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Crowdfunding Documentary to be Crowdfunded
No, this isn’t an Onion article. Filmmaker Timon Birkhofer is currently planning Capital C, a movie about the crowdfunding movement made popular by Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and you. And what better way...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick has appeared in the credits for at least 17 films since his death in 1999. How is that possible? There’s a ton of people thanking him and making movies about him. His influence...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Bolero’ Turns a Fairy Tale Into Percussive Poetry
Why Watch? Borrowing Maurice Ravel‘s most famous work as a backdrop, writer/director Dennis Brucks tells a slow-motion fantasy about a young man living through a terrible home life and a young girl...
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Trailer for ‘Nesting’: Yes, Former Hipsters, You Can Go Home Again
Growing up is never easy, and it sure as hell doesn’t get any better when you’re convinced that your old life (and the younger version of you) was the better existence of the two. In John Chuldenko‘s...
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Review: Consuming and Confounding, ‘Sound of My Voice’ Will Haunt Audiences...
Co-writer and star of the stunning Sound of My Voice, Brit Marling has been poised to break out for over a year now. Marling is one of two emerging “it girl” female stars that lit up the 2011 Sundance...
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ActionFest Double Team Review: ‘Wonder Women!’ Punches Like a Girl and That’s...
In an attempt to shake things up a bit and pay a bit of homage to the amazing fight sequences we saw at ActionFest, Brian and I will go back and forth on these reviews in a kind of point for point...
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Making That Paper: Ben Schwartz Sells Pitch for ‘No Hearts Club’ to Universal
According to Deadline Pawnee, there’s good news coming down the pipe for everyone’s favorite big-haired club promoter. The outlet reports that Ben Schwartz (better known to everyone who enjoys...
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Robert Rodriguez Readies Panel Van-Inspired Feature ‘Fire and Ice’
Back last summer when Robert Rodriguez was talking about the projects he was cooking up for the future, most of the focus was on his prospective Sin City and Machete sequels. And, since then, both...
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Tribeca 2012: Win a Signed Poster from ‘The Giant Mechanical Man’ and Watch...
In filmmaker Lee Kirk‘s directorial debut, The Giant Mechanical Man, a love story unfolds between two directionless thirtysomethings whose unhappy lives are only exacerbated by their professional...
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Spike Jonze Will Trade You a Carey Mulligan for a Rooney Mara
Spike Jonze’s upcoming follow-up to Where the Wild Things Are doesn’t yet have a title, but it has a cast in place. Or, at least, it did. A while back we reported that Jonze’s next film was going to...
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Movie News After Dark: The World is Ending, Abed on Abed, Mondo Avengers and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s your hero. It knows what movie and entertainment news you need, and it delivers in the nick of time. That is, if the nick of time is late at night. If your nick of...
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Movie Icon of the Month: A Tribute to Stanley Donen
From On the Town to Royal Wedding to Singin’ in the Rain, Stanley Donen revolutionized movie musicals by making them truly cinematic. Instead of being anchored to the theater stage, he tossed those...
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Video: Real African Men vs. Hollywood Stereotypes
Okay, so admittedly, Hollywood movies have the ability/inclination to skew our visions of different ethnic groups. For years after seeing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I was convinced that...
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‘Adventure Time,’ ‘Regular Show,’ and the Good New Days of Children’s TV
Darkwing Duck, Doug, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko’s Modern Life, X-Men, Pepper Ann. The ’90s were the best time for animated children’s programming, right? But, of course, I was a kid in the ’90s,...
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32 Things We Learned From ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Commentary
The Commentary Commentary you are about to read is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths. Okay, not really, but there’s certainly a fair amount of slashing and running and...
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First Look: Leonardo DiCaprio Looks Evil in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django...
Inglourious Basterds was one of 2009′s best films, and depending on who you ask (re: me) it’s also writer/director Quentin Tarantino‘s finest film to date. His first real foray into a period piece...
View ArticleWatch: ‘The Hands of Hollywood’ Chronicles the World’s Most Famous Manual...
Why Watch? Someone had to play the hands of Bill Bixby just before turning into The Hulk. That man was Steve Hershon, a remarkably prolific hand insert model. This documentary is joyous in its trivia...
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‘The Smurfs 2′ Is Still a Thing; Film Adds New Cast Members and Starts...
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have just announced that production has kicked off on their inevitable “live-action/computer animated hybrid 3Dfamily comedy” sequel to last year’s smash...
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Seth Grahame-Smith Wants Your Summer to Be Bloodier (and More Gothic)
Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter don’t fit the bill of your average summer blockbuster. An adaptation of a slightly obscure soap opera about a vampire? We don’t see those often enough...
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Rooney Mara Sets Sail for Heartbreak in ‘Brooklyn’
After months of carefully choosing her next roles post-The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, star Rooney Mara has gone on a bit of a signing bonanza – at least, a Mara-sized bonanza. Though Mara earned an...
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