Tommy Lee Jones Will Join Matthew Fox in ‘Emperor’
Director Peter Webber (Girl With the Pearl Earring) has a new project coming up called Emperor that looks at the tension and confusion in Japan immediately after their surrender in World War II. The...
View ArticleChris Evans May Go From Captain America to ‘Snow Piercer’
Now that his stoic role as Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger and the upcoming The Avengers has successfully washed the taste of Chris Evans’ failed early career attempts at being the...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Attack the Kicks, Sore George Lucas, Sexy Michelle...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that has a bit of a fashion sense, a sometimes sexy side and perhaps even a creepy streak. It will use and abuse all of these facets of...
View Article‘FDR: American Badass!’ Redband Trailer Proves Werewolf Nazis Invented Polio
Holy cigarette filter-chomping hell. FDR: American Badass! is attempting to win every award for low budget insanity ever made. It’s an obvious money grab in response to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire...
View ArticleThis Week In DVD: January 17th
Welcome back to This Week In DVD. I had a root canal this morning. As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Redline In the very distant future a group of retro racers...
View ArticleJoel Edgerton Seduces Regency Into a ‘One Night Stand’
Not only will Joel Edgerton be in at least four dozen movies this year, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that he’s just sold a spec script to Regency called One Night Stand that has them on the...
View ArticleWhy It’s Important to Reject SOPA, the MPAA and Piracy
In October of 2011, Representative Lamar S. Smith (of the great state of Texas) introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act to Congress. The bill’s aim was to bolster copyright holders in fights against...
View ArticleSundance 2012: The Essential Packing List of a Cold Intolerant Workaholic
Despite how it might sound via Twitter feed and Facebook post, film festival-going for film journalists is not easy. It is fun, but it’s not easy. Each festival has its own unique addition to the...
View ArticleSundance 2012: Kate’s 10 Most Anticipated Films
The annual week I spend in sleepy Park City, Utah, carousing with the rest of the online film criticism glitterati, eating criminally overpriced pizza, barely sleeping, and consistently worrying about...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Network (2011)
Why Watch? Because if you send text messages or use Facebook, someone is making a profit off your information. This short, in the vein and style of last year’s Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus is...
View ArticleChannel Guide: 5 Reasons ‘Cougar Town’ Demands Your Attention (and Pennies)
The Gods at ABC have smiled down upon us. In what seems like the first logical thing done in the 2012 midseason, the Disney network has cancelled the insufferable Work It, the Bosom Buddies-style...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: ‘Toys R Me’ with Lance Reddick
Why Watch? The sheer blue brilliance of it all. If you’d like to see cursing and monologues taken to a higher art form, feast your eyes and ears on Lance Reddick‘s (Fringe) work here and worship your...
View ArticleJoseph Kosinski’s Tom Cruise-Starring Sci-fi Flick Gets Two Leading Ladies
Talk about cinematic whiplash. Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinksi‘s next project has already gone through myriad incarnations, and the project doesn’t even have an official name yet. Count that as...
View ArticleSundance 2012 Interview: Sub-Zero Temperatures and Two Weeks of Nutrition...
This year, we’re dedicated to bringing Sundance straight to you, dear reader, and that includes getting to know some of the faces that make up a stellar Sundance – critics (new and returning),...
View ArticleMovies to See Before the World Ends: Ikiru
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent and logical amongst us know signifies the day the world...
View ArticleSundance 2012: Why Sundance Matters
Team Film School Rejects is about 16 hours from finally heading out to the Sundance Film Festival (we like to show up a couple of days late, in hopes that our beds will be warm for us), and in between...
View ArticleDiane Kruger to Co-star in Next Stephenie Meyer Adaptation, ‘The Host’
With the Twilight Saga film franchise (thankfully) wrapping up this year, fans of author Stephenie Meyer are turning their attention to the next film to spring from one of her works. The Host is being...
View ArticleKevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: January 20, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr dresses up in his favorite Jedi robe, grabs his lightsaber and heads out to see the latest George Lucas movie…and boy does he look stupid. After realizing that Red Tails...
View ArticleKristen Stewart Remains Mute in New ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ Preview
Has a titular character for a tentpole film ever been muted in their own previews? That seems to be the case for Universal Pictures’ flashy-looking Snow White and the Huntsman, which so far seems...
View ArticleReview: Deeply Flawed ‘Red Tails’ Takes a Swift Nosedive Into Insult and...
In 1995, HBO produced a film called The Tuskegee Airmen chronicling the heroic story of the first squadron of African-American fighter pilots during WWII. The HBO version stars Laurence Fishburne,...
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