The Best Movies of Sundance 2011 – Robert’s List
Editor’s Note: In a fevered rush to get straight to the movies he loved, intrepid reviewer Robert Levin didn’t write an intro. In fact, he might not even believe in them. Maybe he believes you’d...
View ArticleWatch This: The Breathtaking Trailer for ‘Another Earth’
Maybe going in blind to this movie is the best option, because going in blind worked brilliantly for the trailer. I knew nothing about Another Earth until scoping out these few minutes, but those...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Avengers are Go, Elvis is Fired, Wonder Woman is...
What is Movie News After Dark? Starting tomorrow, it will continue to be your best source of news from around the world of film. Or rather, all the best news that isn’t picked up during the day by the...
View ArticleThe 15 Must-See Movies of Summer 2011
Last summer was a good (not great) movie season. Granted, there were some notorious duds with Robin Hood, Jonah Hex, Avatar: The Last Whatever-It’s-Called, the one where Jake Gyllenhaal talked real...
View ArticleTalking Heads: The Summer Movie Forecast
Every week, Landon Palmer and Cole Abaius log on to their favorite chat client of 1996 as DogEatsHeart and 5Obstructions5 in order to discuss some topical topic of interest. This week, the pair apply...
View ArticleReject Radio #99: How To Keep Your Boom Arm Straight
This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, Friends With Benefits director Will Gluck teaches us proper technique in the bedroom, Another Earth star William Mapother confronts what he’d do if...
View ArticleInterview: Director Mike Cahill Discusses His Sci-Fi Drama ‘Another Earth’
Another Earth isn’t a sci-fi film. It’s a drama. While this idea may disappoint some of you, the sci-fi backdrop for the film is purely there for symbolism. Blending the science-fiction element with...
View ArticleAlexander Skarsgård to Join Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s ‘The East’?
Since busting on to the scene with her work in two of Sundance 2011’s biggest hits, Brit Marling’s next roles have been the source of constant speculation and chatter. But the multi-hyphenate’s skills...
View Article2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards Announces Nominees; ‘Take Shelter’ and...
Remember all the way back to last night when the Gothams announced their annual awards and thus declared that awards season was like, so totally on? No? Really? It was just last night, come on. In that...
View ArticleThis Week In DVD: November 29th
It’s the last DVD release week of November, and judging by the stellar releases out today it’s fair to say Christmas has come early. There are several titles, big and small, deserving of a purchase or...
View ArticleThe Holiday Gift Guide: 70 DVDs, Blu-rays and Other Things for the Home...
Merry Christmas movie/TV/goat-cheese lovers! As part of our week-long gift guide extravaganza thingamajig we’ve put together a list of Blu-rays, DVD and a few other ideas for you to use when shopping...
View ArticleYear In Review: The 22 Worst Films of 2011
There are two things you don’t want to watch getting made – sausage and the official Film School Rejects’s year-end worst-of list. Hideous, dirty, bloody, illegal stuff; many animals die in the...
View ArticleYear In Review: The Top 11 Trends, Topics, and Debates of 2011
Usually I’m quite cynical about end-of-year lists, as they demand a forced encapsulation of an arbitrary block of time that is not yet over into something simplified. I typically find end-of-year lists...
View ArticleReel Sex: The Many Faces of Sadness and How Sex Hurts More Than it Helps
Most people, as they recover from seasonal snacking comas and hangovers brought on by liquid medication for too much concentrated family time, spend these last few weeks of December reflecting on the...
View ArticleThe Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks
As you may have noticed, this final week of 2011 has been almost completely taken over by our third annual Year in Review. It was born in 2009 out of our love for lists and your thirst for reading,...
View ArticleHow Movie Soundtracks Are Helping Undiscovered Bands Find New Fans
Ever since Napster hit the scene and forever changed the way we distribute music, the music industry has been fighting a slow death over the past few years and while record labels still exist, they...
View Article‘Another Earth’ Director Mike Cahill Still Stuck on Both Sci-Fi and Brit Marling
There are few films that I’ve come around on as much as I’ve come around on Mike Cahill‘s Another Earth. When the film bowed at Sundance 2011, it was as one half of the buzzed-about “arrival” of star...
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