Interview: Ryan Gosling Talks Regrettable Face Tattoos and ‘The Place Beyond...
Ryan Gosling seems to have a perfect love triangle going on. With Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) and Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine), he couldn’t ask for better collaborators. Refn and Gosling made...
View Article6 Filmmaking Tips From Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper is fucking awesome. I use the present tense there because the man, though gone, is eternal. At least when it comes to his art. He definitely had some experiences. Several that no one...
View ArticleReview: ‘Room 237’ is ‘The Shining’ According to Fans
In 2006, during the initial years of YouTube’s expanding popularity, this mash-up of The Shining went viral. By recasting the tone of Stanley Kubrick’s canonized 1980 horror film as a romantic comedy,...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Premier Automne’ Features Stunning Animation at the Edge of Two Worlds
Why Watch? The concept and blend of animation styles in this short film make it a mesmerizing watch. A boy living in a world of eternal winter and a girl living in a never-ending spring find each...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Anne Hathaway and Chloe Moretz Are Gal Pals, Kate Mara...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a roundup of all the day’s casting developments that are fit to print. Read on to find out about a cool cameo Gareth Edwards set up for Godzilla. Though she’s still in the...
View ArticleOf Course the First Poster for ‘The Conjuring’ Promises Us True Tales
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but here’s a poster for a brand-new horror film that promises us that its story has sprung from some true life tales. Crazy, right? Well, perhaps a little less...
View ArticleReview: ‘Detour’ Finds Its Way
The critical success of 2010′s Buried didn’t exactly cause a wave of claustrophobic copycats, but a few similarly structured films found their way into production in the past few years. Wrecked saw...
View Article‘Arthur Newman’ Trailer: Love and Theft With Colin Firth and Emily Blunt
While we can’t be certain that no one was crying out for a film starring an American-accented Colin Firth as a sadsack having a midlife crisis, it’s certainly possible that someone was asking for such...
View Article‘Wish You Were Here’ Trailer: Yet Another Vacation Goes Horrifyingly Awry
Okay, movies, we get it now. We shouldn’t go on vacation anymore, it only seems to lead to sex, drugs, criminal trouble, and death. What’s that, you say? That was only Spring Breakers? There are...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: ‘Arrested Development’ Goes Choose Your Own ‘Rashomon’
Tonight on America’s #1 nightly entertainment news column, the Bluth family changes television forever, Harvey Weinstein is a playa, Hollywood is done with sex and Damon Lindelof explains himself (or...
View ArticleWes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Plot Channels the 1932 Best Picture Winner
It’s actually a little embarrassing that I didn’t make the connection between Wes Anderson‘s upcoming Grand Budapest Hotel and the 1932 Best Picture Winner Grand Hotel before. It’s all right there in...
View ArticleReview: ‘Blancanieves’ is a Moving Return to Silent-Era Storytelling
Blancanieves, Spanish director Pablo Berger’s second feature, will turn to American audiences at an unlikely intersection of tastes and trends. On the heels of The Artist and last year’s near-perfect...
View Article9 Great Discoveries We Made at SXSW 2013
SXSW 2013 ended ten days ago, but the memories live on thanks to the great friends we met, delicious food we ate and fantastic movies we had the pleasure of seeing. (Our intrepid interviewer, Jack,...
View ArticleVideo On Demand Power Ranker: Abolish Slavery with ‘Lincoln,’ Pants Optional
The Video On Demand Power Ranker returns this week with a batch of new movies to watch. Sure, there are some holdovers on the list, such as (the still excellent) Life of Pi, but our brain-implanted...
View Article8 Weirdest Ways Musical Performances (By Actual Musicians) Were Disrupted In...
Musicians have a certain luxury when it comes to films in that they can apparently just show up in them whenever the hell they want. We think it’s cute (and it is) to watch Keith Richards don a pirate...
View Article21 Things We Learned From Scream Factory’s ‘From Beyond’ Commentary
Stuart Gordon‘s 1985 film, Re-Animator, remains one of the absolute best horror/comedies of the last three decades thanks to its spectacular mix of over the top, extremely bloody shenanigans and...
View Article‘You’re Next’ Trailer Is a Cut Above the Rest
Up until this point Lionsgate’s handling of Adam Wingard‘s You’re Next has been a lesson in how not to market a movie. Its 2011 festival premieres (at TIFF and Fantastic Fest) led to near unanimous...
View ArticleReview: ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Doesn’t Give Us Much to Fight For
If you’ve come to Jon M. Chu’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation looking for plot, well, you’ve probably also forgotten what happened the last time we hooked up with America’s elite military force also named...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: How ‘Game of Thrones’ Became the Most Important Thing...
Your Thursday night will end with Anna Kendrick being the most adorable person on the face of the planet. But before that, we’ll talk about why Game of Thrones is the most important show ever, why...
View Article‘Before Midnight’ Trailer: Jesse and Celine Are Arguing Again
Seeing as Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are movies that basically consist of two characters walking and talking for their entire run times, they’re the niche sort of films that...
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