The One Where ‘This Is 40,’‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ and ‘Les...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. The Big Picture Paul (Romain Duris) is a successful lawyer with a wife and two beautiful...
View ArticleHey, Girl: Win Our Very Classy ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ Prize Pack
Want to see Derek Cianfrance‘s The Place Beyond the Pines for free? While also wearing a shirt from the film? And jamming out to its soundtrack? And decorating your home with its (Ryan Gosling-heavy)...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Explain Like I’m Five: Existentialism and Friederich Nietzsche’ Sees...
Why Watch? In its first web series, Reddit has managed something charming but adult. Fortunately, they chose a subreddit category that isn’t horrifying. The concept behind Explain Like I’m Five is...
View ArticleDid You Guys Want to See ‘Jobs’? Too Bad, It’s Postponed Indefinitely
Before this year’s Sundance Film Festival even opened, its Closing Night Film, Joshua Michael Stern‘s Ashton Kutcher-starring Steve Jobs biopic, jOBS, had already been snapped up by Open Road Films...
View ArticleThis Again? Joel Silver Reportedly Set to Produce New Franchise-Starting...
Back in July of 2011, our own Rob Hunter rejoiced with the news that New Line and Warner Bros. had let their option on the rights to that Escape From New York remake no one really seemed to want...
View ArticleCasting Couch: ‘X-Men’ Finds More Mutants, ‘The Call’ Director Has Been...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a rundown of all the casting news we missed over the weekend. Keep reading for updates on new jobs for young actors like Aml Ameen and…Nick Jonas? Squeal! Bryan Singer’s...
View ArticleAng Lee and Ridley Scott Could Soon Find Themselves in a Biblical Arms Race
With The History Channel’s mini-series about the bible gaining headlines and pulling in big ratings over the past couple of weeks, the time seems right for Hollywood to be readying a new volley of...
View ArticleGirls: Too Many Things Come Unexpectedly ‘Together’ in Unearned Second Season...
The second season of Lena Dunham‘s Girls wrapped up with a humdinger of an episode, tantalizingly titled “Together.” Let’s just say that things ended on a far different note than they did last time...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: How to Dress a Cat Like Walter White
Tonight on your favorite nightly round-up article, there’s a cat dressed up like Breaking Bad‘s Walter White and plenty of interesting Hows and Whys from the world of entertainment journalism. Like,...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Andrea Falls ‘Prey’ to The Governor
Following the format of weeks past, this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, “Prey,” was somewhat of a departure/day trip episode, involving Andrea fleeing Woodbury with The Governor chasing after her...
View Article‘The Colony’ Freezes a Bunch of Dudes with One Woman
The world is frozen, Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton are arguing about whether to go on a suicide mission, but the men of The Colony have a bigger problem: there’s only one woman. Watching the...
View ArticleGet Unexpectedly Intoxicated With This ‘Hobbit’ Drinking Game
After a lot of gnashing of teeth about splitting it into three parts, complaining about the 48 fps presentation, and debating whether it would make a billion dollars, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey...
View ArticleInterview: Adam Wingard Let’s the Masked Killers of ‘You’re Next’ Keep It Simple
You’re Next caused up quite a stir at last year’s Fantastic Fest. The movie was swiftly picked up for distribution by Lionsgate after receiving stellar reviews, one of which came from our own Scott...
View ArticleWhy Do Movies About ‘The Information Age’ Hide Information?
At the first critical dramatic pivot moment of J.C. Chandor’s solid Margin Call, Zachary Quinto’s Eric stares at his computer screen, carefully removing his earbuds, as the camera slowly cranes...
View ArticleParamount Prepping ‘Witch Hunters’ Sequel the Entire World Wanted
If you want a sure sign of what the global market looks like, Hollywood has got you covered. Even though Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters only earned $55m domestically, the movie scored over $150m...
View ArticleA Finding Bin Laden Related Giveaway! Win a ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Prize Pack
Still trying to find bin Laden? Sounds like you need to revisit Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty. In celebration of the home video release of one of 2012′s finest films, we’re giving away two very...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘The Man At the Counter’ is a Romantic Poem with a Tip Jar
Why Watch? In this short from Brian McAllister, an old man routinely visits a coffee shop, explaining to the young man behind the counter that he takes his coffee plain before pocketing a bunch of...
View Article‘Jane’ Better Get a Director: Lynne Ramsay Quits ‘Jane Got a Gun’ On First...
As pre-production chatter for the Brian Duffield-penned Black Listed Western Jane Got a Gun has been nothing but positive (especially when it comes to the film’s very talented cast), today’s news that...
View ArticleHere’s to Magnolia Pictures, Who Just Picked Up SXSW Favorite ‘Drinking Buddies’
The positive buzz surrounding Joe Swanberg‘s SXSW Film Festival premiere, Drinking Buddies, was heady enough to carry over throughout the 89-day (almost) festival, so it was quite surprising that the...
View Article‘Despicable Me 2′ Trailer: Getting Back in the Game With the Anti-Villain League
While the plot for Despicable Me 2 has been mostly kept under wraps, the sequel’s new trailer does introduce us to a pair of new characters – uptight Agent Lucy Wilde (voiced by Kristen Wiig) and...
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