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6 Filmmaking Tips Directly From Indie Pioneer Jon Jost
Editor’s Introduction: With his first feature in 1974, Jon Jost launched a filmmaking career that can be proudly described as fiercely independent. His work has been seen at festivals all over the...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Michael & Javier’ is a Tense, Deliberate Descent Held Together By Zip...
Why Watch? Commanding acting, a tense monologue and a young man strapped to a chair are at the heart of Marc Thomas’ stellar crime film. With unblinking camera shots, Javier (Juan Carlos Hernandez)...
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Yes, Let’s Definitely Make a Movie About the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
Well, if they can make a found footage horror film about the Chernobyl disaster, why not launch a drama about the 2010 BP oil spill? Deadline reports (via ComingSoon) that Summit Entertainment and...
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That Movie About Lawyer James Franco and a Teen Porn Star Is Getting...
Performance artist James Franco tangles himself up with so many projects that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of them all – in fact, it seems likely that even Franco has forgotten about Stephen...
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Alex Pettyfer Will Likely Join Kristen Stewart-Starring ‘Cali’ Just As Entire...
Gold stars to Alex Pettyfer‘s team, as the actor’s possible involvement with the Kristen Stewart-starring Cali has hit the web just as the Twilight star cops to a (totally bizarre) affair with her...
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Navigating the Emotional Pathways and Pressures of ‘Ruby Sparks’ With...
Ruby Sparks tells the story of a young writer (Paul Dano) who seemingly creates his dream girl out of thin air (and his writing) and is then able to control her through said writing. This curious tale...
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‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Adds Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, and Ruth Wilson,...
Even when it just had a director and two principal actors in place, Disney’s upcoming Saving Mr. Banks already seemed like it was the perfect storm of mainstream appeal. Take director John Lee...
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Paul Dano Doesn’t Know What Kind of Actor He Is
“I don’t really know what kind of actor I am,” Paul Dano said when we spoke to him a few weeks ago while discussing his latest film, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farsis‘s mildly dark romantic comedy...
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DreamWorks Will Try Their Hand at Hand-Drawn Animation With ‘Me and My Shadow’
Ever since Pixar’s Toy Story brought CG animation to the mainstream and dropped everyone’s jaws with the amazing visuals that the process makes possible, traditional, hand-drawn animation has taken a...
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Movie News After Dark: Cloud Atlas, Ruby Sparks and How Marty Scorsese Uses Siri
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a column about things and stuff. Mostly movies, a little television, all worth reading. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better assortment of things to read without...
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How Christopher Nolan Says Goodbye to Batman
There’s no doubt that Batman has had a profound effect on the life of Christopher Nolan. The writer/director has lived and breathed the character cinematically for the better part of a decade, the...
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The Amazing Origin Stories of 5 Great Films
This content series is in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, good taste travels well. Click here to learn more. Where do movies come from? At the risk of sounding like Lucas from Empire...
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‘Middle of Nowhere’ Trailer Shows Off Why Ava DuVernay Won Best Director at...
In Middle of Nowhere, the forthcoming movie from writer/director Ava DuVernay, a young woman (Emayatzy Corinealdi) stalls her medical school career in order to focus on ensuring her jailed husband’s...
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Econimic Inequality Through the Eyes of Depression-Era Hollywood Movies
The common, received wisdom about Hollywood during The Great Depression tends to go like this: Hollywood played an important role as a place for escape, or a low-cost brief vacation, for a populace...
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The Passion of the Pissed Off Fans
Do we define ourselves by the art we love? Why do we get so defensive when it’s attacked? To answer that, I invite critic Eric D. Snider (who recently received a death threat for his fake, negative...
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7 Movies That Were Changed Because Of Tragedy
Life comes before art, always. When life is lost – the first priority is the people who were most affected by it, and being respectful of the loss they had to endure. Because of this, the upcoming...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Where We Came From’ is an 80s Slasher Throwback Shot on VHS
Why Watch? Admittedly, a lot of throwback films are trashy and awful because the gimmick is used to mask a lack of skill. In the case of this experimental short film (which acts as a music video for a...
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28 Things We Learned From the ‘Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story’ Commentary
Sometimes you just want to cover a classic, you know? The Frat Pack has been around making movies for about 16 years. That is if you count The Cable Guy, which you totally should. Films with comedians...
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Venice Announces Its 2012 Lineup, Repeats From Toronto, Adds Harmony Korine...
On the heels of this week’s Toronto International Film Festival lineup announcement (one we’re still salivating over), the Venice International Film Festival has thrown their hat in the fest ring with...
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‘Cloud Atlas’ Trailer Offers Nearly Six Minutes of Awe, Wonder, and WTF
The novels of David Mitchell are densely layered affairs concerned with a complicated multitude of characters facing big and complex issues. Or so I hear. His novel Cloud Atlas is a favorite of many,...
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