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How ‘John Carter’ Succeeds Where the ‘Star Wars’ Prequels Failed
Director Andrew Stanton, being somewhat of the miracle worker that he is, has managed to capture the strengths of the original Star Wars trilogy while avoiding much of what was wrong with the prequels...
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Big Dog: ‘Frankenweenie’ to Release In IMAX
For a film that reportedly got a young Tim Burton fired from Disney, that same studio sure seems set on making Frankenweenie a big event film for them this autumn. Burton’s film, an expanded version...
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Leslie Mann and Israel Broussard Help Make ‘The Bling Ring’ Larger
Casting on Sofia Coppola’s new celebrity-obsessed crime movie The Bling Ring seems to be coming together quite quickly. It was just about a week ago we learned that Emma Watson had signed on to become...
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New ‘Cabin in the Woods’ Trailer May Get a Little Spoiler-iffic
By all accounts, one of the coolest things about Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s upcoming horror movie The Cabin in the Woods is that it’s layered with all sorts of surprises. So if you want to be able...
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‘A Separation,’ New Iranian Cinema, and The Epiphany of Truth
In the late 1990s, two quite divergent Iranian films were recognized on the Western stage. During the 1999 Academy Awards, Majid Majidi’s Children of Heaven, a touching Satyajit Ray-like neorealist...
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Anna Faris and Rose Byrne to Get Romantically Comedic in ‘I Give It A Year’
They always say that the first year of being married is the hardest. So hard, in fact, that watching newlyweds suffer through things can be pretty fertile grounds for comedy. Or at least that’s the...
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SXSW 2012: Exclusive Poster Debut for Premiering Documentary ‘The Source’
Documentaries done right serve a number of purposes for cinephiles – to educate, to inspire, to reflect, to synthesize – but my favorite brand of documentary has always been the kind that chronicles a...
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‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank Might Start Fresh For Drooling ‘Venom’ Movie
There was a time when Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick turned in scripts for it and a time when Hunger Games director Gary Ross was looking to direct, but the Spider-Man 4 implosion...
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Will a ‘Project X’ Sequel Suffer the Same Story Fate as ‘The Hangover 2′?
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Michael Bacall, co-screenwriter for Project X, has been hired to create a treatment for a possible sequel. Both producer Todd Phillips and Warners will get to...
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Review: Jennifer Westfeldt Is Three for Three with Warm and Witty ‘Friends...
At a certain age, everyone has them – people they love, friends they’ve grown up with, beloved compatriots that have turned into frazzled, mewling monsters. Let’s call them what they are – Friends...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: The Modern Made Antique in ‘Londoners’
Why Watch? To make his latest short, Joseph Ernst took a camera onto a London street. What makes it special, is the camera – a hand-cranked wooden beast that’s rocking 18 frames per second and coming...
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Is Julia Louis-Dreyfus Finally Starring in a Comedy Series that Isn’t Horrible?
Ah, Elaine Benes. The spastic dancing, the contraceptive sponge hoarding, the big wall o’ hair. She’s the Seinfeld character nearest to my heart, which speaks both to the deep admiration I have for...
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Reject Radio #124: Movie Piracy and Bloody Knuckles
Getting the other side of the piracy debate, I speak directly to an online pirate about why he does it and how he sees it. Plus, Goon co-writer Evan Goldberg talks hockey and the violence of comedy...
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Sewers, Horse Trailers, and Other Strange Places Movie Sex Takes Us
Last week the Academy Award-nominated Polish film, In Darkness, expanded its small limited release from LA and New York to a suburban art house near you following the award show’s exposure for the...
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Emily Watson and Company Add Some Girls to Cast of ‘Some Girls’
Just on the heels of the announcement that Kristen Bell had signed on to be the first of Adam Brody’s many ex-girlfriends in Some Girls, THR has a report that a whole bevy of additional actresses have...
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John Turturro Will Involve Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, and Sofia Vergara in...
John Turturro’s new effort as a writer and director, Fading Gigolo, sounds like a pretty fantastic story, and already it’s attracting a pretty fantastic cast. First, the story: Fading Gigolo tells the...
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Jake Gyllenhaal Revs Up Negotiations With Albert Hughes For ‘Motor City’
Albert Hughes’ next project, Motor City, is in a bit of a pickle. You see, Dominic Cooper was all set to star in the movie, playing a recently released prisoner going about the business of tracking...
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Michael Peña To Fight For Labor Rights as Cesar Chavez
Not to be hyperbolic, but this is the kind of role that earns Oscar nominations. Iconic public figure? Check. Oscar nominated screenwriter? Check. An actor capable of pulling off a rounded, difficult...
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Bryan Cranston Takes a Break From Cooking Meth To ‘Get a Job’
According to a press release, CBS Films has rounded up a fantastic cast for the upcoming movie Get A Job – which taps into the zeitgeist with frightening precision to tell the story of a group of...
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‘Father’s Day’ is the Best Anal Raping Ultra Violent Troma Gorefest in Decades
Troma is many things to many people. Scratch that. Troma is either one of two things to some people. If you grew up watching classic Troma flicks like The Toxic Avenger, Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, or Tromeo...
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