Black and white gem "Frances Ha," the latest feature from Noah Baumbach, appeared on our radars to much surprise last July just ahead of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Read More »Best known for 2003's psycho-sexual thriller "Swimming Pool," Francois Ozon is known for churning out films at a Woody Allen workhorse pace, having released a film essentially every year since the late '90s.
Read More »Before We Saw the Trailer, We Thought: Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl may have conquered the Pacific Ocean on a tiny wooden raft in 1947 (and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1950 for his exploits in the process), but this Sunday the first dramatic adaptation of his marvelous expediti...
Read More »Before We Saw the Redband Trailer, We Thought: "Trance," Danny Boyle's first film since 2010's "127 Hours," looks like a trippy, hypnotic mindfuck filled with all the director's characteristic visual pizazz. The movie jumped to the top of our "must-see" list after the theatrical trailer dropped last...
Read More »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...
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