Put this on your to-do list today, right between eating lunch and telling you boss where he can stick that not mandatory, but implied mandatory Saturday meeting. We’re putting on a show for Sherlock Holmes, thanks to the prize fairy. And whether or not [...]
Yesterday saw a flurry of trailer debuts, including the first Iron Man 2 trailer and the newish Clash of the Titans trailer (which I will be posting with comments shortly). Today, we get the first trailer for Shrek Forever After. That makes [...]
Strap in, friends, as we’ve got another turbulent (and potentially expensive) week of selections in This Week in Blu-ray. It wasn’t enough that we were hit with season 5 of Lost last week along with World’s Greatest Dad and Harry Potter [...]
Put simply, director Bryan Singer is going back to the mutant well. Last night on the “blue carpet” before the premiere of Avatar in Los Angeles, the director (who ultimately started the superhero craze of this decade when he directed X-Men in 2000) answered questions for press [...]
“The Runaways have the most chance of any group I’ve seen to tear this world apart.”
It is the titular line of the first trailer for Floria Sigismondi’s film The Runaways, which has its first trailer online this morning courtesy of Apparition and MTV. [...]
A few weeks back, I reviewed Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as part of This Week in Blu-ray. And at the time, I had just given the film a second glance on Blu-ray, [...]
Iron Man is back. And while I’m not exactly soiling myself over the first trailer for the sequel to Jon Favreau’s fantastic 2008 superhero flick, I am excited. And you should be, too.
In the first Iron Man 2 trailer — released this evening [...]
Some days it doesn’t take much. In fact, when the news is slow here in the movie blogosphere, a trailer-for-a-trailer is all that you need to make a big splash, especially when it’s for a movie like Iron Man 2.
To date, there has [...]
The original Tron had more than a few fans. This we know for sure. And the new film, Tron Legacy, Disney’s CG-amplified sequel to the story that put Jeff Bridges inside the game, looks to have enough cool factor to capture a few more.
Our [...]
In the beginning, there was something kitschy about the next comedy from Accepted director Steve Pink. Titled Hot Tub Time Machine, the movie follows four friends (John Cusak, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and Clark Duke) who are transported back to the 80s [...]
The wonderful group of fine professional film critics and journalists known as the Austin Film Critics Association — a group that includes the membership of yours truly and FSR Managing Editor Dr. Cole Abaius — has announced its award winners for the year 2009.
Within said winners [...]
Last night, Universal held a special Blu-ray and DVD launch party for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds at New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. The festivities included cast and crew appearances, as well as a screening of the film. But of all the happenings of the night, perhaps [...]
It is important that we make ourselves ready for the onslaught of video mashups and montages for the year that was 2009, as it’s bound to happen. The first comes to us from Justin Niemeyer, who cut together this fast-paced trailer mashup for Hollywood.com. In 150 cuts [...]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which can be seen below. As you can see, there are several lovely surprises. This includes love for Inglourious Basterds, which earned Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay [...]
The legacy of Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman are about to be tarnished a bit by the Twilight movement. Or at least, that’s how the history books will remember it — if in fact, it makes it into the history books.
MTV has assembled a cast for [...]
The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood — which stars Russell Crowe as the bow-wielding outlaw of Sherwood Forest — has hit the web via YouTube this evening, and man does it rock. Literally.
Pumped over a heavy soundtrack are shots of Crowe looking [...]
Die hard fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings franchise could be the most punished DVD buyers in the history of film. They’ve been through so many incarnations of the trilogy on DVD that it could be prosecuted in a [...]
Ridley Scott is back in the past, working on yet another epic period action film with Russell Crowe. This time, instead of going all the way back to the time of the Gladiator, Scott is taking on the story of Robin Hood, the master [...]
Earlier today the always rabid folks at Latino Review went crazy with an inside source filled rant that said much, without actually saying much. Chief among their claims was that Tobey Maguire, star of Spider-Man and more recently Brothers, is looking to do a pic with [...]
Think about Rotten Tomatoes, the movie review aggregating engine that culls together the opinions of critics and fans, delivering percentage-based ratings for every film in release. Now think of Twitter, where so many movie-related conversations happen — people are always tweeting about their moviegoing experiences and [...]
Last week, the blogosphere erupted with reports that Mel Gibson was in the process of shooting a movie at a prison in Veracruz, Mexico. The details were sketchy and beyond the location, nothing was known. Thankfully, patience has once again paid off for movie fans and we now know a [...]
If you’re like me, you like to get to the movies early for the previews — or trailers. This love and desire for 2-3 minute looks at upcoming films on the big screen stems from my childhood, as I’ve often found myself more excited about the highlights [...]
Originally titled A Couple of Dicks, the recently untitled buddy cop comedy from Warner Bros. and director Kevin Smith has been through the titling ringer. According to the director in several previous interview, WB went looking for a new title after the [...]
It’s been a busy weekend for Awards season, the busiest thus far. The folks at AFI, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and our friends at the New York Film Critics Online group have all weighed in with some big pre-Oscar rewards to some major favorites.
Having just [...]
Universal Home Entertainment is on the war path, and they’re looking to kill some Nazis. In celebration of (and desperate attempts to get us to buy) the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of Inglourious Basterds, they’ve released several new behind the scenes looks from [...]
Officially, as a man who would like to not wake up one morning to find that his girlfriend has removed his favorite body part and thrown it out a car window, this kind of thing just isn’t for me. Unofficially, this is totally for me. The folks [...]
A lot can be said about the hype that surrounds any particular movie. In many cases — especially in those that involve big brands, big directors and big marketing campaigns — hype has an intense effect on the way audiences see the film. Did it live up [...]
Walt Disney and Pixar have released (via Moviefone) the first official cast image for their upcoming animated film Toy Story 3, the hotly anticipated third film in the beloved Toy Story franchise.
After 10 long years, the toys from Andy’s room are [...]
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting this evening that producer extraordinaire J.J. Abrams is working on a deal to produce a feature film version of Colum McCann’s award-winning novel “Let the Great World Spin.”
It tells the story of Philippe Petit’s real-life “artistic crime of the century,” when [...]
Sure, the first poster for Iron Man 2 featured the film’s hero and his most badass buddy, War Machine. But these guys aren’t the only one’s bringing the hardware in Jon Favreau’s follow up to his 2008 hit. Paramount Pictures and Apple [...]
At this point it’s no secret that Ninja Assassin was an abysmal work of ninja-ness, but Hollywood seems intent on trying again. This time, instead of Warner Bros. letting The Wachowski’s Matrix-up the beloved genre, it is Dreamworks who is going rogue. And from [...]
After several failed attempts at drama (The Box comes to mind), Cameron Diaz is going back to the well. Back to the raunchy roots that helped launch her acting career with Columbia Pictures’ Bad Teacher.
Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard) will direct the flick, which was [...]
Gird your loins, ladies, because Carrie is back. And it’s time to get excited, and “Carrie On” (get it?) with Sex and the City 2. The sequel to the Sarah Jessica Parker led mega-hit is due in theaters in May 2010, [...]
Last month I reported on a Twitter-induced rumor that a new trailer for Iron Man 2 would be running this holiday season in front of Sherlock Holmes, which is due out Christmas Day. And after much digging, it turns out that my intuition was right.
Paramount Pictures [...]
Dreamworks and Touchstone Pictures have set a release date for the first movie of the new Dreamworks era, Shawn Levy’s futuristic robot boxing flick Real Steel. It will open in theaters on November 18, 2011, the same day that the 23rd James Bond film [...]
As any iPhone user and movie lover can tell you, it’s long been a point of confusion and frustration when it comes to great apps for finding movie information. Why isn’t there an IMDB app, we’ve asked ourselves countless times? The movie database giant has had a [...]
With the December 17, 2010 released date not so quickly approaching for Tron Legacy, Disney is already on the marketing warpath. At least, they’ve begun to do their work internationally. Thankfully, there are no borders on the internet.
Hey You Guys has posted a [...]
The IMAX Corporation announced today that they will be distributing The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in their gigantic-screen format. This of course, is exactly what fans of the franchise have been yearning for: to see Edward sparkle in glorious IMAX.
Of course, it must be noted that [...]
There goes Nicolas Cage again. Just when Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans almost had us convinced that the man hadn’t forgotten how to act, and the prospect of him teaching a teen girl to kill in Kick-Ass had us wondering about a Cage resurgence, he goes [...]
You may not know the name Elizabeth Eulberg yet, but you will. Especially because I’m about to tell you who she is and explain the integral part she’s played in ruining your life.
That’s a bit dramatic, I know. But Eulberg is the director of global publicity at [...]
Variety is reporting this evening that Rashida Jones, best known for her role on The Office and her current role on Parks and Recreation, has joined the cast of the David Fincher directed film The Social Network.
As you know, this is the [...]
From the big brother in The Goonies to playing George W. Bush for Oliver Stone in W., Josh Brolin has been around. He’ll next star as the supernatural gunslinger Jonah Hex, a comic adaptation at Warner Bros., further bringing him into the mainstream pool. And now that [...]
Universal Pictures sent over a note this evening that their upcoming horror remake The Wolfman has been rated ‘R’ for bloody horror, violence and gore. For fans, this should come as great news, as PG-13 horror films are becoming a tired trend. The remake, which stars [...]
