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Yes, There Are At Least 38 Sundance Movies That You Will (Probably) Get to See
The Sundance Film Festival may be over, but that doesn’t mean that the year’s first major film fest doesn’t live on in our hearts – or our theaters and VOD apparatus. Like any good film festival,...
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Review: ‘The Taste of Money’ Makes Opulence Appealing, Appalling and a Little...
Im Sang-soo‘s The Housemaid is a devastating look at class distinctions in South Korea couched in a film that manages to be sexy, blackly comic and stunningly photographed. Its heady mix of beauty and...
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Muppets, Dr. Strange and Charlie Sheen Star in the 10 Best Movie Stories of...
Today is… GROUNDHOG DAY! That means you’re doomed to repeat the day over and over until you’re caught up with the best movie stories of the week. At least you don’t have to go back and relive the...
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Review: ‘The Gatekeepers’ Is a Deeply Necessary Film, If Not a Great One
In a moment of almost chilling candor in the latter half of The Gatekeepers, Ami Ayalon invokes the concept of the “Banality of Evil,” perhaps without intending the full symbolic weight of such a...
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Review: ‘Resolution’ Keeps Tension and Humor Equally in Focus, Mostly
Resolution has been making the festival rounds for a short while now, and it’s left a strong mark as a smart horror film. Comparisons to the higher profile Cabin In the Woods are frequent, but the two...
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Fund This Film: ‘An Honest Liar: The Amazing Randi Story’ Promises Magic,...
When looking for crowd-funding campaigns to spotlight each week, I often think about our readers. Documentaries about geeky subject matter and/or the failure of a certain comic book movie. Maybe a...
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Review: Alex Gibney’s ‘The Last Gladiators’ Takes Us to the Dark Side of Pro...
The popularity of sports documentaries is not recognized enough. Maybe it’s because a lot of the favorites find their audience on TV, particularly as part of ESPN’s “30 for 30” series. Perhaps they...
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“Original” Music at the Oscars: A Year of Artfully Blended Influences
There are currently only two Academy Awards given out for music: Best Original Score and Best Original Song. This might seem like a silly thing to point out, but it wasn’t always the case. As recently...
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Movie House of Worship: The Colonial Theatre from ‘The Blob’
“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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Watch Steven Soderbergh’s Crude 1985 Yes Documentary ‘Access All Areas’
Later this week, the alleged final theatrical release directed by Steven Soderbergh will open nationwide. Titled Side Effects, it’s a fine little thriller involving psychiatry and the pharmaceutical...
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Why the Ending of ‘Warm Bodies’ is More Zom Than Rom-Com
Warning: the following post contains a bit of a spoiler about the end of Warm Bodies. Read on at your discretion. With a decent opening weekend gross mostly attributed to young, female moviegoers,...
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The Best and Worst Super Bowl Movie Trailers
For many of us, the Super Bowl isn’t about the game so much as the party and the food and the commercials, especially the movie previews. As usual, this year gave us a mix of ads for films opening...
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‘Spring Breaker’s International Trailer Gets Aggressive
So far, the decade-long advertising campaign for Spring Breakers has felt a little twee. A little tongue-in-cheek. The Harmony Korine pedigree fully in tact, it still felt a bit like the gimmick of...
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Rumor: The Hulk is Going to Become a Bad Guy For Marvel
After conquering the summer, millions of people want to know what Marvel has planned for its next phase and how they’ll manage to pull it off. Iron Man 3 is coming this year alongside Thor: The Dark...
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Miley Cyrus and Bigfoot Side by Side for the First Time! Plus ‘Flight,’‘Here...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Paul Williams: Still Alive Like many kids in the ’70s Stephen Kessler was a fan of...
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‘Rewind This!’ Trailer Worships at the Altar of VHS
By all accounts, VHS will probably end up being the vinyl of the movie world. It wasn’t just a new way to watch movies, it was a revolutionary tool that profoundly changed the game. Major studios...
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Marvel’s Mighty Misstep: ‘Iron Man 3′ Super Bowl Trailer Disappoints
It goes without saying these days that one of the highlights of the Super Bowl every year are the big budget, balls to the wall commercials that come out, pimping everything from Doritos to cars to...
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Review: ‘Koch’ Doc Celebrates Former Mayor Who Made Headlines Right to the End
New York City mayor Ed Koch, who died this past week, loved to say “How’m I doing?” It served as a trademark plea for affirmation from the city he governed from 1978 through 1989. Koch was a...
View ArticleSFotD: Nash Edgerton’s ‘Bear’ Makes the Case Against Biking, Birthdays, Bears
Why Watch? Because if you’ve yet to experience the genius of Nash Edgerton‘s wicked little shorts (including the equally as jump-out-of-your-skin Spider), you’re in for a real treat (and probably a...
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Girls: ‘It’s a Shame About Ray’ And All of This Week’s Terrible Dinner Parties
A dinner party does not an adult make, but trying telling that to Hannah (Lena Dunham) during the latest episode of HBO’s Girls. Intent on celebrating her coke-binging, article-writing success, Hannah...
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