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Rupert Wyatt Makes Marisha Pessl’s ‘Night Film’ His Next
After rising with Planet of the Apes, Rupert Wyatt is now setting his sights on noir. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director will helm an adaptation of “Night Film,” the forthcoming novel...
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Charlie Chaplin
The 124th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin‘s birthday was yesterday, and the date represents both the birth of a man and the birth of a cultural icon. Perhaps the biggest of them all. Chaplin made a...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘One Froggy Evening’ is the “Citizen Kane of Animated Film”
Why Watch? Well, because Steven Spielberg calls it the “Citizen Kane of animated film.” That’s not enough for you? Here goes. One Froggy Evening is among the best of Chuck Jones‘s cartoons, recognized...
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New ‘Star Wars’ Films Will Rule Your Summers For the Forseeable Future
Did you think that the summer blockbuster movie season was full enough already? Not sure you could handle another major release? Had your fill of superheroes and sci-fi and comic books? Too bad. While...
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‘A Teacher’ Teaser Trailer Tantalizes Without Words
The prevalent theme of this year’s Sundance Film Festival centered on characters engaging in highly inappropriate sexual relationships, with a number of films chronicling romances (of a sort) that...
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Cavemen Somehow Still Aren’t Extinct at DreamWorks Animation, Studio Expected...
Considering that we live in a world that has multiple animated Smurfs movies, it’s not shocking that DreamWorks Animation is reportedly setting up a sequel to their own unexpected hit The Croods. The...
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Aca-Awesome: Universal Plans ‘Pitch Perfect’ Sequel With Original Screenwriter
Of all the news coming out of this year’s CinemaCon, the revelation that Universal Pictures is launching a sequel to their surprise hit Pitch Perfect is the one most worth singing about (it’s just...
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Cannes 2013 Lineup Will Make You Want to Buy Tickets to France
This year, The Cannes International Film Festival opens on May 15th with a bombastically modern retelling of the Roaring Twenties and closes on May 26th with a South African-set crime thriller on the...
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Final ‘Lone Ranger’ Trailer Looks For Treasure, Revenge and a New Ladder
Gore Verbinski‘s The Lone Ranger hits July 3rd, and it seems sort of perfect for the Independence Day weekend. It’s a western on a massive scale with plenty of explosions and bullets to spare, but if...
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John Cusack and Paul Dano Set to Play Brian Wilson for ‘Love & Mercy’
Bill Pohlad‘s Love & Mercy is looking to start filming this summer, and it looks like they’ve got the biggest pieces of the puzzle all set. According to The Wrap, John Cusack is in talks to join...
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The 10 Most Mundane Jobs Held By Movie Badasses
In reality, no job is actually mundane unless you make it that way. Washing dishes or delivering mail can be terrific if you’re happy, and you’re with people who make you happy. My point is – a job is...
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27 Things We Learned from the ‘Tron’ Commentary
Nowadays, it’s no big deal to see computer animation in films. In fact, the use of CGI in films can range from being mundane to being annoying. However, three decades ago, computer animation was in...
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Get Exclusively Whisked Away By This ‘Tai Chi Hero’ Poster
Last year, just before Fantastic Fest, we debuted a poster for the martial arts epic Tai Chi Zero. Sometime later, we reviewed the film at the Austin-based genre haven, only to find that it was fun,...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘She Said, She Said’ Checks Its Baggage on the Brink of Divorce
Why Watch? Equally sharp and absurd, this short film from Stuart Blumberg features Marisa Tomei and Elodie Bouchez as a couple who are close to ending their marriage, David Wain as a high-fiving...
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‘Weird Science’ Gets an R-Rated Remake From ’21 Jump Street’ Writer Michael...
If you had to vote for one John Hughes movie to get the remake treatment which one would it be? The obvious answer is Curly Sue, but it looks like we have to wait on that one as a less obvious...
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Getting ‘Mud’-dy with Moody New Music from David Wingo and Lucero
Growing up on a riverbank in the rural outskirts of Arkansas is equal parts bleak and beautiful. The stark landscape can feel confining, but when it is all you know (or the only place you want to be)...
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Review: ‘In the House’ Is a Much-Welcomed Return to Form for François Ozon
To say that François Ozon has worked in many genres would be a misstatement, but only because his films tend to ignore the boundaries of genre in the first place. 8 Women is a musical, melodrama and...
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Tribeca 2013 Review: Deeply Meditative ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’ Reshapes...
Daniel Patrick Carbone’s Hide Your Smiling Faces can be compared to Stand By Me in several ways. In both films, boys find the dead body of another boy in the woods. There are also meaningful...
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Review: ‘The Lords of Salem’ Asks “Why the Goat?” and Answers With a Dancing...
Editor’s note: My review originally ran during SXSW earlier this year, but we’re posting it again as the film hits theaters this weekend. Some filmmakers, no matter how hard they may try to appeal to...
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Tom Cruise Marries His Passions, Signs On For ‘Top Gun’ With Aliens
Whether you think of him as a cocktail-slinging flair bartender, a hotshot fighter pilot, or a highly trained secret agent, there’s no question that Tom Cruise is one of the biggest movie stars the...
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