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Sundance 2012 Review: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ Puts On a Show For the End...
From the film’s opening, it is clear that while LCD Soundsystem may be over, they certainly went out with one hell of a goodbye party. The decision to end the band was more than surprising to their...
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‘Lockout’ Trailer Mixes Sci-Fi Fun With Prison Movie Grit
The teaser trailer for the upcoming Guy Pearce vehicle Lockout (formerly Lock-Out) gave us a glimpse at the rogue charm Pearce has mustered up in the lead role, but it didn’t let us in on much of what...
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Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener to Tackle Charlie Kaufman Material Again in...
Charlie Kaufman’s directing followup to Synecdoche, New York has been in the casting stage for a while now, and already it has compiled an impressive core of male actors. Names like Steve Carrell,...
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Disney Adds to its Sci-Fi Focus with Spec Script from ‘Chronicle’ Writer Max...
The found fauxtage superhero flick Chronicle comes out next week, but Max Landis has already lined up his next project over at Disney. According to Variety, The Mouse has taken the bait on a space...
View ArticleWatch the Deal Go Down in a Scene from Slamdance Winner ‘Welcome to Pine...
Welcome to Pine Hill, the first feature film from Keith Miller, has won the Grand Jury Sparky Award for Feature Narrative at Slamdance. The film focuses on former drug dealer Shannon (Shannon Harper)...
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37 Things Learned From the ‘Hard Candy’ Commentary
In honor of our brave rejects battling the snowy terrain and darkened theaters of Sundance, we felt it best to revisit a recent breakout hit from the film festival. As luck would have it, a shiny,...
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Reject Report, The Grey
Not to be confused with Reject Report, The White, which is what happens after we do battle with the Balrog. Reject Report, The White is never NEVER wrong. But in our current form we have to take into...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Jim Henson’s ‘Robot’
Why Watch? If it’s part creepy and part endearing, it must be from Jim Henson, right? io9 keenly celebrated this find from the ATT Tech Youtube channel – a short created by Henson in 1963 for a...
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Review: ‘The Grey’ Is Adventure Done Right With Action, Drama, a Pissed-Off...
The man vs nature genre of action/adventure films is usually a pretty reliable one when it comes to attractive scenery and entertaining scraps between man and beast. From the popcorn perfection of...
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent and logical amongst us know signifies the day the world...
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‘Terminator 5’ Will Be Rated R, Reaffirming Megan Ellison’s Awesomeness
Normally I’m not a very big fan of the way rich people spend their money, but Megan Ellison got in my good graces the minute I heard about her existing by starting up Annapurna Pictures and lending...
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John Hawkes Talks About His Method While Working On ‘The Surrogate’
John Hawkes has quickly became one of my favorite actors by giving my favorite supporting performances of the last two years. First he was the oddly intimidating Uncle Tear Drop in 2010’s Winter’s...
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Sundance 2012 Review: Trade In Your Ironic T-Shirts For a Dose of Emotion in...
Brook (Dominic Bogart) is not a hipster – he may wear deep V-neck t-shirts, plaid and have an overwhelmingly self-deprecating attitude, but a hipster he is not (or so the title of this film claims.)...
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Sundance 2012 Review: Unfulfilling ‘Goats’ Comes of Age with No Real Weight...
Ellis (Graham Phillips) has grown up in a less-than-average household. Ellis lives in Tuscan, Arizona with his mother Wendy (Vera Farmiga) who is a free spirit and relies on Ellis to make sure their...
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Sundance 2012 Review: ‘Nobody Walks’ Turns the Standard Homewrecker Story On...
The notion that nobody walks places in Los Angeles is one of the biggest L.A. clichés, right up there with the belief that Southern California is populated by beautiful sunglasses-wearing people who...
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This Week in Blu-ray: 50/50, Woody Allen, Wings, Hitchcock, Real Steel and...
This Week in Blu-ray may be coming to you a few days later than usual, but fear not, as it was worth the wait. Fox and MGM decided to drop a number of great films on me at the last minute, meaning...
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‘Act of Valor’ Featurette Ups the Testosterone Factor With Real Bullets
The upcoming Relativity Media release Act of Valor looks like it could be a pretty balls-out fun time in terms of action film, but I’m sure everyone has some hesitation about one of the film’s biggest...
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Review: ‘One for the Money’ Wallows in Mediocrity
For those of you who may not be aware, this weekend’s new release One for the Money is based on a series of books about struggling bounty hunter Stephanie Plum written by Janet Evanovich. I’ve read...
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Sundance 2012 Review: ‘Shadow Dancer’ Keeps You in the Dark for Too Long
Collette McVeigh seems to be a fairly normal little girl, creating beaded necklaces and bribing her younger brother into running a quick errand for their father that she does not want to do herself....
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: January 27, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr tapes some alcohol bottles to his knuckles and gets ready to brawl with wolves. Unfortunately, he first drinks all the booze in the bottles and ends up passing out in the...
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