‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Final Trailer Promises a Spectacular Finish
Along with Cole Abaius, I was quite taken with pure popcorn joy of The Avengers. Walking out of the theater one cannot imagine any blockbuster delivering a level of fun at that caliber. Plenty of...
View ArticleThis Week In DVD: Gina Carano Faces Off Against Felicity and We All Win
Welcome back to This Week In DVD! It’s a light release week, but some of the titles include Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, the WB’s Felicity, a Bosnian dramedy, a really bad Sammo Hung movie and more!...
View ArticleThe 8 Must-See Movies of May 2012
Finally, readers, the summer movie season is upon us. So far this year has been solid, but sorely lacking in mega-blockbusters. John Carter did not deliver for the fifteen people who saw it and The...
View ArticleTerry Crews Commands You To Be Excited About ‘The Expendables 2′
Terry Crews is not f*%king around with you, man. Or lady. In an announcement teaser for the upcoming release of the full trailer for The Expendables 2, the action star has taken to the YouTube with...
View Article12 Things We Learned at ‘The Avengers’ Press Conference
The Avengers the film needs no introduction, and that’s mainly because The Avengers themselves need no introduction. A dream team of superheroes and superallies, The Avengers first appeared in the...
View ArticleBeautiful and Dream-like ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Trailer Mates Spike...
Beasts of the Southern Wild received mostly acclaim from its Sundance debut earlier this year with several critics already calling it the best film of 2012. Our own Kevin Kelly called it “magical and...
View ArticleGary Ross Challenges His ‘Hunger Games’ Successor Francis Lawrence to a...
The world was shocked when, after directing the biggest financial success of his career with The Hunger Games, Gary Ross decided to pass on making the sequel, Catching Fire. Does he hate money? No, it...
View ArticleTony Gilroy Says ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Will Present “A Wider Horizon” to...
The Bourne Legacy is not only one of the most highly-anticipated films of the summer, it’s a unique chance to revisit the blockbuster franchise with a different star at the helm. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleWill Oscar Nominee Demián Bichir’s Two New Projects Finally Get You to...
Demián Bichir is the sort of actor who’s been doing great work for a while now, but who has still failed to achieve mainstream recognition. When he got a high profile role playing Fidel Castro in...
View ArticleHot Docs Review: ‘Off Label’ Shows You The Reality Of Human Pharmaceutical...
Off Label, the new documentary from Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher (October Country), investigates the epidemic of skyrocketing prescription drug use in America – more specifically, how medications...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: In Which The Avengers Take Over, Come to the Rescue
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column that serves at the pleasure of the internet’s biggest film nerds. Currently those nerds are waiting with baited breath for the release of The...
View Article‘The Amazing Spider-Man’: The Clearest Look at The Lizard Yet
It’s funny how desperate the anticipation for a movie can make some people. Months ago, when blurry images of plastic toy prototypes leaked onto the internet, some went nutty trying to find them and...
View ArticleMarvel’s Pre-Assembled Avengers and How Movies are Affecting Comic Books
Did you hear? Did you hear? Go tell Paul Revere! Joss Whedon and Marvel’s The Avengers is out this weekend which marks the beginning of the summer and an end to the anticipation. To discuss the film,...
View ArticleThe Eternal Question: Would a ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Reboot Be Better as a...
I’m pretty that question is from an old Zen Koan or Buddhist saying or something. Of course, it might be from Eastbound and Down. According to The Hollywood Reporter, that show’s creator, Jody Hill,...
View ArticleHow YEAH and Facebook Are Trying to Change the Way You Watch Movies
While our darkened theaters are under threat of text messaging hordes, an app called YEAH is attempting to alter the way we watch movies at home. The concept is born out of the hope that movie fans...
View ArticleHot Docs Review: The Revisionaries
What would the state of American education be if Ned Flanders controlled what went into school textbooks? Folks in the Lone Star State came dangerously close to finding out during the 2009-2010 Texas...
View Article7 Very Good Reasons Why You Should See ‘The Avengers’ in Theaters
It’s been open overseas for a week, already raking in more than $200m, and now The Avengers is landing on U.S. soil with one of the biggest summer openings in history. But does that mean you should...
View Article38 Things We Learned From the ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ Commentary
The Avengers hits theaters this Friday, but we’re looking to the future. The not-too-distant future but further out than this coming Friday. May 3, 2013, to be precise, when Iron Man 3 hits....
View Article‘Asylum Blackout’ Reveals a Bloody Incident at Sans Asylum
If you’re going to set your horror/thriller in a single building you can do far worse than an insane asylum. The inmates add an automatic degree of creepiness and uncertainty to the proceedings that...
View ArticleWatch: ‘From Lunch to Landfill’ is an Eye-Opening, Everyday Journey
Why Watch? Do you know where your trash from a week ago is? Probably not specifically. We pay a ton of people to deal with it for us – outsourcing a major part of our lives that’s unpleasant. From...
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