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Red Hot Writer Graham Moore Handed ‘The Devil in the White City’
Leonardo DiCaprio and his production outfit Appian Way have been sitting on the rights to the novel The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America for quite a...
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Movie News After Dark: Tim & Eric, Daniel Craig, Oldboy, Farm Girls, Tom...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of things you’ll want to read, even if they didn’t originate on this website. We know, we know, all the good stuff can only come from Film...
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David Fincher Will Reluctantly Shoot ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Sequels Back to Back
Anybody who has either read Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Series or seen the original film adaptations directed by Niels Arden Oplev and Daniel Alfredson knows that David Fincher’s upcoming film The Girl...
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Short Film Of The Day: The Bicycle Animation
Why Watch? Can you create animation in real-time? It’s a fascinating question and a challenge that clearly comes from a unique mind. Instead of hand-drawing every cel or stop-motioning objects you move...
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Review: ‘We Bought a Zoo’ Takes Earnestness to the Next Level
Let’s get this out of the way now: I’m a Cameron Crowe fan. The director has his critics. Most of his divisiveness comes down to the tone of his films, which some find wrongfully cheesy. I, on the...
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Could Ryan Gosling Team Up With Gaspar Noé For ‘The Golden Suicides’?
Is there a chance that current Hollywood it boy Ryan Gosling could be working with super weird Argentine director Gaspar Noé (Irréversible, Enter the Void) on his next project? If you listen to author...
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Harrison Ford Isn’t Too Old to Play ‘Ender’s Game’
Gavin Hood’s upcoming adaptation of the legendary Orson Scott Card (is it too new to be legendary? It’s at least flirting with legendary) sci-fi novel Ender’s Game just signed a new name to its cast,...
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Review: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ is Terrific, Taut, Sweet, and Suspenseful
Tomas Alfredson hasn’t made your typical spy thriller. Not only is that due to the lack of explosions, a fast pace, shootouts, or any other convention the genre tends to call for, but because...
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Review: ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ Misses the Heartstrings Mark
Remember those trailers for Stephen Daldry‘s adaptation of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close that we all cringed at? Well, how could you forget – they stick with you in a very off-putting way....
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‘Twilight’ Helps Melissa Rosenberg Become the Highest-Grossing Female...
When I first saw the Hollywood Reporter piece on Melissa Rosenberg surpassing Linda Woolverton (The Lion King, Alice in Wonderland) as the highest-grossing female screenwriter, it took me a while to...
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Now You’ll Get to ‘Talk About Kevin’ Two Weeks Earlier
There has been a lot of talk about We Need to Talk About Kevin. It’s divisively made its way through the festival circuit, even being kind enough to grace Fantastic Fest 2011 with its presence. After...
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‘Nero Fiddled’ as Sony Burns to Release Woody Allen’s Latest Comedy in Summer...
Midnight in Paris is still out there making money and finding new audiences, so it’s less than surprising that Sony Pictures Classics has already picked up Woody Allen‘s follow-up film, Nero Fiddled,...
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David Yates Might Make Bi-Polar Magical Realism with ‘Your Voice in My Head’
Like all Harry Potter alumnae, audiences have questioned what David Yates will make his first film coming out of Hogwart’s. His name has been attached (no matter how loosely) to The Stand, to the Al...
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How About an ‘Umbrellas of Cherbourg’-style Musical From Edgar Wright?
Edgar Wright, the man who brought us the brilliant musical zombie death set to Queen in Shaun of the Dead, has confirmed that he’s written a script that’s “kind of like a musical.” According to The...
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Review: ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Suggests the Term “Lesser-Fincher”...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first book (and film) in Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millenium Trilogy. The books have sold 65 million copies worldwide, and the three Swedish...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: A Call To Arms
Why Watch? It’s the story about a snowman with no arms on an adventure to find some. It echoes Rankin & Bass, and it’s pleasantly low-budget the way the first South Park Christmas videos were....
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Reel Sex: The 5 Most Unsettling Mainstream Sex Moments of 2011
Last week we delved into the top layer of sexy films out this past year, suggesting that 2011 might have been one of the bolder years when it came to honest portrayals of sex in cinema. In 2011 we saw...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: December 22, 2011
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr pulls out his screening schedule, which looks like a gambling addict’s racing form. He bounces from huge, mainstream releases to minor indie award contenders. Facing...
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Coroner’s Report: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Horror-comedies are a mixed bag. Often they’re not scary or violent enough to satisfy your horror boner, nor are they funny enough to tickle your funny bone(r). When they work well, you get an Evil...
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Aural Fixation: Expectation vs. Execution – A Look at the ‘The Girl With The...
I have been an advocate of “Trent Reznor, Composer” after being blown away by the score he created for The Social Network last year (along with Atticus Ross) and was excited when I heard they were...
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