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NYFF 2014: Gone Girl
David Fincher‘s latest endeavor Gone Girl may be his coldest entry yet into a filmography already full of cold works. A deeply misanthropic, thrilling, unpredictable take on a missing person’s case and ensuing media storm that surrounds it. Ben...
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Philadelphia Film Festival Reveals Lineup & Schedule with ‘Birdman,’ ‘Wild’ & More
Consistently bringing in a wide array of compelling new films from unique voices of cinema, the 23rd Philadelphia Film Festival announced its packed new lineup and schedule yesterday. Bookended by beloved movie stars delivering awards-worthy performances, the festival opens...
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Trailer for Sundance Horror ‘The Babadook’ Will Freak You Out
It’s getting close to October, so that means the onslaught of horror films is about to begin. There will be plenty of scary movies to keep an eye out for in the coming weeks, but there’s one we’re quite...
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LAFF 2014: Jimi: All Is by My Side
John Ridley, the man who took on the heavy task of adapting Solomon Northup’s memoir Twelve Years a Slave into the Oscar-winning script that mesmerized us all this past year, has taken on true-life once again with Jimi: All Is...
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NYFF 2014: Last Hijack
Last Hijack is a hybrid of documentary and animation, set in the failed state of Somalia and told from the perspective of a former pirate struggling to resist the temptations of the life he left behind. Tracking Mohamed, the...
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Exclusive: First 10 Minutes of ‘The Calling’
We have an exclusive clip of the first 10 minutes of The Calling, the new serial killer thriller starring Susan Sarandon and Topher Grace. Sarandon plays Hazel Micallef, a detective in a quiet town who comes across a chain...
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‘Listen Up Philip’ Trailer Reveals Jason Schwartzman’s Alienating Author
Writer/Director Alex Ross Perry‘s follow-up to his micro-budget feature The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip now has released a new trailer ahead of its upcoming appearances on the fall film festival circuit. Strong reviews of the film and Perry’s...
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J.C. Chandor’s ‘A Most Violent Year’ Gets Year-End Release Date
J.C. Chandor‘s first two films, Margin Call and All Is Lost couldn’t have been more different — the first was a talky, smart depiction of Wall Street’s collapse and the second a quiet, small-scale tale of one man’s survival....
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Amy Adams v. Christolph Waltz in Tim Burton’s ‘Big Eyes’ Trailer
It’s been two years since Tim Burton brought us Frankenweenie and Dark Shadows. One of which was a lovely dark children’s story, and the other a sad and uninspiring take on a gothic soap opera. After these, and the...
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TIFF 2014: From What is Before
Every time something gets written about Lav Diaz, an explanation of the director’s unusual, tough filmography feels necessary. When it comes to length, Diaz is one of the most maximal directors around. It says something when Diaz’s last film,...
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Criterion Collection Announces December 2014 Releases
With the box-set and wishlist fodder that is typically released by the Criterion Collection each November, December tends to be lighter on must-have items. In 2013, Criterion changed that up a bit with the Martin Scorsese World Cinema box...
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TIFF 2014: Goodbye to Language 3D
Like the film’s 70 minute runtime, I’ll be brief. Jean-Luc Godard tackles three dimensions in his latest film, a complete sensory assault that, like his other recent works, can only be attributed to the legendary filmmaker. Narrative and characters...
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Giveaway: ‘We Are The Best!’ on Blu-ray
The coming-of-age punk story We Are The Best! arrives on Blu-ray and DVD September 23rd so we’ve teamed up with Magnolia Pictures to give two of our newsletter subscribers a chance to win a Blu-ray. Writer and producer Lukas...
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New York Film Festival Trailer Debuts Footage from ‘Inherent Vice’
The New York Film Festival made a splash earlier this year when it was that they would hold the premieres of both David Fincher’s Gone Girl and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. Beyond those films, the festival will also...
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