The Dictator Auteur: Investigating North Korea’s Hidden Movie Culture
This ain’t exactly breaking news, but North Korea is making headlines again for, amongst other things, threatening to re-ignite its ongoing conflict with South Korea as well as send missiles into a...
View ArticleSFotD: A Father Tries to Save His Baby Girl After He’s Bitten by a Zombie in...
Why Watch? Her name is Rosie, and her father’s just been bitten by a zombie. Alone except for her, he swallows his own emotional devastation in order to ensure that his infant daughter survives in a...
View ArticleLet’s All Get Huge With a Brand New Gallery of ‘Pain & Gain’ Stills
Michael Bay‘s wacky true-life passion project, Pain & Gain, is finally set to explode on to our theater screens in a mess of steroids, sweat, tank tops, fire, blood, and greyhounds later this...
View Article‘Mean Girls’ Takes a Smarter, Funnier Approach to Dealing With Snooty High...
With his debut feature, Heathers, director Michael Lehmann created a cult hit that’s still earning new fans more than two decades after its release. Heathers stars Winona Ryder as Veronica, the newest...
View ArticleMax Landis Lays His Own Odds on That “Really Dark” Sequel to ‘Chronicle’
After the massive success of Josh Trank‘s Chronicle (a success so profound that the director has now been entrusted with the new Fantastic Four, a Venom film, and possibly The Red Star and Shadow of...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Robert De Niro Will Train ‘Hands of Stone,’ Dennis Leary...
What is Casting Couch? News about actors finding ways to get paid. Today we’ve got word about a new job for that girl who cut up her face in Evil Dead as well as a possible comeback for Mischa Barton....
View Article‘Elysium’ Trailer: Matt Damon Is Going to Blow Up Your Fancy Space Station
Director Neill Blomkamp has, thankfully enough, not kicked any of his thematic interests while making the transition to his sophomore effort. The District 9 helmer returns to theaters later this...
View ArticleChristopher Nolan Can’t Quit Anne Hathaway, Recruits Her For ‘Interstellar’
Christopher Nolan’s next film as a director, Interstellar, is something of a mystery. We know that it was originally set up by Steven Spielberg, that it has something to do with wormholes and time...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: We Wish Elisabeth Moss Would Pick Us in a Game of...
We begin this evening’s Movie News After Dark shenanigans with Captain America stepping into the world of S.H.I.E.L.D for his tour in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It continues with plenty of...
View ArticleStanley Film Fest Paints the Hotel Walls Shining Red with ‘The...
I’m on record as saying that there seem to be too many damn movie festivals these days, and that’s coming from someone who loves movie festivals. Mainstays like Sundance and SXSW co-exist alongside...
View ArticleInterview: ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ Creator David S. Goyer on His Portrait of the...
In the vein of recent television period pieces, Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons continues to approach its old time setting with a serious scope. There are highly detailed sets, big landscapes, a filmic...
View ArticleAll 39 Movie References in Our April Fools’ Day Comic Revealed
For this year’s April Fools’ gag we wanted to challenge you, dear reader, to a Where’s Waldo of movie references. Our resident webcomic artist Derek Bacon obliged with a view into our day-to-day...
View Article‘Java Heat’ Trailer Looks Like Super Generic Action with a Crazy Mickey Rourke
A reckless American bad boy who doesn’t play by the rules? An exotic locale with a quip-delivering partner? Lots of bullets flying with little consequence? Java Heat has it all — including the cherry...
View ArticleVideo: John McClane Almost Knew Krav Maga in ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’
Early on in the pre-production phase of A Good Day to Die Hard, the team at Fox approached The Stunt People about putting together a roof top knife fight between John McClane and a baddie with a...
View ArticleSFotd: Get Spooked with Betty Boop in ‘Minnie the Moocher’
Why Watch? Betty Boop is mostly remembered these days as America’s first cartoon sex symbol, with her Jazz Baby get-up and high-pitched squeal. That’s the general thrust of her cameo in Who Framed...
View ArticleAmidst Production Drama, ‘Jane Got a Gun’ Finally Gets Around to Casting...
With its revolving door of cast members and production drama in the wake of director Lynne Ramsay‘s departure, Jane Got a Gun has scarcely had time to hook a new director, let alone fill the one...
View Article‘Arrested Development’ Rolls Out Clever Character Posters Actually Worth...
While it’s still hard to believe that we’re finally getting new episodes of the brilliant Arrested Development (thanks, Netflix!), it’s not hard to believe that the show has started rolling out funny...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Blame Jim Carrey’s New Job on ‘Ricky Stanicky,’ Blame Bonnie &...
What is Casting Couch? It’s all part of a very simple process. Movie execs do the casting, the trades get the casting announcements, and then we put all of the news in one handy place. Today trios of...
View Article‘Syrup’ Trailer: Everything You Think You Know is a Lie
Is it possible that all of your likes, your dislikes, the very tastes that you feel define you as a human being, aren’t really choices that you’ve made for yourself at all, but ideas that have been...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Seeing ‘Future Folk’ Leads Your Evening Cinematic...
Tonight in Movie News After Dark, we’ve got actionable items of to-do-ness for you. From learning about Neill Blomkamp’s latest to watching Marc Webb show off his Spidey-sets to remembering KFBR392,...
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