Emma Watson to Help Form Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’
If you had bet that Sofia Coppola’s next film would deal with disaffected young women in some way, then it turns out you’re a big winner. And if you imagined it would be a look at the bored lives of...
View Article‘Neighborhood Watch’ Teaser Plays Like a Promo For a Great New TV Show
The first glimpse we’re getting of Akiva Schaffer’s star-studded new comedy Neighborhood Watch certainly isn’t giving us much of a look at what the plot is going to be—and I guess that’s why they call...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Mad Max, The Hunger Games, John Carter, Crazy Movie...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s difficult to explain, really. We do know what it isn’t: boring. We begin this evening with one of two images from the scene of the crime where George Miller’s Mad...
View Article‘Bernie’ Trailer: Everyone Loves Jack Black, Everyone Hates Shriley MacLaine...
Richard Linklater‘s latest film, Bernie, features Jack Black as a mustachioed mortician who all the townsfolk admire. His character is a people person, which is probably why he tries to make nice with...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Embarrassing Stories + Heavy Drinking + Puppets =...
Why Watch? You know that outrageous, embarrassing story about the time you thought Goldschläger wasn’t that alcoholic? Imagine it being retold and acted out by puppets. Strike that. Don’t imagine it....
View ArticleTales From Development Hell: Frank Darabont’s ‘Indiana Jones and the City of...
Building on the success of his previous book The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made, author David Hughes continues his quest to tell the stories behind cinema’s most famous, infamous and interesting...
View ArticleEvery Flavor Beans: 10 Of The Most Appetizing Scenes In Movies
Hunger is the reason mankind first decided to kill – one imagines. Surely, the first time someone domed a boar with a stick they didn’t do it just to be a dick about it. This is why when a movie does...
View Article40 Things We Learned From the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ Commentary
Zombies! Of all the movie about the walking dead, one of them continuously appears on the best of lists time after time after time. Okay, maybe more than one of them shows up all the time, but this...
View ArticleCoroner’s Report: The Dead
Ahh, zombies. In many ways, speaking of the entertainment world, the end has already arrived and we are overrun with zombies. Zombie comics, t-shirts, movies, toys, and television shows. I used to...
View ArticleAural Fixation: Where Are All The Female Composers?
I probably listen to more scores than most people (or even most film fans) do and I realized that while the various scores filling my iTunes range from action (LOUD NOISES!) to drama (sad guitars) to...
View ArticleReview: ‘Being Flynn’ Brings Suck City to Life With Another Stellar...
Welcome to “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,” or perhaps more appropriately, welcome to Being Flynn, complete with its own bullshit and own suckitude. Based on writer Nick Flynn‘s memoir (you...
View Article‘The Muppets’ Are Moving Right Along, But Leave Jason Segel Behind
There’s some good news and some bad news for fans of last year’s return of the Muppets to the big screen. Much of the thematic heft of Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller’s The Muppets script came from...
View Article‘Frankenweenie’ Trailer is Alive, Now Go Fetch
While Tim Burton’s recent live-action films have still been raking in gobs of cash, they’ve also taken a bit of a downturn in quality that have left longtime Burton fans feeling a bit cold. Affection...
View Article‘Despicable Me 2′ Teaser Trailer: The Minions Are Back to Their Old Nonsense
Couple of questions for you: are you full up on adorable teaser trailers for the day after that charming Frankenweenie spot? Or do you have room in your heart for more cute? Have you missed the...
View Article‘The Town’ Scribe Putting Pen to Paper for ‘Top Gun 2’
Momentum has been building behind a potential Top Gun sequel for quite some time now, but up until this point the only news about the project has been rumor and hypotheticals. What’s clear is that...
View ArticleSony Pictures Classics Buys ‘West of Memphis’ Documentary
Though it’s taking longer than most would have expected, Sundance doc West of Memphis has been picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics. The deal has been buzzed about since the film...
View ArticleDaniel Espinosa to Direct Gritty ‘The Outsider’ Next
Looks like Hollywood has picked their next big action director, and they’re not wasting much time setting him up with his next project. Daniel Espinosa likely made Universal very happy with his first...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Only God Forgives, Dead Alive, Senna, The Hunger...
What is Movie News After Dark? Usually it’s a recap of what’s happening in the world of film. But on a slow news day such as today with FSR news teamers like Nathan Adams having already done that,...
View ArticleFull ‘ParaNorman’ Trailer: He’s Not Like Other Kids
The latest film from the makers of Coraline, Laika’s ParaNorman has a lot to live up to – fortunately, the studio’s next film looks to be just as sweet, funny, and damn dark as their first. Starring...
View Article‘The Cat o Nine Tails’ May Be Dario Argento’s Most Generically Competent...
Last week’s installment of Foreign Objects took a look at the third film in Dario Argento’s so-called “animal trilogy,” Four Flies on Grey Velvet. Why start with the third film and not the first? No...
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