Movie Reviews

'Sin City: A Dame To Kill For' Pushed Back Nearly An Entire Year To Late Summer 2014

It appears that Robert Rodriguez is human. With a work ethic to rival James Franco, the filmmaker has been on a tear recently shooting "Machete Kills," "Sin City: A Dame To Kill For," and the fan-assisted short "Two Scoops," while lining up TV projects including a "From Dust 'Til Dawn" series and a ...

VODetails: 'How to Make Money Selling Drugs'

Is this documentary about the war on drugs worth your VODollars?

Exclusive: Shawn Fanning Talks The Rise Of Napster & File Sharing In Clip From 'Downloaded'

For anyone in their 30s (or beyond), they've lived through a tremendous change in how music is consumed and shared in a third of a lifetime. From vinyl to cassettes to CDs to mp3s, from mixed tapes to mixed CDs to Spotify playlists, everything about how we engage with music has been profoundly pushe...

Trailer Watch: Touchy Feely - Directed by Lynn Shelton

Lynn Shelton's latest, Touchy Feely, premiered at Sundance earlier this year. We got a chance to speak with Shelton at the festival about the film, which focuses on Abby (Rosemarie DeWitt), a massage therapist who suddenly develops an aversion to touch. While Abby is grappling with this, her brother...

Oprah's Black Actress Special w/ Alfre Woodard, Viola Davis, Phylicia Rashad, Gabrielle Union

'Man of Steel' Hits Its Marks; 'This Is the End' Is Counterprogramming Hit

Last week Steven Spielberg predicted that the movie business could soon implode-- speaking to film students at USC with George Lucas--should a handful of huge-budgeted films flop at the same time. So far, among this summer's tentpoles, only Sony's "After Earth" faces a significant loss. The second-b...

Memo to Screenwriters: Stop Acting Like It's 1999 -- DIY and Click 'Follow'

William Goldman got it wrong. The screenwriter’s gospel according to Goldman, “nobody knows anything,” may have been true once upon a time in an analog age, but in an era when screens are pages and stories are being delivered at an accelerated pace, entertainment is instant and constant. If anything...

L.A. Film Fest Review: 'In A World...' Directed By & Starring Lake Bell

In a world... where female writers are scarce and female writer/directors even more so, Lake Bell has done both with panache in her feature debut, “In A World...” That the film itself is a meta-commentary on the persistent and open sexism in Hollywood is even more impressive. It also doesn’t hurt th...

Russell Crowe Returns From Krypton To Make Directorial Debut 'The Water Diviners'

Russell Crowe already has quite a few job titles: actor, singer, rugby team owner, Superman's dad....and now he's going to add one more gig to his lengthy CV.