6 Blu-rays Worth Buying Including ‘Argo’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Plus...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Sushi Girl Fish has just been released from jail, and four ex-friends are extremely happy to...
View Article2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actor
The supporting actor. He’s not the guy, he’s the guy behind the guy. That’s not always a bad thing though. The lead actor generally has to be the guy the audience is relating to, so those sort of...
View ArticleHave We All Boiled Battleship Potemkin’s Greatness Down to One Scene?
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss...
View ArticleSilly Hobbitssess and Goofy Giants: When Did Fantasy Movies Get Taken Over by...
While talking my dog on a stroll through Hollywood, my gaze fell upon a sufficiently giant billboard for the upcoming failure that will be Jack the Giant Slayer. Having previously seen a trailer, I...
View Article2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Actress
There are two main rivalries in the 2013 Best Actress race. There’s a head-to-head showdown between Silver Linings Playbook’s Jennifer Lawrence and Zero Dark Thirty’s Jessica Chastain. These ladies...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘We’ve All Been There’ Wins World’s Largest Short Film Festival
Why Watch? Tropfest is a massive launching pad for short filmmaking. In fact, it’s the world’s largest short film festival, taking place every February in Sydney, but the festival itself has a truly...
View Article2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Actor
It’s an honor to just be nominated, right? You hear that politely said every year, even though you know it’s total hogwash for the four silver medallist of Oscar season. In reality, it’s not just an...
View ArticleGirls: No One Is Having Fun Now, Even (Especially) the ‘Boys’
Things are getting tough in Girlstown. A week after Lena Dunham‘s series had its most controversial/wonderful episode yet, we get plunged back into the darkest depths of life in the big city with...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Jason Reitman Takes the Testosterone Out of ‘Glengarry Glen...
What is Casting Couch? Quite simply, it’s a casting news round-up that takes its name from the place where young actors trade their dignity for a shot at fame. Today we learn who had to service Miss...
View ArticleHow Jon Favreau’s Next Movie Will Be Edited on an iPad
For $50, you can own the editing program that Jon Favreau and Dan Lebental will use to edit their next film. Lebental (who edited Iron Man and Zathura among others) has designed a new iPad app called...
View Article2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Song
Last year’s Best Original Song category had a dismal two (TWO!) nominations in a year that gave us such songs as the catchy “Hello Hello” from the piano man himself, Elton John (who has seen no love...
View ArticleJumpView is What a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Movie Really Looks Like
You’re about to be eaten by a pterodactyl. Do you climb down the cliffside using a vine or try to hide out in a small cave? Your answer is important because it’ll determine whether you end up in a...
View Article2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Screenplay
The very foundation of any film is its screenplay. It presents the story that inspires the director’s overarching vision, and ideally it gives him or her a road map to follow on a creative journey. It...
View ArticleGet Frakked Up with this ‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome’ Drinking Game
Almost ten years ago, sci-fi fans went nuts over the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. The show wrapped up several years ago, and the prequel series Caprica came and went as well. However,...
View Article2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Score
Film scores can be considered a dime a dozen – a bunch of orchestration that certainly needs to be there, but plays to the background and is rarely ever noticeable. And while that can be true, the...
View ArticleSFotD: Oscar Winner ‘The Shore’ is Worth the Troubles
Watch Part 2 Why Watch? Last year, The Shore won the Oscar for Best Live-Action Short Film, and after seeing Terry George‘s work, it’s easy to see why. The Hotel Rwanda director, here returning to his...
View Article2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Adapted Screenplay
The art of adaptation is a tricky one. Taking someone else’s material, made for an entirely different medium, and reworking it to fit in the confines of a feature film is much like attempting to fit a...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Berlin File’ Turns a Cold War City Hot with Explosive Action and...
Korean cinema has developed certain genre expectations over the years, and those external pressures seem to dictate a lot of what gets made and distributed internationally. Violent revenge and...
View ArticleJason Clarke Will Witness the ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ Maybe Torture...
Not much is yet known about Matt Reeves’ (Let Me In) follow-up to Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. We know that it’s going to be called Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, that...
View ArticleCBS Films Will Go ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ with the Coen Brothers
Considering that the Coen Brothers‘ upcoming Inside Llewyn Davis was once listed as one of our most anticipated films of 2012, it’s heartening that the film has finally picked up the distribution...
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