• MondoCon 2016 Lineup Announced

    MondoCon 2016 lineup includes a panel where artists Olly Moss, Jock and Jay Shaw collaborate to create the poster live on-stage based on a chosen movie.

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  • Terrence Malick's The Tree Of Life With Sean Penn Features Dinosaurs. IMAX Release?

    UPDATE: On The Tree of Life and another, separate Malick project here. Today brings a rare update on legendary director Terrence Malick's forthcoming epic, The Tree of Life, that is quite the internet-tickler. Tacked for release sometime this year, the film stars Sean Penn, with Brad Pitt in a flashback role originally intended for Heath…

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  • Interview: Darren Aronofsky Part 5

    Last month, I had another chance to sit down and talk with Darren Aronofsky, the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain, about his new film The Wrestler. We're going to call this part five because it continues the series of interviews regarding The Wrestler that began at the Toronto International Film…

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  • Interview: Darren Aronofsky - Part 4

    Last month, I had another chance to sit down and talk with Darren Aronofsky, the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain, about his new film The Wrestler. Part of the interview was a small two-person roundtable, so some of the answers might repeat some of the material we covered in Toronto…

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  • Aronofsky's Noah To Become Graphic Novel Before Film?

    When Darren Aronofsky was 13-years-old, he won a United Nations poetry competition at his Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn school for a poem about the end of the world as seen through the eyes of Noah. And so started Aronofsky's obsession with the biblical figure. In September we talked to Aronofsky about his idea for a film…

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  • Darren Aronofsky Wants To Recut The Fountain

    Darren Aronofsky tells MTV that he would like to revisit The Fountain at some point. "It wouldn’t be a ‘director’s cut,’” he said — more like an alternate story told with the addition of unused footage from the first go-round. This would be a complicated project on a couple of levels, though, and it’s at…

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  • Interview: Darren Aronofsky - Part 3

    Darren Aronofsky is the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain. His latest film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was bought by Fox Searchlight the morning after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (You can read my review here). Earlier this week, I was granted the…

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  • The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 15 (GUEST: Myles McNutt)

    The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…

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  • Darren Aronofsky Releases The Fountain Audio Commentary Online

    The Fountain was one of my favorite movies of last year, but I have yet to buy the film on DVD. For a film fanatic with a DVD collection that reaches somewhere in the thousands, you might be wondering why I have chosen not to make the purchase. Simple: the lack of extensive dvd extras.…

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  • Sundance: The Nines Movie Review

    Eight years after his first feature screenplay Go played Sundance, John August returns with his directing debut The Nines. Go is one of the most underrated films of the last 10 years. It had such an original voice, yet August decided to turn his attention to writing screenplay adaptations. In the past I've called him…

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