Word from the TIFF via the NY Post is that Steven Soderbergh’s $60 million 4-hour-plus Che Guevara biopic, Che, has finally been picked up by Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures for a U.S. theatrical release. Take note: the company has chimed in and called the deal “premature,” though no denials have been issued. If so, we’ll [...]

Magnolia Pictures has released the theatrical trailer for Quid Pro Quo, the new thriller from Carlos Brooks. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to good reviews. My friend Scott Weinberg at Cinematical wrote that it was “worth seeing for the two leads alone”, and described it as “a low-key cross between Garden State, [...]

I dare you to watch the trailer for Surfwise and not find yourself intrigued. As of late, there have been quite a few surfing documentaries that are all mashed together in the head of pop culture, but this one, from director Doug Pray (memorable grunge doc Hype!) focuses on the intricacies of an eccentric familial [...]

Due for release this summer from Magnolia Pictures, Special is a superhero spoof starring New York veteran actor Michael Rapaport (True Romance, The War at Home) about a parking lot cop who is prescribed antidepressants and begins to believe and act like he has super powers.
The film, the debut of writer/director team Hal Haberman and [...]

Imagine this. It’s Sunday night and you’re sitting in a movie theater watching The Signal, an independent horror movie about a mysterious transmission which invades every cell phone, radio and TV, turning people into killers. And then suddenly, two men sitting in separate areas of the theater are randomly attacked and stabbed by an unknown [...]

I remember sitting in the Egyptian theater in downtown Park City Utah almost a year ago, wondering why I wasn’t sleeping. You see, sleep is something that just doesn’t happen during the 10-days of the Sundance Film Festival. Either you’re partying or seeing movies. And I’m the type to usually over-exhaust myself with celluloid. I [...]

MTV has posted the trailer for Weirdsville, a movie I caught at the Toronto Film Festival. I hope to have the review up later today (I’m still working, working, working on all the stuff I never got to), but the flick is pretty funny. The film follows a pair of slackers who get in way [...]

Today in the mail we received an unmarked package containing a DVD-r. Written on the DVD-r in black sharpie are the words “Do You Have the Crazy?” (as seen above in my iPhone snapshot)
Most of you probably don’t recognize the phrase, because it’s featured in a great zombie/horror movie that I saw at Sundance [...]

Since it’s premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Joon-ho BONG’s new film The Host has garnered huge international buzz. So I went into the screening with unreachably high expectations and was not disappointed.

RealD has inked a deal to expand it’s Digital 3-D experience to an additional 200 screens (AMC, Regal, Cinemark, and more). Disney’s March 30th release of Meet the Robinsons will use the technology.
A heavyweight annual human rights report issued by the State Department lists Borat as a victim of censorship. The report cited Borat’s loss [...]

The latest Batman The Dark Knight casting rumor has Maggie Gyllenhaal to replace Katie Holmes as Assistant D.A. Rachel Dawes. Not a bad idea. But I’m guessing that like most of the other Batman casting rumors, it’s not true.
All Star directors helm The Office: Lost Co-creator JJ Abrams, Serenity/Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, [...]