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Box Office: The ‘Twilight’ Triple Threat Has Occurred
And you all slept through it, didn’t you? It’s okay. I mean, it’s not THAT big of a surprise, really. We knew the latest Twilight outing would be strong competition for anyone, even those lovable...
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Aural Fixation: The Past vs. The Present – ‘Hugo’ and the Landscape of Modern...
This year has brought us back to classic filmmaking from the silent film era with The Artist to the fantasy adventure Hugo, which recalled classic film moments (as The Film Stage rounded up here). The...
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Year In Review: The Top 11 Trends, Topics, and Debates of 2011
Usually I’m quite cynical about end-of-year lists, as they demand a forced encapsulation of an arbitrary block of time that is not yet over into something simplified. I typically find end-of-year lists...
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Austin Film Critics Laud ‘Hugo,’‘Drive,’‘Attack the Block’ and Jessica...
Of all the various critics groups around the country, the one you should care most about is the Austin Film Critics Association. Why? Well, there’s two very solid and in no way biased reasons that I...
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The Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks
As you may have noticed, this final week of 2011 has been almost completely taken over by our third annual Year in Review. It was born in 2009 out of our love for lists and your thirst for reading,...
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The Writers Guild of America Announces the Nominees For Best Screenplays of...
The Writers Guild of America has released the nominees for their Writer’s Guild Awards today, and while there’s certainly some room for quibbling as far as their choices go, the screenplays they’ve...
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Oh, What a Film: ‘Hugo’ Scribe John Logan to Next Adapt ‘Jersey Boys’
It’s not often that word of a large-scale adaptation of an existing theatrical property thrills me to my absolute core, but I am willing to forget all the weird Les Miserables Starring Country Pop...
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The 2012 Oscar Nominees: Silent Films, Surprises and Scorsese
It’s been a year filled with silent screen stars seeking redemption, the 1920s coming alive in Paris, a young boy searching for the first great director, sex addicts in New York City, horses going to...
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Reject Report, The Grey
Not to be confused with Reject Report, The White, which is what happens after we do battle with the Balrog. Reject Report, The White is never NEVER wrong. But in our current form we have to take into...
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Aural Fixation: If 500,000 Units Sold Equals a Gold Record, What Equals Oscar...
With the 84th Academy Award nominations announced last week (and me finally coming up for air post-Sundance), I wanted to give the five Original Score (and two Original Song) nominees a closer look....
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Movie News After Dark: Community Goes Street Fighter, Jean Dujardin Gets...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of movie and television news that throws caution to the wind, but never ever pees into the wind. That’s just not smart, friends. We begin this...
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Culture Warrior: The First Oscar-Worthy Same Sex Kiss and The Academy’s...
The Oscar montage reel is a genre on its own. It’s transparently demonstrative of the overall function of the Academy Awards. These montage reels summarize and make explicit what the annual ceremony...
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Movie News After DRINKING: Ghost Rider, Mondo Oscar Posters, Stuff, Things,...
What is Movie News After Dark DRINKING? It’s what happens when Neil leaves and Kate Erbland and I joke about me doing this column drunk and then don’t realize that’s probably a bad idea until the next...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Adapted Screenplay
While it’s inevitable that one day, perhaps one day soon, the Best Adapted Screenplay category will be jam-packed with reboots and comic book stories and robot superheros flicks, it’s not quite that...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Score
As I note each week in Aural Fixation, music is one of the most important components in a film, providing the underlying emotion in certain scenes as well as the overall tone of a film. Creating this...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Director
Film directors are responsible for every single aspect of their movie. That doesn’t mean they actually do each and every task on set, but it’s their job (and prerogative) to get each element just...
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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Picture
The Best Picture Academy Award is really what explains film as a collaborative effort. The Best Picture is what the Academy has found to be the best combination of every aspect that film has, whether...
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The 2012 Oscar Winners
Editor’s Note: This article will be updated in real time as the winners come in during the Academy Awards broadcast. Please join us for our Live-Blog tonight (because we ask nicely), and while you...
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Boiling Point: The 2012 Oscars – Everyone That Should Have Won and What’s...
The 84th Academy Awards have come and gone: let the bitching begin! As someone who is more of a genre fan than anything, I’ve never really cared too much about the Oscars, but that sure as hell...
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This Week In DVD: February 28th
Welcome back to This Week In DVD and the last day of February! Well, what should be the last day but is instead actually the 2nd to last thanks to the shenanigans of the evil and gilled Leap Dave...
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This Week in Blu-ray: Top Gear, Hugo, Mandrill and Johnny English Reborn
Tonight! We visit in with some of our favorite whacky Brits as they power through the seventeenth season of one of the greatest reality television programs in the history of time, space and everything...
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Never Let Go: How 90s Nostalgia Took Over Theaters This Weekend
Way back in the summer of 2004, on the heels of the great success of I Love the 80s and (later) I Love the 70s, VH1 tested the bounds and justifications of the nostalgia market by releasing the...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Martin Scorsese
In his review of Mean Streets, Roger Ebert claimed that Martin Scorsese had the potential to become the American Fellini in ten years. It probably didn’t really take that long. Scorsese is a living...
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The 8 Coolest In-Camera Movie Train Crashes
Not to take anything away from the fine people who create digital effects in films, but there are certain things that just look better when done for real. One of which has and always will be chases,...
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20 Good Movies to Watch on Netflix This October
Universal Pictures Are you into horror movies? Well, good news for you, it’s October, which means that there’s going to be a horror moving playing on a screen in basically any direction you look for...
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