Our round-up of the best movies streaming right now includes The Lighthouse, The Lodge, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Midnight Special, and more.
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To celebrate the opening of It Come at Night, the /Film crew and special guest Trey Edward Shults name off the best movie apocalypses.
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A video series called Film Meets Art that compares movies like Lost In Translation, Django Unchained and more to the art that inspired some of their shots.
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This week, Dave Chen, Devindra, and Adam chat about the virtues of Downton Abbey, debate the merits of Another Earth, and discuss their most anticipated films of 2012. Special guest Alison Willmore joins us from Movieline. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us at Slashfilm's Live…
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It's no secret that the Alamo Drafthouse is the best theater chain in the country. Sure, it's small, but the passion they have to create the perfect environment to watch a movie is unparalleled. Case in point, their hugely popular No Texting public service announcements, incredible in-theater food selection, stunning repertory screenings and so much more.…
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I find it difficult to say whether 2011 was an unusually strong or unusually weak year for films. As in any year, there were pleasant surprises and disappointments alike. If I had to pinpoint the one thing my favorites tend to have in common, though, it's a sense that each of them were made with…
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With just days to go until the end of 2011 (Where did the year go???), legendary film critic Roger Ebert has announced his top 20 movies of the year. Just as you'd expect from Ebert, his list runs the gamut from mainstream blockbusters to more obscure foreign or arthouse projects -- with enough in the…
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From the 'blown way the hell out of proportion' file: Lars von Trier has now been questioned by Danish police over comments he made at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The comments in question are those in which he said he sympathized with Hitler -- essentially a poorly-considered moment in which he took a wrong…
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This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley muster some enthusiasm for the new Arrested Development series/movie, try to make some sense of Terra Nova, run down some anime films, and reflect on the prospects of a new Mortal Kombat film. Special guest Katey Rich joins us from Cinemablend. You can always e-mail us…
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Lars von Trier detractors often accuse the Danish director of being little more than a provocateur, and his impetuous demeanor when dealing with the media doesn't dispel that impression. That leads some -- even our own Germain, in his review of Melancholia -- to suspect that Trier's actual films are constructed, in part, as nothing…
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When Lars von Trier's last film, Antichrist, played at Fantastic Fest, it unknowingly birthed the festival's unofficial mantra: "Chaos Reigns." Chaos reigns again in von Trier's latest film, Melancholia, which is about two deeply depressed sisters and their personal trials during the end of the world. It stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as the…
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Lars von Trier's official job may be directing, but it seems his true calling lies in stirring up controversy. Earlier this year, the filmmaker once again sparked outrage at the Cannes press conference for Melancholia when he stated that he "sympathize[d] with [Hitler] a little bit," even though he was "not against Jews." Though von…
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There's almost too much that's good about Fantastic Fest: experiencing the Alamo Drafthouse for a week straight; the small, friendly, film fan atmosphere; the parties. Oh yeah, then there's the insane films. Every year Fantastic Fest is filled with a ton of wild genre flicks that either you've never heard of yet or already have…
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There's not a whole lot in this first official domestic trailer for Lars von Trier's Melancholia that we haven't seen in previous trailers and clips. (Such as the great UK trailer we just saw a few days ago.) But what the hell, the film is among our most-anticipated of the year, and this trailer offers…
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It's been a big, loud year for Lars von Trier, thanks in part to his new film Melancholia, and more so to the Cannes press conference comments that saw the director banned from the festival. But getting beyond that controversy, there's the fact that Melancholia is one of the best-reviewed films of the director's career,…
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If you're a fan of genre film, you've had September 22-29 circled on your calendar for months. That's when one of the most fun, depraved and intimate film festivals in the country once again invades Austin, Texas. It's called Fantastic Fest and it features a huge blend of action, horror and sci-fi movies that most…
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If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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The Cannes jury, headed by Robert De Niro, has selected the winners of this year's competition slate, and the results are slightly surprising. In the early days of the fest two films quickly emerged as seeming front-runners for the top prize, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin and Michel Hazanavicius' silent black and…
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Early this morning, the Cannes Film Festival declared Lars Von Trier "persona non grata, with effect immediately," effectively expelling him from this year's festival. This was in response to Von Trier's remarks about Nazis, despite the fact that said remarks were made jokingly, specifically intended to provoke, and apologized for after the fact. It is unclear if…
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You can say this for Lars Von Trier: he doesn't believe in treading lightly. If today wasn't so busy I'd spend a few hours digging up the director's old comments from Cannes press conferences and correlating their level of pseudo-outrage to the quality of the film he's promoting. His latest movie, Melancholia, premiered at Cannes…
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Lars Von Trier's new film, Melancholia, premieres soon at Cannes, and the debut of the film sets up a showdown between two sci-fi influenced dramas. On one side you've got Another Earth (trailer here) in which the emergence of a second Earth, which may or may not be an exact duplicate of our own world,…
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There have been a great many new posters in the past few days. Just this afternoon we've seen new one-sheets for the doc Page One: Inside the New York Times, the horror remake Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Miranda July's odd-sounding new drama The Future, and Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. Plus earlier this week…
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A new film from grand provocateur Lars Von Trier is always a big deal. And so we're hanging on every little revelation about Melancholia, the apocalyptic drama featuring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as sisters who are stressing their way through a wedding and life in general just as a previously unknown planet is found…
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We just saw a trailer this week for Lars Von Trier's new film Melancholia, which will premiere in competition at Cannes this May. We still don't know too much about the film -- he famously proclaimed "no more happy endings!" when announcing it, and there is a basic sci-fi concept wrapped around a family drama…
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The best thing I could possibly find on the web this Friday morning is the new website for Lars Von Trier's upcoming film, Melancholia, complete with the first trailer for the movie. Though the story is (kind of) about the end of the world, the slightly not safe for work trailer (there is a little…
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Lars Von Trier created no small amount of controversy with his last film, Antichrist, which chronicled the breakdown of a relationship in explicit, mind-bending fashion. So he raised eyebrows when he pronounced 'no more happy endings!' for his next picture, Melancholia, which also expands his canvas from the destruction of a couple's relations to the…
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For his 24 encore, Kiefer Sutherland will continue to execute people. Or at least talk about it. The star of the now-canceled Fox action show has already filmed his next project called The Confession. It'll debut exclusively on Hulu in March. Sutherland stars as a hitman who has an intense conversation with a priest, played…
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