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New ‘Point Break’ Has a Director Who Could Make it a Worthy Remake
Point Break could use a remake. It’s a fun, ridiculous action movie laced with 80s excess, but beyond nostalgia glasses, its hardly sacred ground. Plus, what is Point Break at its core anyway? A heist...
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Kneel Before These New Images From ‘Man of Steel’
These pictures will make you believe that a man can fly. Except he’s not a man. He’s an alien, and he’s got some other crazy powers as well. The new issue of “Entertainment Weekly” is all about Supes,...
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‘United States of Amnesia’ Trailer Struggles to Find the Real Gore Vidal
There are few people who deserve a documentary (or 20 of them) more than Gore Vidal. A ferocious thinker and fierce commentator whose output is gargantuan as well as wide in scope, Vidal contributed...
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22 Things We Learned From the ‘Gangster Squad’ Commentary
Gangster Squad is a stylized and clearly fictional retelling of the real-life adventures of a special Los Angeles police squad created to fight organized crime in the city. It’s a messy film at times,...
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The 10 Strangest Bill Murray Roles That Almost Nobody Saw
It’s not his birthday, he didn’t die (at least not when this was written), and he doesn’t have a new movie out, but gosh darn it – let’s talk Bill Murray. He is, as we all know, the best person. Today...
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‘The Hangover Part III’ Trailer: Time for An Intervention
The Hangover series has always been pretty self-aware. At least in ways that winked at the audience. With the trailer for Part III, they’ve all but winked down the fourth wall entirely. It doesn’t...
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We Have to Wait Until October to See Joseph Gordon-Levitt Bro Out in ‘Don Jon’
Relativity Media has set a release date for their big pick-up from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, placing Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s directorial debut, Don Jon (previously known as Don Jon’s...
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‘The Way, Way Back’ Trailer Lets Sam Rockwell Guide You Into Adulthood
Who doesn’t love a good coming-of-age film? Terrible, terrible people, that’s who. One of the best of the genre premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and while some folks might think I’m referring...
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First ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Poster Sticks With What’s Worked So Far
If you so happen to Google “Joss Whedon Much Ado About Nothing,” only a few scattered stills pop up and, most often, you’ll get a version of that one up top featuring Fran Kranz as Claudio. That...
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Review: ‘Disconnect’ is a Harrowing and Sometimes Too On-the-Nose Drama By...
Discourse on the growing disconnect between us due to the overwhelming presence of technology in our daily lives is nothing new. How many friends we have on Facebook becomes more important than how...
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Casting Couch: Hailee Steinfeld Saddles Up For ‘The Homesman,’ Connie Britton...
What is Casting Couch? It’s almost like if all the news about actors getting cast in movies was compiled into one place. No, scratch that. It’s exactly like that. Who’s the lovely lady joining...
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‘Saw’ Director James Wan to Go From Cutting People Up to Crashing Cars With...
The Fast and the Furious, successful as it was, probably never really struck anyone as the sort of film that would spawn a franchise that would make it to its seventh feature. But here we are, many...
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Broken Projector Podcast: Women of Action (w/ Guest Beth Schacter)
Several studies and reams of statistics show what’s obvious at a gut level: there aren’t nearly as many women directing movies as men, and there probably aren’t nearly as many women directing as want...
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Review: ‘Trance’ is Completely Hypnotic Until Things Get Messy
In less qualified hands, Trance wouldn’t be this entertaining. The script for Danny Boyle‘s newest quasi-thriller asks a lot from its audience. Suspending disbelief is one thing, but demolishing logic...
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Film Jockeys #18: Cinema Savior
What happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the...
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Review: ‘Oblivion’ is a Black Hole of Borrowed Sci-Fi Ideas
Joseph Kosinski‘s Oblivion is a lot like a fireworks display on a Tuesday. It has no real reason to exist, and while the visuals are exciting, they only impress for fifteen minutes before things get...
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‘Filth’ Trailer: You Have to be 18 to Watch It
James McAvoy is a charming and talented actor who’s done nothing but good work up to this point, so it was probably about time someone rewarded him with a role that allowed him to engage in casual...
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Interview: Bryan Fuller Finds the Humor of Eating Innards For ‘Hannibal’
For a television show, NBC’s Hannibal goes to some fairly dark and bloody places. Sticking to the nature of Thomas Harris’s “Red Dragon,” television honcho Bryan Fuller has made a series faithful to...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Circa’ Creates a Hazy, Poetic Animation
Why Watch? Incredibly easy-going, this short animation continually draws back our perspective through hazy landscapes until we reach a destination. Floating on piano keys, it’s a small hint of...
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Review: Uneven ’42′ Throws the Cheeseballs Long and Slow
Baseball hall-of-famer, social activist, and boundary-breaker Jackie Robinson has long been due a full-scale feature film to chronicle his many achievements, and while Brian Helgeland’s 42 wisely...
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