65 Must See Movies At The 2007 Toronto Film Festival By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2007 11:01 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Today I finally found some time to sit down and sift through the 352 official selections of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Many hours later, I present to you 65 must see movies at the Toronto International Film Festival. I did the work so that you don’t have to....
Comic-Con: The Walking Dead Panel And Footage Description, Bear McCreary Joins By Devindra Hardawar/July 23, 2010 12:25 pm EST Today we finally got our first glimpse at Frank Darabont’s small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead at San Diego’s Comic-Con, and it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect when you think Darabont-meets-zombies. Creator of the graphic novel Robert Kirkman hit the stage with Darabont, some key cast members — including leads Andrew Lincoln and Emma Bell — and producer Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator, Aliens) to chat about the six-episode series, and present the footage....
Director Brett Ratner Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Playboy Puts His Hugh Hefner Biopic On Hold [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Nov. 1, 2017 12:44 pm EST Update: Playboy tells The Wrap that in the wake of the allegations against Ratner, Playboy Enterprises “is putting all projects with Ratner’s production company, Ratpac Entertainment, on hold.” That includes Ratner’s planned biopic of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, which was slated to star Suicide Squad’s Jared Leto....
Exclusive Clip For ‘Dangerous Men’ Is All Fisticuffs, Fury, And Insane Sound Effects By Jacob Hall/Nov. 11, 2015 2:00 pm EST I’ve seen Dangerous Men twice now and it’s just as brain-breaking as the trailer implies. John Rad’s mesmerizing B-movie cocktail of sex, violence, and revenge brought the house down at this year’s Fantastic Fest and it will soon start collapsing movie theater roofs all over the nation (in a purely metaphorical manner, of course)....
How Dreamworks Animation Is Innovating 3D By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 5:43 pm EST /Film was invited to the Dreamworks Animation campus to preview some footage from Monsters vs. Aliens, and take a tour of the company’s new 3D process (which is actually pretty incredible… more on that later). It all began when Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg saw a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ Polar Express in IMAX 3D. “I was so blown away by the presentation....
Jon Favreau Answers Your ‘The Jungle Book’ Questions By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2015 11:30 am EST The trailer for Jon Favreau’s reimagining of The Jungle Book hit the web today (watch The Jungle Book trailer now if you haven’t already), and the filmmaker has taken to twitter to answer some of the fans questions. Since not everyone is following Favreau’s tweets, I thought I’d round-up the interesting answers and present them to you in a more digestible format (a blog post)....
Page 2: Indiana Jones, BTTF, Star Wars, Big Hero 6, Battlestar, X-Files, Big Lebowski, Hobbit, Doctor Who By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2014 3:00 pm EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....
Remake Bits: ‘Robocop’, ‘Godzilla’, ‘Evil Dead’, ‘The Town That Dreaded Sundown’ By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2013 4:00 pm EST An especially heart-pounding edition of Remake Bits features updates on Evil Dead, Godzilla, Robocop, and more. After the jump: Frank Darabont talks about the Godzilla reboot Jason Blum is remaking The Town That Dreaded Sundown Listen to ten minutes of the Evil Dead score New pics show the Robocop prototype What I found very interesting about Godzilla is that he started off definitely as a metaphor for Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
Rogue One Bits: Another New Stormtrooper, T-47 Airspeeders, ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Connections, And Force Friday By Jacob Hall/April 4, 2016 2:00 pm EST With Star Wars: The Force Awakens about to hit Blu-ray and DVD, surely that means the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story marketing deluge is set to begin, right? In the meantime, here’s the latest edition of Rogue One Bits: Are T-47 Airspeeders in Rogue One? An in-depth description of a new Stormtrooper design....
Rumors: ‘Man Of Steel 2’ Status And George Miller Directing ‘Justice League Dark’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2015 11:00 am EST There have been a lot of rumors swirling about the future of the Man of Steel lately. The sequel to his 2013 revival from Zack Snyder has been rumored to be one of the projects that Mad Max: Fury Road helmer George Miller could direct, but the film has also been said to be on “permanent hold” until Warner Bros....
Sympathy For the Devil: Maniac (1980) and Sleep Tight (2011) William Lustig’s Maniac is a trash masterpiece, a grim and hopeless experience that flings you into a grimy hole of despair without a flashlight or a rope or a single kind word. And it’s pretty great. The low budget and rough edges only enhance the impact of the final film, as there’s nothing slick or beautiful to remind you that this is only a movie....
Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Man Of Steel, Dark Knight Rises, D23, Thor, Daniel Clowes By Germain Lussier/Aug. 22, 2011 11:00 am EST Would you like to watch video interviews with Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Cobie Smulders and Tom Hiddleston discussing The Avengers? How about see the first look of Michael Shannon as Zod or the new Superman cape in Man of Steel? What are the perks of pre-ordering the Thor Blu-ray?...
SXSW Movie Review: The Assassination Of A High School President By Mel Valentin/March 22, 2008 10:28 am EST Just three years old, high school-noir got its start with Rian Johnson’s Brick (released in 2006 after being picked up at the Sundance Film Festival a year earlier). Set in a Northern California high school and centered on the investigation of missing student by her former boyfriend, a detective of sorts, and featuring hyper-stylized dialogue and impressive visual design and cinematography, Brick was a noir fan’s dream (other film fans were probably not as impressed)....
Talking Bear Movie ‘Paddington’ Is So Good, It Makes Other Movies Look Silly [Movie Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 16, 2015 8:00 am EST Paddington is a PG-rated family film about a talking bear who moves from the jungles of Peru to London. That premise, based on a popular series of children’s book by Michael Bond, is obviously silly. Yet writer director Paul King’s adaptation is so on the money, so well-done, so deceptively simple, heartfelt and flat-out entertaining, it make movies with far more plausible plots seem silly by comparison....
This Week In Trailers: American Jesus, No Lullaby, You Won’t Regret That Tattoo, I Am Big Bird, The Writer With No Hands By Christopher Stipp/March 22, 2014 10:00 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: Somm, Adjust Your Tracking, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), The Past (Le Passé), The Stroller Strategy By Christopher Stipp/May 10, 2013 3:30 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?...
Trailer And Report From Topher Grace’s Edit Of Close Encounters Of A Third Kind By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2014 12:00 pm EST In May 2012, I was invited to a private screening of the Star Wars prequels that had been edited down into one 85-minute movie by actor Topher Grace. I was one of a couple bloggers that were invited the the screening. My report on the Star Wars re-edit went EVERYWHERE....
While You Weren’t Watching, ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Became One Of Network Television’s Best Shows By Jamie Jirak/Aug. 28, 2018 2:00 pm EST Hello, my name is Jamie and I’m here to convince you to watch Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It’s not an exaggeration when I say this is the best and most criminally underrated show on network television. My hope is that if you clicked this article, you’ve never seen the show or gave up on it way too early....
/Answers: Our Favorite Horror Movie Villains By /Film Staff/Sept. 6, 2017 1:00 pm EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. Tying in with the release of It and the re-introduction of Pennywise the clown, this week’s edition asks “Who is your favorite horror movie villain?” Ben Pearson: The Terminator “Listen, and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with....
‘Big Hero 6’ Story Team Robert Baird And Paul Briggs Talk Development And Disney Animation By Germain Lussier/Oct. 8, 2014 7:00 am EST Earlier this summer, a group of journalists was invited to Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, CA to learn about the impressive process that went into Disney’s latest film Big Hero 6. Big Hero 6 is based on, but not linked to, a Marvel comic book of the same name....
