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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Blue Caprice’ is a Fascinating Fictionalized Character...
The Beltway Snipers captivated the country’s attention and established a shroud of fear for people living in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia back in October of 2002. Blue Caprice is loosely...
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Sundance 2013 Review: The Roots of R&B May Live in Magical ‘Muscle Shoals’
Rick Hall grew up in rural Alabama, but despite these simple roots, Hall always wanted to be somebody. Muscle Shoals tells the story of how he did become somebody when he founded FAME Studios in...
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Past ‘X-Men’ Are Future as Rogue, Iceman and Kitty Pryde Actors Return for...
Maybe it’s the fault of The Avengers, but another Marvel Comics movie franchise seems to be trying to throw together as many heroes together as possible. We’ve been hearing for a while now that X-Men:...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Wrong Cops’ Disappoints Dupieux Fans As Only Part of a...
The Sundance Film Festival programmers who select the New Frontier and Park City at Midnight films have long relished in the fact that they get to choose some of the most bizarre movies for their...
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Experience Sundance 2013: Sundance is Over??
It is time to say goodbye. Some of us have already left, some of us have a few more days, but the festival is officially winding down as quickly as the brief snowfall from two days ago is melting on...
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Movie House of Worship: London’s BFI Southbank
“Movie Houses of Worship” is a regular feature spotlighting our favorite movie theaters around the world, those that are like temples of cinema catering to the most religious-like film geeks. This...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Charlie Victor Romeo’ is One of the Scariest Movies...
Sundance generally isn’t the film festival you turn to if you enjoy horror films, but Robert Berger and Karlyn Michelson’s Charlie Victor Romeo is one of the most terrifying movies I’ve seen, inside...
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Marvel’s Doctor Strange Movie: What to Keep and What to Discard
Editor’s Note: Paul DeBenedetto is a writer and comics fan from Brooklyn who used to run the comics blog Wednesday’s Child. He is also a reporter covering the borough of Queens for DNAinfo.com, and...
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Sundance 2013 Review: A Few Laughs Aside ‘Hell Baby’ Was Birthed Prematurely
No genre mash-up is more difficult to get right than the horror-comedy. It’s the balance between the two that’s tricky as very few find the sweet spot of being both funny and scary. Most attempts end...
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Watch a Live-Action Wile E. Coyote Short Directed by Fisher Stevens
Nobody really knows Fisher Stevens the director. We tend to think of him primarily as the actor who boldly went brownface for the Short Circuit movies and more recently appeared in a few episodes of...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Google and the World Brain’ Comes Up Short
This month’s issue of “Wired” magazine features a very lengthy, in-depth article by Stephen Levy in which the author interviews Google’s Larry Page. It covers all of the massive projects the company...
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Sundance 2013 Review: The Sweetly Moving ‘Prince Avalanche’ Is a Road Movie...
There are two David Gordon Greens. But this is news to no one, so I won’t bother breaking down the differences between the Green who directed the bleak, dramatic and emotionally oppressive Snow Angels...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Honest Performances and Serious Subject Matter Elevate...
There are two kinds of people who go to high school: those who love every second of it, and those who cannot wait to get out. In The Spectacular Now, Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) is a charming screw-up...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Linsanity’ is a Magical and Deserved Hagiographic...
Movies frequently extol the magic of sports, the notion that athletic competition offers a sort of heightened portrait of the best and worst of humanity. The arena is the proving ground where one’s...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Kill Your Darlings’ Falters By Telling Two Halves...
In Kill Your Darlings, Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) is an aspiring writer but one that is trapped under the weight of his successful poet father (portrayed with a reserved performance from the...
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Sundance 2013 Review: ‘Fruitvale’ Is Compelling Real-Life Drama Lessened By...
Tragedies happen every day throughout the world, but very few of them ever reach the public eye. The overwhelming majority remain private pains in the lives of the families and friends directly...
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Did ‘Argo’ Just Secure a Best Picture Win?
The Producers Guild of America just awarded Ben Affleck‘s Argo with two honors. The first is their award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, and the second is the statistical advantage of winning the...
View ArticleVideo: A History of the Art of Monster Suit Performance
How do you tell a story from inside 80 pounds of rubber and plastic? This video might simply be a teaser for a larger lesson plan from The Stan Winston school, but Tom Woodruff, Jr. has some keen...
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Psychopaths, Femme Fatales, Feral Irish Kids, Depressing Superheroes and More...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. The Woodsman and the Rain (UK) A small mountain town in Japan is invaded by a film...
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Django Unattained: How Reverend Al Sharpton Ruined a Cool Collector’s Item
I want to tell you a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. It started a couple weeks ago when the awesome collectible manufacturer NECA released a line of Django Unchained...
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