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Fund This: Trailer for NASA’s Future to Play Ahead of ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’
This week’s Fund This Film is about a film that needs funding. But it is still about a crowd-funding campaign that is somewhat movie-related. The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) of America has...
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Movie Houses of Worship: Roger Ebert’s Favorite Movie Theaters
“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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Full Frame 2013 Review: ‘A.K.A. Doc Pomus’ is an Honorable Tribute With Few...
There are two kinds of biographical documentaries, the kind about a person we know and want to learn more about and the kind about a person we don’t know but should be aware of (according to the...
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Watch Werner Herzog Eat His Shoe, in Honor of Les Blank (1935-2013)
Filmmaker Les Blank died today at age 77 from bladder cancer. He is best known for directing Burden of Dreams, a feature film on the making of Werner Herzog‘s Fitzcarraldo. Roger Ebert, who we lost to...
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Mad Men Premiere Opens a ‘Doorway’ to a Promising (and Deadly) Season Six
Now in its sixth season, Mad Men is probably one of the only shows on television that never jumped the shark – it remains as thoughtful and sophisticated a show since its first season. Sure, there...
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Here’s What Beast May Look Like in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’
X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer recently tweeted out a quote from the original “Beauty and the Beast” accompanied by the above image of Hank McCoy in his natural form. As you can...
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Blog of Thrones: ‘Dark Wings, Dark Words,’ Ominous Threats and New Faces
Beyond the continuation of the festival of walk-and-talk that is customary this early in a season of Game of Thrones, season three episode two, entitled ‘Dark Wings, Dark Words,’ also brings with it...
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The One Where a Girl Named Sexcula, a Guy Named Woochi and Eva Green’s ‘Womb’...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Woochi: The Demon Slayer Woochi is a wannabe wizard whose antics reveal him to be an...
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Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Persona’: An Experiment in Existential Horror That’s...
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...
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David Slade’s ‘Daredevil’: The Mix of Irish Mafia and Yellow Spandex We Could...
20th Century Fox’s re-adaptation of Daredevil had been kicked around a bit too long. After the 2003 film came out, the studio never seemed sure how to move forward with the Man Without Fear. There...
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Bradley Cooper to Save ‘Jane Got a Gun’ As Its Villain
After the swirling personnel changes hitting Lynne Ramsay’s Gavin O’Connor‘s Jane Got a Gun, it looks like the dust has settled enough to actually make the movie (two weeks into shooting). Jude Law...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Feel Flows’ Blends Powerful Imagery and Music to Conquer Death
Why Watch? Prepare for your breath to be sucked from your lungs. In Paris Zarcilla‘s long-form music video, a young warrior races over land and through sea to safe his beloved from death, creating a...
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‘Rush’ Trailer: Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl Face Death and Ego In Racing...
Okay, Ron Howard, this will do just fine. For his first post-The Dilemma directorial outing, Howard has returned to his dramatic roots with another true life story that should fit in quite nicely...
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Casting Couch: Sally Hawkins Caps Off ‘Godzilla’ Cast, Susan Sarandon to...
What is Casting Couch? It’s starting off the week right with a new round of casting announcements. Read on to find out which project is going to unite the dream team of Ellen Burstyn and Luis Guzman....
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‘Behind the Candelabra’ Trailer Sees HBO Making a Move Into Serious Filmmaking
It’s here! Finally, with the release of its first trailer, we get to catch our first glimpse of Michael Douglas donning sequins and feathers to play famed, flamboyant musician Liberace in Steven...
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‘Little Children’ Director Todd Field All Set to Return to Feature Filmmaking...
With his 2001 feature, In the Bedroom, and his 2006 feature, Little Children, longtime actor Todd Field established himself as a director worth watching. It’s now been seven years since we’ve gotten a...
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We May See More From Bryan Fuller’s ‘Mockingbird Lane’
Last October, Mockingbird Lane was dumped. The show aired as a Friday night Halloween special with a lack of promotion, three unfinished scenes, and a time slot set up for failure. Nonetheless, the...
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Actor Who Looks Like Dracula Hired to Play Dracula
Luke Evans is a talented actor who has so far been relegated to some empty historical action. According to Variety, he’s staying historical, but hopefully his turn as Dracula in Dracula: Year Zero...
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Drink Until You See Goblins with this ‘Troll 2’ Drinking Game
This is a slow week for DVDs. Seriously, it is. When one of the biggest releases is the incestuously Presidential Hyde Park on Hudson (and who wants to watch that clunker, drunk or not), there’s not...
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‘Misa’s Fugue’ Trailer Spotlights a Czech Artist Born Months Before Hitler...
Frank “Misa” Grunwald lives in Indiana, but he was born in Czechoslovakia back when that was still a country. In fact, he was born just four months before Hitler came to power as Chancellor of Germany...
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