Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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Dave Franco is set to make his directorial deubt with The Rental movie, a horror-thriller about a vacation gone wrong. Alison Brie and Dan Stevens star.
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Depraved, a new Larry Fessenden film inspired by Frankenstein, will mark the indie filmmaker's return to feature directing for the first time since 2013.
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In our Win It All review, we praise the latest collaboration between Joe Swanberg and Jake Johnson for its low-key charms and delightful characters.
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Watch the Netflix SXSW trailers for Joe Swanberg's comedy Win It All, Tommy O'Haver's true-crime biopic The Most Hated Woman, and E.L. Katz's Small Crimes.
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Watch the Easy trailer. Joe Swanberg's Netflix comedy explores love & sex in modern-day Chicago. Starring Orlando Bloom, Malin Akerman, Jake Johnson & more.
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Watch the latest batch of Netflix trailers including Joe Swanberg’s 'Easy', 'Chef's Table: France', Time-Loop Thriller 'ARQ'.
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Produced by Joe Swanberg (Digging for Fire), Harrison Atkins' Lace Crater is a horror movie that should be on your radar. Watch the Lace Crater trailer.
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In this edition of TV Bits: Beerfest is being developed as a digital series. Director Joe Swanberg (Digging for Fire) is writing, directing, and executive producing Netflix's Easy. Neil Patrick Harris is finally confirmed to star in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Harris will be joined by Patrick Warburton (The Tick) in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Malachi Kirby will…
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Watch the Digging for Fire trailer. Joe Swanberg's Sundance dramedy stars Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, and Orlando Bloom.
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Drinking Buddies helmer Joe Swanberg will direct Work Wife, his first studio film. The romcom was scripted by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins (Trophy Wife).
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Watch the Happy Christmas trailer, starring Anna Kendrick as an aimless woman who moves in with her brother (Joe Swanberg) and his wife (Melanie Lynskey).
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The 2014 Sundance Film Festival hasn't even officially began yet, but the first film is off the market. It's Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber and Lena Dunham. Magnolia Pictures and Paramount Pictures will co-distrubute with Magnolia handling U.S. theatrical and VOD wile Paramount will do home video and international. Read the full…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This…
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The actors in Joe Swanberg's movies have, at times, been friends of his in filmmaking, just as he has acted in other directors' films. For 24 Exposures, Swanberg has Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett in front of the lens -- they're the director/writer pair who are responsible for films such as You’re Next and A Horrible Way To Die,…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This…
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Joe Swanberg's new film Drinking Buddies is his most traditionally polished effort, but it still has the raw emotional intensity of his best ultra low budget work. The film features a great quartet: Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson, Ron Livingston, and Olivia Wilde. The four actors play two committed couples, but lines between them are starting…
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Almost two years ago, Toronto Film Festival and Fantastic Fest audiences made a lot of noise about the bloody home-invasion thriller You're Next. Now everyone gets to see what those few people were talking about. Director Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S) and screenwriter Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die) have come…
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In 2011, one of the hits of TIFF and Fantastic Fest was Adam Wingard's home invasion thriller You're Next. The film drew raves at just a couple of festival screenings and was snapped up by LionsGate. But rather than releasing the film quickly, the studio held on to it for a while. After appearing once…
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Horror movies are a dime a dozen. Good ones are much more valuable, and a good one just hit VOD today. It's called V/H/S, and is an anthology film featuring creepy, gory segments from filmmakers Adam Wingard (You’re Next), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell The Dead), Radio Silence, David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs)and Ti West…
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The horror anthology film V/H/S teams up a good handful of film talents: Radio Silence, Adam Wingard (You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), Simon Barrett(You’re Next, Dead Birds), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), David Bruckner (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), with each of the group contributing a creepy low-fi horror story to the collection. We've seen one…
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The horror anthology is making a comeback, and at Sundance this year a five-story film called V/H/S scared the crap out of many viewers. (Including Peter.) Combining the talents of of Adam Wingard (You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), Simon Barrett (You’re Next, Dead Birds), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers),…
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V/H/S is the return of the horror anthology film. The subgenre used to be a very regular thing during the 1970's and 1980's thanks to films like Tales from the Darkside, Creepshow and Dead of Night, but has dropped out of the mainstream in recent years. (Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat being the latest anthology…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Can't make it to Utah this month for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival? Here are your options. One - keep it locked right here to Slashfilm.com because myself, Peter Sciretta and David Chen will be on the scene reporting daily. Two - head to one of the cities that's hosting a Sundance Film Festival USA…
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A.J. Bowen, Amy Seimetz, and Joe Swanberg have been cast in Adam Wingard's thriller A Horrible Way to Die. Written by Simon Barrett (Dead Birds), the story follows an escaped murderer (Bowen) in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend (Seimetz), who has fled to start a new life in a small town. Swanberg plays the ex-girlfriend's new…
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