In this edition, a Coraline video essay looks at the ancient forms of storytelling, Cameron Crowe reunites with himself for Almost Famous, and more.
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In our The Last of Us Part II review, we examine a video game that feels monumental and miserable all at once, a harrowing combination.
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An Almost Famous reunion podcast is coming in July with director Cameron Crowe and much of the main cast involved. Find out more here.
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Director Cameron Crowe has responded to the Penny Lane manic pixie dream girl criticism that has been thrown at Almost Famous in the years since release.
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Patrick Fugit battles literal and metaphorical demons the new Outcast trailer, a news series that will air on Cinemax from Adam Wingard and Robert Kirkman.
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Before Ben Affleck plays Batman, he'll be playing a husband accused of something terrible. He and Rosamund Pike are the stars of David Fincher's upcoming thriller, Gone Girl, based on the best-selling book by Gillian Flynn. Pike plays a seemingly perfect American wife who goes missing and her husband is instantly blamed. From there, things…
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In The Avengers, Mark Ruffalo played a seemingly mild-mannered man waging a constant internal battle against his predilection for anger. In the upcoming Thanks for Sharing, he plays a guy who's a lot like that, only he's fighting sex addition, not anger issues. And Pepper Potts -- I'm sorry, Gwyneth Paltrow -- is along for…
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Despite sharing a theme and a location -- sex addiction and New York City, respectively -- Stuart Blumberg's Thanks for Sharing couldn't look more different from Steve McQueen's Shame. Whereas the latter was a dark, depressing portrayal of one man's downward spiral, the former looks like a lighter, more hopeful affair about a group of…
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Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo unfolds in the kind of universe where characters say things like "If you do something for the right reasons, nothing can stop you," and indeed, it turns out that if your heart is in the right place, Mother Nature herself will stop and part the clouds to make your…
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We've already expressed our eagerness to check out Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo, and it seems Fox is equally excited to show it to us. The studio has teamed up with social media service TOUT to offer sneak preview screenings of the drama on Saturday, November 26, four weeks before its official release date…
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Zach Gilford, best known as sensitive QB Matt Saracen on Friday Night Lights, will be starring opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand. Described as "a combination of Die Hard and High Noon," the action film revolves around a border town sheriff (Schwarzenegger) who finds himself tasked with stopping a drug kingpin from crossing the…
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These days, reality television may be considered by some to be a blight on our cultural landscape, but there was a time when it offered a more honest counterpoint to the idealized families being portrayed on American sitcoms. Back in the early '70s, filmmaker Craig Gilbert conceived of a documentary series about a California household as…
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I'm a huge fan of director Cameron Crowe, and Almost Famous is one of my favorite films of all time. Before I started /Film, one of the websites I use to check on a regular basis was a Cameron Crowe fansite called The Uncool (which, yes, is a brilliant reference from Almost Famous). The guy…
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Reality stars are a dime a dozen these days, but HBO Films' Cinema Verite takes us back to a time when that wasn't the case. The film dramatizes the behind-the-scenes action surrounding PBS' 1973 documentary series An American Family, which HBO's marketing team is referring to the first reality show. The series followed a Santa…
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Cameron Crowe is set to reteam with Almost Famous star (and big screen alter ego) Patrick Fugit and talented up and comer Elle Fanning (Somewhere, Super 8, The Nines) in the a big screen adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Deadline is reporting that Fanning will play the role of Lily,…
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Two days ago, we delved into rumors that the next Peter Parker could be played by the Macguire-esque Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous, Wristcutters) or the younger, spunkish Michael Angarano (Sky High). Well, Sony wants to put some Internet skywriting out there and fast. Their message is: "Tobey Maguire you're the best, you're our Spider-Man!...right?" Sony's…
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In the past few weeks we've heard mumblings that Sony had renewed their option to make Spider-Man movies, and internet rumors of preliminary plans to shoot Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5, back-to-back. Now comes word via LatinoReview that Patrick Fugit is the top name in the running to replace Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. Now…
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The first unofficial teaser poster for Wristcutters: A Love Story has appeared on the film's MySpace site. I was excited to see the film at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and came out of the screening slightly disappointed (You can read my very short review here). Is it a bad movie? No exactly... A friend…
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