Review: ‘Tonight You’re Mine’ is thin, one-note and hard to sit through
David Mackenzie’s Tonight You’re Mine offers an adequate travelogue depiction of Scotland’s T in the Park music festival, with a minuscule, tired story mixed in. Shot amid the real event, the movie’s...
View ArticleWhich Vintage Television Show Would You Bring Back as a Movie?
They are building a moat, this machine of Hollywood. It surrounds the entirety of their kingdom of nostalgia. Beyond the moat is the land of original ideas, where great risks stalk drifters through...
View ArticleLos Angeles Area Rejects! Win Two Tickets to ‘Entrance’ at the Downtown...
Later this week, IFC Midnight is releasing Entrance, a film by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, a tricky little indie that comes with a metric ton of thrills and chills, wrapped up in a very...
View Article‘Avengers’ Box Office Blow Out: Why It Means Everything and Mostly Nothing
The Avengers is kind of a major success. What, you hadn’t heard? Of course you did. Avengers box office is on the tips of tongues, internet screens, newspapers, and even within the pages of Time...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Imperfect’ Is a Sexy, Stellar Noir Where Everyone Isn’t Beautiful
Why Watch? The fine folks at Finite Films effectively have an open invitation to this column. So far, they’ve managed to craft a frightening horror film, a quirky romantic comedy, and with Imperfect,...
View ArticleTaylor Lautner to Star in ‘Tracers,’ That...
You have to admire the dedication of Taylor Lautner‘s team – they are convinced that they can turn the leader of Twilight‘s Wolf Pack into an action powerhouse. While he won’t be our Stretch...
View ArticleScreenwriter Jon Spaihts Reveals and Creates More Shadows With ‘Prometheus’
The site’s most anticipated film of the summer, Prometheus, has long been kept under lock and key for sometime now. “Is it an Alien prequel or isn’t it?” Obviously, the film shares stylistic and world...
View ArticleDo You Want to Get Stranded on a Desert Island With ‘On the Island,’ a...
If Castaway was not romantic enough for you (and, really, how could it be? Tom Hanks never really loved that volleyball) and Lifetime’s take on The Blue Lagoon is too been-there, done-that for your...
View ArticleChecking In With Austin Filmmakers Bob Byington, Bryan Poyser, Alex...
What have I been doing lately? I have been stalking Bryan Poyser (Lovers of Hate) on Facebook. Well, it is not technically stalking since he accepted my friendship, right? Truth be told, I am not...
View ArticleOh, Thank Goodness: Channing Tatum Will Save the President in ‘White House Down’
After taking a break to get back into romance (The Vow, Dear John) and comedy (21 Jump Street), Channing Tatum looks to be jumping back into some meat and potatoes work. No, no, the former dancer...
View ArticleContinue the Summer of Joss Whedon with Three Tie-In Books
While the year isn’t even half over yet, it’s going to be a hard climb for anyone to topple the summer Joss Whedon is having. If The Avengers box office wasn’t enough to give him the best summer ever...
View ArticlePaul Reubens Believes We’re Approaching a Period of Pee-wee Herman Renaissance
If you’ve been closely following the career of Pee-wee Herman performer Paul Reubens (and shame on you if you haven’t been), then you know he’s been crowing about the fact that he’s got a new, Judd...
View ArticleWatch: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Footage Shows Dr. Connors Becoming a Vile,...
As superhero fever sweeps across the world and The Amazing Spider-Man’s release date approaches, the film’s Viral Videos Division (I assume this is a thing movies have) is ramping up their efforts and...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Everyone is Still Obsessing on ‘The Avengers’ and Tim...
What is Movie News After Dark? This week it’s a series of second stringer fill-ins trying not to run things into the ground while regular columnist Neil Miller disappears for a while due to reasons...
View ArticleIdris Elba Will Be in ‘Thor 2′ After Playing Nelson Mandela
In a recent interview with Collider, Idris Elba claimed that his schedule was so packed that he moved out of his home without signing a lease anywhere else. It’s all movie set trailers from here on...
View ArticleThis Week In DVD: John Malkovich and Albert Nobbs Join Forces Against a Pack...
Welcome back to This Week In DVD! After a couple of sparse weeks we’re rewarded with a bevy of worthwhile DVD releases suitable for your viewing pleasure including a Criterion edition of Being John...
View ArticleDarren Bousman Explains How Sitting on a Shelf Made ‘Mother’s Day’ Go From...
“In some cases however, the passage of time is a blessing…Time heals all wounds, makes us forget, or, allows us a chance to reflect. Three years is an abundance of time. A lot can happen in 36 months:...
View ArticleTake the Red Pill and Wash it Down with ‘The Matrix’ Drinking Game
This past spring marked the thirteenth year since the release of the groundbreaking cyberpunk actioner The Matrix. This seems a bit arbitrary, but if American Pie can have a reunion of sorts thirteen...
View ArticleHow Hollywood Comedies Make Assholes Redeemable
Tomorrow, the Sacha Baron Cohen-starring, Larry Charles-directed The Dictator opens. Unlike the previous two docu-prank collaborations between Charles and Cohen, the humor of the fully staged Dictator...
View ArticleJust What We Need: A Red Bull-Fueled, Parkour Version of Charles Dickens’...
It would be easy to mock the idea of a parkour Oliver Twist. It could certainly be seen by the cynical as the perversion of a classic, one that will most certainly shove modern hipness into a story...
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