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Review: ‘My Brother the Devil’ is All in the Details
Editor’s note: Scott’s review originally ran during last year’s Berlinale Film Festival, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens today in limited theatrical release. With its social pressures...
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Screenwriter Susan Burke Diffuses ‘Smashed’ of Any Indie Quirk
Last year, audiences couldn’t find two more distinct movies dealing with alcoholism than Flight and Smashed. While Robert Zemeckis‘s film dealt with an all-out reckless drunk, big dramatic plot...
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Review: ‘It’s a Disaster’ Is Everything But
You wouldn’t think large-scale death and destruction would be good fodder for comedy, but last year’s Seeking a Friend For the End of the World proved otherwise with its sweet mix of laughs and heart....
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Casting Couch: ‘Eliza Graves’ Piles on the Brits, Joel McHale Gets Skeezy,...
What is Casting Couch? Today it’s Associate Editor Kate Erbland, filling in for the intrepid Nathan Adams as he enjoys vacation. Also, it’s about casting. Also, there’s not much going on today in...
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If Only We Could All Have Our Own ‘Oblivion’ Bubble Ship
On this evening’s edition of Movie News After Dark, we take a closer look at Tom Cruise’s ride in Oblivion, get up close and personal with Silent Ben Affleck, see what Russ Meyer’s Star Wars universe...
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Video On Demand Power Ranker: Django Gets ‘Unchained’ and Malick Goes ‘To The...
This week, our Video On Demand Power Ranker Supreme 3000 has been a little viral and under the weather (we told him to be careful when going on robot dates, but he says he loves and trusts Siri, and...
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How the Genre Films of 1990 Are A Last Gasp of the 1980s
Film critics of a certain age, i.e. the age that I am aged, tend to overly-romanticize the 1980s. This often manifests in gushy, hyperbole-laden love letters masquerading as objective discourse. To be...
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Daredevil, North Korea and Bill Murray as The Human Torch Star In the Best...
Welcome to another edition of the Reject Recap, where we highlight the past week’s best news and original features from this very movie site and others around the web. It really wasn’t a huge week for...
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Fund This Film: Sci-Fi Horror Feature ‘Science Team’ Pits Hot Chicks Against...
While not a universally loved horror flick, The Taint got a nice little push from our own Rob Hunter last month when it hit DVD. Now I’d like to extend the support for one of its directors, Drew...
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Review: I Fell For ‘This Ain’t California’ In More Ways Than One
The main difference between Exit Through the Gift Shop and This Ain’t California is that the latter’s main character has been revealed to be a fiction. Other distinctions are that it’s about...
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Why the MTV Movie Awards Matter as Much as the Oscars — If Not More So
I don’t know the last time I watched the MTV Movie Awards. I think Howard Stern was there promoting his never-made Fartman movie. No, that was the 1992 MTV Music Awards. What about when the kids from...
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‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Trailer Totally Rips Off ‘Battle Royale II’
The Hunger Games was the third highest grossing film of 2012 beating out gigantic (and expected) hits like the final Twilight film, the first Hobbit, the latest Bond and the Spider-Man reboot. Hurray...
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New ‘Man of Steel’ Teaser Shows Cable Companies On Krypton Are Just As Bad As...
Fair warning to anyone who thinks they can avoid a certain piece of information regarding who exactly Michael Shannon plays in the upcoming Superman film Man of Steel… this new teaser confirms...
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Mad Men: Don Draper Suffers From A Whore Complex
I am female. And because of that, I am quite happy that I didn’t have to experience the 1960s firsthand. Really glad, in fact. This week’s episode of Mad Men, “The Collaborators,” written by Matthew...
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Blog of Thrones: The ‘Walk of Punishment’ Moves Things Along Considerably
Prior to this week’s episode, we’ve been doing a lot of walking, talking, catching up with old friends and for the most part, have not yet begun to spin up the wheels of this season’s rising action....
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The One Where Django, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen and Ryan Kwanten Are All Unchained
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Going by the Book When a new police chief arrives in the rural town of Sam-po, he decides...
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’: A Movie That Feels More Like Real Life
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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Mega-Interview: David Slade on Shooting a Serial Killer
Acclaimed directors often drop in to shoot the pilot for a TV series. They don’t often stick around for seconds. Director David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night) is one of those rare film directors...
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‘Shadow Dancer’ Trailer: Clive Owen Tangos with Terrorists
“The bomb is an excellent image for Shadow Dancer. On its own, it rests on a table not harming anyone. It takes time and a catalyst to kill, but it’s the ticking that will drive you mad.” That’s from...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Don’t Move’ is Gory Horror Frozen in Fear
Why Watch? After their previous entries, the team at Bloody Cuts essentially has a standing invitation to be featured here. They consistently make high quality, intriguing horror work, and I hope...
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