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Nic Cage’s Next Movie Sounds a Lot Like ‘Death Wish’
According to Deadline Hollywood, Nic Cage has signed on for I Am Wrath, the story of a man who gets so frustrated by the inept and corrupt police force investigating his wife’s murder that he goes...
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Go See ‘Samsara’ For Free This Weekend
The massive, imagery-and-contemplation-fueled Samsara expands into a bunch of markets this weekend, and we have an opportunity for fans to get a seat for free. We’re giving away 5 pairs of tickets to...
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First Look: Alan Rickman Looks Exactly Like Ronald Reagan
Lee Daniels is currently waist-deep in White House history, exploring the most visible citizen’s home office through the eyes of The Butler – a forthcoming adaptation of a Wil Haygood newspaper...
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TIFF 2012 Review: ‘Aftershock’ is Standard Horror with Fun Characters
The standard plot of a horror film today is to have a group of people partying for thirty minutes, followed by a descent into chaos and mayhem, either by creatures or madman. Aftershock follows that...
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Final Fantastic Fest Wave Boasts ‘Antiviral,’ ‘American Mary,’ and More
Fantastic Fest 2012 will open with Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and close with the new Red Dawn, but as the first two line-up announcements have shown, it’s the genre meat in the middle that will...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog got shot by an air rifle in 2006 during an interview with the BBC. He, of course, continued the interview and declined to get the police involved because, you know, they would have...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Folklore’ is All Atmosphere
Editor’s Note: Today’s entry is done in support of Filminute, a really cool online festival that lets filmmakers tell their stories in 60 seconds or less. It’s the first of seven, so keep an eye out....
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Now We’re Supposed to Care About Sequel Titles, ‘Independence Day’ Edition
Our new best friend, German movie site FilmStarts, appears to be getting a hell of a lot of mileage out of their White House Down set visit, as their latest exclusive (“exklusiv” in German, which is...
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Review: Josh Radnor Grows Up Alongside His ‘Liberal Arts’
Editor’s note: Liberal Arts opens in limited release this Friday (just in time for back-to-school!), so please enjoy our Sundance review of the film, originally published on January 23, 2012. Triple...
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‘Killing Them Softly’ Gets Moved Again, All the Better for Awards-Baiting
After the box office bust and critical disappointment of their Lawless (hey! I liked it!), The Weinstein Company has pushed back their potential awards contender, Andrew Dominik‘s Killing Them Softly,...
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Even Guillermo del Toro Can’t Save His ‘Pacific Rim’ from Post-Conversion
The great post-conversion war rages on, and even Guillermo del Toro and his already-epic-sounding Pacific Rim can’t win a decisive battle. Despite telling crowds at this year’s Comic-Con that he was...
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Fantastic Fest: All ‘Memory of the Dead’ Needs Is Love
Love is a justification for a lot of horrible, horrible things. It’s been the genesis of wars, murders, cons and all other manner of destructive rages. Like a gateway emotion to a gauntlet of...
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Thomas Vinterberg and Carey Mulligan May Work Together to Adapt ‘Far From the...
Seeing as his work was published back in the 1800′s, Thomas Hardy probably isn’t much of a household name these days. But people who were English majors in college still know him, due to the class or...
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman’ Serviceably Guns...
It seems strange that the resurgence of grindhouse pictures that has occurred over the last five years would come on the tails of a heavily produced and advertised film that bombed at the box office....
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‘Price Check’ Trailer Features an Overly-Enthusiastic Parker Posey Being...
The trailer for Michael Walker’s (Chasing Sleep) latest comedy, Price Check, starts off looking like it’s going to be an ironic-in-tone workplace comedy along the lines of things like Office Space or...
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Scheduling Conflicts Keep Matt Reeves From Entering ‘The Twilight Zone’
Over at Variety (via FirstShowing), Justin Kroll tweets that that Let Me In and Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is now not directing Warner Bros.’ brand-new Twilight Zone feature film, thanks to...
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Movie News After Dark: Noah’s Snakes, A German Snake, And IMAX Atlas Posters
Somehow, despite my failings as a WordPress user, I have been allowed to return to you tonight with a collection of links that went around the Internet today. Above you might notice an image with a...
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Ben Whishaw Might Cause the ‘Robopocalypse’
Another day, another bit of Robopocalypse potential casting. Variety is reporting that Steven Spielberg wants Ben Whishaw (I’m Not There, the new Q in Skyfall) to play a hacker called Lurker for the...
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Combat Girls’ Is An Uncompromising Look at Neo-Nazi Girl...
Few things are more inherently frightening to someone born in the 20th century than the Nazi movement. And for good reason, as it set forth (and almost succeeded) in whipping out an entire ethnicity...
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Stephen Chbosky Wouldn’t Change a Frame of ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’
Author Stephen Chbosky made an ambitious choice as his first feature film: his own acclaimed novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. From the pressure of living up to the reputation of your previous...
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