Joss Whedon-Penned Romance ‘In Your Eyes’ Finds Its Leads
If you just go by the plot synopsis and cast list, In Your Eyes sounds like an indie sci-fi romance that might be good, might be bad, but will probably come and go without getting much fanfare. But...
View ArticleTony Scott May Ask Vince Vaughn to Channel His Inner Action Star For ‘Lucky...
If you look at Tony Scott’s IMDB page, the first thing you notice is that he has 31 movies listed as being in development. This is a guy who really likes to talk about what he might be doing next, so...
View ArticleTrailer for ‘Intruders’: Prepare to Get Your Face Scared Off
Either the mulitple-impling title of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo‘s Intruders is not entirely apt, or marketing for the film is playing some serious tricks on us. Titles aside, the 28 Weeks Later helmer is...
View ArticleTrailer for ‘The Snowtown Murders’: Enter a World of Moral Nightmare
By the time you reach the minute-forty mark of the new trailer for Justin Kurzel‘s The Snowtown Murders (previously known just as Snowtown), when a pullquote from the Financial Times about the film...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Acceptable Movie Heckling, Moore vs Weinstein, Spidey...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s all the movie news that’s fit to print. So, please, print it out and read it on your morning commute. The videos are especially effective that way. We begin this...
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival Review: ‘Headshot’ is Confused But Not Concussive
Based on Win Lyovarin‘s novel, Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) is a noir assassin story that features a killer who takes a bullet to the brain – leaving him seeing the world upside down. Considering that...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Simplicity and Cinematography on Display in ‘A Sure...
Why Watch? This short from Lawrence Bourke shrugs off the challenges of small talk and quick poignancy as if they couldn’t have possibly caused problems for a quaint story. Although it feels at first...
View ArticleAural Fixation: The Sweet Movie Sounds of Modern Romance
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day (which I know came and went two days ago, but I wanted to keep the romance going) I decided to get into the spirit of things by looking not just into romantic movies,...
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears’ is a...
Based on title alone, would you go see a movie called The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears? Probably not. It sounds like the kind of bland puffery that consists mainly of scenes where groups of women...
View ArticleCoroner’s Report: Undocumented
The horror genre gets a bad rap. Virtually all horror movies are dismissed out of hand when it comes to having something to say. Who can take a message out of all that blood and violence? Well when...
View Article10 Great Stories Told Within Movies
While you’ll see that I’m giving myself a lot of leeway in the following list (one of the ten isn’t even technically a film), the general idea is that the list that follows singles out films that go...
View ArticleReject Radio #121: Flickchart and the Mathematics of a Best Movie
After two years of operation, Flickchart has gathered an incredible amount of information supplied by movie fans on what their favorite movies are. On the cusp of finding out what “the best movie of...
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About These Casting Rumors for Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’
Last night, my Twitter feed coughed out a story from THR, an exclusive report about casting rumors for Lee Daniels‘ (Precious) potential next project, The Butler. At the time, I was too stunned (and...
View ArticleConfirmed: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts Will Play Mother/Daughter Duo in...
This is big news for people who like super famous actresses. August: Osage County is an adaptation of a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play of the same name. It tells the story of Violet, the...
View Article‘John Carter’ Movie Images: A Massive Martian Gallery Filled with Sexiness,...
Do you have some interest in seeing more from Disney’s upcoming sci-fi adventure John Carter? Chances are that you do, as many of you are probably the types who are (a) familiar with the century-old...
View ArticleJennifer Aniston and Dennis Quaid Negotiating for ‘Switch,’ That ‘Jackie...
A quick search of the site archives tells me that we haven’t done much reporting on the upcoming movie Switch yet, and that’s kind of a shame because it’s an interesting project for a number of...
View ArticleFantastic Review: ‘Michael’ is Like Watching Satan Brush His Teeth
Editor’s note: This review was originally published as part of our Fantastic Fest 2011 coverage on October 11, 2011. But since most of you have not yet had the chance to watch the devil himself...
View ArticleFantastic Review: ‘Bullhead’ Is Damn Near a Masterpiece
Editor’s note: This review was originally published as part of our Fantastic Fest 2011 coverage on October 16, 2011. But because this bonafide FSR favorite is hitting limited theaters this Friday,...
View ArticleAustin’s Alamo Drafthouse Theater Heads West to…San Francisco!
Today has been a pretty fantastic day for me in regard to movie-related news. First, I received an incredibly hard to find DVD of one of my favorite films of 2010, Sound of Noise, complete with...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Foreign Action Films, ‘Hunger Games’ Omissions, Tim...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the ketchup on your ice cream. Good evening and welcome back! We’ll begin with a piece from film critic and feline advocate Scott Weinberg who’s compiled a list of...
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