Before We Saw the Trailer, We Thought: Rob Zombie impressed many (ourselves included) with his grisly and demented sophomore effort, "The Devil's Rejects," only to betray many admirers of that film with his tepid stab at the "Halloween" franchise. After helming the 2009 sequel to that reboot, his ne...
Read More »Before We Saw the Trailer, We Thought: Following Danny Boyle's celebrated opening of the London Olympics and prestige work on "127 Hours" and "Slumdog Millionaire," the Oscar-winner's newest film "Trance" seemed, on paper, like a refreshing throwback to the paranoid thrillers that put him on the map...
Read More »Before We Saw the Trailer, We Thought: "The Place Beyond the Pines," Derek Cianfrance's anticipated follow-up to his 2010 indie breakout smash "Blue Valentine," was the hottest buy out of last September's Toronto International Film Festival. And Now? The trailer suggests a high-stakes crime drama...
Read More »Terrence Malick movies, while not exactly easy to market, certainly open themselves up to this process of extraction since they're entirely composed of fragments.
Read More »A few days before the film Guillermo del Toro was attached to direct but didn't, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," opened to record-breaking numbers last Friday, Warner Bros. unleashed the trailer for "Pacific Rim," the auteur's first outright foray into mainstream summer blockbuster fare (despit...
Read More »No matter how many times one watches Shane Carruth's 2004 debut feature "Primer," the writer-director-star's head-spinningly audacious time travel movie, it's still one of the most cryptic science fiction movies ever made. Carruth's screenplay, a hodgepodge of real science and far-reaching hypothese...
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