Tag: Movies
To get a better sense of which movie crits are worth trusting, the people at Vocativ did a quantitative analysis of the scores they’ve given the 200 top-grossing films of the past 10 years. At the top of the chart are the critics who are inclined towards fawning, at the bottom are those who, in […]
“The message he sends about armchair activism and the degradation of legitimate social causes in the service of greed and social branding is spot on,” Bloody Disgusting’s Evan Dickinson decided at a recent secret screening of Eli Roth’s “lighthearted cannibal film” The Green Inferno at the Stanley Film Festival in Colorado. Roth’s latest is very to his signature […]
In 2002, when Richard Linklater began making Boyhood, Ellar Coltrane was seven years old. Over the next 12 years, Linklater crafted a coming-of-age film with Coltrane at the center; by the time they were finished, Coltrane was a young man and so was his character. The trailer, released today, will probably make you tear up. This […]
According to Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures is in talks with Danny Boyle to direct a Steve Jobs biopic and Danny Boyle is reportedly in talks with Leonardo DiCaprio to star. Thankfully, the actor’s most notable performances have prepared him for such a challenge, particularly his last three films. ROMEO + JULIET (1996): RICH ASSHOLE THE MAN IN THE IRON […]
Future freaks and regressive adults rejoice: Todd Spence imagines a coloring book to meet all your weirdo needs! “Bleak Movies Coloring Book” will bring such child appropriate movies as Requiem For A Dream and The Shining to people of all ages, via his creepily cheerful drawings of some of these movies most harrowing scenes. You can even make these images more unsettling […]
It’s among the most reliable tropes in cinema: if Our Hero is heading into a Final Fight with the Bad Guys, he must first take a moment to Gear Up. Guns are loaded and holstered, utility belts are buckled, masks are donned, capes are tied off — or, for a certain kind of protagonist, a […]
The new trailer for Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow is here. Click above to watch. Tom Cruise is a soldier with a robo-suit battling aliens in the future. Then he dies. Then he wakes up earlier that day. Then he goes to battle aliens. Then he dies. Then he wakes up earlier that day. Yes, I know. Groundhog […]
The above clip, by film student Ali Shirazi, splices together the centerpiece fight scenes from Kill Bill Volume 1 and Gangs of New York, turning two hyper-violent battles into one big bloodbath. The audio editing is seamless too, so that all the gurgling grunts and clanging of swords mesh together into a symphony of sound-design death. Watch it above. […]
Scouting NY has a comprehensive look at the NYC locations of The Godfather as they stand today. We’ve put some highlights in the gallery, including Don Corleone’s Genco Oil (128 Mott Street), the Corleone House (110 Longfellow Ave in Staten Island), and the hospital where Vito stays after he’s shot (104th Street and Southern Boulevard in […]
James Franco the “astonishingly prolific polymath” and actor has unleashed an impressively massive body work, wildly varying in mediums and quality. Now, Franco’s directorial body of work is invading Manhattan’s IFC Center for their “FrancoFest,” March 5th – March 13 and he will be appearing in person eight times. It is a lot of Franco. Screening […]
