SFotD: ‘Dig’ Questions Ethics While Forcing a Nazi to Make His Own Grave
Why Watch? There are few things as irritating as a group of college student characters sitting around a table waxing philosophical about things they learned 15 minutes ago. It’s so grating that it...
View ArticleJennifer Lawrence Embarks on Her Other Victory Tour with New ‘Catching Fire’...
Even in the fictional world of Panem, newly-crowned Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence is a victor. In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson‘s Peeta set out on...
View ArticleGirls: Playing ‘Video Games’ With Jessa’s Issues and Hannah’s Bad Taste
There have already been a number of major changes in the lives of our Girls in the HBO series’ second season – Hannah has an e-book deal, Marnie is finally struggling with career and romance issues in...
View Article‘The Crow’ Reboot May Rise From the Grave Again, Thanks to James McAvoy
James O’Barr’s gothic revenge fantasy comic book, ‘The Crow,” has been on its way toward a big screen reboot for a while. And yes, that’s a full reboot, not another direct to video sequel of Alex...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Quvenzhané Wallis Confirmed For ‘Annie,’ Matt Reeves Recruits...
What is Casting Couch? It’s full of casting news, just full of it. Today you can find out what’s next for foreign heartthrobs Michael Roskam and Marion Cotillard. Quvenzhané Wallis has been in the...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Many Survivors Deal With a ‘Judas’ Complex
So, it would seem the prison is really close to Woodbury, right? If traveling to and from Woodbury is less than a day trip for Andrea? And given the high gates around each community and their...
View ArticleCoen Brothers to Script WWII Story ‘Unbroken’ for Angelina Jolie
Louis Zamperini has an amazing life story. He ran in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 where he shook Adolf Hitler’s hand because the leader wanted to meet him. He then fought in WWII, flying with a B-24...
View ArticleFrisky, Fatal and Free: Win The Complete First Season of Femme Fatales on DVD
Are you a fan of naked ladies, guns, death, betrayal, and naked ladies? If so, we’ve got the series for you! Femme Fatales aired on Cinemax, so you know it’s naughty, and features fourteen episodes of...
View ArticleSlovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek Hosts Most Stressful Oscar Ceremony in...
When Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Cleveland Show and director of the “Pitch” segment of Movie 43, had to bow out of his Oscar-hosting duties at the last minute as a result of a mild case of...
View Article‘Love is All You Need’ Trailer Tries to Prove Pierce Brosnan is Still a Sex...
Here’s the deal. Love is All You Need looks a bit too easy, a bit too happy and a bit too formulaic, but Susanne Bier is not your typical director. That alone is enough to make me question this...
View ArticleIf ‘Captain America 2′ Isn’t an Action Flick, What Is It?
Marvel and Joe Johnston did an incredible job with Captain America, making a fun film with a main character that eventually acted as a counterpoint to Tony Stark in The Avengers. Fingers should be...
View ArticleBecause You Asked For It: ‘Boondock Saints 3′ Might Happen
If there’s any proof that fate has a sense of humor, it’ll come when Boondock Saints 3 starts rolling its cameras. The first film was a sleeper hit that was so perfect in its ridiculousness and...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘The Ellington Kid’ Tells a (Sort Of) True Story
Why Watch? Part urban legend, part practical joke, part violent action, this short from Dan Sully takes us into a kebab shop in South London where one friend is enjoying a hamburger and the other is...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Ang Lee From a VFX Artist
Dear Mr. Lee, When asked about the bankruptcy of Rhythm + Hues, the visual effects house largely responsible for making your film Life of Pi as incredible as it was, you said: “I would like it to be...
View ArticleA Look at ‘Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Musicals’ By Someone Who Dislikes...
I don’t like movie musicals. It’s probably more accurate to say that I strongly dislike the vast majority of musicals. Too often I find that the songs and dance numbers take priority over the film’s...
View ArticleIt’s Only a Matter of Time Before ‘Goon’ Replaces ‘Slap Shot’ As the Go-To...
Ever since I became a full-fledged movie geek (which happened sometime between Kevin Smith filming a bunch of unknowns playing hockey on the roof of a convenience store and Doug Liman filming Vince...
View ArticleChomping Taco-Diles and Adorable Fruit Cockatiels Clamor for Attention in...
While this first poster for the upcoming Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2isn’t quite as adorable as our first look at the project from last month, it certainly makes the many food-imals we will...
View Article‘Eden’ Trailer Puts a Pretty Face on Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery, Earns...
SXSW 2013 is mere weeks away, so it makes sense that we’re getting our first trailer for a film that premiered to great acclaim at last year’s festival winning the Audience Award for Best Narrative...
View Article‘Top of the Lake’ Trailer: Pre-Teen Pregnancy, Elisabeth Moss With a Gun, So...
The news that Jane Campion was debuting a new project at last month’s Sundance Film Festival was met with general excitement – until we all realized that the project was not a feature film, but a...
View ArticleJustified: Goodbye Comes Too Early For an ‘Outlaw’
Tonight came with a huge shock. Before the opening credits. I haven’t fully come to grips with it yet, and I’m not sure if I can say whether or not it was handled correctly. Nevertheless, shocking it...
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