Review: ‘Stand Up Guys’ is an Average Tale of Grumpy Old Hitmen
Old age can be a frightening prospect for anyone, but especially for gangsters. Think about it, your aim starts to go, you begin forgetting the names of your hit victims, and before you know it,...
View Article37 Things We Learned From the ‘Alex Cross’ Commentary
Alex Cross is not a good movie. There’s no singular reason as to why that is, but you can take your pick from the messy script to the casting of Tyler Perry in the title role as a police detective...
View ArticleSXSW 2013 Announces Their Big, Bold, Beautiful Film Lineup
SXSW runs March 8th to the 16th this year, and as always FSR will be on hand to cover the fest and enjoy the hell out of some movies. Organizers have just announced the line-up, minus the Midnighters...
View ArticleIs Daniel Craig Holding Up ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’?
The Girl Who Played With Fire hasn’t exactly been a fast-tracked project over at Sony. Since the 2011 release of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, things have been slow on the sequel front....
View ArticleCasting Couch: Tom Hardy To Try Russian Accent in ‘Child 44,’ Charlize Theron...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting news roundup that’s bursting at the seams after Hollywood had a very gabby twenty-four hours. Dig in. Tom Hardy: quite simply, he’s awesome. But can he do a...
View ArticleKenneth Branagh May Be Cinderella’s New Fairy Godmo…Er, Father
After Disney hired Mark Romanek, a director who makes dark movies, to helm their upcoming live action Cinderella, and then fired him because all of the ideas he was coming up with for the movie were...
View Article‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ First Look: Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston...
Jim Jarmusch usually only makes a new movie once every few years these days, so it’s always nice to see something he’s done pop up on the upcoming releases calendar. His latest work, Only Lovers Left...
View ArticleThe Ten Best Films of Sundance 2013
Forgive us if we may be so bold, but this year’s round of “Ten Best” films from the Sundance Film Festival is really just the ten films we liked the most. We have taste, and we’re not afraid to use...
View ArticleBroken Projector Podcast: How to Survive an Oscar Nomination
If you want to sell a movie script, you’ve got to get in the room. But what do you do once you get there? Geoff answers a listener question by explaining what you need to do when prepping a pitch and...
View Article‘World War Z’ Super Bowl Teaser Trailer Doesn’t Know What Zombies Are
For anyone wishing to see some new footage from World War Z when the big game rolls around, there’ll be no need to switch over from the Puppy Bowl. The new teaser trailer for the Brad Pitt-starring...
View ArticleReview: The 2013 Oscar Nominees for Best Animated Short Film
Short films are an easily misunderstood art form. At the Oscars, celebrity introductions of the short film nominees and winners often justify the importance of the category by citing shorts as a...
View ArticleFilm Jockeys #8: Night of the Loving Dead
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...
View Article‘The Raid 2′ Is Filming, These Pictures Prove It
We’re not alone in having a certain affinity for the work of Gareth Evans, director of Merantau and The Raid: Redemption. The Welsh director who makes his living in Indonesia, where he has spent years...
View ArticleGo Behind the Scenes and Beyond the Wall with this ‘Game of Thrones’ Video
Whenever I read the portions of “Storm of Swords” where Jon is tromping around Beyond The Wall, it always feels ridiculous because George R.R. Martin‘s descriptions make it seem like every living...
View ArticleAfter Seven Seasons, ’30 Rock’ Ends With a Perfect Last Lunch
(Finale spoilers ahead…) What a touching final season 30 Rock had. Geeky, unlucky in love, “night cheese” adoring Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) married Criss Chros (James Marsden), then adopted two children;...
View ArticleLA Rejects! Win a Chance to Visit ‘Harmontown’ and Meet ‘Community’ Creator...
A long time ago, there used to be a show on television called Community, and everyone loved it because it was stirringly funny, used the language of culture in order to explore the dimensions of...
View ArticleWhy ‘Unbreakable’ is the Secret Meta Sequel to ‘Die Hard’
Action heroes, or more accurately the stars who play them, are not often credited as being endowed of great intelligence. In fact, they are more likely relegated to the less distinguished, but no less...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘C’ is a Futuristic Sci-Fi Flick Made the Old Fashioned Way
Why Watch? By its full title, C (299,792 km/s) is a bit hard to take in, but the movie itself is sleek with its high concept sci-fi story about a Lt. Commander stealing a weapon of mass destruction....
View ArticleThe 4 Must-See Movies of February 2013
This February isn’t such a hot month for movie-going. When it comes to genuine “must-sees,” there are only two movies on this list which earn that title, and they’re the expected picks. January could...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Jeremy Renner Takes the Lead in ‘Kill the Messenger,’...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting news round-up that’s for some reason talking a lot about suicide today. Um…enjoy your weekend, everybody! Tired of Jeremy Renner playing the angry little tough...
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