At Comic-Con, I usually spend most of my days camped out in the big convention hall Hall H (some people call it "Hall Hell") but this year I spent Thursday pursuing some Pixar and Disney presentations in some of the smaller halls. First up was a presentation on Pixar's upcoming holiday special Toy Story That Time…
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Richard Ayoade's The Double trailer #2 really pushes the combination of comedy and an underlying sense of weird unease.
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It looks like doppelgangers, weirdly, are going to be one of the micro-trends of 2014. Earlier this month we got The Pretty One, an indie dramedy about a young woman who assumes her dead twin sister's identity, and next month we're getting Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal trying to track down a man who looks…
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There was a moment around the turn of the decade when Dan Fogler seemed ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Fanboys to Kung Fu Panda to Take Me Home Tonight. But for the past couple of years, he's kept a somewhat lower profile with roles on TV shows like Hannibal and indies such as Scenic Route and Europa…
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Richard Ayoade has come a long way from the days when he was known primarily to Brit comedy nerds as ubergeek Maurice Moss from The IT Crowd. He wowed TIFF in 2010 with his feature directing debut Submarine, and returned to the festival earlier this year to earn still more buzz with his sophomore effort, The…
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Five years ago, Richard Ayoade was mostly familiar to American audiences, if he was familiar at all, as ubernerd Maurice Moss from The IT Crowd. Since his 2010 directorial debut Submarine, however, he's also known as... well, okay, he's still the guy from The IT Crowd, but now people might also know him as a…
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For high school seniors, college admissions board members can seem almost godlike in their power over the futures. From the time the kids send in their application to the time they hear back, the fate of the world seems to rest in the schools' hands.* But as the new trailer for Admission shows, the process…
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Tina Fey built her career on the fast-paced comedy of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, but with the latter almost at an end it's time for her to move on to the next phase. If the trailer for Paul Weitz's Admission for any indication, that may just end up being movie stardom. Perhaps even…
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Thanks to her work on two unassailable teen comedy classics (1995's Clueless and 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Amy Heckerling will always have a special place in the movie lover's heart. But even her most devoted fans can't deny that she hasn't had the best run of films lately. 2000's Loser flopped, while 2007's…
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When Finding Nemo 3D hits theaters next month, it'll have a brand new Pixar short in front of it: The Toy Story Toon Partysaurus Rex. Directed by Mark Walsh, the clip features Rex (Wallace Shawn) starting a rave in a bath tube with music by BT. Seriously. A couple images were released last week and…
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Rex the dinosaur gets to be the star, at last, of Pixar's upcoming Toy Story short Partysaurus Rex, which debuts in front of Finding Nemo 3D on September 14. The short sees Rex, in the home of new owner Bonnie (as per the end of Toy Story 3) coming in to his own during and…
Read MoreRed Hour Films announced today that Wallace Shawn, Justin Kirk, Dan Stevens and Todd Barry are the latest actors cast in Clueless director Amy Heckerling's romantic horror-comedy Vamps. The film stars Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two young female vampires living the good life in contemporary New York "until love enters the picture and…
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Big news on the Disney/Pixar front, the mouse house has revealed Pixar's future animation slate: May 29th 2009: From the Academy Award®-nominated team of director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) and co-director Bob Peterson comes Up, a comedic adventure taking off (and lifting spirits). Here is a brand new plot synopsis direct from the studio: Carl…
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