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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘Hours’ Feels Much Longer
“Based on a true story.” Those five words, or others that convey the same meaning, can have a strange effect on our expectations for a film. Suspension of disbelief isn’t necessary since the story,...
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The Late One Where I Stand Alone on ‘This Must Be the Place’ and Also Talk...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! Sure it’s a few days late, but it’s still technically the same week… As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. This Must Be the Place...
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Indiana Jones, ‘Jurassic Park’ and Obviously Veronica Mars Star in the Top 10...
Anything happen this week to revolutionize the film industry? What, you don’t know? You must need the Reject Recap, our weekly rundown of the best and most important news and features any movie fan...
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Review: ‘Ginger and Rosa’ Brings Poetry and Dignity to a Political Adolescence
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 this weekend. The personal is political. This adage, one...
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Review: ‘My Amityville Horror’ Offers New Perspective On Classic Story
Editor’s note: This review was originally featured as part of our Fantasia Fest 2012 coverage (and later during Fantastic Fest), but now it’s out in limited release and on VOD, so we’re bringing it...
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Review: Matteo Garrone’s ‘Reality’ Is A Timely and Successfully Satirical...
Editor’s note: This review originally ran during Cannes 2012, but we’re re-running it as the film’s limited theatrical release begins this weekend. Those expecting Matteo Garrone to follow up 2008′s...
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Fund This Film: ‘Momentum’ is Original, Smart and Well-Designed Science Fiction
After all that has happened with Kickstarter this week, Fund This Film seems to be a more necessary regular feature than ever. Not all projects can be set up through a major studio and involve...
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‘Alan Partridge’ Trailer: Watch Steve Coogan Dramatically Reveal the Title of...
If you don’t know of Steve Coogan from anywhere else, chances are you’ll at least know him as one of the stars of Michael Winterbottom’s BBC miniseries-turned-U.S. film release, The Trip. The scene...
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8 Misleading Movies Re-titled in Honor of ‘Big Ass Spider’
It happens all too frequently. You go to a movie building, pay your eleventeen-hundred dollars for tickets and concessions, and you sit through a movie bearing a title comprised of a single cryptic...
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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ Is More Banal Than Magical
Do you remember how old you were when you saw and were amazed by a great magician (live or on TV) for the very first time? Of course you don’t. As with Creme de Menthe and handjobs the awe surrounding...
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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘Coldwater’ Is a Strongly Acted Cautionary Tale Weakened By...
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to strangers who pull you from your bed, handcuff you and put a cloth sack over your head. The last thing you hear as they toss you screaming into the back...
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Movie House of Worship: Boston’s Brattle Theatre
“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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SXSW Interview: ‘Lords of Salem’ Director Rob Zombie Takes the Good with the Bad
“50% of you are going to love this movie, while the other 50% of you are going to hate it,” writer-director Rob Zombie said to the SXSW crowd at the midnight screening of his newest film, The Lords of...
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Watch 5 Irish Films From More Than 100 Years Ago
Whaling Afloat and Ashore (1908) Short Starts typically presents a weekly short film from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. This week we present short films from the start of Irish cinema....
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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘Touba’ Allows Us to Virtually Experience a Sacred Journey
SXSW is an interesting place to see Touba, which won a jury prize for cinematography at the film festival this week. I almost feel bad for thinking of the event in religious terms recently while...
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‘Stoker’ Director Park Chan-Wook Plays in the Castle of Genre
In his American film debut, Stoker, director Park Chan-wook‘s sensibility remains intact. Nothing about his sense of humor, eye for framing, or his stylish and brutal portrayal of violence has been...
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Twelve of Our Favorite Kurt Russell Performances in Honor of His Birthday
Happy birthday to Kurt Russell! We would have sent him a card or an Elvis Presley bobble-head, but we seem to have lost his address. So instead we’ve decided to honor the day and the man by...
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Non-Pixar ‘Planes’ Teaser Trailer Channels ‘Top Gun’ With 680 1/2 Horsepower
More than a few people are going to look at the new teaser trailer for Planes and think of it as the next evolution of selling out for Pixar. The thing is, despite John Lasseter’s presence as a...
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’2016: Obama’s America’ Director Wants to Speak Slowly To You About His Next...
Did you know that Christopher Columbus didn’t set out to find America? He set out to find a new way to get to India! Crazy! If you knew that already, you’re probably a Rhodes Scholar or you’ve passed...
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When Censorship Backfires: Yasujiro Ozu’s ‘Late Spring’
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...
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