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‘Grow Up, Tony Phillips’ Trailer Shows Off a Halloween Costume Drama
In Grow Up, Tony Phillips, a young man (Tony Vespe) has to face a senior year of high school where everyone has moved on from the hobbies of the past while he’s still hopelessly in love with Halloween...
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Review: ‘The Silence’ Sings Aloud the Inconsolable Sadness of the Lost and...
Two men sit in a darkened living room watching an 8mm home movie play on a screen before them. It shows a young girl, terrified and sitting on a bed, while a man in a mask sits beside her and begins...
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Adele Won an Oscar: What’s Next For Her Film Career?
Adele is a mere two steps away from an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) having already won multiple Grammys (plus another this year making her a nine-time Grammy winner) and she just added an Oscar to...
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8 Ridiculous Hooks For Sequels That Were Never Made (But Should Have Been)
A sequel hook is that very ambitious moment at the end of a movie where it boldly hint at a second film. While some can give the audience chills (think the ending of Batman Begins) there are a whole...
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29 Things We Learned from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ Commentary
With the release of Sam Raimi’s CGI-heavy fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful coming this weekend, it seems appropriate to look back in time more than 70 years to the release of one of the most...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Still Falls the Rain’ Presents a Stunning War-Torn London
Why Watch? The kind of camera work and effects shots that are found in Miguel Santana’s Still Falls the Rain are revelatory. We’re introduced to the story on top of the roofs of 1940s London, but we...
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‘The Hangover Part III’ Teaser Trailer Is Going to Burn This Place to The Ground
It should come as no surprise that the first teaser trailer for this summer’s The Hangover Part III isn’t so heavy on the plot – after all, who cares about the plot when Todd Phillips’ final entry...
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Trailer Takes Joss Whedon’s Focus From Thunder Gods...
Are you one of those people who could just never get into Shakespeare? Did you pound your head against your desk when you had to read him in school? Doze off when you had to watch that acting major...
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Casting Couch: Keri Russell Will Follow an Ape She Has a Crush on to San...
What is Casting Couch? Casting news, all in a list. Yesterday we asked the question of who would be playing the egotistical front man in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s next film, Birdman. Today we...
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Review: ‘The ABCs of Death’— 10 Segments I Liked and 5 I Didn’t
Editors’ note: With The ABCs of Death arriving in theaters this week, here is a re-run of our own Luke Mullen’s review of the film from Fantastic Fest, originally published on September 30, 2012. The...
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Broken Projector Podcast: What The Hell is Happening to VFX? (w/ Guest Jim...
Several companies at the top of their game have now gone bankrupt, hundreds protested outside the Oscars, the Jaws theme added insult to injury, and it all adds up to the VFX industry being in...
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Review: ‘Dead Man Down’ Falls From Serious Aspirations
Last week saw the English debut from Korean director Park Chan-Wook, and now with Dead Man Down we’re seeing another American feature from an acclaimed foreign director, Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl...
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Review: ‘Beyond the Hills’ and Its Many Nuns Are Harrowing, Unforgettable,...
Editor’s note: Daniel Walber’s review originally ran during NYFF 2012, but we’re re-running it as the film’s limited theatrical release begins today. American cinema has had a recent fascination with...
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Review: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ Is Neither, But Damn That Flying Monkey...
Hollywood trend #74 goes like this. Pick a classic children’s tale that hasn’t been adapted in the past few years, say Alice in Wonderland or Snow White maybe, then build a new film around it that...
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Film Jockeys #13: The Continuity of OZ
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...
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How to Follow Our Excellent Coverage of SXSW 2013
Calling it “excellent coverage” before it’s even begun might be a bit forward, but we here at Film School Rejects have been doing this South by Southwest Film Festival thing for a number of years now,...
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It’s Here: Director Escapes the ‘Monster House’ to Remake ‘Poltergeist’
Given all of the horror remakes and all of the generic haunted house movies that come out every year, it gets to be something of a chore keeping up with which films from the past have already been...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Michel Gondry: A Cinephile’s Labyrinth’ Explores His Favorite Video...
Why Watch? It’s Michel Gondry drunk on movies while exploring an awesome video store. If you don’t want to watch Tiffany Limos‘ latest short, I don’t even know why you’re on our site right now. What...
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‘The Fountain,’‘Wall-E’ and ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ Star in the Top 10...
After taking a weekend off, the Reject Recap returns with another look at the best movie news and features of the past week. As usual, we’ve got a mix of our own content and favorite stories from...
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Casting Couch: Sofía Vergara Might Be In ‘Heat,’ Amy Ryan and Andrea...
What is Casting Couch? All of the day’s casting news, here in one spot. Stick around to find out which screen veteran has become the latest member of Jason Bateman’s dysfunctional family in This is...
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