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Eli Roth Will Return to Making Disgusting Horror Films With ‘The Green Inferno’
After Eli Roth brought us Cabin Fever in 2002 and then the first Hostel film in 2005, everyone just assumed that he was going to be one of the big horror directors going forward for the next decade....
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Movie News After Dark: Some People Love ‘Battleship,’ 8-Bit ‘Community,’ and...
What is Movie News After Dark? Tonight, it’s hanging on by a thread, as we enter Day Four of Dear Leader Neil Miller’s Mental Health Break Staycation. While he’s off eating the finest BBQ that FSR’s...
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‘Battleship’ Review: An Asylum Movie With 200 Million Dollars Worth of Gloss
On December 7, 1941, the naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by 353 Japanese planes. It was a day that lives in infamy, but now director Peter Berg has reconciled the Americans and Japanese...
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Review: ‘The Samaritan’ Sees Samuel L. Jackson Return to Real Acting
Samuel L. Jackson finally gets to put Nick Fury aside and play a serious, well-rounded character in The Samaritan, a new film noir. The experience of watching Jackson actually act is the primary...
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Cannes Review: ‘Mystery’ is a Slow Burn Soap Opera with Social Subtext
Opening this year’s Un Certain Regard programme, Mystery returns festival veteran Lou Ye to Cannes for the fourth time, having screened Purple Butterfly, Summer Palace and Spring Fever in the main...
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Ken Burns Explains His Storytelling Philosophy of Acceptable Manipulation...
One plus one equals three. It’s a fascinating idea in its simplicity and in its wrongness, but it’s the key to Ken Burns‘s work. According to the iconic documentary filmmaker (and sometimes Community...
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: The Phantom Carriage
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent and logical amongst us know signifies the day the world...
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‘The House By the Cemetery’ Finds Lucio Fulci Scaring Up Gory Thrills and...
The Italian cinema scene has felt a bit tepid in recent years with only the occasional title making waves internationally, but once upon a time the country was a movie-making powerhouse. One of its...
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Cannes Review: Matteo Garrone’s ‘Reality’ Is A Timely and Successfully...
Those expecting Matteo Garrone to follow up 2008′s excellent Gomorrah with another authentic new world crime drama might be surprised to hear that his latest project replaces the seedy criminal...
View ArticleWatch: Discover the Secret of ‘Lovely Monster’
Why Watch? Staring straight into the camera, a pretty young woman tells us she’s 21 years old, and she’s a monster. Throughout the rest of Francesco Calabrese‘s short film, she explains the problems...
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Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska Are Going to Get Down in John Crowley’s...
Suspense novelist Patricia Highsmith will forever be known as the scribe behind “Strangers on a Train,” which has been adapted for the big screen over two dozen times (and most memorably by Hitchcock...
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Ryan Reynolds Likely to Chop Off Heads as Connor MacLeod in the ‘Highlander’...
When it was said that “there can be only one,” obviously the original Highlander movie was referring to mystical, sword-wielding immortals and not movies about mystical, sword-wielding immortals...
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Anti-Film School Director Peter Berg Wanted Authenticity From His ‘Battleship’
When a “loose” adaptation of Hasbro’s iconic board game Battleship was announced, it didn’t take a genius to figure out what type of film was in the making: big, loud, manic summer fun. The man to...
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‘Magic Mike’ International Trailer Features Less Drama, More Wiggling
When the first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming male stripper drama, Magic Mike, came out, it painted Channing Tatum’s titular character as a dreamer whose side job was at odds with his...
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Celebrate Memorial Day Like a True American: By Watching Pixar Films in AMC...
With Brave, Pixar’s latest film, not hitting theaters for another month, the studio is still looking to capitalize on some early summer dollars, particularly when it comes to the impending Memorial...
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‘Hyde Park on Hudson’ Trailer: Watch Bill Murray Feed Hot Dogs to the King of...
After The King’s Speech won the Oscar for Best Picture and got multiple theatrical releases, it was always just a matter of time before Hollywood tried to capitalize on its success by releasing a...
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Criminal Susan Sarandon Will Ruin Michelle Monaghan’s Life in Paranoia...
It’s not every day that press releases are issued that refer to Susan Sarandon as a “devious criminal,” but that’s where we’re at when it comes to Jonathan Mostow‘s Still of Night, a project that...
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Elizabeth Banks Will Murder Her Awful Co-Workers in Alan Ball’s ‘What’s The...
Co-workers! Pffft! Amirite? Yeah! You know what I mean! It looks like Elizabeth Banks feels me too, as she is set to star in Alan Ball‘s dark comedy What’s The Matter With Margie? as a “downtrodden”...
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Movie News After DRINKING: Will Smith Welcomes a Reporter to Earth, Matthew...
What is Movie News After Dark DRINKING? It’s the end result of a long work day, a half dozen mini doughnuts, a glass of cheap Canadian whisky, Robert Fure, and a keyboard. Suck on it, suckers! This...
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Cannes Review: John Hillcoat’s ‘Lawless’ Is a Perfect Modern Western
In Lawless, John Hillcoat has almost crafted the perfect modern Western, infusing more explicitly the gangster genre elements that always occur in the genre, but never quite so explicitly. The film...
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