This Valentine’s Day, Let Us Help You Score a Movie Date (Seriously)
Over the years — going on six as of next week, if you can believe that — Film School Rejects has attempted to provide many great services to our expansive international readership. We’ve brought you...
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival Review: ‘Iron Sky’ is a Blitzkrieg of Boring Bad
The promise of Iron Sky is a great and wondrous one. It’s Moon Nazis. Moon Nazis, people. Swirl it around in your mind for a moment. Those two words alone should put enough fuel in the car to get it...
View ArticleInterview: A Moment with ‘West of Memphis’ Subject John Mark Byers
I interview a lot of people — it’s part and parcel to the job of entertainment journalism. It’s not generally my favorite thing, as I’m almost always more interested in writing about my film...
View ArticleBetter Know a Reject: Get Intimate with Sex Columnist Gwen Reyes
It’s been a while since we’ve published an edition of Better Know a Reject, our sometimes series that focuses on the personalities behind the wonderful content you read every day here on FSR, but that...
View ArticleJane Goldman Talks ‘X-Men: First Class’ Sequel and the World of ‘Nonplayer’
X-Men: First Class ended up being the miracle of last summer. With the quick production schedule and the less-said-about-it-the-better X3 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, who would’ve thought we’d get the...
View ArticleJunkfood Cinema: The Human Tornado (Blaxploitation History Month)
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; Truck Turner isn’t just what we call Brian when Tacos-On-Wheels runs out of Baja sauce. Welcome back suckas, to the Internet’s freshest bad movie column; this month...
View ArticleReview: ‘Once Upon a Time In Anatolia’ Is An Engaging 90-Minute Character...
The average movie run time is somewhere around the ninety minute mark. (I have no stats to back that statement up, but it feels about right.) There are several reasons for this, but the two most...
View ArticleSony Drops ‘The Boys,’ But Adam McKay’s PG-13 Adaptation is Still Alive
Like Garth Ennis’s Preacher, it’s hard to imagine a series like The Boys having an easy time making it to the big screen. It’s dark, unconventional, brutal, and funny in ways most people wouldn’t deem...
View ArticleSF IndieFest Review: ‘Finisterrae’ Teases Something, Anything of Interest,...
The 14th Annual SF IndieFest runs February 9th-23rd at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Check out the official site for further film details. Two Russian ghosts, brothers tired of a life that is...
View ArticleSF IndieFest Review: ‘Still Life’ Is a Quietly Devastating Look At the...
The 14th Annual SF IndieFest runs February 9th-23rd at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Check out the official site for further film details. A man named Gerhard writes and narrates his...
View ArticleBoiling Point: What Happened to Our Sense of Humor?
They say laughter is the best medicine and well, world, I’m dying here. I need my medicine. I need to laugh. I need to be entertained, but it seems every time I try to chuckle these days, someones...
View Article‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Trailer Shows Us the Non-Boring Side of...
Unlike our own Kate Erbland, I don’t loathe Seth Grahame-Smith‘s writing with every fiber of my body. In fact, I quite like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a book that’s less tongue-in-cheek than...
View ArticleAustin Cinematic Limits: What Are You Doing On Valentine’s Day?
Okay, I’ll come right out and say it: I really hate Valentine’s Day. It’s just another Hallmark holiday that was created to give retailers a huge boost in sales during what would otherwise be a slow...
View ArticleInterview: Ben Foster Discusses Finding a Character, Producing, and ‘Rampart’
Over two years ago we got to see a whole new side of Ben Foster. With director Oren Moverman‘s The Messenger, Foster gave a quiet and powerful performance, right next to Woody Harrelson, who also...
View ArticleWeekly DVD Drinking Game: Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Whether you actually want to see Human Centipede or its sloppy sequel Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), which hits DVD and Blu-ray this week, you’re definitely aware of the movies. If you didn’t...
View ArticleAdam Scott May Co-Star In ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’
After a good number of years chugging along as a “that guy” actor and doing small parts in films and a handful of episodes of a TV show here and there, things finally seem to be working out for Adam...
View ArticleTom Cruise’s ‘Oblivion’ Poaches ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Nicolaj Coster-Waldau
Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s upcoming sci-fi project Oblivion has grown in hype quite a bit since it was first announced. Mostly that’s due to the fact that Tom Cruise signed on to be its...
View ArticleMichael Mann Negotiating for ‘The Big Stone Grid’ Director Gig
Once upon a time, Michael Mann was on my list of directors whose work I always anticipate. His status in my eyes has been diminished a bit over the course of the last decade, but every once in a while...
View ArticleGuillermo Del Toro to Direct Yet Another New Spin on ‘Beauty and The Beast’
If this year is going to be the year of revisionist Snow White tales (what with both Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror hitting screens, and that Order of Seven film still getting worked...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Swag, TMNT Strawberries, Dr....
What is Movie News After Dark? God only knows, but I’m pretty sure we’re going to need a bigger boat… We begin by shining our big ass MNAD spotlight on short filmmaking. Director BenDavid Grabinski‘s...
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