It’s been a while since we’ve gotten a concrete update on Darren Aronofsky’s The Fighter, the real-life story of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward’s (to be played by Mark Wahlberg) unlikely road to the world lightweight title. His Rocky-like rise was guided by half-brother Dicky (Brad Pitt), a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being [...]

When it was first announced, rumors began to circulate that Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino was a new Dirty Hairy film. That rumor turned out to be bunk, but we haven’t heard much about the project since. That is until now. Eastwood spoke briefly about the film while doing press for The Changeling.
In Gran Torino, Eastwood [...]

Fox Searchlight has released five videos from The Wrestler press conference at the New York Film Festival. A lot of it was covered in our extensive three-part interview with Aronofksy last month (you can read there here, here, and here) but there are some juicy bits that make these worth watching. Plus, its fun to [...]

Seth Rogen will produce I’m With Cancer, an autobiographical based on the experienced of Will Reiser, a producer on HBO’s Da Ali G Show and VH1’s Best Week Ever. Reiser’s spec script tells the story of a 25-year-old who learns he has the disease. Rogen will not however play the lead, but will instead have [...]

The final trailer for Twilight has leaked onto YouTube. I’ve pretty much given up all hope on this film, but I’m sure there are a few teenage girl readers who might be interested. As always, tell me what you think in the comments below!

Official Plot Synopsis: TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern day love story between [...]

Richard Linklater’s indie classic Slacker is now available for free steaming on Hulu. Aslo, Kevin Smith, who credits the film as his inspiration for making Clerks, contributed a new written introduction about the film for the hulu blog.

The reviews for Oliver Stone’s W. have begun to show up online, and aside from Josh Brolin’s “magnificent” performance, the buzz is pretty mild:
Jeff Wells writes: “Josh Brolin’s performance as George W. Bush being dead perfect but — and this, I believe, is a crucial distinction — appropriately hollow. Which means that on some level [...]

Way back in March, I posted the trailer for Special, a U.S. indie about a heavily-medicated man convinced he has superpowers, as played by Michael Rapaport. The film caught my interest not only due to Dick Ritchie, but also its gritty exploration of a would-be superhero whose body and mind suffer the consequences. Ever since [...]

Fox Searchlight has decided to move Danny Boyle’s film festival sensation Slumdog Millionaire up another week. The film will now open on Wednesday, November 12th 2008, instead of the announced November 19th release date. The film was originally set to bow on November 28th. No official reason was given, but I’m going to assume that [...]

Nick and Norah’ Infinite Playlist star Kat Dennings is in talks to join Peter Stebbings‘ Defendor. Woody Harrelson plays a regular guy who believes he has a secret superhero identity. Dennings will play a teenage girl who he befriends. Sandra Oh will play his psychiatrist. I imagine that the film will be something like K-Pax [...]

What happened to Sunshine Cleaning? The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but was met with some disappointment when attendees realized that it wasn’t the next Little Miss Sunshine. A fair comparison considering much of the pre-festival buzz came from the fact that it was produced by the same guys, has “Sunshine” in [...]

Rodrigo Garcia is going to direct an ensemble drama titled Mother and Child. Why should you care? Here are a few reasons:

The movie is being produced by “The Three Amigos”, Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men), Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Alejandro Gonzalez (Babel)
The film is based on an original screenplay by Garcia, who developed [...]

Miramax has released the first five minutes of Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness on Yahoo. I have yet to see the film, but I’ve heard mixed things. The cinematography and sound design is said to by the film’s strength, and you will see and hear that in this clip. The opening certainly seems compelling in every way [...]

A couple weeks ago, I saw and fell in love with the swedish vampire film Let The Right One In, freaked out, and posted a raving mini-review along with the international trailer. Magnet has now released the American trailer, which you can watch below. LEt me stress again that while this film is technically a [...]

Red Tails is one of those projects that I’ve never been interested in. George Lucas has been developing the film since 1989, and was originally going to direct the movie himself. He infamously put the project aside to helm the Star Wars prequels. It has now been officially announced that Anthony Hemingway (The Wire, CSI: [...]