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We Bite Our Thumbs at This New ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Trailer
Yes, Carlo Carlei‘s take on Romeo and Juliet does have a few things going for it – most notably, a stellar cast that includes Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet and Douglas Booth as Romeo, along with Paul...
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Character Posters: Who Cares About Khan? Gusty...
Turns out, all of that Khan mumbo jumbo has just been some super-clever misdirection on the part of Paramount and J.J. Abrams, as this new series of Star Trek Into Darkness character posters reveals...
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Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Gets a First Poster Twenty Years In the Making
Director Spike Lee‘s upcoming Oldboy is viewed as a remake of Park Chan-wook’s brilliant 2003 film, but in reality it’s a new adaptation of the original source material, a graphic novel by Nobuaki...
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First Look: Jamie Foxx Channeling ‘Avatar’ and Mr. Freeze for Electro in...
Spider-Man fans know that the original version of Electro had a kind of jiggling starfish on his face (as you can see above), the power to control electricity, and (obviously) a deep and abiding love...
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‘McConkey’ Trailer Will Make You Believe a Man Can Fly
Shane McConkey was an extreme sports enthusiast, a professional skier and a man who defied physics for a living. He sadly died in a 2009 skiing accident, but his memory of dream-chasing lives on in...
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I Like the Way You Drink! The ‘Django Unchained’ Drinking Dgame
At the end of 2012, maverick director Quentin Tarantino brought his latest ultra-violent and over-the-top exploitation film to cinemas, raking in more than $400m in worldwide box office. Now, Django...
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The 12 Most Anticipated Films of Tribeca 2013
The spring film festival season is about to kick off in a big way with the opening of New York’s own Tribeca Film Festival later this week, and with a schedule that spans eleven days and includes...
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‘Upstream Color’: Shane Carruth’s Search for Authenticity in an Alienating...
Warning: Though Shane Carruth has referred to his film as “un-spoilable,” this post discusses the ending of Upstream Color at length. It’s been a little over two weeks since I watched Shane Carruth’s...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Obey the Giant’ Should Be Plastered Everywhere
Why Watch? By 1990, Shepard Fairey had already been littering the streets with stickers of Andre the Giant’s face and the phrase “Andre the Giant has a Posse,” but the image was about to get a lot...
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‘Mistaken for Strangers’ Trailer: Even Rock Stars Get the Blues
If you’ve somehow missed our relentless reportage on the subject, the Tribeca Film Festival kicks off later this week with the premiere of Tom Berninger‘s Mistaken for Strangers, a tour documentary...
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‘Snowpiercer’ Character Posters: The Future May Be Bleak, But Tilda Swinton...
While Bong Joon-ho‘s upcoming Snowpiercer is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the only living survivors of a massive, ongoing Ice Age all live together on a trans-continental train that...
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‘The Kings of Summer’ Trailer: Meet Your New Favorite Coming-of-Age Film
While most films that earn the title of “Sundance hit” tend to fall on the heavier side of cinema (we’re still reeling from this year’s influx of films about highly inappropriate sexual...
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TFF 2013: Exclusive Poster Debut for ‘Lenny Cooke’
Lenny Cooke, the documentary debut from Josh and Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs) follows its eponymous subject from his position as highest ranked high school basketball player in the nation to his fall...
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Bland ‘R.I.P.D.’ Poster Challenges Viewers To Guess Who’s Playing the Joe...
One of this summer’s less-heralded comic adaptations is Universal’s supernaturally-tinged buddy cop flick R.I.P.D. starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds. The latter plays a cop who’s gunned down in...
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Epic ‘Man of Steel’ Trailer Brings Hope
The first teaser for Warner Bros. Pictures’ Man of Steel — from the director/producer duo of Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan — failed to inspire a number of us, especially those who had been burned...
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Movie News After Dark: Christopher Nolan Loves the IMAX
In tonight’s edition of Movie News After Dark, Christopher Nolan and Michael Bay share tools, Captain America starts the march toward more Avengers movies, Steve Jobs gets a tree and YouTube takes a...
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MPAA Announces New “Check the Box” Ratings System
At this year’s CinemaCon, MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd announced his organization’s new ratings system that looks a lot like the old ratings system. The key difference is that they’ll be more prominently...
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Wayfare Set to Make an ‘Inquest’ That Turns Princess Diana’s Death Into a...
Wayfare Entertainment is still a relatively young production company with only three films under its belt (Sanctum, It’s Kind of a Funny Story and Ondine), and so far they haven’t made anything...
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Michael Rooker Lends a Hand to ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
As we all know, Michael Rooker is fantastic. The man who got his filmic start as a murderer in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer has gone on to redefine intensity in a ton of roles and has most...
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Splinter to Have Cirrhosis of the Liver with Jaundice for ‘Ninja Turtles’
Oh, Danny Woodburn. It’s great to see that Cirrhosis of the liver with jaundice can’t keep a good man down. According to Deadline Hollywood, the Seinfeld actor has just been cast as Master Splinter in...
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