Clik here to view.
Tribeca 2013 Review: Beautiful ‘Bluebird’ Heralds Arrival of An Impressive...
Comparisons to Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter will likely plague Lance Edmands’ Bluebird, thanks to the films’ similar subject matter – both are set in snowy small towns, both center on a tragedy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Almost Christmas’ Falls Flat But Stars Two Good Pauls
Almost Christmas, the latest film from Junebug director Phil Morrison, helps to explain the process of how all those Christmas trees get to the street corners of Brooklyn and why they cost so much. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch Rebel Wilson Objectify a Man in ‘Bargain!’
Short Starts presents a weekly short film from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. Australian comedienne Rebel Wilson is really on the rise, and very quickly at that. It’s only been two years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Is Barely a Movie
Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist would like to be a novel. In fact, it once was a novel. The film is based on Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 best-seller, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tribeca 2013 Review: Bernie Madoff Doc ‘In God We Trust’ Weaves Its Own...
Perhaps the only thing bigger than the capacity for human greed is the capacity for human stupidity. Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson’s feature debut, In God We Trust, a somewhat enlightening...
View ArticleClik here to view.
6 Scenes We Love From Michael Bay
Given all the positive buzz we’re hearing for Pain & Gain, Michael Bay could very well have his first critical hit since 1996 when the movie opens this Friday. And it might just be an even fresher...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mad Men: Knee-Deep In Hypocrisy and Ketchup
This week’s Mad Men is all about not practicing what you preach. Don gets angry with Megan for feigning sex on her soap, when he does a lot more than feign with others in real life. Joan fires Harry’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Relativity Meeting with an Actor Who Might Actually Be Right for ‘The Crow’
First it was Mark Wahlberg, then it was Bradley Cooper, then whispers of James McAvoy. That’s not even counting the director swapping, but according to The Wrap, Relativity Media is now in talks with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blog of Thrones: ‘And Now His Watch Is Ended,’ So Let the Blood Flow
Season three of Game of Thrones has finally started killing people. And not just anyone, as we’ll discuss in this week’s epic, thoughtful edition of Blog of Thrones. For those reading along, as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: ‘To The Wonder’ is a Self-Destructed Misfire
To The Wonder has proven itself as Terrence Malick‘s most critically disliked film to date. Malick’s sprawling epic, The Tree of Life, was met with scoffs, but Wonder has been met with snickers and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The One With Norwegian Horrors, Indie Thrills, ‘The Impossible’ and ‘Gangster...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. The Central Park Five The term “crime of the century” is an overused one, and one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why You Should Pay Attention to the San Francisco International Film Festival
Who knew the longest-running film festival in America is presented in San Francisco – shimmering gifts of spring opening at some of our best movie houses? Only fitting, since San Francisco has always...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Singin’ In the Rain’: The Bloody Hard Work of Effortless Entertainment
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...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Click’ Is As Simple As It Is Terrifying
This week we’re highlighting the films of Popcorn Horror’s Blood Games. Give it a watch, then head over to vote if you like it. Why Watch? In the opening moments of this short from William Prince, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marvel and IMAX Want You to Have a Free Jock-Designed ‘Iron Man 3′ Poster...
Not sure if you’re going to hit a midnight screening of Shane Black‘s Iron Man 3? On the fence about doling out the cash for an IMAX screening of the latest adventures of Tony Stark (Robert Downey...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Casting Couch: Robert De Niro and Shia LaBeouf Could Be Father and Son, Jason...
What is Casting Couch? Your daily dose of casting news. Today we’ve got a new job for Viola Davis as well as word on who the next actor to mutate for Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past will be....
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘R.I.P.D.’ Trailer: Are You Smelling What It’s Selling?
What exactly is this new movie Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges are starring in, called R.I.P.D.? In one respect it’s a comic book movie, seeing as it was adapted from a Peter M. Lenkov graphic novel....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Movie News After Dark: Just In Case You Forgot That ‘Iron Man 3′ Is Happening
Why does HBO get indie bands to do music for Game of Thrones? Where can you go if you want to smell Tony Stark inside his Iron Man suit? What kind of a world would we live in if Wolverine vs....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: ‘Graceland’ Will Leave No One Clamoring for a Trip to the Philippines
The value of a really good story hook can never be overstated, but it’s become fairly uncommon these days to find a film that has one. The odds decrease even more when it comes to movies with a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Animated Gifs are Cinematic, But They’re Much More Than Cinema
Over at IndieWire, A.D. Jameson has written a compelling article about whether or not GIFs (the bitmap image format known as Graphics Interchange Format) can be considered cinema. The piece is miles...
View Article