Mark Webber directs and casts himself and his family in a feature film that follows a father-son duo exploring mortality in The Place of No Words review.
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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 week…
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Watch the Antibirth trailer. Natasha Lyonne plays a hard-partying stoner who unexpectedly discovers she's pregnant... or maybe possessed.
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A new Green Room trailer has arrived to tease the riveting face-off between a punk rock band and a gang of neo-Nazis, and they're not all going to make it.
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Watch the Green Room teaser trailer. Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin star in the horror-thriller about a punk rock band targeted by a group of neo-Nazis.
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SlashFilm has exclusive details on Mark Webber's Flesh and Blood, a new indie drama inspired by the actor's real life family, who will also star in the film
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Jeremy Saulnier is putting together the follow-up to his excellent thriller Blue Ruin, and he's got a cast that makes the film an instant lock to see. Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat and Imogen Poots all star in Green Room, which Saulnier wrote and will direct. But it's the most recent addition that will probably get your attention.…
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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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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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In the coming weeks, you're going to be reading a lot about Sundance movies. Many of them will be films you've have never heard of and others are things you might get super excited about. But with the huge barrage of new movies being discussed, a few gems are bound to slip through the cracks.…
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Lizzy Caplan's already starred in one wedding comedy this year -- the enjoyably acerbic Bachelorette -- and Alison Brie got to help Emily Blunt to the altar in The Five-Year Engagement earlier this spring. Now Caplan and Brie are teaming up with one another for yet another marriage-themed romcom, playing sisters in Michael Mohan's bittersweet Save the Date.…
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It can be tough to wrangle a truly good performance out of a child actor, for pretty obvious reasons. So it may help if the kid in question has no idea he's even acting. For his sophomore directorial effort End of Love, actor/filmmaker Mark Webber (you may recognize him as Stephen Stills from Scott Pilgrim)…
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Offerings for raunchy but smart comedy have been thin this year, and just as Adam Sandler's That's My Boy hits theaters, it's a good time to throw out the Sundance phone sex comedy For A Good Time, Call... as a possible option for anyone who wants some dirty laughs. The film stars Lauren Anne Miller…
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Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor are in talks to join Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in James Wan's upcoming thriller, formerly called The Conjuring. The film, which is now going by the working title Untitled Warren Files Project, centers around a husband and wife paranormal investigation team (Wilson and Farmiga) dealing with spirits in a…
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Rising French stars Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) are set to lead Grand Central, a France-set contemporary romantic drama by Rebecca Zlotowski. Rahim will play a danger-addicted man whose nuclear facility job exposes him to deadly radiation levels. He's transformed by a forbidden affair with…
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We've seen a teaser and a full trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright's adaptation of the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Now there's an international trailer that sells the tale of Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) a bass player and sorta-slacker who falls for Ramona Flowers (Mary-Elizabeth Winstead) but must defeat…
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Universal Pictures has released the first full-length movie trailer for Edgar Wright's upcoming action-comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Based on the comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Pilgrim tells the story of a charming and jobless 22-year-old who must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil ex-boyfriends in order to win her heart.…
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We've seen a lot of candid cast photos for Edgar Wright's upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but until now we haven't seen any actual stills from the film. Edgar Wright just blogged what appears to be the first official still blown up and framed. But the wily director didn't just throw the shot out…
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You might not know who Aubrey Plaza is right now, but you will soon enough. The Upright Citizen's Brigade comic was featured in the Sundance comedy hit Mystery Team and has co-starring roles in Judd Apatow's Funny People and Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Speaking of which, it has been quite a while…
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Though the trailer goes out of its way to convince me that Explicit Ills is another stereotypical indie exploring unity and humanity through melodramatic penitence, the film continues to be passionately endorsed by the it-scene players involved. In fact, when Peter viewed the film at last year's SXSW, where it won an audience award, it…
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It has been a few days since the last time I found a few minutes to blog about my SXSW adventures. And it's not for a lack of stories or interesting tales. If Sundance was the internet, than SXSW would be Web 2.0. At Sundance everyone is working (well, actually, that isn't true because the…
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