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Smuggle Some Booze with the ‘Contraband’ Drinking Game
Back when Contraband hit theaters earlier this year, it’s possible that some people tried to smuggle some adult beverages into their theater. Now that it’s on DVD and Blu-ray, there’s no need for an...
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’25th Reich’ Trailer is Campy Goodness with Hitler’s Nazi Time Machine
Meet your new fear: Time-Traveling Nazis. An band of Australian movie misfits has decided to continue the legacy of Brian Trenchard-Smith and other down under heroes of exploitation by sending Nazis...
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Catching Fire: Is the Best Director Always the Better Filmmaker?
Editor’s Note: With Landon Palmer busy (read: probably writing a thesis on Sexual Deviancy in John Wayne Films in the Greater Context of Post-WWII America As Seen Through the Work of Southern...
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Why ‘Anchorman 2′ Tackling Racial Diversity is a Great Thing
In the latest issue of Empire, writer/director/custodian Adam McKay explained that a sea of change was going to attack the news team from Channel Four in the upcoming Anchorman 2. After dealing with...
View ArticleWatch: ‘IRL – In Real Life’ Rises Defiantly Against World of Warcraft Addiction
Why Watch? In the opening seconds of IRL, a young man starts to list his World of Warcraft character’s achievements. It’s impressive at first, until the audio editing transforms the accolades into an...
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Does ‘What About Bob?’ Really Play the Unwanted Visitor Angle Better Than...
Though Frank Oz hasn’t meant much as a director in recent years, once upon a time he was a pretty successful go to guy. And his 1991 comedy, What About Bob?, is considered by many to be a modern...
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Watch the ‘Sound of My Voice’ Cult Try to Recruit New Members at Coachella
Few recent marketing campaigns have impressed me as profoundly as Fox Searchlight’s push for Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling‘s Sound of My Voice. The Sundance hit comes with a plotline that’s...
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The Globe-Trotting ‘Samsara’ Trailer Presents a Stunning Visual Exploration...
In 1982, Ron Fricke wrote, edited and directed photography for Koyaanisqatsi, a movie that’s become a modern experimental classic that sought to create a pure sensory experience beyond what narrative...
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Tom Cruise’s ‘One Shot’ Preview Hints That a Kick Ass Adaptation May Be...
Lee Child‘s Jack Reacher series of novels continue to hit the bestseller lists, and this December they’ll get their first crack at the box office when One Shot hits theaters. The film is about an...
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21 Things We Learned at ‘The Five-Year Engagement’ Junket
Dynamic duo Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel continue their tangled professional careers together in The Five-Year Engagement, unlike the last film in which the pair split writing, with Stoller...
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‘Lawless’ Trailer Packs the Punch of Potent Moonshine
Director John Hillcoat’s (The Road) upcoming project tells the tale of a family of Depression-era bootleggers coming under the scrutiny of a crooked and cutthroat authority. It’s adapted from a Matt...
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Owen Wilson Will Stage ‘The Coup’ With the Dowdle Brothers
Taking a decidedly dark turn in project choices after the success of the uber-charming Midnight in Paris and his recently-signed deals for comedies like Freezing People Is Easy and You Are Here, actor...
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Tribeca 2012 Reviews: ‘Headshot,’ ‘Caroline and Jackie,’ and ‘Double or Nothing’
It’s back to the Big Apple with another batch of some of the most compelling titles that this year’s Tribeca Film Festival has to offer. This time around, we’re zinging over to Thailand for an...
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Pixar Announces Projects About ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ Inside The Mind and Dia...
During all the festivities of CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week, the folks at Pixar announced several things. One being that their latest film Brave would help test Dolby’s Atmos format, a...
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Movie News After Dark: Kickass Ladies, RoboCop Love, Mel Gibson Nude, The...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column about movies and television and things that are said about movies and television. Sometimes it’s full of news. Sometimes it’s weird. It’s always...
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Darren Bousman Battles Depression with a ‘Carnival’
Calling in from a dirty van somewhere in the American south, Darren Bousman speaks with the kind of quiet calm that has seen the heights of horror success and the self-made sweat of passion projects...
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Jack White Adding Film Scoring to His Resume for ‘The Lone Ranger’
After years with The White Stripes (R.I.P.), collaborative projects like The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, an ex-wife/bandmate that everyone thinks is his sister, and now a new solo album, Jack...
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Tribeca 2012: Exclusive Poster Debut for Travis Fine’s ‘Any Day Now’
Inspired by an moving true story, Travis Fine‘s Any Day Now may be set in the ’70s, but the story’s elements feel like a story ripped from today’s headlines. The film stars Alan Cumming and Garret...
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Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci Swinging With ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Sequel...
Sony doesn’t need time to take a breath. They’re already planning on shooting the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man sometime in early 2013. That’s not set in stone of course (because, you know, the...
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Alamo Drafthouse and Film School Rejects Will Blow Texas Sky-High With a Very...
Perhaps the only thing that goes better with the Alamo Drafthouse than kick-ass movies are big, fiery explosions, so how convenient that, as part of this year’s epic Summer of 1982 screening series,...
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