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Review: ‘The Watch’ Is a Funny and Foul Blend of ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Attack...
It can be difficult making friends once you’re past a certain age because the older people get the more set in their ways they become. Youth offers any number of bonding experiences that bring people...
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Some Wolf Had to Die Just So That Lady Gaga Could Be in ‘Machete Kills’
At least the wolf didn’t have to live through a surely insane photo shoot? In perhaps today’s weirdest and most completely unexpected announcement, Lady Gaga has apparently joined the cast of Robert...
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‘About Cherry’ Trailer Wonders Whether or Not You’re Interested in Pornography
Some movies have concepts that are hard sells and immediately put them at a disadvantage. Shoot a story that on its surface seems challenging or boring, and you’re really going to have to convince...
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Review: ‘Rites of Spring’, Or, Your Mummy Wears Combat Boots
Ah springtime! Is there a better season than spring? Aside from summer I mean. Maybe, maybe not, but when it comes to springtime in horror films there’s one constant. The harvest needs to be watered...
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Movie News After Dark: Looper, No More Indiana Jones and Walking and Talking...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the next big thing, the opening night every night, the closing ceremony before the event even starts. It’s also a contender in the 100-meter dash. We begin this...
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‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ Fills More Main Roles With Attractive...
Casting is currently at a fever pitch regarding the next great hope in the Young Adult film franchise arms race, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The most recent news we had about director...
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Review: ‘Step Up Revolution’ Features Franchise’s Most Jaw-Dropping Dance...
Though the setting of the fourth Step Up film, Step Up Revolution, follows its predecessor’s lead and sets its action far from Baltimore’s Maryland School of the Arts (the setting of the first two...
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Craig Mazin Explains How the Screenwriting Industry Got So Depressing
The Writers Guild of America‘s latest survey of screenwriters [PDF] shows that the world of storytelling isn’t that sunny. From the bother of late payments to the difficulty of sweepstakes pitching,...
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One Of Us! The Bizarre Literary Origin of Tod Browning’s Horror Classic ‘Freaks’
Editor’s Note: It’s with great honor that we welcome James F. Broderick, author of “Now a Terrifying Motion Picture!: Twenty-Five Classic Works of Horror Adapted From Book to Film,” and his essay...
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Movies to See Before the World Ends – Jason X
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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Rare Optimistic TV Characters Offer a Refreshing Counter Balance to Curmudgeons
On shows like The Newsroom, Californication, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, the curmudgeon is exalted; intentionally unlikable folks populate the worlds of Girls and Mad Men; and a thoroughly bratty child...
View ArticleWatch: Pixar’s ‘Burn-E’ Can Fix It
Why Watch? Because I’ve been waiting for months for Cole to need to take a day off from writing Short Film of the Day in order to sneak this one in. Sure, we generally use this daily column to feature...
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‘Devil Wears Prada’ Scribe Set to Take Her Cinderella Story Chops to ‘Annie’...
Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna‘s resume is bizarre. Start at the bottom – Three to Tango, Laws of Attraction, some TV movie, The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses, Morning Glory – you see the pattern,...
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Devouring ‘Nightbreed’ Or, Why Even Dead People Frown Upon Necrophilia
Welcome back to Junfood Cinema. We break laws for meat. Column-owner Brian Salisbury is currently further North than the Northest of the Dakotas covering the Fantasia Film Fest in Montreal. If he knew...
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Terrence Howard and Dawn Olivieri Set to Join Newly-Titled Schwarzenegger...
Up until this point they’ve been calling David Ayer’s upcoming Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring crime film Ten. Which has made sense, because its a story about 10 DEA agents who rip off a drug cartel...
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‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’ Trailer Reveals That This Halloween’s Horror...
If you’re not familiar with the Silent Hill franchise, whether we’re talking the video games or the 2006 film that was inspired by them, their basic conceit is that the sleepy town of Silent Hill is...
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Dustin Lance Black Really Into Disasters After ‘Virginia’ Debacle, Will Write...
Hold on to your hats, kids, this is not a remake of the 1974 Charlton Heston-starrer. No need to froth at the mouth just yet. Deadline Hollywood reports that Universal and J.J. Abrams‘ long-rumored...
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Rejoice! Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ Moves Up to September
Looks like The Weinstein Company is doing a little end-of-week clean-up, as Variety (via ComingSoon) has now gotten word that the production company has moved around a couple of its major awards...
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New ‘Skyfall’ Teaser Shows 007 Reporting For Duty, Again
One of this fall/winter’s more anticipated films for action junkies is the new James Bond movie, Skyfall. This time around, Bond’s 23rd to be exact, the titular agent is tasked with protecting M and...
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A ‘Rachel Weisz Is Fit’ Related Giveaway! Win ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ On Blu-ray!
Rachel Weisz is one spectacularly talented actress. She doesn’t get the award accolades of Meryl Streep, but she’s as good. She doesn’t get the hubba-hubba comments of Jessica Biel, but she’s as...
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