VOTD: All The Movies Come Out To Play With Each Other In ‘Final Cut 2015’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2015 5:30 am EST The first year-end retrospective video mashing up a whole slew of movies from this past year just arrived earlier this week with the 2015 Salute to Cinema. Now a friend of the site has come through with his usual look back at the year in cinema with Final Cut 2015, and this is well worth your eight minutes....
VOTD: Watch Edgar Wright’s Finest Musical Moments From Film, TV & Music Videos By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2016 3:00 pm EST There are a myriad of ways that we could compliment Edgar Wright. From his economical, near flawless scripts to his fast and fierce shooting style, you can spot an Edgar Wright film from a mile away. But one of the things I look forward to the most is how the director Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs the World uses music to enhance his movies, making for some of the most memorable scenes from his career....
Watch: Xavier Dolan Directs Adele’s “Hello” Music Video In IMAX By Jack Giroux/Oct. 24, 2015 12:00 pm EST Director Xavier Dolan should make most 20-somethings feel unaccomplished. Dolan, who’s only 26 years old, has made five feature films. On top of that, he’s working on two projects at the moment — one starring Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Marion Cotillard (Macbeth), the other featuring Jessica Chastain (The Martian) and Susan Sarandon (The Meddler)....
WTF: Sony Animation Is Going To Make An Emoji Movie By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2015 12:45 pm EST Just when you think Hollywood has exhausted all possible movies, TV shows, video games, toys, and board games to turn into more movies and TV shows, something like this happens. Sony Pictures Animation has just won a bidding war against two other studios for an animated movie pitch involving Emoji. Yes, the little pictures that people send back and forth via phones and various social media channels will soon be the subject of a major motion picture....
‘Animal Kingdom’ TV Series Trailer: Cupcakes And Lives Are Going To Get Ruined By Jack Giroux/March 24, 2016 4:30 pm EST Animal Kingdom was one of the breakout debut films of 2010. Director David Michôd’s intimate crime thriller not only created future opportunities for himself, but also his cast, which included Joel Edgerton, Jacki Weaver, Ben Mendelsohn, and more. It’s an excellent drama, one that’s now being adapted for television....
‘Babylon’ TV Trailer: Danny Boyle Makes A Cop Show By Angie Han/Oct. 29, 2014 12:00 pm EST Before Danny Boyle jumps into Jobs, he’s taking a detour into television with Babylon. The British dramedy centers around the London police department, which is suffering from some serous public image issues. So Chief Constable Richard Miller (James Nesbitt) brings in some outside help in the form of Liz Garvey (Brit Marling), an American PR expert....
‘Bad Santa 2’ And Clint Eastwood’s ‘Sully’ Land Fall 2016 Release Dates By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2015 10:30 am EST Two movies about two very different men have just been given release dates in fall 2016. Broad Green Pictures has given Bad Santa 2 a prime holiday release during a crowded time at the Thanksgiving box office while Clint Eastwood’s movie Sully, about the quick, smart actions of pilot Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger (played by Tom Hanks), will arrive a couple months earlier on the big screen....
By Angie Han/June 10, 2015 11:00 am EST Back in olden times, a cancelled show’s best shot at salvation was another network — and if none of them wanted the show, it was just screwed. With the proliferation of streaming services hungry for original content, though, we’ve seen more and more series get axed by traditional broadcast or cable networks, only to find a second life online. Case in point: Canadian teen drama Degrassi has become the latest show to get un-cancelled by Netflix, after getting the axe from TeenNick last week....
‘Ghostbusters’ International Trailer: “Who’s In The Mood To Save New York City?” By Ethan Anderton/June 7, 2016 8:30 am EST As this summer keeps on trucking, we’re getting closer and closer to the release of the new Ghostbusters. If you’re not excited at all about the reboot, you can distract yourself on June 8th and 12th this week with special screenings of the original Ghostbusters. Though you’ll probably want to leave before the special sneak peek of the reboot is played following those screenings....
‘Hits’ Trailer: David Cross Makes His Directorial Debut By Angie Han/Jan. 7, 2015 6:00 am EST After years of acting in films both awesome and terrible, David Cross is finally making his directorial debut with Hits. The indie comedy centers on a small-town girl (Meredith Hagner) who dreams of fame, while her father (Matt Walsh) accidentally stumbles into it. Cross has stuffed the cast with familiar faces, including Michael Cera, Wyatt Cenac, David Koechner, and Jason Ritter....
‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Super Bowl Spot: The Aliens Are Back With A Vengeance By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 7, 2016 5:19 pm EST Here’s the Independence Day Resurgence Super Bowl spot from Fox: At the very least, this looks just as fun as the first movie. While the absence of Will Smith is a bit disappointing, the movie now has the opportunity to focus on the new cast members to allow for a true ensemble movie....
‘Interstellar’ - What Did You Think? By Angie Han/Nov. 7, 2014 7:00 pm EST There’s a moment in Inception when one character encourages another to “dream a little bigger, darling.” Well, it certainly looks like Nolan took that advice to heart with Interstellar. Nolan’s first post-Batman movie is stunningly ambitious, even by his usual bold standards. Matthew McConaughey leads the sci-fi epic as an astronaut who travels deep into space in a last-ditch effort to save the human race....
‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ Honest Trailer: We Get It, This Isn’t James Bond By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 19, 2015 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the more surprisingly fun and enjoyable action movies of this year was Kingsman: The Secret Service, the adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book from director Matthew Vaughn, which hit theaters all the way back in March and is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD....
‘Knights Of The Round Table: King Arthur’ Photos Reveal Charlie Hunnam And Excalibur By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2015 12:30 pm EST Next month brings Guy Ritchie’s swinging spy action adventure The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (watch the trailer here), but the Snatch and Sherlock Holmes director is already busy on his next film, in a completely different time period yet again. Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur is a new telling of the classic monarch legend, a 6th century king who has been said to have defended Britain against Saxon invaders....
‘Sleepless Night’ Remake Scores Jamie Foxx And Michelle Monaghan By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2015 9:00 am EST The Sleepless Night remake just got a jolt of much-needed energy. Open Road has just picked up the action-thriller and attached Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan to star. Baran bo Odar will direct from a script by Andrea Berloff. The original French film by Frédéric Jardin was a big hit with critics, if not the box office....
‘The Hollars’ Might Be A Sundance Cliche But It Still Made Me Cry [Sundance Review] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2016 2:30 pm EST Angie Han’s review of Other People began by pointing out that the film “sounds like the most stereotypical of Sundance movies” but “in practice, every element is so well executed that the film itself feels like something special.” The same could be said of John Krasinski’s The Hollars, which shares many of the same Sundance cliches....
‘The Program’ Trailer: Lance Armstrong Has The Money And Power To Destroy You All By Jack Giroux/Feb. 10, 2016 4:30 pm EST A few weeks ago it was announced The Program will premiere on DirecTV this month. The Lance Armstrong biopic was shot almost two and a half years ago, but The Program has taken its time getting to the big screen, for unknown reasons. The former potential awards contender is directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity) and, in the starring role as the disgraced cyclist, is Ben Foster....
Cool Stuff: 1966 Batman Gets An Official LEGO Batcave With Batmobile, Batcopter & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 13, 2016 5:00 am EST If you’re good with numbers and you’re a fan of Batman, then you’ve probably realized that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 Batman series that starred Adam West and Burt Ward as The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder. And in honor of the milestone anniversary, LEGO has just unveiled one hell of a playset for the Batcave, one that includes not only some of the signature villains but also the iconic vehicles as well....
David Fincher To Direct HBO Pilot For ‘Living On Noise,’ About The ’80s Music Video Scene By Russ Fischer/Dec. 18, 2014 4:00 pm EST Hot on the heels of the confirmation that David Fincher and James Ellroy are working together on an HBO show comes the news of another project that Fincher will do for the big cable network. Fincher will direct the pilot for an HBO music video show called Living on Noise, described as a “half-hour HBO project about music videos in the 1980s....
Karl Urban Says “Conversations Are Happening” About A ‘Dredd’ TV Series By Angie Han/May 2, 2016 12:30 pm EST But it looks like there might be a tiny bit more to his recent comments than we previously assumed. During an appearance at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, Urban teased that “conversations are happening” about bringing Dredd back, possibly as a streaming series. Let’s back up a bit. Here’s what Urban said a couple of weeks ago in response to a bit of fan art that imagined a Dredd sequel as a Netflix original series....
