Three posters for Judd Apatow's follow-up to 40 Year Old Virgin have been released. Knocked Up follows a young guy who find out that he impregnated his one night stand. The film stars Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Leslie Mann, and Paul Rudd. According to imdb: Steve Carell, Owen Wilson, and Ryan Seacrest also appear in…
Read More One of our favorite films at Sundance 2007 was Eagle vs. Shark (a film I tell people is Little Miss Sunshine meets Napoleon Dynamite). Well it looks like Eagle vs. Shark loves us back. The official website for the film eaglevsshark.net is quoting from my review [which can be read at this link]. Very cool.…
Read More There are tons of new movies premiering at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Guess what this means? Poster-mania! Here is our first look at the posters of Sundance 2007. Disclaimer: All of these posters were photographed off of posted promotional posters or postcards distributed at the festival. The result is not 100% professional quality, and…
Read More Already the most talked about film of 2007's Sundance Film Festival involves Bestiality. Didn't we get enough with last year's Stay (later renamed Sleeping Dogs Lie)? Apparently not. The documentary from director Robinson Devor (Woman Chaser, Police Beat), is about a man who dies after having sex with a horse. The poster to the left…
Read More Andrew Wagner was at Sundance two years ago with his break-out film The Talent Given to Us. In his emotional introduction to Starting Out, he explained how he sat in the huge Eccles theater wishing to someday have a film of his own on the gigantic big screen. He couldn't get anymore words out, he…
Read More I didn't want to see Snow Angels at first. I was outside the first screening when a busload of people decided to walk out. "Terrible, Depressing" they said. But then in the days that followed I ran into a lot of people on the shuttles and at the theaters that were raving about the flick.…
Read More Charlie (Michael Douglas) has just returned from a two-year mental facility visit. His self reliant daughter Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood) refuses to even acknowledge that he is in fact her father. Charlie becomes obsessed with finding hidden gold left by Spanish missionaries. Believing that he has deciphered a code, he sets off on a journey…
Read More "I believe in Holden Caulfield and what he was saying... What he was saying to a lost generation." Chapter 27 reenacts the final moments before Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon. The title is a play on J.D. Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye, which ends on chapter 26. Chapman related and modeled…
Read More On The Road With Judas is a movie based on a book (of the same name) which stars actors playing characters playing characters from the book and actors playing actors playing characters from the book. Not only does the film timeshift, jumping through the years but it also jumps back and fourth between scenes and…
Read More "God seemed fit to put you in my path and I'm gonna cure you of your wickedness." The Sundance Film Festival runs 10-days. The first weekend is usually a madhouse, but when Wednesday comes around - everyone starts to become a walking zombie. Living off 3 hours of sleep a night can only get you…
Read More From Academy Award nominated director Taika Waititi (for his short film Two Cars, One Night) comes the best indie romantic comedy of all time. Lily is a sweet shy weird indie girl who meets a clueless video game geek named Jarrod while working at a fast food restaurant Meaty Boy. She inadvertently gets invited to…
Read More One of the most talked about and controversial films at Sundance this year also turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments. The description for Zoo had Sundancers talking long before the festival even started. Slated as a documentary about bestiality, the subject of Zoo sounded unique enough for patrons to wait up to…
Read More In 2005, Chrispin Hellon Glover shocked the world with his artistic insanity with What is It? Two years later, Glover has returned to Sundance with part two: It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE. More obvious and linear than the first abstract film, Everything Is Fine is written and stars Steven C Stewart, a former activist…
Read More At this year's Sundance film Festival everyone seems to be talking about three movies: Teeth about a girl who has teeth in her private area, Zoo a documentary about a guy who died when having sex with a horse and Hounddog (one word) which is being referred to as the Dakota Fanning Rape movie. A…
Read More Do You Have The Crazy? Midnight Movies at Sundance can be a mixed bag. One thing is for sure, a midnight viewing at the downtown Egyptian Theater will guarantee a fun crowd. Monday night's premiere of The Signal was no exception. In the city of Termius, a mysterious signal is being sent through all electronic…
Read More Based on Peter Landesman's 2004 New York Times Magazine cover story, Trade promised to be a Traffic-like expose on the sinister world where young virginal children are kidnapped and sold as sex slaves. In the last couple years there have been quite a few fictional films based on non-fiction ideas. Films like Fast Food Nation…
Read More Eight years after his first feature screenplay Go played Sundance, John August returns with his directing debut The Nines. Go is one of the most underrated films of the last 10 years. It had such an original voice, yet August decided to turn his attention to writing screenplay adaptations. In the past I've called him…
Read More Adrift in Manhattan is the latest multi-character interweaving drama from Alfredo de Villa. While taking photos in the park, Simon becomes infatuated with a sad woman sitting at a bench. Rose is an optometrist who has not gotten over the death of her son. When an elderly patient is told that he will lose his…
Read More Interview is the latest film directed by Steve Buscemi, starring Steve Buscemi. Based on the late Dutch director Theo Van Gogh's 2003 film of the same name, Interview picks up in the Sundance minimalist tradition. Pierre Peters is a former respected political journalist who is assigned to interview Katja, the star of the latest crappy…
Read More Following the great Zombie war (which I'm sure will be chronicled in World War Z), people now live in gated communities outside the "wild zone," an area where Zombies roam free. Thanks to a ZomCor (motto: "Better Life Through Containment") most everyone now owns at least one collar controlled servant Zombie. Until now, everyone except…
Read More Sons and daughters of great filmmakers rarely become great filmmakers themselves. Zoe and Nick Cassavettes have the accomplishment of directing two of the worst Sundance films in the last two years. One must wonder if Geoffrey Gillmore or John Cooper put their stamp of approval on either film. I refuse to believe they had a…
Read More Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade is a love letter to arcade gaming, an era past and stained forever into popular geek culture. If you were part of the scene, a kid of the 80's, or just a pop culture fanatic, Ghosts offers an entertaining look at the days of Pac Man. In 1981 the arcade…
Read More If The Omen were made in the twenty-first century by as an independent psychological thriller comedy it would resemble George Ratliff's Joshua. Joshua is not your typical 9-year-old. He wears suits, it smarter than kids two years older than him, and doesn't like sports. When his parents give birth to a new baby, Joshua becomes…
Read More Luc Besson has lost his mind. If Arthur and the Invisibles was not enough to convince you of this fact, Angel-A nails it home. Angel-A is a Black and White French film with English subtitles about a guy who vaguely reminds me of Besson, who can't seem to get anything right. He's over 50 grand…
Read More Most of the films at his year's Sundance have titles which only loosely fit their subject matter. An American Crime was about a crime committed in America, but there wasn't anything overtly American about it. Rocket Science was not about Science, nor was it about Rockets. And now we have Weapons, a movie which involves…
Read More "Mom, what do you think is better? Something or Nothing when you don't have everything?" Clare is one of the most hated people in the world, but not really by choice. She is a meter maid. Her job requires her to write tickets for expired parking meters. It's not that she wants to, it's…
Read More Eighty-something minutes into a premiere screening at the Eccles Theater something unusual happened. The climax of Tommy O'Haver's latest film An American Crime was about to reveal its most disturbing twist. "LIGHTS!!!! LIGHTS!!!!" People started screaming from the back of the theater. The audience jumped to it's feet, someone screamed. "We need a doctor! Is…
Read More Rocket Science is not about Science, nor is it about Rockets. It's about that first High School love. In the running tradition of such films as Election, Rushmore, and Squid and the Whale, Rocket Science is about a unpopular high school student named Hal Heffner, who can't spit out a complete sentence without stuttering. He's…
Read More From the filmmaker that brought us The Kid Stays in the Picture comes an animated docudrama about the infamous 1960's Chicago Democratic National Convention riot. Brett Morgen's new film combines real life news footage with cell-shaded computer animated sequences (cheaper looking visuals similar to Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly) to fill in the blanks…
Read More War Dance is a glossy looking documentary about the hardships of a group of children trapped in the middle of a war-zone in northern Uganda. Using a contrived musical/dance competition to link a narrative, the film's main purpose is to bring the horrifying back-stories to the big screen. The kid's heartbreaking stories are told with…
Read More Martin Scorsese's latest film has grossed over $125 million domestically, and has become an award nomination black hole. Even though [spoiler alert] most of the main characters are no longer living by the time the credits role, talk has already begun of a Departed sequel. According to industry sources, Departed screenwriter William Monahan is working…
Read More Uwe Boll is known for creating some of the worst movies of all time out of video game adaptations (Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, House of the Dead). We now have a look at the first trailer for Boll's latest: POSTAL. [quicktime width="470" height="290"]http://www.postal-the-movie.com/trailers/postal-pg.mov[/quicktime]The movie seems to be more of a spoof like comedy (Scary…
Read More So we've been on location in the famous little mountain town in Utah for almost two weeks now. We saw over 30 films in a 9-day period, can you even imagine? But the Sundance Film Festival has come to an end. Our bags are packed are we will be returning to sunny California on Monday…
Read More Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not…
Read More Okay, I know this might be a little bit late but being on location at sundance leaves us little to no time for news. Grace is Gone is probably the best recieved film at the festival so far. The good news is The Weinstein Company has acquired the film. Check out the press release after…
Read More Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not…
Read More I made an interesting observation during the credits for Zoe Cassavetes' Broken English. Hidden deep into the credits within a Special Thanks area is the name Darren Aronofsky. For those of you who are not hip to the film culture, Aronofsky directed Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain. Why is this weird? Because…
Read More The following Sundance blog was sent in from Jill Adler, a special /Film correspondent. Sundance is off and running. The streets of Park City, Utah, are a nightmare to navigate, parking non-existent, theater lines inconvenient, and ticket prices ridiculous (if not sold-out). This is a festival by and for independent filmmakers – actors, writers, directors,…
Read More Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not…
Read More Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not…
Read More Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not…
Read More It's extremely cold at Sundance this year, and I'm not the only one who is complaining. Entertainment Weekly takes a look at the 11 most influential films to premiere at Sundance. Cinematical's James Rocchi gives his early review of Black Snake Moan: "Black Snake Moan isn't a bad film; it's just not as well-conceived and…
Read More Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not…
Read More USA Today has a look at the most intriguing films at the festival in a feature called Six characters to watch at Sundance. Their list includes: Anthony Hopkins' Slipstream, The Mimzy, On the Road With Judas, Smiley Face, Delirious, Interview and Waitress. indieWIRE interviews John Carney (Joshua), Ian Iqbal Rashid (How She Move), George Ratliff…
Read More We've been wondering what Pixar has up their sleeves after Ratatouille. For months now we've been speculating over what exactly Andrew Stanton's follow-up to the Academy Award winning Finding Nemo would be. All we knew was a name. Well now we have a picture. Disney's Robert A. Iger revealed the first photo from the film…
Read More AICN has posted some interesting new concept art from the last film in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. But I must warn you, many of the images contain huge spoilers. So if you don't want to know Jack Sparrow's fate or worse, if there is in fact a "world's end", don't look behind…
Read More We've arrived in Park City Utah for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Please pardon the lack of updates, we will have tons of reviews and news once the festival kicks off. Stay with us.
Read More Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not…
Read More We all knew this was in the works. The future of media is on demand / digital, and not HD DVD or Blu-Ray. Everyone knows this to be true. And now Netflix has officially announced they will be offering Internet Movies On-Demand. No, this isn't a lame movie download service like the ones you've seen…
Read More The /Film Award for the Best Acceptance Speech of the 2007 Golden Globes goes to Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen won the award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. Here is his hilarious speech: "I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. And I just want to say that this movie was a life-changing…
Read More Okay, first off: Wrong might be a harsh word. It was used to get your attention. And got your attention it did. Extremely flawed doesn't make an interesting headline. Every year we watch the Globes but Why? Does anyone even have ANY slightest bit of an idea of who decides the winners and losers? Let's…
Read More Here are the winners from the 2007 Golden Globes: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (FILM) Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls ORIGINAL SONG "The Song of the Heart" - Happy Feet - Music & Lyrics by: Prince Rogers Nelson SUPPORTING ACTOR (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE) Jeremy Irons - Elizabeth I ACTRESS (TV DRAMA) Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer ACTOR (TV…
Read More The Golden Globes are tonight. We were going to write up a preview but came across the Vegas odds for tonight's winners and losers. And that turns out to be a whole lot more interesting than anything we have to say. Looks like it will probably be a great night for Borat and The Departed.…
Read More The plot of The Simpsons Movie has been a highly guarded secret. Why? We have no idea. The three teaser trailers and leaked comic-con animatics don't reveal much at all in terms of story. IMDb doesn't even have a plot synopsis. So when Microsoft accidently spoiled the plot, I was surprised. The picture above (courtesy…
Read More Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive one-on-one interview with Jacob Gentry, one of the three directors of The Signal. Jacob described the movie as a "low budget-punk rock-scifi-horror-suspense-thriller-love story about the evil monster inside us all that is brought out when the media around us is exaggerated to the point of critical mass." Real Synopsis: A…
Read More Warner Home Video has decided to make a direct to DVD sequel of the hit vampire film The Lost Boys. The Lost Boys 2 is scheduled to begin production in 2007, but they don't even have a script. Yes, you read that correctly. They are courting a few different directors, and as you may assume,…
Read More What's going on? What happened to /Film? It's been a long time coming. We're in the process of migrating over to a new system with a brand new design. This week also just so happens to be the week that the 2007 Sundance Film Festival begins, so we'll be on location covering all the action.…
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