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Review: Despite Charming Leads, ‘Admission’ Doesn’t Quite Deserve a Place In...
What if Tina Fey and Paul Rudd finally starred in a movie together - as romantic foils, no less - and it somehow managed to be just barely charming or funny or sweet or real? Too bad, that movie now...
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Review: ‘Come Out and Play’ Is a Pretty Generic and Generically Pretty...
Horror remakes get a bad rap, often sight unseen, and while the premature concern is usually proved correct it’s not entirely uncommon for a good one to slip on through. Okay fine, it’s pretty damn...
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Review: ‘The Sapphires’ Shines With a Touching Story, Catchy Tunes, and a...
Editor’s Note: Allison’s review originally ran during the film’s premiere at last year’s AFI Film Fest, but we’re re-running it as the movie opens in limited release this week. The music industry is a...
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Movie News After Dark: ‘You’re Next’ is Your Next
In tonight’s round-up of the best news and notes that didn’t grow up to be bigger stories, we’ve got all genres. Star Wars and Jurassic Park representing the genre known as geek bait, Iron Man 3 in...
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‘Star Wars’ Land, ‘G.I. Joe’ and the Worst Film of 2013 Star in the 10 Best...
Not a whole lot happened this week of monumental notice. Though some specific careers may have been seriously altered and some new film trends could be in the making, there was nothing that aims to...
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Movie About Movie Theaters Offered Free to Movie Theaters
As you may know from our weekly Movie Houses of Worship feature, we love to celebrate cinemas and the act of seeing films on the big screen. Part of that column focuses on these favorite theaters’...
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Fund This Film: ‘Beyond the Bolex’ Looks At the Past and Future of Your First...
Do you know who Jacques Bolsey was? Also known as Jacques Bogopolsky, he was the inventor of the Bolex movie camera, the name of which is derived from his own. If you’d like to know more, especially...
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Movie House of Worship: New York City’s 92YTribeca
“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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The Science of Spoilers and the Truths About Twists
Less than two years ago, scientists at UC San Diego made the “discovery” that spoilers don’t matter. Not only did they find that stories aren’t ruined by knowing the ending but that people prefer...
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6 Scenes We Love From ‘The Sandlot’
What’s more amazing/disturbing, that The Sandlot is turning 20 years old or that it didn’t open in the summertime? One generation’s beloved celebration of baseball and coming of age opened on April 9,...
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‘World War Z’ Trailer Shows the Human Side of the Zombie Apocalypse
This isn’t the World War Z that we thought we were going to get. Fans of Max Brooks‘ contemplative book that chronicles the zombie apocalypse by soberly speaking with important survivors expected...
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The Walking Dead: ‘This Sorrowful Life’ Has a Hollow Ring to It
Um… where to start? We got a double-crossing, a marriage proposal, a death of a main character and his subsequent zombification. A lot of stuff happened this week. But did any of it need to happen?...
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SXSW Interview: Ryan White, Kathy McCabe Discuss Making Beatles History with...
Good Ol’ Freda, an engrossing character study of Freda Kelly – the Beatles’ secretary, head of the fan club, and living time capsule of Beatlemania – is only Ryan White’s second feature documentary,...
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Harmony Korine: ‘Spring Breakers’ is A Poetic Video Game
“Poetry” and “video games” aren’t two sensibilities we see meshed together in cinema often. Harmony Korine, perhaps one of the most divisive figures in the indie world of the past two decades, set out...
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‘Hummingbird’ Trailer: Jason Statham Gets Bloody Homeless
Well this looks excellent. Hummingbird is the story of an ex-special forces soldier who ends up homeless, but it’s really the tale of Jason Statham doing a bunch of Jason Statham-esque stuff while...
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‘We Steal Secrets’ Trailer: Alex Gibney Dances with Julian Assange and Wikileaks
At this point, Alex Gibney — the Oscar-winning documentary director behind Taxi to the Dark Side and many more — seems like the only man that can get inside the politically inflammatory world of...
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The One Where I Vote for ‘Lincoln,’‘Veep,’ the GLOW Girls and Two New...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Beautiful Girls Willie Conway (Timothy Hutton) has returned home for his high school reunion...
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‘Au Hasard Balthazar’: Life in an Ass-Kicking 90 Minutes
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...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Dead Friends’ is Weird the Way ‘Odd Life of Timothy Green’ Could Have...
Why Watch? Silly and cheerful, this joyous horror short from writer/director Stephen W. Martin sees a bullied little girl try to grow a friend from a formerly used body part. It’s Mary Shelley’s The...
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Yo, It’s the Green Machine: Michael Bay Casts His ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
Fans can have very different ideas of what the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are supposed to look like, depending on how old they are. Old fogies may have first come across the team in the pages of...
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