Jackie Chan’s ‘Chinese Zodiac’ Trailer Marks His Retirement From Big Action...
The arrival of a new Jackie Chan trailer hasn’t really been something worth noting for a while now as the past decade of his career has been heavy with (mostly) inferior Hollywood productions. His...
View ArticleCannes Review: Xavier Dolan’s ‘Laurence Anyways’ Is A Spirited But...
Whatever happened to brevity? Xavier Dolan‘s latest project – the transgender-infused romantic melodrama Laurence Anyways that was chosen as part of this year’s secondary Un Certain Regard competition...
View ArticleSimon Pegg Will Go on a ‘Search for Happiness’ in Peter Chelsom’s Next
We’re next going to see mega-talent multi-hyphenate funnyman Simon Pegg have “a fantastic fear of everything” in, uh, a film called A Fantastic Fear of Everything, but he’ll soon go on a “search for...
View ArticleWhat Hollywood Won’t Learn From Making a Movie About a Peg-Based Board Game
With what is being called a massive failure at the box office, pulling in just $25 million domestic dollars (or 12% of its budget), Peter Berg‘s Battleship is sinking, but not before firing a warning...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Welcome to Life’ Imagines Better Living Through Technology as Ruined...
Why Watch? Last year’s Transcendent Man dealt with Ray Kurzweil and the possible future where human life is extended thanks to computer memory, The Cloud and our own egos. In Tom Scott‘s new short, we...
View ArticleLet’s Get Everyone High With This Exclusive Clip From ‘High School’
For those who have forgotten — as it has been a long time – I absolutely adored John Stalberg Jr.‘s HIGH School when I saw it at Sundance 2010. We’ve still got a glowing review to prove it. And now...
View ArticleAre You Fond of Wes Anderson? Enter to Win the Best ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Prize...
Do you miss summer camp? Do you miss young love? Do you miss Wes Anderson? Lucky for you, the writer/director is returning to theaters with a little something called Moonrise Kingdom, a film that...
View Article‘The Master’ Teaser is Footage From a New Paul Thomas Anderson Movie, Holy Crap
Though everything we’ve heard about Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming project, The Master, paints it as being a Philip Seymour Hoffman-starring story about the head of a new religion, its new teaser...
View Article‘Anchorman 2’ Teaser Trailers Get the Channel 4 Team Back Together For a...
This past weekend, a new teaser trailer for Adam McKay’s highly anticipated comedy sequel Anchorman 2 played in theaters, but not many people got to check it out because it was attached to The...
View ArticleWant to Be Ready for Stephenie Meyer’s Next Blockbuster? Win a Copy of ‘The...
For fans of Stephenie Meyer‘s “The Twilight Saga” and its cinematic counterparts, saying goodbye to the series when the final film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 this fall will be tough...
View ArticleClassic ‘MacGruber’! Jorma Taccone Reveals Christmas-Set Sequel Is In the Works
I’ve got a better idea: yes fucking way. Jorma Taccone‘s MacGruber didn’t really make a big splash when it opened back in the spring of 2010 after a riotous premiere at SXSW (fine, it tanked), but the...
View ArticleThat Time We Got a New ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Poster and Everyone...
By all means, Christopher Nolan‘s third (and final) Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, should be a slam dunk. The last chapter in the beloved franchise has been eagerly anticipated for years, and...
View ArticleCruel Paul Dano to Return in Steve McQueen’s ‘Twelve Years A Slave’
We’ll soon be seeing Paul Dano starring in cutesy romance Ruby Sparks (co-starring alongside his own real life lady love, Zoe Kazan, who also penned the screenplay), but as wonderful as a sweet Dano...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Brian De Palma Keeps It Naughty and Bustin’ Makes...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column that has been returned to the hands of its rightful owner, for now. But before we get to my triumphant return after a week of vegging out and...
View ArticleThis Week In DVD: A Giant Intellect! A Giant Forehead! A Giant Shlong!
Welcome back to This Week In DVD! Some great releases hit shelves today with two of the best hailing from the UK. Also out this week are the McG misfire This Means War, the classic TV series Route 66,...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to See ‘The Road Warrior’ In the Alamo’s Post-Apocalyptic...
If you live near an Alamo Drafthouse, you probably already know that Tim League, Zack Carlson, Lars Nilsen and co. have coordinated an amazing summer series devoted to the blockbusting year of 1982....
View ArticleJason Biggs and Joel David Moore Get Political in Exclusive Poster Debut for...
We’re still months away from Election Day in November, but already the country is in the throes of full-scale campaigning, complete with mud-slinging, flip-flopping, and back-biting. Ah, politics!...
View ArticlePrepare for ‘Prometheus’ by Enjoying This ‘Alien’ Drinking Game
More than thirty years ago, Ridley Scott directed the groundbreaking sci-fi/horror film Alien. Now, this summer, he’s prepping the release of the sister film Prometheus. As is the case when any...
View ArticleHow Season 5 of ‘Mad Men’ Reminds Us of a Forgotten History
Television’s manufacturing of nostalgia often reduces the past to its most obvious series of events. Whether in revisiting popular culture on VH1’s I Love the ‘70s or in TV movies ranging from The...
View ArticleMeet The World’s Largest Movie Theater Chain
Her name is Wanda. Specifically, the Dalian Wanda Group, which just bought out AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6b. I’m guessing the card that gets me free movies for a year just expired. Not only is...
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