I can't remember the last time I watched a movie like Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe. Don't Breathe is a film in which I was so tense, I felt sore afterwards from how on edge I was. Don't Breathe is a movie where the audience was so engrossed for the duration that I barely heard them make a peep or…
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I was a big fan of Jean-Marc Vallée's last film Wild, which featured Reese Witherspoon playing the real-life author Cheryl Strayed and taking on a physically impossible task as a means of working out issues in her personal life. When I heard Vallée would be directing a similar film with Jake Gyllenhaal, I was excited at what…
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The Primary Instinct, directed by David Chen and starring Stephen Tobolowsky, is now available to watch on Hulu.
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When I first heard JJ Abrams was taking on the Star Wars franchise, I got excited. With his first Star Trek film, Abrams showed he could take an iconic and beloved franchise and transform it into something new and exciting, while still respecting its roots. I think with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he’s done the exact same…
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Briefly: Well, folks, the day is finally here. A little bit more than a year after we first shot a concert film at the Moore Theatre with Stephen Tobolowsky, the World Premiere of The Primary Instinct is finally upon us. Tomorrow, all the people who backed us on Kickstarter will get the opportunity to watch the film with…
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Fourteen years and six movies after the first X-Men hit theaters, Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men universe to try and breathe new life into a waning franchise. The task that Singer and writer Simon Kinberg created for themselves is challenging: to unify two separate timelines through a time travel conceit, and to make it feel…
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What would you do if you discovered that there was another person in the world who looked exactly like you? How quickly would your world be torn from its moorings? What would you do? Would you ignore that person? Or would you obsessively track him/her down? Either way, you'd probably feel like something was gravely…
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With the next 2.5 hour iteration of The Hobbit (see Germain's review) now hitting theaters amidst a wave of non-stop publicity and hype, it’s easy to forget how awe-inspiring Peter Jackson's original Lord of the Rings trilogy was, both critically and commercially. Back in 2003, Return of the King scored a whopping 94% on Rottentomatoes, made over a billion dollars…
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Since Neil Blomkamp's probably not going to be doing Halo as his next film, we were curious what he might be working on next. (see our full interview for all the details). Blomkamp revealed just a few tantalizing tidbits about his next project. Hit the jump to hear what he had to say. Preparations for…
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After a series of schlocky small films, some of which went straight-to-DVD, it looks like writer/director Sean McGinly is ready for the big time. McGinly's The Great Buck Howard debuted almost a year ago at Sundance 2008 and got fairly positive reviews (see Peter's mini-review of the film here and some more reviews here). The…
Read MoreFor the record, mastermind James Cameron want us to know that he refers to 3D as "stereo." The director behind one of the most anticipated movies ever, AVATAR, just did an epic interview with Variety on the future of cinema (3D theatrical and 3D home viewing) and tossed in a fresh announcement about his follow-up…
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"Dude, Indiana Jones killed Batman." Fandango, the online movie ticket provider, recently polled several thousand movie fans about their most anticipated summer movie and the site reports that May's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was not only numero uno (82%) but nearly doubled fan anticipation for July's The Dark Knight (42%).…
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"I'm back. [belch!]" Oh yes, to be bathed in ketchup-colored red by an R-rated movie trailer inside a cinema. It's been nearly a decade since the largest theater chain in North America, Regal Entertainment Group, showed its last restricted movie trailer but times are a changing. Regal will reintroduce the kid hating trailers before R-rated…
Read MoreVariety is reporting that the filmmakers behind Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a new anti-Darwinism pro-Intelligent Design documentary starring Ben Stein, have stepped up their film's marketing to coincide with its timely April release (around the same time that Bill Maher's pro-agnostic doc Religulous opens internationally). Motive Entertainment, the marketing company that helped make The Passion…
Read MoreEric Bana says his villainy role as Nero in J.J. Abrams's Star Trek is nothing more than a "cameo." News to me. You? Here's another quote from the Aussie actor about his role: "It's just a great character, it's J.J. Abrams. It's a really well-written script, great part. Couldn't say no. I don't actually look…
Read MoreWhen the eldest Beastie Boy grows a serious gray beard, you know the film business is calling, and today brings news that Adam Yauch aka the rapper known as MCA has started an indie film distribution and international sales company called Oscilloscope Pictures. Anyone who's grabbed the nachos and grape soda and plopped down to…
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The major purchase making the press rounds and generating blog buzz from this year's Slamdance Film Festival, which ended Friday, is Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. Anchor Bay purchased the film, which hearkens back to '80s horror-comedies like House and Night of the Demons, for an impressive mid-six-figures with a theatrical release included in the deal.…
Read MoreTwenty-three days into the month of January, Michael Moore is getting proactive about his New Year's resolution: he wants one screen in every multiplex in America reserved for foreign films and documentaries. So, how's your newly implemented exercise regime going so far, everybody? Here's Moore... "People want to see documentaries, but there's a disconnect between…
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"Please, Oscar! Don't!" The Academy's famously snide sib, The Razzies, announced its nominations for the worst movies, performances and direction of 2007 today. Leading the lepers is the already cultish Lindsay Lohan stripper-twin-Blue Velvet-for-Proactiv-set thriller I Know Who Killed Me with nine noms, including Worst Picture. And that seals it: I'm finally going to consider…
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