Year-end top 10 lists can get pretty mind-numbing, as you see the same titles crop up again and again and again... and again, but filmmaker John Waters has set himself apart by both by posting his a bit early and by, oh yeah, being John Waters. You wouldn't seriously expect the man who gave us…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Halfway through the new full trailer for Gregg Araki's new film Kaboom I'd already decided it looks like a sexually liberated, made for TV Donnie Darko when this quote came up: "A gonzo teen fantasy that's tripper, hornier and more apocalyptically funny than 'Donnie Darko'." Oh, the coincidence! We showed you some NSFW clips from…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 26 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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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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The 2011 Sundance Film Festival is fast approaching and if you can't make it to Utah yourself, the festival is bringing some of its highest profile films to a city near you. The largest and most important U.S. film festival will take place from January 20-30 in and around Park City, Utah and the selection…
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What many critics suspected has turned out to be true: this year's line-up at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival has been disappointing. Many have complained that the films as a whole have been overlong, dark, depressing, and lacking hope. I would tend to agree with most of these criticisms. After a week of searching, I…
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Gustavo Hernández's The Silent House is a Uruguayan horror movie which was shot in one long 79-minute continuous take. Got your attention? Ever since I first discovered Goodfellas (scene embedded above), I've been fascinated in the long tracking shots of filmmakers such as Scorsese, Kubrick, PT Anderson, De Palma, Altman, Welles, Cuaron and Hitchcock. I…
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Gregg Araki's Kaboom recently debuted at Cannes to some interesting buzz. The only thing I've previously seen of Araki's is his 2004 film, Mysterious Skin. That movie was undeniably provocative and polarizing, and it looks like Araki has definitely not lost his touch when it comes to dividing audiences. After the jump, see three clips…
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