Movie News After Dark: Sherlock’s Irene, Peter Weller, Sons of Anarchy, Rango...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that had one hell of an extended weekend this week. For starters, its author had a birthday. He’s old. Moving on. And then it had a...
View ArticleExploring The Twilight Zone #118: On Thursday We Leave for Home
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...
View ArticleInterview: David Gordon Green Talks Breakfast Tacos, Egos, and the...
David Gordon Green is one of those rare filmmakers who has the comic power to make fairly despicable or unlikable characters oddly sympathetic, and oddly, likable . While Green believes everyone in...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Spin
Why Watch? DJ as destiny. People as Rube Goldberg device. Jamin Winans came out of nowhere (seemingly) to amaze with Ink, but this is the short film that got him the attention he deserved in the first...
View ArticleAural Fixation: The Past vs. The Present – ‘Hugo’ and the Landscape of Modern...
This year has brought us back to classic filmmaking from the silent film era with The Artist to the fantasy adventure Hugo, which recalled classic film moments (as The Film Stage rounded up here). The...
View ArticleExploring The Twilight Zone #119: Passage on the Lady Anne
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...
View ArticleIs Guy Ritchie Going to Direct ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’?
Well, this is certainly going to make my piece about the Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows (coming next week! only here at Film School Rejects!) press conference a touch more interesting. Deadline...
View ArticleBecause You Asked For It: Lionsgate Readying ‘American Psycho’ Remake
Fine, maybe you didn’t ask for it, but someone did! Incidentally, the person who wrote the film and wants to direct it! Weird, right? Commercial director (and second unit director for The Social...
View ArticleBonus Weekly DVD Drinking Game: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’
Just in time for the gift-giving season, the studios have dropped a large number of big name DVDs and Blu-rays on the marketplace. Many of these are the would-be blockbusters from this past summer,...
View ArticleAnd Now It’s Time for Tom Cruise to Talk ‘Top Gun 2’
Talks of a sequel to Top Gun have been happening for at least over a year now. It’s clear that at some level, someone from Paramount is trying to make this happen. Details on the project have been...
View ArticleForeign Objects: ‘My Piece of the Pie’ (France)
The global recession we currently find ourselves in has many causes, but one of the more obvious ones has to do with the machinations and maneuverings of the men and women who work in the financial...
View ArticleAlexandre Aja to Direct ‘Horns,’ a Story by Stephen King’s Own Hellspawn
Finally, a day that I’ve been waiting quite a while for has come. There’s word on what director Alexandre Aja’s next horror project is going to be. If you don’t know Aja, he’s the guy responsible for...
View Article7 Random Cameos By Directors In Films That They Didn’t Direct
It’s one thing when we’re talking about Alfred Hitchcock having a walk-through in every single one of his films, including one that exclusively takes place on a lifeboat (he appears in a newspaper ad...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Sitter’ Resurrects the Babysitting Comedy to Questionable Results
Filmmaker David Gordon Green continues his strange journey through ’80s cinematic iterations with The Sitter, which resurrects the babysitting comedy form most famously portrayed in the minor classic...
View ArticleThe Reject Report Drops the Ball
Like a mic. Drop the ball. Walk off the stage. Oh, I guess you have to say something witty or snarky before that, don’t you? Well how about some box office analysis? We’ve got two big hitters opening...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Uncle Jack
Why Watch? A little girl’s bedtime story, told while bullets fly. I featured another Jamin Winans film yesterday, but there’s no reason not to check out more – especially when Winans cuts to the chase...
View ArticleReview: ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ Has Problems Beyond Its Poor...
There are few human connections as assured and indelible as the bond between a mother and her child. At least, that’s what we’re led to believe. But what happens when that connection simply isn’t...
View ArticleReview: Glittery and Hollow ‘New Year’s Eve’ Is Purely for Amateurs
Here’s something sort of bizarre – director Garry Marshall and writer Katherine Fugate‘s latest star-crammed desecration of random, non-religious holidays is not monumentally or irremediably terrible....
View ArticleHow to Find Love During the Holidays (According to the Movies)
Oh, the holidays. That time of year when everyone wants to stay indoors, cuddle up on the couch, and lose themselves in the arms of another person. Hot cocoa, pot roast, and an endless supply of...
View Article35 Things We Learned From ‘The Iron Giant’ Commentary
“Supermaaaaaan…” Be honest. It got a little dusty in your room reading that and thinking of The Iron Giant. You teared up a bit. It’s okay. It happens to all of us. I’m sure it even happens to...
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