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Boiling Point: When Censorship Goes Full Retard
As much fun as it would be to pick on SOPA/PIPA some more and make some jokes about how “SOPA,” when said aloud, is Spanish for soup, this is something entirely different. Oh, it still has to deal...
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Sundance 2012 Interview: Late Night Dining and Life Changes with ‘TUB’...
As we continue to roll out our mini-interview series with the movers and shakers of the Sundance Film Festival, it’s high time we got to know a real-life filmmaker. And not just any filmmaker, a...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Haunting Animation and Sound in ‘Hearts a Mess’
Why Watch? This animation work from Brendan Cook is directly pulled from the dreams your nightmares have. The US is on the cusp of discovering internationally-loved musician Gotye (specifically the...
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Watch: Trailers for the 9 Shortlisted Best Foreign Oscar Contenders (Now With...
A little over a year after jailing and banning their most famous filmmaker from making movies, Iran might win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It would be a first for the nation whose government...
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Experience Sundance 2012: Snow, Good (And Bad) Movies, and Live Performances...
One of the many benefits to staying in a condo filled with fellow critics is getting up each morning (and making sure one another get up) and fighting over who gets to be “friends” with who as people...
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Sundance 2012 Review: ‘Lay The Favorite’ May Have Bet Too High
There is one thing that becomes quite clear, quite quickly when Lay The Favorite begins: not everyone should do voice over work. Rebecca Hall (who plays Beth Raymer) sadly falls into that category and...
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Austin Cinematic Limits: Austin Takes Sundance By Storm [Again]
I promise not to begin every Austin Cinematic Limits post with a discussion on Richard Linklater’s significance to Austin’s filmmaking community, but he is an integral piece of the puzzle when it...
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Joon-ho Bong’s ‘Snow Piercer’ Adds Tilda Swinton and John Hurt
South Korean director Joon-ho Bong is set to make his English language directorial debut with a train thriller set in an ice covered world called Snow Piercer. Normally if you told me there was a...
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Anton Yelchin Hooking Up With ‘Very Good Girls’ Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota...
Sometime around Cannes last year we reported that Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning would be starring in a new movie by first time director Naomi Foner called Very Good Girls. It’s a story that Foner...
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Razzie Nominee Announcement Put on Hold
Tomorrow is the big day when the Academy is set to announce this year’s Oscar nominees, and traditionally that meant that today was supposed to be the day that The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation...
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Sundance 2012 Review: Josh Radnor Grows Up Alongside His ‘Liberal Arts’
Triple threat Josh Radnor‘s first feature, happythankyoumoreplease, debuted at Sundance in 2010, hitting big with the crowds and ultimately winning the Audience Award. The film was written and...
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Movie News After Dark: The Nielsen Family, Drive Art, The Wire, Typography...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that is celebrating Monday Funday with what amounts to a bunch of shenanigans. Don’t worry though, we’ve slipped in at least one...
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Sundance 2012 Review: Things Heat Up In ‘Red Hook Summer,’ But Not Soon Enough
New York in the summer is intense enough with the heat and humidity that bears down on the city from June to August, but if you are a kid from an upper middle class Atlanta neighborhood suddenly...
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Experience Sundance 2012: Growing Up with Josh Radnor, Headaches, Penning,...
We’ll make this brief, dear readers – today has been a strange day. Since that first day (the one where I showed up to the airport without my driver’s license which, PS, is still missing), things have...
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Exploring The Twilight Zone #146: I Am The Night – Color Me Black
With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with...
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The 2012 Oscar Nominees: Silent Films, Surprises and Scorsese
It’s been a year filled with silent screen stars seeking redemption, the 1920s coming alive in Paris, a young boy searching for the first great director, sex addicts in New York City, horses going to...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Our Time Is Up
Why Watch? The formidable Kevin Pollack shows off his drama and dead pan as a psychologist whose life is about to shift – which just might be the best thing for him and his troubled clients (a long...
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Sundance 2012 Review: Nasty, Toxic ‘Bachelorette’ Is ‘Bridesmaids’ for People...
We’ll get this out of the way right off the bat – Bachelorette is not Bridesmaids, though the film’s premise (three girls embark on a bachelorette party adventure for a bride they hate!) sounds like...
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Over/Under: Airplane! vs. National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1
The concept of satire has been around for a really long time. I’m sure it goes back to some famous Roman or something. But the modern spoof movie as we’ve come to understand it has much more recent...
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Culture Warrior: How the 70s Proved Mass-Marketing Wasn’t the Only Way to...
As much as I admire the incomparable films made during the era, New Hollywood (the term referring to innovative, risk-taking films made funded by studios from the mid-60s to the mid-70s) is a title...
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