Hunter Stephenson

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Stories By Hunter Stephenson

Weekend Weirdness: The Mighty Boosh Make A Rare Appearance In NYC For Their Doc Journey Of The Childmen

It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review, or…the Boosh! "We were going to do [a tour of America]," Noel Fielding admitted to an enthused, sold-out crowd last…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Questions About The Finale "Full Measures" And Predictions For Season 4. Vince Gilligan Talks Season 3

This article concludes /Film's recaps and discussions for the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recap and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. The season three finale, “Full Measures,” differed from those of previous seasons with a grisly cliffhanger that incidentally and tragically pushed…

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Cool Stuff: Acapulco Gold's 'Phoebe Shirt'

Before you ditch that crummy summer job and toss your cheesy pirate uniform and fish sticks out the window, borrow some $10s from the register and treat yourself to something nice. Like, say, this new tee from NYC's Acapulco Gold, which salutes talented actress Phoebe Cates and the wet-hottest moment in '80s teen cinema. Printed…

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Breaking Bad Recap: A Look Back At Season 3 Before The Finale (Guest: Sven Barth)

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. For previous recaps, click here. Note: I skipped over episodes "Fly" and "Abiquiu" due to traveling (one leg of which sent me to Puerto Rico for the return…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 9 "Kafkaesque" Takes A Hard Look At Death, Taxes, And Chicken

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. The calamitous, nail biter episodes that were "Sunset" and "One Minute" were followed by two quieter if unsettling installments. The first,…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 8 "I See You" Sharpens The Public Facade Of Walter White Inside A Hospital

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. In movies, when bank robbers and gangsters grumble, “I’m never going back to jail, they’ll have to kill me,” the statement…

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Danny McBride And Aziz Ansari To Team For Another Comedy Film

On the heels of their previously announced action-comedy, 30 Minutes or Less, from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, actors Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari are attached to star in a second planned comedy feature, this one currently untitled. Specifics about the project were not revealed in today's press release, but it originates from a pitch credited…

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Weekend Weirdness Review And Trailer: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (Premiering This Week At Film Forum NYC)

It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review, or...GAH, bugs! When I learned of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, a documentary on the profitable Japanese subculture and love of insect…

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/Film Visits The New Orleans Set Of RED: An Interview With Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

On Easter Sunday, I landed in New Orleans to sweat and drop by the set of RED, yet another comic book adaptation, but one packing the following A-list cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren (as a tea-sipping sniper with a 50-cal machine gun), Mary-Louise Parker, Star Trek's Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 7 "One Minute" Delivers A Buzzing Mid-Season Climax, But At The Expense Of Realism?

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. With "One Minute," the most engrossing arc of the third season has landed in Hank's lap like a decapitated, shrunken…

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Interview: Harmony Korine On Trash Humpers, Manhattan's Appetite For Double Down Sandwiches, And The Time He Met Shaquille O'Neal

Summer is fast approaching and Harmony Korine—the polarizing Nashville-based filmmaker irresponsible for directing Gummo and scribing Kids---has returned to combat the season’s flabbier atrocities. For everyone’s information, Korine believes his latest movie, Trash Humpers, should not be referred to in the press or elsewhere as “a movie” or “a film.” I think I see his…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 6 "Sunset" Traps Jesse And Walt In A Thrilling Corner

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. This is my own private domicile. I will not be harassed, bitch!" - Jesse Pinkman From an opening shot…

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Tribeca Film Festival Review: Straight Outta L.A. (A Doc On The L.A. Raiders And N.W.A.)

The ESPN documentary series, 30 for 30, continues a phenomenal and original run at uniting fans of sports history and cinema with Straight Outta L.A. Directed and narrated by Ice Cube, in O.G. gruff mode, the doc examines the stylistic endorsement of the Los Angeles Raiders in the mid-to-late ’80s by West Coast gangsta rap pioneers…

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Eastbound & Down Season 2 Set In Mexico! Michael Pena And Ana De La Reguera Join The Cast. More News...

America's very own Kenny Powers aka The Man with the Golden Dick is officially leaving North Carolina and shipping off to play ball(s) in Mexico, better known as Hell on Earth in recent months due to drug cartel violence, kidnappings, and the rest of it. So, yikes, the "sour patch" seems only to worsen for Danny…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 5 "Mas" Is The Season's Riveting Game-Changer (Guest: Natasha Vargas-Cooper)

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. For this installment, /Film discourses with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, a sharp-witted, caps-friendly writer at The Awl and author of the new book Mad Men Unbuttoned, due this July from HarperStudio. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recap and for the comments section. Meth heads…

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Weekend Weirdness Bookshelf: Dennis Hopper & The New Hollywood

It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review, or a look at a book on a filmmaker's life. Any self-respecting male should take a few moments each year to…

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John Malkovich Confirms He Would Have Played The Vulture In The Never-To-Be Spider-Man 4

While visiting the sweltry set of Red this month, /Film had the pleasure of hanging and chatting a bit with John Malkovich. The iconic actor's thoughts on the 2010 Warren Ellis comic book adaptation remain under wraps, but Malkovich also took a sec to extend on his rumored involvement in Sam Raimi's (thankfully?) never-to-be Spider-Man…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 4 "Green Light" Ups The Ante With Dreamy Blue Eyes And Cloudy Blue Meth

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. In previous recaps, I have discussed the slower pace and subdued tone of season three, and several Slash readers…

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David Gordon Green To Make Biopic About Teen Outlaw Colton Harris-Moore

Restless authority-types and newscasters have referred to him as “the Teen Houdini,” “the Boy Who Loved to Fly,” and “the Barefoot Bandit.” Over a two year period, he's allegedly stolen and crashed a handful of cars and aircraft, having taught himself to fly from video games and a flight manual purchased using a stolen credit…

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Weekend Weirdness Review: Tony - London Serial Killer

It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review of a film about a murderous nerd, or an interview. Another week, another serial killer film. The British import, Tony, follows…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 3 "I.F.T." Is A Slow Burn And A Saucy Acronym

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads and readers' thoughts welcome. For previous recaps, click here. The third episode of the third season, “I.F.T.” continues the series' slow burn this year and…

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Aziz Ansari Cast In Ruben Fleischer's 30 Minutes Or Less. Film Inspired By Real Events?

In what is shaping up to be a top shelf action comedy, tonight brings news that Aziz Ansari is in negotiations to star in 30 Minutes or Less from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer. The dapper comedian and co-star of Parks & Rec would play a junior high school teacher thrown into a ticking clock scenario…

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Ruben Fleischer To Direct 30 Minutes Or Less. Danny McBride To Co-Star? Update On Eastbound & Down Season 2

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is evidently now locked to follow-up his aforementioned hit horror-com with 30 Minutes or Less, a most-likely R-rated comedy about a slacker pizza delivery man facing an explosive ultimatum at the instruction of a pair of goons. It was previously one of several projects being mentioned online for the director, alongside…

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Interview: Edward Norton Discusses The Thoughtful Summer Thriller Leaves Of Grass, His Goals As An Actor, And The Legacies Of Fight Club And Spike Lee

Sitting opposite Ed Norton in an empty conference room in a skyrise, one can’t avoid thinking about the hyper-charged situations he’s glared down on film. Clad in a black shirt and noticeably relaxed, he takes a moment before responding to a question, pressing a small washer-like object into the table and letting it spring back.…

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Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 2 "Caballo Sin Nombre" Is Set To The Sounds Of America

/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. “You see I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name. It felt good to be out…

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Weekend Weirdness: We Catch Up With Best Worst Movie Director Michael Stephenson. New Trailer, New Showings, New Snacks

It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review, or an interview straight outta Nilbog. Since I last spoke with director Michael Stephenson for Slash, his documentary Best Worst Movie…

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David Cronenberg And Viggo Mortensen To Reteam For Eastern Promises 2

The ever-fruitful and edgy creative partnership between director David Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen continues, with today's announcement of a sequel to their captivating 2007 Russian mob film Eastern Promises. The pic above perfectly conveys our expectations. Deadline reports that producer Paul Webster is overseeing the project, which now has a completed script by Steve Knight,…

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