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Sundance 2013 Review: Stunning ‘Upstream Color’ Puts Swine Before Pearls and...
Shane Carruth has twice broken an unspoken contract between filmmakers and audiences that says watching movies should never require you to think, work or do any of the heavy lifting. A high percentage...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Watch ‘Workaholics’
Comedy Central’s unabashedly lowbrow sitcom Workaholics recently began airing the second half of its third season, which on its own would be reason enough to celebrate but the network has also ordered...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ is a Gorgeous Southern Drawl
Bob (Casey Affleck) and Ruth (Rooney Mara) are hopelessly in love. Even when they fight, they cannot help but fall back into each other’s arms with Bob reminding Ruth he will always follow her, always...
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Sundance Short Film: Don Hertzfeldt’s ‘Everything Will Be OK’
We’re exploring Sundance’s past all week, so we’ve got the usual batch of stellar short films with a Sundance twist. It’s like being there without the snow boots or Harvey Weinstein ruining screenings...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Entertaining ‘A.C.O.D.’ Elevates Adam Scott to Leading...
According to Carter (Adam Scott), his parents were “married for nine years, but feels like they have been at war for a hundred.” Growing up in the crossfire of his parent’s epic fights and...
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How Best Picture Reflects Who We Are and How ‘Life of Pi’ Could Run Away with It
What does Best Picture say about who we are? On the one hand, nothing. It’s very easy to write the whole thing off as Hollywood congratulating itself, the height of cultural irrelevance. Plenty of...
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Review: ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Offers Nothing Beyond Its Title
The other day I received an email from a reader who is quite familiar with Tommy Wirkola’s background. He tells me that, while at film school, the director pitched something with the title “Hansel and...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Shack Up with ‘Toy’s House,’ A New Kind of...
Sharp-tongued Joe Toy (Nick Robinson) is frustrated with his life – his overbearing father (Nick Offerman) does not understand him, his older sister Heather (Alison Brie) no longer lives at home, and...
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Roger Corman Slays Snooty Pretension, Leaves Only ‘A Bucket of Blood’
It has been the common self-effacing jab around the Junkfood Cinema lab that the canon of movies we feature and love are indicative of our total lack of taste. Of late however, the idea of a person...
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‘Mood Indigo’ Trailer Sees Michel Gondry Going Gloriously Over the Top
Though most of the people who read this site probably don’t speak French, you’re likely all going to want to watch the French trailer for Michel Gondry’s new film L’écume des jours (or Mood Indigo...
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Casting Couch: Joaquin Phoenix Gets P.T. Anderson’d, Reese Witherspoon, and...
What is Casting Couch? It’s heading into the weekend with three pieces of casting news about three actors everyone has actually heard of. Star power! Remember how rumors were going around that Robert...
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Experience Sundance 2013: It Finally Snows in Park City, We Eat Meatloaf and Cry
It was bound to happen. On Day 723 of the Sundance Film Festival (really, just Day 8, but it feels like we’ve been here for years), it snowed. Sundance is, after all, located in a ski town, so frozen...
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The 23 ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 3 Character Photos You’ve Been Waiting For
Today, we bring you joyous news. HBO has released the first set of images from the upcoming third season of Game of Thrones. In this giant gallery, you will find the familiar faces of Tyrion Lannister...
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J.J. Abrams Now Officially Confirmed Director of ‘Star Wars’ Episode VII
As was breathlessly reported earlier this week, Disney has now confirmed (via press release) that J.J. Abrams is their official pick to direct their new Star Wars film. There’s not much else to say as...
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Review: ‘In Another Country’ Shows the Lighter But Less Engaging Side of...
A beach-set comedic drama isn’t often what comes to mind when you think of South Korean cinema, but writer/director Hong Sang-soo has never been fond of convention. That’s especially apparent when it...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Entertaining ‘jOBS’ Is Still Too Basic For Its Own Good
Apple founder and technology visionary Steve Jobs changed the way the world connects and computes, created one of the world’s most revolutionary companies and recently died, so of course he is now...
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Beyonce Lip-Synched the 10 Hottest Movie and TV Stories of the Week
There’s at least one big piece of movie news you heard about this week. That’s right, Kevin Kline has finally been cast in the role he was born to play: Dakota Fanning‘s love interest. Oh, and you...
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Review: ‘John Dies At The End’ Is A Trip In More Ways Than One
Editor’s note: John Dies At The End is now playing in limited theatrical release, so let’s flash back exactly one year to look at Allison’s Sundance review, originally published on January 26, 2012....
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘The Way, Way Back’ is an Authentically Awkward Trip...
Coming-of-age films are almost as ubiquitous as rom-coms and Resident Evil sequels these days, and it’s not often that one of them manages to stand out in the crowded field. The ones that do succeed...
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Fund This Film: ‘The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened?’
Thanks to Kickstarter, there continues to be an increase in documentaries being made about movies. On top of that, there also seems to be a trend lately for filmmakers to look at failed movie...
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