S-VHS’ Finds Laughs, a Few Scares and One Effed-Up...
Reactions were understandably mixed to last year’s horror anthology film V/H/S, but there was enough of a positive response to encourage the team to move forward on a new incarnation. No, it’s not...
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Experience Sundance 2013: Love Movies? This May Not Be the Film Festival for You
My first full day of my very first Sundance was yesterday, and I’m already tired. Sadly, there were no obese snorers for me to kick like there was during my first movie on Saturday (he did not...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Drake Doremus Asks You to ‘Breathe In,’ Then Gut-Checks...
People will hate Drake Doremus’s Breathe In. They will walk out of the theater and be sad and confused and maybe even (probably, really, more than anything) angry. They will hate it because they will...
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Take Action: Why You Need to See Action Films Theatrically
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s full fledged return to the big screen in this weekend’s The Last Stand isn’t triumphant by any measure, but it is a pretty fun action film which is all the more impressive...
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The One Where I Tell You to Buy the New ‘Universal Soldier’ and Offer...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Hard Romanticker The streets of Tokyo are awash in blood and attitude in this tale of...
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Sundance 2013 Review: You Will Not Look at Disney Parks the Same After You...
The Disney theme parks are dubbed the “happiest place on earth” for a reason – they bring to life the fantasy of Disney’s movies and the fairy tale characters that populate them. While the parks are...
View ArticleShort Film: Go Back in Sundance History with ‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’
Editor’s Note: With Sundance 2013 upon us, we’re revisiting some of our favorite shorts from Sundance years past. This wonderful little film played the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, played in our Short...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Entertains But Falls Apart at the Seams
Michael Winterbottom has made a lot of goddamn movies. Unlike most directors, though, he doesn’t really have a type of film that he sticks to or is known for. This lack of a label allows him to move...
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The Klingons of ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Continue to Emerge
As any enthusiastic, detail oriented Trekker would tell you, the DVD and Blu-ray release of J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek reboot included several deleted scenes that involve villain Nero (Eric Bana) and...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Return to Adolescence in ‘It Felt Like Love,’ But It...
When you are young, summer is supposed to be a fun, laid back time where there are no classes to get up for and no homework to complete, but it can also teeter on boring with long days that can drag...
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Casting Couch: Guillermo del Toro Recruits Charlie Hunnam For ‘Crimson Peak,’...
What is Casting Couch? It’s having trouble finding casting news in a week where the entire film industry’s eyes are turned to Sundance, but it was able to dig up a couple nuggets anyway. Not a lot is...
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‘The East’ Trailer Has a Warning For All the Rich People in the World
So far it has only been seen at Sundance, but The East is giving those of us not in Park City a glimpse of what it has to offer, in the form of a trailer. This is the latest collaboration between...
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Movie News After Dark: On Cinema At the Cinema On a Horse
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the most talented, most handsomest, often silliest movie news column on the planet. Movie news columns from other parts of the galaxy might be able to compete, but...
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Experience a Drunken Day of Reckoning with this ‘Universal Soldier’ Drinking...
In case you missed it this past November, or you were too cheap to watch it for a premium price on demand, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. This gritty and...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Stoker’ Is Park Chan-wook’s Prettiest, Emptiest Film
Park Chan-wook‘s films are held in deservedly high regard for various reasons. They’re often filled with desperate characters trapped in twisted, madcap situations, and while their worlds are violent...
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