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The Cast Of ‘Sorry To Bother You’ Share Their Love For Director Boots Riley [Interview] By Joi Childs/July 6, 2018 7:00 am EST The cast of the Boots Riley-directed Sorry To Bother You were matching. No, seriously: Steven Yeun (Squeeze) and Jeremy Fowler (Salvador) were wearing the exact same light blue stripe nautical-esque tee, while LaKeith Stanfield (Cassius “Cash” Green) wore the matching hat (also light blue and striped). Whether or not the outfits were planned, I couldn’t be sure....

This Week In Trailers: Beyond The Wave, Pervert Park, Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead, RWD, Candlestick, Skinship By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 14, 2015 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Klown Forever, Sour Grapes, Rams, The Lost Arcade, The Trolls, The Seventh Fire By Christopher Stipp/July 30, 2016 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Tchoupitoulas, Heleno, Addicted To Fame, Any Day Now By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 16, 2012 3:00 pm EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Top 20 Stories Of The Week: Batman V Superman, Super Bowl Spots, Deadpool & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2016 8:00 am EST The Top 20 Stories of the Week are the stories we think you should check out on /Film from the previous week. Thanks to the Super Bowl, we got sneak peeks of a bunch of this summer’s biggest blockbusters, in addition to new trailers for The Huntsman: Winter’s War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice....

Wes Anderson Art Show Inspires Painting In Wes Anderson’s New Film By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2014 10:30 am EST Every single day, artists make art based on films they love. It’s a little more rare for that art to influence the filmmaker it was originally about. In 2010, the San Francisco art gallery Spoke Art debuted an exhibit called Bad Dads, based on the films of Wes Anderson. The exhibit featured work based on all of Anderson’s films up to that point....

Why ‘Black Panther’ Doesn’t Contain Any Infinity Stones By Ben Pearson/Feb. 16, 2018 4:30 pm EST Marvel’s Black Panther is finally in theaters, and it’s clear that the king has arrived. The film has already earned tremendous critical acclaim (here’s our full review), fans are loving it, and it’s set to break all sorts of box office records this weekend. But with Avengers: Infinity War looming in the distance, there’s an aspect that detail-oriented Marvel fans might have noticed about Black Panther: it doesn’t contain any Infinity Stones....

‘Arthur Christmas’ Review - Aardman Animations Drags You Into The Holiday Spirit Through Sheer Force Of Will By Angie Han/Nov. 22, 2011 2:00 pm EST Aardman Animation’s Arthur Christmas opens with a scene that suggests it is not your parents’ holiday movie. In response to one little girl’s query about how Santa manages to deliver all of those gifts around the world in just one night, we’re treated to a thrilling sequence of hundreds of elves jumping out of a giant sleigh-shaped spaceship and delivering the gifts with a high-tech precision that wouldn’t be out of place in a futuristic action thriller....

‘Birdman’ Leads 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations, ‘Selma’ Snubbed By Angie Han/Dec. 10, 2014 7:03 am EST Some of the critics groups have given out their prizes already, but the race to the Oscar is just getting started. This morning Screen Actors Guild announced its list of nominees for the 2015 awards, with Birdman and House of Cards emerging as two big favorites. For the most part they went as predicted, but there were also a few big surprises to keep us on our toes....

‘Downsizing’ Early Buzz: Another Compassionate Comedy From Alexander Payne By Jack Giroux/Aug. 31, 2017 6:30 am EST Attendees at Venice Film Festival just saw the new Alexander Payne film: Downsizing. The director began working on the sci-fi dramedy, which is set in a future where people are being shrunk down to five inches to combat overpopulation, after Sideways. Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor’s latest collaboration sounds like a deviation from their past work, but according to the first batch of reviews of Downsizing, it’s not a huge departure....

‘Fargo’ Review: Who’s Already Feeling Guilty In ‘The Principle Of Restricted Choice?’ By Jack Giroux/April 27, 2017 7:00 am EST We all know by now Fargo is a show in which a lot of mistakes occur. Characters rarely take the higher path on Noah Hawley’s FX series, which returned this week with some dramatic repercussions following the fantastic premiere. “The Principle of Restricted Choice” shows characters questioning the uneasy choices they’ve already made....

‘Iron Man 3’ Will Open In IMAX 3D [UPDATED With New Set Videos] By Angie Han/Jan. 22, 2013 10:30 am EST The IMAX 3D release of Iron Man 3 was practically a foregone conclusion. These days, most studio blockbusters of that caliber open in IMAX, 3D, or (increasingly) both, sometimes whether the filmmaker likes it or not. But now it’s actually official. IMAX and Marvel have issued a press release announcing that Tony Stark will indeed be flying into the screen in three giant, glorious dimensions this spring....

‘L.A. Confidential’ Director Curtis Hanson Dead At 71 By Jacob Hall/Sept. 21, 2016 6:30 am EST Academy Award winning filmmaker Curtis Hanson, whose credits include masterpieces like L.A. Confidential, hits like 8 Mile, and under-seen gems like Wonder Boys, passed away yesterday from natural causes in his Los Angeles home. He was 71 years old. TMZ reports that that the screenwriter, producer, and director, who had retired from filmmaking and was reportedly battling Alzheimer’s, died after suffering a heart attack....

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2’ To Open In IMAX 3D By Angie Han/Feb. 6, 2015 7:00 am EST Katniss is going big for her final blowout. Lionsgate has announced that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 will be released this fall in IMAX and IMAX 3D, as well as plain old normal-sized-screen 2D. That makes The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 the first Hunger Games film to open in 3D in the U....

‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Review: A Touching, Beautiful Tribute To A True TV Icon [Sundance] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 20, 2018 5:40 pm EST At a time when we’re being disappointed by our heroes left and right, it’s nice to take a look back at a TV icon who was nothing more than a pure soul who wanted to do some good in the world. The documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...

Alamo Drafthouse Takes Fantastic Fest 2013 On Tour By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2013 5:00 pm EST The Alamo Drafthouse have announced they will be taking Austin’s Fantastic Fest on tour, showing movies from the festival at all Alamo Drafthouse markets over three weekends in November. Films include Big Bad Wolves, Borgman, Cheap Thrills, Confession of Murder, The Congress, Grand Piano, Journey to the West: Conquering The Demons, and Why Don’t You Play In Hell....

Chadwick Boseman Is ‘Black Panther’ On November 3, 2017; Check Out Official Concept Art By Germain Lussier/Oct. 28, 2014 11:35 am EST It’s been rumored for years but it’s finally happening. Marvel has announced the Black Panther release date: the film will hit theaters on November 3, 2017. Chadwick Boseman has been cast as the character, and he will make his debut in costume in the third Captain America film, Captain America: Civil War....

Charlie Kaufman Talks Screenwriting: “Do You. It Isn’t Easy But It’s Essential.” By Angie Han/Dec. 15, 2011 6:00 am EST Since breaking out with Being John Malkovich in 1999, Charlie Kaufman has developed a reputation as one of the most creative, ambitious screenwriters working today. After earning acclaim for projects like Adaptation. and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he made his directorial debut in 2008 with the wildly imaginative Synecdoche, New York....

David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ Tops BBC’s 100 Greatest Films Of The 21st Century By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2016 11:30 am EST The century is young, but already we’ve seen some incredible films come and go. So recently, BBC took the opportunity to poll 177 critics from 36 different countries to come up with a list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century so far. David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive emerged as a favorite, with Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood rounding out the top 3....

Every Movie We Saw At The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2017 10:30 am EST Another Toronto International Film Festival has been resigned to the dust, and it is time for us to look back on it and remember all the great (and not so great) films we witnessed there. Truth be told, this year’s fest was slightly less exciting than last – the films were good, and some were even fantastic, but overall they did not pack as much of a punch as I’d been hoping....