Casting Couch: Bradley Cooper Ripping Off the Germans, John C. Reilly May...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a compilation of casting news that has word of a new project for Zero Dark Thirty’s Jason Clarke as well as a look at Johnny Depp’s upcoming schedule. Read on. Bradley...
View ArticleReview: ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ is a Gigantic Meh
Jack the Giant Slayer is like an expensive remake of The Brothers Grimm, except more pricey and less interesting. Director Bryan Singer has always been a reliable director, but as is sometimes the...
View Article‘Oblivion’ Trailer: We’re Starting to Think Earth Isn’t Just a Memory
The fact that Joseph Kosinski‘s Oblivion looks just beautiful in its ads isn’t surprising – his Tron: Legacy may have been a giant disappointment, but that disappointment sure looked nice on the big...
View ArticleBroken Projector: Building a Better Video Game Movie (w/ Special Guest Alison...
Nerdist‘s Alison Haislip joins us this week as we get our hands dirty solving the deep-seeded problem of video game movies. They’re pretty much all terrible, but it doesn’t have to be that way! They...
View ArticleReview: ‘Phantom’ Packs a Submarine With Recognizable Talent But Leaves...
They really don’t make enough submarine-set thrillers. They’re a rare breed, an incredibly small sub-genre if you will, and that’s a shame as most of them are pretty damn good. Obvious suspects like...
View ArticleFilm Jockeys #12: Jack the Giant Something
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 ArticleReview: ‘Stoker’ Is Park Chan-wook’s Prettiest, Emptiest Film
Editor’s note: This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage, but we’re re-running it to coincide with its arrival in limited theatrical release on 3/1. Park Chan-wook‘s films are...
View ArticleJoe Wright is Making Neil Gaiman’s New Novel Into a Movie
According to Deadline Hollywood, Focus Features and Playtone are securing the rights to “The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” the new novel from Neil Gaiman. Normally, that would be exciting enough news...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Last Exorcism Part II’ is Not a Good Movie
When the word started to get out about a new found footage movie called Cotton back in 2009, it immediately stuck out from the then current crop of similar horror films by being character driven movie...
View ArticleTough Cops, Top Gear and Serious Stares Accompany This Exclusive Clip From...
According to the press releases we’ve received about eOne Films’ upcoming crime thriller The Sweeney, we can tell you that it very well could be “a stylish, exhilarating action thriller proving...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘The Come Up’ is a Hollywood Heist Film Set in Hollywood
Why Watch? Finally, finally, finally someone has made a movie set within the film industry that’s ridiculous enough to be entertaining. Not that there haven’t been some great Hollywood-featuring films...
View ArticleYet Another Production Company Throws Money at Cast-Less, Director-Less...
While it’s certainly amusing that one of the projects that Hollywood simply refuses to let die is a film about zombies, the long road to the screen for Pride and Prejudice and Zombieshas been so long...
View ArticleRelease Date Round-Up: Final ‘Hobbit’ Pushed Back, We’ll Get ‘Transcendence’...
Oh, look, it’s time for another Friday edition of Release Date Round-Up, packed to the metaphorical gills with release date changes, switcheroos, change-ups, and push-arounds for all sorts of big-time...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Gary Oldman Will Rage Against the ‘Dawn of the Planet of the...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a compiling of all the day’s most notable casting news. Today we’ve got updates on what big book adaptations the Harry Potter kids are moving on to next, among many other...
View ArticleThe Bizarre Omens Of Michael Jackson’s Already-Bizarre ‘Moonwalker’
Here at Junkfood Cinema, we don’t often get “heavy,” as the kids say. By the way, the kids who say that are now very old people. It’s not that we shy away from the more serious aspects of life, it’s...
View Article‘Disconnect’ Trailer: Basically, We Should All Just Get Off the Internet...
Considering that you’re reading this article on the Internet right now, it doesn’t seem likely that you’re afraid of the world wide web but, if documentary director Henry Alex Rubin‘s feature debut...
View ArticleEd Harris Talks ‘Phantom,’ His Favorite Submarine Movies and the Possibility...
Like the real-life nuclear submarine that went missing from the Russian fleet in 1968, the film Phantom sailed into theaters pretty much under many people’s radar. A smaller production boasting names...
View ArticleReview: ’21 & Over’ Should Appeal to the Assholes Among Us
Somewhere along the line R-rated comedies found themselves overrun with dicks. Not real ones, although there’s too goddamn many of those these days too, but instead I’m talking about the lead...
View ArticleMovie House of Worship: Bryn Mawr Film Institute
“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...
View ArticleWatch Park Chan-wook’s 1999 Short Film ‘Judgement’
Short Starts presents a weekly short film from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. The new film Stoker represents a departure for South Korean director Park Chan-wook. It’s not only his first...
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