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Alex Karpovsky Is Confused By Emoticons (Again) in Exclusive Clip from...
For fans of Girls, Alex Karpovsky‘s confusion over text messages, emoticons, and just what the hell they mean when sent in the context of a romantic relationship was a source of great hilarity during...
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Casting Couch: Latest ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Rumors, Questions Swirl...
What is Casting Couch? Today it’s the casting roundup with news about a talking raccoon, a frog puppet, a famous dog, a beautiful woman, and David Hasselhoff’s shorts. So far Marvel’s next big thing,...
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UK ‘Side Effects’ Trailer Features More Drugs, Clearer Plot Details
The last time we got a trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming thriller, Side Effects, it was a little too dream-like and abstract to really tell us what the movie was about. Rooney Mara was taking...
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‘Top Gun 3D’ Trailer Teases a Sensitive Gay Romance
Why’s this guy so agressive? Why is he taking pictures while flying that plane upside down? Will he and his partner find love in the blood-sprayed midst of war? It’s really impressive that studio...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Get Lost in ‘Don Jon’s Addiction’
Don Jon (Joesph Gordon-Levitt) is — as his name suggests — a modern-day “Don Juan.” He’s a ladies man the girls just can’t seem to say no to. Every weekend Jon stands in the middle of the club with...
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12 Great Characters We Hate By the End of the Movie
Sometimes a person just doesn’t get along. In films, it can be the other characters that don’t mesh, or sometimes it’s the audience themselves who just can’t stand a single idiot character that won’t...
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Slamdance Video Spotlight: Spoofing ‘Paranormal,’ Recording Secrets and...
If Sundance is the alternative film festival, Slamdance is the alternative to the alternative. We’re proud to be media sponsors for the festival, and to share a few filmmaking spotlights on the movies...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman’ Is Unnecessary
A close up of a beaten and bloodied Shia LaBeouf (who plays the title character) hanging upside down is the first image of The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman and brings one question to mind:...
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Composing for Drama vs Horror: Fernando Velázquez’s Scores for ‘The...
I applauded composer Fernando Velázquez last year for his score for The Impossible, a film wrought with drama in which Velázquez wisely kept his music to the background rather than trying to influence...
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Short Film of the Day: Treevenge
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 2009 Sundance Film Festival, played in our...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Delusional But Hilarious ‘Ass Backwards’ Delivers the...
Kate (June Diane Raphael) and Chloe (Casey Wilson) have been best friends their entire lives, finishing each other’s sentences, sleeping in the same waterbed, they even have a catch phrase when...
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54 Things We Learned from the ‘Clerks’ Commentary
When given the chance, most sane people flee the colder areas of the country in favor of tropical locations in January. However, movie fans turn away from the dreadful selection of films in the...
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J.J. Abrams Now Officially Unconfirmed Director of ‘Star Wars’ Episode VII
Here’s what we know: there will be a new Star Wars movie in the next few years (2015 to be more precise). Currently producer Kathleen Kennedy has Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt working on a script...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Surprisingly Tame ‘Lovelace’ Doesn’t Give Much...
For whatever reason, the story of adult film legend Linda Lovelace has proven to be particular enticing material as of late, with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace only the first of two...
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‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Trailer Gives Us the Coens’ Take on 60s-Era New York City
There isn’t much that needs to be said to sell the trailer for Inside Llewyn Davis. It’s the trailer for the new Coen Brothers movie, so its release basically makes for a holiday on the film geek...
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Review: Statham’s Swagger Can’t Save a Perpetually Bland ‘Parker’
Adapting material from one medium to another is never an easy proposition. Script to screen is perhaps the most dangerous transition of all as the phrase “the book was better” is so often a common...
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Casting Couch: Dakota Fanning to be Inappropriately Touched by Kevin Kline in...
It might sound creepy to hear that a fresh-faced, young actress like Dakota Fanning has been cast as the romantic interest of a crag-faced, old dude like Kevin Kline in a movie, but you have to...
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Broken Projector Podcast: Hitchcock vs Spielberg
This week on the show, Scott and Geoff discuss Shane Carruth‘s 9-year hiatus as a viable career option, get some thoughts on Upstream Color from Rob Hunter at Sundance and talk to up-and-coming actor...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Infuriating, Obvious ‘Very Good Girls’ Isn’t Very Good...
The first thing we’re supposed to learn about Lilly (Dakota Fanning) and Gerry (Elizabeth Olsen) is that they are best friends – no, like, best friends, sisters, totally bonded, deeply close,...
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Film Jockeys #7: The Phantom Critic
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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