Top 25 Best Coming Of Age Movies Of The Past 25 Years
In honor of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Dope, we're counting down the 25 Best Coming of Age Movies of the Past 25 Years. Did your favorite make it?
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Dave's Top 10 Movies Of 2011
End-of-year list-making is typically a daunting, tricky, and arbitrary task. At its best, it's a way to express ideas and share interesting finds. At its worst, it's a shouting match about WHY DIDN'T YOU PICK THE EXACT FILMS I LIKE? In 2011, I probably saw around 70-80 new release films in theaters. I'm certain that…
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'Submarine' Trailer #2 And New Poster
If you're a regular reader of /Film not only have you heard of Submarine, you're insanely excited for it. Or at the very least you're curiously aware and that's good enough. Directed by Richard Ayoade, Submarine is the tale of awkward teenager Oliver Tate who has a unique world view and very simple goals. How…
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Sundance Invades The Summer Of 2011
Everyone's talked ad nauseam about how the summer of 2011 is going to be a blockbuster bloodbath. Week after week of high concept, big budget sequels featuring superheroes, robots and wizards. But those aren't the only movies that'll be playing at your local theater during the long, hot months of May, June, July and August.…
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'Submarine' Trailer
Here's the trailer for Submarine, the British film that has been killing at festivals since it debuted at TIFF last year. Peter loved it there, and David loved it at Sundance. Check out the trailer -- which certainly has some familiar notes from other big indie success stories -- and leave your thoughts after the…
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2011 Sundance Film Festival Recap One: Thursday - Sunday
Does someone have a case of the Mondays? We understand. Going back to work sucks but while you probably had the weekend off, Slashfilm hasn't stopped working. If you can call watching movies non-stop working. Myself, Peter Sciretta and David Chen have been all over Park City Utah at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival which…
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'Submarine' - The Quirk Of 'Juno,' The Whimsy Of Gondry, The Light-Heartedness Of Wes Anderson, The Melancholy Of '500 Days Of Summer' [Sundance Review And Video Blog]
Richard Ayoade's Submarine, which screened recently at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, probably affected me more than any other film I've seen so far. Its humorous depiction of a young man struggling to get through his teenage years was so authentic, heartfelt, and moving that it vividly evoked all the trials, tribulations, and thrills of…
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2011 Sundance Film Festival Out Of Competition Films Announced
Wednesday, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival announced the 58 films in four categories that would be eligible for awards. Today, they've announced the next slice of their line up - 57 out of competition films in the Premieres, Next, Spotlight, New Frontiers and Midnight categories. This is generally where you get many of the bigger…
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Festival Buys: 'Insidious,' 'Submarine,' 'Beautiful Boy' And 'The Conspirator'
The deals just keep coming out of the Toronto Film Festival. Earlier this week James Gunn's Super was purchased by IFC, Sarah's Key starring Kristin Scott Thomas was picked up by The Weinstein Company (who also grabbed Dirty Girl with Milla Jovovich), Kevin Spacey's Casino Jack was picked up by ATO Pictures and Sony Pictures…
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TIFF Movie Review: Richard Ayoade's Submarine
Richard Ayoade's Submarine is the kind of film I hope to discover at film festivals and share with friends. Based on the Curtis Brown Prize-winning novel by Joe Dunthorne, this dark indie comedy is about a 15-year-old boy who "must fight save his mother from the advances of a mystic and simultaneously lure his eczema-strafed…
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