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Review: ‘Coriolanus’ Is An Accomplishment Worthy of Its Shakespearean Bloodline
Let me start by confessing that I was a Theater and English major and have spent much of my academic career studying the works of the bard. William Shakespeare‘s plays were written as entertainment...
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Second ‘Battleship’ Trailer Transforms Into Something Derivative
The first glimpse we got of Peter Berg’s upcoming board game adaptation (it hurts me somewhere deep to have to type those words) played a little coy with us, and at first made it look like the film...
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Holly Hunter Cast in Diablo Cody’s Directorial Debut
Diablo Cody’s upcoming inaugural effort as a director has yet to get a title, but it now has an Oscar winner in its cast. The Julianne Hough-starring film about a religious young woman who loses her...
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A Very Junkfood Christmas: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; slippery when festive. You and your intrepid team of reindeer, who may or may not be aerial yaks, have flown your sleigh past the mountains of good taste and...
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How to Catch Santa Claus (According to the Movies)
In schoolyards around the world, the debate continues to rage: Is Santa Claus real? Or is he just some concept concocted by parents to keep kids in line year-round? Even us adults can remember having...
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Short Film Of The Day: Tim Burton’s ‘Vincent’
Why Watch? Early Tim Burton, late Vincent Price, and a stop-motion nursery rhyme for the gruesome ones. This 1982 team-up between Burton and Price was one of the director’s last short films before...
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Interview: Michael Shannon Talks ‘Take Shelter,’ Religion, Letting Go...
You’ve seen Michael Shannon before. Many times before. Similar to screen veterans Chris Cooper or Dylan Baker, Shannon is one of those actors who has had an extended career in front of the camera long...
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2011 Black List Packed Full of Scripts Not Based on Board Games
Franklin Leonard’s Black List has become something of a cultural phenomenon, and for good reason. Every year he compiles the list, a compendium of the best scripts that are floating around Hollywood...
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Charlotte Gainsbourg Willing to Go Hardcore for Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’
Anyone who saw the disturbing things actress Charlotte Gainsbourg was willing to do in Antichrist to get director Lars von Trier’s vision up on the screen knows that she isn’t a shy woman. But it...
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David Gordon Green’s ‘Suspiria’ Remake Has a Script, But Needs a Green Light
Indie director turned studio comedy director David Gordon Green has been talking about doing a remake of Dario Argento’s cult horror classic Suspiria for a couple years now. Back in March of this year,...
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Movie News After Dark: Rise of the Apes Mural, Sherlock Returns, Nolan Speaks...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a thing that chronicles the day in movie news. Or in many cases, a day’s worth of interesting articles that you should be reading. If you want a bunch of trade news...
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‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Trailer Seeks to Prove More Explosions and a New Cast...
Channing Tatum is back as Duke, Ray Park is in as Snake Eyes, and Lee Byung-hung is reprising his role as Storm Shadow, but that’s about all the true connective tissue you’ll find between G.I. Joe:...
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Eli Roth Might Be Directing ‘Hemlock Grove’ Episodes for Netflix
Netflix is really jumping envelope first into the production game, having already set up deals to bring David Fincher and Kevin Spacey’s House of Cards, Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black and more...
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The Holiday Gift Guide: 18 Great Books for Movie Lovers
It may shock you to realize that you, dear reader, are a reader. You are reading this right now! Bizarre, right? And, if you can read things on the Internet, you can certainly read things that come in...
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Short Film Of The Day: Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Two Solutions For One Problem’
Why Watch? Master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami delivered the Israeli/Palestinian problem as a schoolyard fight back in 1975, but its message and meaning still resonate today. Especially almost a year...
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Over/Under: ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ vs. ‘Hud’
Over the course of the second half of the 20th century ,an entire cottage industry sprung up around sticking James Dean’s face on things and selling them. Shirts, posters, coffee mugs, license plates,...
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‘Rock of Ages’ Trailer: Yup, Everyone Had Terrible Hair in the Eighties
UPDATED: Hello, musical theatrics! Director Adam Shankman‘s take on Broadway hit Rock of Ages will undoubtedly be slick, highly produced, loud, melodramatic, and positively crammed with toe-tapping...
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‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ to Ruin Christmas One Day Earlier
Looks like Sony’s official bid to make you happy you’re not a member of a twisted and wealthy Swedish clan of apparent criminals is coming a day early! That’s right, “the feel-bad” movie of Christmas...
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Suddenly, An Awards Show Worth Watching: Seth Rogen to Host Film Independent...
In the mire and bog of awards season, suddenly – a bright light. A shining grin. A guffawing laugh. A grown man that looks like Fozzie Bear? Sign me up! Film Independent (the non-profit arts...
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‘Burt Macklin, Navy SEAL: The Movie’: Chris Pratt Up for Lead in Kathryn...
For their latest juicy (and exciting) scoop, Twitch reports that Chris Pratt is in talks for “the lead role” in Kathryn Bigelow‘s upcoming Navy SEAL true life tale (often referred to by Kill Bin Laden,...
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