Over/Under: ‘Scent of a Woman’ vs. ‘Goodbye Solo’
You might assume that over the course of his forty-some year acting career, Al Pacino has probably won enough Oscars to stock a whole trophy room, but actually he’s only won once. It was for his...
View ArticleGarrett Hedlund Negotiating for Role in Coens’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
Here’s yet another upside to the Akira shutdown (beyond the immediate benefit of the project hopefully just not getting made in its current, bizarrely tone-deaf state) – its star Garrett Hedlund is...
View ArticleUniversal Pictures Celebrates 100th Birthday With Shiny New Logo and 13...
Universal Pictures will turn a century old on April 30, and in advance of their 100th birthday, the studio has trotted out a new (shiny!) logo that touts their triple-digit age. Why they didn’t get...
View ArticleWhy? Lindsay Lohan in ‘Early Talks’ to Play Liz Taylor in Lifetime Movie
It seems as if Lindsay Lohan might be most comfortable playing anyone but herself. Lohan has constantly imitated Marilyn Monroe in photo shoots over the years, and the actress was long attached to...
View ArticleWelcome to Your Terrifying New Apartment, Thanks to Trailer for Tobe Hooper’s...
American horror master Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist) has contributed substantially to modern classic scarefests and what we consider to be a the standard American horror...
View Article2012 Sundance Film Festival: Finally! Festival Darling Parker Posey to Host...
It’s really about time that the Sundance Film Festival honored perennial indie it-girl Parker Posey with some kind of, well, some kind of something! Wait, what? Posey has appeared in over a dozen...
View Article‘Lovelace’ Biopic Already Trying to Sell Itself by Promising Amanda...
In a recent E! article about the nudity that’s going to be on display in the upcoming, Amanda Seyfried-starring biopic of 70s porn star Linda Lovelace, Lovelace, one of the film’s producers, Patrick...
View ArticleWarner Bros. Strikes a Blow Against Netflix
It’s been my opinion for a while now that all-you-can-eat subscription services like Netflix are going to be a temporary thing with a limited window of success. Back when movie streaming was a minor...
View ArticleThis Week in Blu-ray: Boardwalk Empire, Moneyball, Killer Elite and Death is...
Hey look, it’s an edition of This Week in Blu-ray. We’d bet you didn’t see that coming, did you? Anyway, it’s back to the grind with plenty of great new Blu-ray releases to talk about. Everything from...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Bond on Blu, Brigitte Bardot, Downton Abbey, Kick-Ass...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that, tonight, is focused on a cornacopia of new Blu-ray release information. From James Bond to Jake Gittes, it’s going to be a...
View ArticleShort Film of the Day: Pigeon Impossible
Why Watch? Because Guest Week continues here on Short Film of the Day, and I’m picking a bunch of silly animated shorts that Cole would almost never touch. Perhaps he’s got a thing for the real world....
View Article‘This Means War’ Trailer Surprises With Great Action, A Fun Cast And A Wicked...
I’m not sure how we missed this one, but I can only assume it was intentional. If you do a search of our site for the name ‘McG’ you’ll find mostly negative comments, critiques and flat-out insults...
View ArticleExploring The Twilight Zone #136: The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with...
View ArticleReject Radio #118: The Coda
This week, on a very special Reject Radio, we talk with the filmmakers behind The Devil Inside about going guerrilla in Vatican City (and responding to negative reviews) and writer Derek Haas (3:10 To...
View ArticleOh, What a Film: ‘Hugo’ Scribe John Logan to Next Adapt ‘Jersey Boys’
It’s not often that word of a large-scale adaptation of an existing theatrical property thrills me to my absolute core, but I am willing to forget all the weird Les Miserables Starring Country Pop...
View ArticleChannel Guide: ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Sherlock,’ and the Confessions of a TV...
Fire up the kettle and break out the Jaffa Cakes, because I’m ready to curl up with a cup of tea and devote my television habits exclusively to the efforts from across the pond. Okay, even I know I...
View ArticlePick Up Your Sword and Read Two Exclusive Excerpts from ‘Spartacus: Swords &...
Spartacus fans, lend us your ears! At the end of this month, the good folks at Starz will unleash the next chapter in the blood-soaked, mostly nude and dirty saga that is Spartacus. The show has moved...
View ArticleHow The State of the Movie Industry in 1991 Echoes Through to Today (and Why...
On January 11, 1991, the then-head of Disney studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, circulated an incredibly important memo about the state of the movie industry and the products they were making. It was...
View ArticleShort Film of the Day: One Man Band
Why Watch? Because Guest Week is coming to a close and it’s time to bring out the big guns. As promised, it’s been a week of animated bliss — an overcompensation of sorts for all the live-action stuff...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Iron Lady’ Shows a Little Heart But Forgets the Brains and Courage
An old woman enters a small corner shop in London for milk and finds herself shuffled about, ignored and treated like just another no-name pensioner. What the clerk and other customers don’t know...
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