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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘My Brother the Devil’ is All in the Details
With its social pressures and troubled definitions of manhood backed into a corner, Sally El Hosaini‘s My Brother the Devil gropes toward acceptance with two characters seeking to define or redefine...
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Berlin Film Festival Review: James Marsh’s ‘Shadow Dancer’ Is a Thriller...
The image of the bomb is an apt one for Shadow Dancer. As a hunk of parts with a timer, there’s nothing naturally threatening about a bomb; it’s the explosion that matters. Hitchcock was right, and in...
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Gina Carano to Kick More Ass and Get Her Hands Dirty ‘In the Blood’
In 2009, Steven Soderbergh took Sasha Grey, a non-actress (unless you consider receiving a load to be emotional construction), and turned her into an indie darling for a brief moment. She’s since...
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Marlon Wayans to Spoof Found Footage with ‘Smart Ass’
According to Variety, Marlon Wayans will be co-directing and starring in Smart Ass – a piss take on the found footage genre. His last attempt in a long line of spoofs was the aggressively average...
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Culture Warrior: The Importance of Honoring Motion Capture Performances
The performance was so compelling, and the digital handiwork so real, that critics believed it would be a huge oversight if the Academy didn’t find a way to recognize this historical milestone....
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: The Dry Sci-Fi Hilarity of ‘Cost of Living’
Why Watch? This is unbridled awesome. BenDavid Grabinksi‘s sharp short film features Brandon Routh (semi-extending his Scott Pilgrim swagger) and Bret Harrison as two security guards who work for a...
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This Week In DVD: February 14th
Welcome back to This Week In DVD, and happy Valentine’s Day you sexy sons of bitches! In honor of the holiday I’ve themed this week’s pitches to the idea of love. As in if you love the environment you...
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Max Minghella and Eloise Mumford Are ‘Not Safe For Work’ in Joe Johnston’s...
Director Joe Johnston has chosen to follow up his big-budget superhero flick, last summer’s Captain America: The First Avenger, with a new “micro-budgeted thriller” that will, unfortunately, be pretty...
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‘Damsels in Distress’ Trailer Sees Whit Stillman’s Return to Directing
Whit Stillman was basically the king of the indies back in the 90s. The decade saw him release Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco, three movies about the young upper crust that got...
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Watch the First Two Minutes of Sundance Hit ‘Sound of My Voice,’ Plus Snappy...
To say that I have been eagerly anticipating Zal Batmanglij‘s Sound of My Voice is the understatement of the year. I’ve been rabid about seeing this thing ever since it premiered at last year’s...
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Over/Under: ‘The Notebook’ vs. ‘Lars and the Real Girl’
Today is Valentine’s Day, and a big part of what that entails is time spent thinking about the one you adore. And, for me, it means thinking about romantic movies. So what has happened is I’ve found...
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Billy Bob Thornton May Dish About Angelina Jolie in ‘And Then We Drove’
Back in 1996 when Billy Bob Thornton directed his first feature, Sling Blade, I thought that he had made his mark and was going to become one of the big directors working in Hollywood. That never...
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Movie News After Dark: ‘Snow White’ Creatures, ‘Drive’ Valentines, Criterion...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s candy-colored hearts, bright-blooming flowers, lovable links, rainbows just doing whatever the hell it is rainbows do, heartwarming stories, woods-dwelling...
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Interview: Linda Cardellini Talks Character Flaws, the Power of Silence, and...
The premise of Return lends itself quite easily over to the plot synopsis of a Lifetime movie. Conveying the unsteady returning home of a soldier isn’t exactly breaking new ground, and it’s not the...
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Reluctant Revolutionary’ Captures the...
After last year’s Arab Spring, there will undoubtedly be a host of documentaries and narrative projects with Middle Eastern revolution chanting from their cores. It will be interesting to see how well...
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‘Twisted Metal’ Movie Gets a Solo Brian Taylor
If the name Brian Taylor doesn’t ring a bell immediately, it’s because “Brian” is usually left off, and “Neveldine” is usually in its place. The writer/director has made two Crank movies, Gamer, Jonah...
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‘REC 3: Genesis’ Trailer Wishes You A Bloody Valentine
Of all the movies I wish I had a Berlinale Market Badge for, REC 3: Genesis probably topped the list. The first was pee-inducing, the second one was so scary that one of my testicles jumped back into...
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Lands a Directing Titan
Back when it was first announced that Platinum Dunes had plans to put together a new live action Ninja Turtles movie, Neil Miller found himself pondering what sort of picture they intended to make....
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Berlin Film Festival: ‘Bestiaire’ is the Zoo Made Into Modern Art Museum (or...
Before the screening of Bestiaire, writer/director/producer Denis Côté relayed a story about an audience member who approached him at Sundance and told him that she felt like the movie was less about...
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Comic Book Creator Kaare Andrews to Direct ‘Cabin Fever’ Prequel
Everybody remembers the 2002 horror film Cabin Fever; it was the movie that made you fall either in love or hate with Eli Roth. And it was a movie about a bunch of kids in a cabin who get stricken...
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