Watch ‘Minnesota Nice,’ A 25-Minute Documentary About The Coen Brothers’ ‘Fargo’ By Germain Lussier/July 27, 2012 4:30 pm EST Any excuse to write about Fargo is a good thing. So, even though this 25-minute documentary about The Coen Brothers’ classic has been online for a year and is available on the Blu-ray release, we haven’t posted it before and figured, who couldn’t use a little extra Marge Gunderson in their day?...
Watch HBO’s New Shows ‘Getting On’ And ‘Ja’mie: Private School Girl’ Online By Angie Han/Nov. 25, 2013 3:00 pm EST Boardwalk Empire, Hello Ladies, and Eastbound and Down are done for the year (or, in the latter’s case, forever), and Girls, Looking, and True Detective don’t premiere until January. So what’s there to see on HBO between now and 2014? Well, the network is hoping you’ll use that time to check out two of their new shows, the medical comedy Getting On and the Summer Heights High spinoff Ja’mie: Private School Girl....
Watch This: How Gareth Evans Made One Of The Best Action Teaser Trailers Ever By David Chen/April 16, 2014 7:00 am EST The teaser trailer for The Raid 2: Berandal was one of the most impressive teasers I’ve ever seen, a meticulously constructed series of attention-grabbing moments. The sound design was ominous, the shots were spectacularly violent, and the editing was expertly executed. Sometimes, directors don’t have much say over how their films are marketed, but I just had this feeling that director Gareth Evans had a hand in how this teaser turned out....
Weinsteins Wouldn’t Let ‘Snowpiercer’ Go To TIFF, Wanted Neil Gaiman-Penned Voiceover By Angie Han/Dec. 20, 2013 8:00 am EST For the past four months, we’ve been getting worrisome reports about what U.S. distributor The Weinstein Co. is doing to Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer. The Weinsteins wanted to chop up the movie, despite great reviews from Korea and France, because they were afraid that “audiences in Iowa and Oklahoma” wouldn’t get it. While the director initially assured press that the cuts were “pretty soft,” he’s since become more vocal about his displeasure....
‘Child Of God’ Teaser: James Franco Does Cormac McCarthy By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2013 2:30 pm EST While Ridley Scott brings Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay to the big screen, James Franco is tackling another of his stories. The multi-hyphenate’s latest directorial effort is Child of God, based on McCarthy’s novel of the same title. Scott Haze leads the cast as Ballard, a violent outsider turned serial killer in ’60s Tennessee....
‘Cosmos’ TV Trailer: Seth McFarlane And Neil deGrasse Tyson Reboot Carl Sagan’s Science Show By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2013 4:16 pm EST Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, Ted) wanted to reboot the show, and has worked with original Cosmos writer and producer Ann Druyan (also Sagan’s widow) on a new 13-episode series hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The first new Cosmos trailer was released at Comic Con — for the show which bears the full title Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey — and it looks fantastic....
‘Great Expectations’ Trailer: Helena Bonham Carter Doesn’t Take Breakups Well By Angie Han/Sept. 17, 2013 3:22 pm EST To be totally honest, we kinda forgot that Mike Newell’s Great Expectations existed at all. Can you blame us? The project started casting two and a half years ago, released a trailer and got a TIFF premiere a year ago, and since then we’ve heard next to nothing about it. But now it’s getting ready for a U....
‘The Drop’ Trailer: Tom Hardy And James Gandolfini Are On The Wrong End Of A Robbery By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2014 1:45 pm EST Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam got to call the shots on The Drop, which scripted by Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone). You probably wouldn’t even need to have that spelled out for you, because this first The Drop trailer very much conveys the feel of films like Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, perhaps with a bit of Killing Them Softly thrown in....
‘Vacation’ Leads Chevy Chase And Beverly D’Angelo Close To TV Reunion By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2014 2:00 pm EST Everyone loves a comedy reunion, it seems, and Vacation fans get a couple different versions. First there was that Old Navy ad campaign that brought Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, and Juliette Lewis back together to hawk trousers. Then there’s the new Vacation film that casts Ed Helms as the grown Griswold son, and will feature cameos from Chase and D’Angelo as the elder Griswolds....
A Cast Of Kings S3E07 - The Bear And The Maiden Fair By David Chen/May 14, 2013 8:02 am EST Joanna and Dave discuss the seventh episode of season 3 of Game of Thrones, “The Bear and the Maiden Fair.” Thanks to our sponsor for this week, Adam Borden. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at gameofthronespodcast....
First Look: ‘300: Rise Of An Empire’ By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2013 5:12 pm EST Director Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 turned into a surprise hit in 2006, and ever since then there has been speculation about the sequel, or prequel. Miller quickly went to work on a related graphic novel, and several years ago Snyder and his co-writer Kurt Johnstad got to work on a script....
First Look: Scarlett Johansson As Janet Leigh In ‘Hitchcock,’ Plus Her Alien Character In ‘Under The Skin’ By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2012 1:30 pm EST Scarlett Johansson had a quiet couple of years, with only Iron Man 2 and We Bought a Zoo hitting theaters in 2010 and 2011, respectively. But her profile is back up in the stratosphere thanks to The Avengers, and now a couple other productions she’s involved in are taking advangate of the attention lavished on Marvel’s big hit....
First Two Seasons Of ‘The Walking Dead’ To Be Rebroadcast In Black And White By Angie Han/Dec. 14, 2012 3:45 pm EST If there’s one shade I associate with AMC’s The Walking Dead, it’s red — as in the color of all that stomach-turning blood and gore. But perhaps that’s only because I haven’t read Robert Kirkman’s comic, which is illustrated in stark black and white. And starting in February, older episodes of the series will be presented the same way....
Jim Jarmusch Explains His Vampire Film, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive;’ See Photos And Clips By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2013 11:50 am EST A new film from indie mainstay Jim Jarmusch is always an event, even if he makes films that are much smaller than “event” really suggests. His new picture, his first in four years, is called Only Lovers Left Alive. It stars Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska and Anton Yelchin in a genre-influenced story featuring vampires and music....
Lindsay Lohan’s Next Project Is ‘Inconceivable’ By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2014 12:15 pm EST Lindsay Lohan’s planned comeback hasn’t gone quite as planned. Her 2012 Lifetime movie Liz & Dick got laughs in all the wrong ways, while 2013’s The Canyons failed to do even that. Hardly anyone noticed at all as it came and went from theaters. Nevertheless, she’s not giving up. Lohan’s next project is a psychological thriller called Inconceivable, as revealed at Sundance....
LOL: The Original ‘Star Wars’ Teaser, Recut With Bloopers By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2013 11:00 am EST Last week a great blooper reel from the original Star Wars turned up online, and fans went nuts with the rare footage showing the cast in their most playful moments. Now the inevitable has occurred: an editor with an interest in comedy has re-cut the film’s original teaser trailer with the blooper reel footage....
Mary Lynn Rajskub To Return For ‘24: Live Another Day’ By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2013 1:00 pm EST Mary Lynn Rajskub’s Chloe O’Brian wasn’t even introduced until the third season of 24, but she quickly established herself as a fan favorite and an integral part of the thriller series. The numbers bear that out, too. She appeared in 125 episodes of the show, more than any character not named Jack Bauer....
Page 2: Star Trek, World War Z, ID4, Under The Dome, Jaws, GOT, Gremlins, Pan’s Labyrinth By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2013 12:00 pm EST Header Photo: The Enterprise Boldly Goes Across The Knuckles Tattoo Jonah Hill: “Whatever, man. Scorsese thinks I’m awesome"7 Things We Learned About Stephen King From Reddit Things the World War Z book has in common with the movie [Venn Diagram] Jerry Bruckheimer and ‘The Con Air Effect’...
Page 2: Star Wars, Star Trek, Bond, Breaking Bad, Firefly, Gremlins, This American Life, Human Centipede,Back Tot The Future, Up, Lord Of The Rings, Wizard Of Oz, Looper By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2012 7:00 am EST Header Photo: Paste on Wall Hate Will BringIs Brave Really a Miyazaki Film? Choose Your Captain t-shirt 5 Hitchcock Films You Should Watch Instead Of Watching HITCHCOCKAre Video Game Movies The New Comic Book Movies?...
Paul Bettany To Play Vision In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2014 6:04 pm EST Here’s an interesting story. We have a pretty good idea that Ultron, the prime villain of Avengers: Age of Ultron, is birthed in some way through Tony Stark’s experimentation with armor and, likely, his AI-powered suits. But there could be another new AI character in the Avengers sequel: the outlandish-looking Vision. The character is a long-standing member of the Marvel Universe and a frequent Avenger, as well as the romantic partner of the Scarlet Witch, played in the film sequel by Elizabeth Olsen....
