Oscar Night 2012 Live-Blog: Come Mock/Marvel At the Academy Awards With the...
With all the movie sites out there doing Live-Blogs of the 2012 Oscars, why join ours? For one, because you’ll get to voice your opinion. For two, our team’s opinions combined with yours are far more...
View Article2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Picture
The Best Picture Academy Award is really what explains film as a collaborative effort. The Best Picture is what the Academy has found to be the best combination of every aspect that film has, whether...
View ArticleWho We Predicted To Win the 2012 Oscars
In a couple of hours, we’ll start live-blogging our little hearts out as Neil pretends to know what “chiffon” is, and after the red carpet, we’ll sink into that fifth drink while reveling in the sheer...
View ArticleThe 2012 Oscar Winners
Editor’s Note: This article will be updated in real time as the winners come in during the Academy Awards broadcast. Please join us for our Live-Blog tonight (because we ask nicely), and while you...
View Article‘The Artist’ Winning Best Picture is Proof That Indie Movies are Taking Over
The Independent Spirit Awards and the Oscars never agree. Well, almost never. In 28 years of co-existing, the two organizations have only agreed once before – on Oliver Stone’s Platoon back in 1986....
View ArticleThe 87 Most Interesting Movies of the 2012 European Film Market (or 87 Movies...
There’s a solid chance that you haven’t heard of most of these movies. Yet they exist – out there somewhere as a thorn in the side of movie fans trying to see as much as possible. Nuggets of potential...
View ArticleBoiling Point: The 2012 Oscars – Everyone That Should Have Won and What’s...
The 84th Academy Awards have come and gone: let the bitching begin! As someone who is more of a genre fan than anything, I’ve never really cared too much about the Oscars, but that sure as hell...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: The Deadly Bathroom of Brain Killer’s ‘Inky Pinky’
Why Watch? Good old Chris Gore posted this micro-short up on twitter a while back, and it hit home (probably because of an unexplained fear of public restrooms). In it, a young pair of schoolgirl legs...
View ArticleRazzie Nominations Take Dead Aim at Adam Sandler and Happy Madison Productions
Let’s be honest here, the first time we all heard about Adam Sandler’s cross-dressing comedy, Jack & Jill, it was already clear that it was going to be an epically awful abomination that would...
View ArticleJonah Hill and James Franco to Star in An Unbelievable ‘True Story’
Fresh off their night of acting nominations for Moneyball, Jonah Hill and Brad Pitt are already planning on working together on another project. Not so much as co-stars though, this time around, Pitt...
View ArticleLea Seydoux Joins Same-Sex Relationship Dramedy ‘Blue Is a Hot Color’
Ever since French actress Lea Seydoux dropped my jaw playing back-to-back roles in Midnight in Paris and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, I’ve vowed to follow her career very closely. You see, it’s...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Act of Valor’ Leads the Weekend As Predicted
Act of Valor didn’t prove star power is everything when it comes to box office weekends – a good gimmick and some snazzy marketing will do the trick every time. Its $24.4m was slightly above our own...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: The Raid, Star Trek 2, Game of Thrones, Mad Men and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that’s coming off of a really great weekend. Live-blogging the Oscars with no pants on is the best decision it has made in a long time....
View ArticleWriters Taking a ‘Vacation’ Remake After Dealing With ‘Horrible Bosses’
According to Variety, the John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein writing team whose been crafting the words behind a remake of National Lampoon’s Vacation are now in talks to direct the film. It...
View ArticleJohn Lee Hancock Might Need a Spoonful of Sugar For Mary Poppins Movie...
Despite heavy popular and critical love toward The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock has been cautious to start a new project. He’s signed on for several, including a Denzel Washington-starring...
View ArticleThe ‘Johnny English Reborn’ Drinking Game
It’s been almost a decade since the first Johnny English movie tore up the box office internationally and fizzled on American soil. But with that international success, it was inevitable there would...
View ArticleLike Other Things, ‘Project X’ Finds Its (Quote) Whores Online
Movie studios have been using testimonials to market their films for years. Most frequently, they rely on professional film critics to supply pull quotes for use in advertising. While some of these...
View ArticleAustin Cinematic Limits: Comin’ At Ya! … Texas!
When Austin’s very own homegrown distributor Drafthouse Films signed on to distribute the 30th anniversary re-release of Comin’ At Ya! in the United States, I really wasn’t sure what to think. I had...
View ArticleOver/Under: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ vs. ‘Repo Man’
John Huston’s 1941 detective tale The Maltese Falcon gets credit for a lot of things. Not the least of which is the launching of both Huston’s career and the career of its star, Humphrey Bogart. It...
View ArticleThe Impossible Familiarization of Movies Bringing The Homefront Home
Editor’s Note: With Landon still celebrating Marcel Pagnol’s birthday, Cole was left to write this week’s entry. Please don’t riot. Every so often, The History Channel will play The Planet of the...
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