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Why Antoine Fuqua Played with Action Figures for ‘Olympus Has Fallen’
Director Antoine Fuqua first came into the public’s consciousness with Training Day, a powerhouse film that garnered Denzel Washington an Oscar and gave moviegoers a lot of usable quotes for years to...
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14 Great (Human) Movie MacGuffins
First popularized by Hitchcock, Merriam-Webster defines a ‘MacGuffin’ as “an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite usually lacking...
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22 Things We Learned From the ‘This Is 40′ Commentary
Judd Apatow‘s latest film is a sideways sequel of sorts in that it focuses on two of the supporting characters from his highest grossing movie, Knocked Up. Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann)...
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Exclusive Poster Debut for ‘New World’ Hints at Dangerous Favors with Korean...
New World is the new gangster epic from South Korea that follows an undercover cop’s struggle to do his job and stay alive while the criminal organization he’s a part of falls apart around him. My...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Rose’ is Hitchcockian Style and Substance
Why Watch? Smoke swirling in the air after exhalation. An ankle turning violently against a high heeled shoe. An umbrella obscuring the view. With a slow motion series of images — all delicately...
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Return to Big Blockbuster Sound with Trevor Morris’ Action-Packed Score for...
A composer known for his otherworldly scores for films such as Immortals and period scores for television programs such as The Borgias, The Tudors, and The Pillars of the Earth may seem like an odd...
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SXSW 2013 Review: ‘Cheap Thrills’ Lives Up to Its Name
Hey, did you guys know the economy sucks? It’s pretty evident from the price of gas to the unemployment rate to the housing market that we’re still not out of the woods yet. So it’s the perfect...
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Antoine Fuqua Could Save That Director-Less ‘Equalizer’ Adaptation
There has already been a tremendous amount of back and forth when it comes to finding a director who will stick with the Denzel Washington-starring The Equalizer adaptation, as both Nicolas Winding...
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Casting Couch: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Have an Idea For Kristen Wiig,...
What is Casting Couch? It’s basically a casting news bonanza. Learn who the big names Melissa McCarthy has recruited for her movie Tammy are, as well as what Kiefer Sutherland is getting himself into,...
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Look Closer at This New Poster From ‘Now You See Me’
Let’s hope that Louis Leterrier‘s upcoming magician film, Now You See Me, fares a bit better than The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, because the director’s latest star-studded outing just looks cool as...
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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Will Direct Korean-Killing Comedy ‘The Interview’
The relationship between Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg continues to be one of the most serious and lasting in Hollywood. They’ve teamed up as writers on a handful of projects now, like Superbad,...
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Review: ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Gets Back Up, Waves an American Flag and Kicks...
What if I told you that the new Gerard Butler film is like ‘Die Hard in the White House’ in more than just a generic ‘Die Hard in/on/at a…’ kind of way? Or that it features the highest, bloodiest,...
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Interview: Gerard Butler Gets Shakespearean to Protect the White House
Gerard Butler has rocked out to Andrew Lloyd Weber jams in The Phantom of the Opera. He had movie audiences screaming “This is Sparta!” And he’s also played his fair share of romantic comedy leads....
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Broken Projector Podcast: Jake Gittes Saves the Cat (with Andrew Dominik and...
Films noir, crime novels and detective stories all have a long history of unlikable characters that we cheer for. Bad guys doing good work. Flawed heroes who always know the right line to say and the...
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Film Jockeys #15: The Life Cycle of a Film Fan
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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Make Your Own Silent Film with Google and The Peanut Gallery
This is one of the cooler things Google has put out in a while. Using their new Peanut Gallery, you can make your own versions of silent movie scenes using your microphone and a little imagination....
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Watch: What If Terrence Malick, Wes Anderson or J.J. Abrams Directed ‘Jane...
The Jane Got a Gun production has been a wild ride. After losing director Lynne Ramsay just before shooting started they pulled in Gavin O’Connor with the quickness, but the Natalie Portman-starring...
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Interview: Aaron Eckhart Plays Presidential for ‘Olympus Has Fallen’
Unlike a lot of actors, Aaron Eckhart maintains a great balance of starring in indies and blockbusters – muse to Neil LaBute, he appeared in his films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and...
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Review: The Worst Movie of 2013 Race Ends Early With Aggressively Unfunny,...
Perhaps the only thing you need to know about Vince Offer’s InAPPropriate Comedy is that (spoiler? can you spoil a film that you sincerely hope no one you’ve ever met sees? beware?) it ends with the...
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Casting Couch: Robert Redford Wants to Boss Around Captain America, Gary...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a roundup of all the day’s most important casting news. Today we have a bunch of legit reports, and one of those dreaded short-lists. It’s a short-list concerning that much...
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