Tag: Film
Before there was Humans of New York, before there was The Sartorialist, there were these guys: OG photographers like Ricky Powell, Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz, and Jamel Freedman, who captured the raw, beating heart of New York in decades past through its artists, graffiti writers, junkies, and street people. Everybody Street, a new documentary featuring the […]
Grown Ups 2, one of the least well-received movies of 2013, begins with Adam Sandler’s character Lenny waking up and getting pissed on by a CGI deer. Grown Ups 2, a movie hovering at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and 20% on Metacritic, builds up to a far too elaborate ’80s-themed costume party that gets the […]
Here’s a mini-movie about all the times movies have gone all meta-movie and included movies in their movies. It’s also one of the most coherently constructed (and, at six minutes, longest) supercuts I’ve ever seen. It’s got, like, three acts and everything! Movies, man. Found by our friends at Laughing Squid. […]
Pacific Rim (2013) BBBOOOOOOOOOOOMMM. Glurgh glurgh GLURGH GLURGH GLURGH GROOOOARGH!!!! Big monster, ugly. Much city fall down. CRASH. KABLOW, KAKAKABLOW. More, bigger monsters destroy questionable futuristic metropolises. Giant robots and shit, with people inside. Dramatic score. DRAMTIC-ER SCORE!!! BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Yey. SCIENCE: 1.5 out of 5 An inter-dimensional asshole rips open at the bottom […]
We’ve already showed you the trailer for We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, a documentary Julian Assange hates, so here’s the trailer for The Fifth Estate, a Wikileaks narrative film Assange called a “mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks the organization, and the character of my staff.” Of course, the approval of a film’s subject is hardly a good […]
Just like all of us, Sofia Coppola has problems, but they’re a little bit different, because she’s not like us. She’s Sofia Coppola. Wikipedia: Sofia Carmina Coppola (/ˈkoʊpələ/ koh-pə-lə; born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in […]
Spike Lee has been setting himself up remaking Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy from The Vengeance Trilogy. And now, the trailer is here so we can all JUDGE HIM. NSFW! LET’S JUDGE HIM. Yeah, Josh Brolin looks like he spent 20 years imprisoned in a room without any explanation and even displays flourishes of Min-sik Choi’s dark comedic awkwardness as he scuttles […]
The documentary project Citizen Koch was greenlit last spring and was headed to PBS, until David Koch himself — a big PBS donor — had PBS drop its financial support. What’s next? Kickstarter, obviously. Citizen Koch tells that story — from the political influence wielded by billionaire industrialists and conservative activists David and Charles Koch, and […]
Looks like Guillermo del Toro and Charlie Kaufman may be collaborating on a film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 classic Slaughterhouse Five. Oh. Yes. If the director behind the feverish nightmares of Pan’s Labyrinth and the screenwriter of the darkly hilarious and surreal Being John Malkovich can’t nail down the Tralfamadorians’ fatalistic humor and poor old […]
Diane, 10:30 AM, July 9th. Entering the offices of ANIMAL. It’s a 15 minute walk from Times Square. Never seen so many Red Bulls in my life. 86 Degrees on a clear day. Lunch will be, uh, 5 dollars at the Halal cart on 45th, near the gas station. That will be lamb over rice. […]
