Short Film Of The Day: The Thrilling, Must-See, Zombie-Fighting Action of...
Why Watch? Holy shit. This short film from Benjamin Howdeshell is the kind of thing that launches careers. It’s fantastic. The first sequence sells the entire film with a stark, violent visual and a...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Screenplay
Hey, who says there are no original ideas in Hollywood? Well, us actually, whenever we have to write about the next 80s-era television show getting a big screen reboot that no one on God’s green earth...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Actor
Each year, there’s a certain group of people who bemoan the Oscars (and pretty much every other organization’s awards) for being nothing but a popularity contest. They’re right, of course, but the...
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Fred Williamson Comes Back to Life in ‘Hell Up In Harlem’ to Hammer Home...
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; we take our Coffy black…and with six spoonfuls of Häagen-Dazs. You have just stumbled Across 110th Street and Hit! the internet’s most Boss bad movie column like a...
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: Fight Club
The Film: Fight Club (1999) The Plot: Our nameless Narrator (Edward Norton) works for a major auto manufacturer, investigating fatal crashes caused by product defects and running cost-benefit analyses...
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Review: ‘Gone’ Is Insipid, Stupid, and Destined to Inspire Plenty of Punny...
There’s always a very certain moment when you realize you’re watching a bad film. The magic of that moment comes from the small inkling of hope you have that the bad film you’re watching will turn out...
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32 Things We Learned From the ‘Requiem For a Dream’ Commentary
Before he taught Mickey Rourke how to wrestle or Natalie Portman how to Adagio, Darren Aronofsky was showing Jared Leto how to shoot up. Requiem For a Dream was the director’s second feature film – Pi...
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Review: The Navy SEALs of ‘Act of Valor’ Are American Heroes and Terrible Actors
If you’ve been paying attention to Act of Valor’s aggressive marketing campaign, you’re aware that it’s a fictional film starring real-life active-duty Navy SEALs that aims for as much realism as...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: February 24, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr fights a battle of wits between the stuffy and overly dramatic Oscar contenders that will be buzzing through the weekend and the genre-specific schlock that is being...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Score
As I note each week in Aural Fixation, music is one of the most important components in a film, providing the underlying emotion in certain scenes as well as the overall tone of a film. Creating this...
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Today in Rumors: Joel Kinnaman for ‘Robocop’ and Pitt, Renner, or Bardem for...
Do you guys even like hearing rumors straight out of Deadline Daytona Beach? Be honest. Is there value in them for you as movie fans? Do you feel like reporting chatter is just like being back in Film...
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Movie News After Dark: Star Trek 2, The Oscar Party Drinking Game and Martin...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly gathering of links that was almost known as Oscar News After Dark, but then its creators remembered that they only really care about he Oscars for about...
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Foreign Objects: ‘Four Flies on Grey Velvet’ (Italy)
I’ve spoken before about the highs of Dario Argento’s early career and how it sits in direct contrast to the abysmally depressing filmmaker he’s become in the last two decades. But his filmography...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actress
The other night I got into an almost knock-down fight with a colleague while we shared the stage on a Oscar panel over who we thought would win Best Supporting Actress this year. It’s not that we...
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The 12 Coolest Movie T-Shirts You Need To Own Right Now
This week, in place of the usual triptych of found items and a T-Shirt of the Week, Merch Hunter is dedicated entirely to the mighty tee, the single most versatile member of the wardrobe family. Why...
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Live-Blogging the Film Independent Spirit Awards From a Tent on the Beach
It’s the biggest weekend in Hollywood, so of course Film School Rejects will be reporting live from the scene – and this time, they actually let us in. Wait, no, not the Oscars, the Film Independent...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actor
A frustrated actor/director, a former alcoholic and bad father, an old man coming out as he approaches death, a mysterious and gentle mute, and a young whiz kid who may shake up the world of baseball...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Foreign Language Film
The Best Foreign Language Film category is an odd one in that most movie-goers (and probably most Academy members too) haven’t actually seen many of the nominees. Or in some cases, any of the...
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Interview: Jody Hill Discusses the Pain, Sadness, and Laughs of ‘Eastbound...
When you really think about it, Eastbound and Down is one of the HBO’s most depressing shows — no small feat. The hero’s journey Kenny Powers has been wandering through gets sadder and sadder with...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Director
Film directors are responsible for every single aspect of their movie. That doesn’t mean they actually do each and every task on set, but it’s their job (and prerogative) to get each element just...
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