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 [...]
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, [...]
Editor’s Note: Please enjoy this very special decade in review edition of The Coroner’s Report, our excellent weekly horror column written by Robert Fure.
The first thought one has when asked to compose a list of the best of anything for an entire [...]
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 [...]
Before 2001, movies really didn’t mean a lot to me. Sure, I loved the general mainstream fair that blew up the box office and showed enough sex and violence to keep my demented, testosterone-saturated mind happy, but the Art of Cinema was completely lost on me. [...]
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 [...]
Heavy Metal (1981)
Oh, wow … good Nyborg!
Synopsis
This animated anthology film, which pays tribute to Heavy Metal magazine, consists of nine risque comedy, sci-fi, action, fantasy and horror stories. Each story is loosely connected to the others by a single ubervillain — a talking green orb called [...]
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 [...]
At some point, you’ll be able to place a reminder on your gcalendar, set an alarm on your iPhone, and tell all your friends on LinkedIn (or on your Xanga, if you’re Neil), but for now you’ll just have to go tell it on the mountain that [...]
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves rescuing dolphins from culturally misguided Japanese fishermen. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. So join us each week [...]
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 [...]
If you’ve been out to see Mystery Team, a Sundance fave that we (along with plenty of other sites) have been raving about all year, then this is for you. If you haven’t been out to see the debut feature from the Derrick Comedy [...]
Production Weekly is reporting this week that Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy, Brokeback Mountain) is in talks to play Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn. The project, which is under the helm of British TV vet Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt, is based on [...]
In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Bay brought in a brand new kind of Transformers — a humanoid hottie played by Isabel Lucas. She proceeded to seduce Sam (Shia LaBeouf), piss of Mikaela (Megan Fox) and tear up an entire college campus. She was a dangerous [...]
Imagine the story of an Air Force veteran-turned-reckless airshow re-enactment pilot who gets pulled into an underground world of illegal, real-life aerial combat. Now imagine that writer/director Michael Chait (who just sold this story of TMU Pictures, according to THR) is a little more David Fincher [...]
The Sundance Institute has finally rounded out their announcements for their upcoming fest (held in Park City in January) with the full listing of Short Films in competition. Aside from the various late additions and surprise screenings, this should be the last major announcement [...]
Throughout this next month you’ll see, all over the Internet, numerous lists of films summing up the decade’s best and worst products of popular culture. But in the interest of this column, I thought it’d be appropriate not to outline the year’s best films, but the [...]
Summit Entertainment just won’t let this vampire fad die, will they? As of today — and a Heat Vision report — they are trading one teen heartthrob for an adult of the same ilk, moving from The Twilight Saga to a vampire project with Brad Pitt [...]
Late last week, a reader emailed me a link to a poorly-shot pirated look at the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow – Part 1 footage that will be seen on the DVD release of Half Blood Prince. At [...]
On December 18th, movies will never be the same…
This is what 20th Century Fox would like you to believe about the released of James Cameron’s Avatar. That the director of Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Titanic — one of the most prolific directors in history, [...]
I believe it was the Counting Crows who first crooned about it being a “long December.” And sure, that song was released in the mid-90s and the following is all about the aughts, but you get the sentiment. Over the course of the next month, we here [...]
Brought to you by: That Last Second on the Game Clock – Sometimes it makes all the difference.
This week, on a very special episode or Reject Radio, we return this week like a cinematic boot to the face to discuss the finer points of Oscar-caliber science fiction, [...]
Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents:
Some Like It Hot (1959)If you’ve been paying attention, this is two Billy Wilder films in a row for [...]
Well, it finally happened. The Blind Side finally knocked off The Twilight Saga: New Moon to win the weekend box office. Way to go, Sandra Bullock!
I am a little surprised because New Moon seemed to be holding up well during [...]
After years and years of making great film after great film, Steven Spielberg now seems to yet another director who just can’t seem to make up his mind on what he wants to make. In a time when Steven Soderbergh and Woody Allen' [...]
There’s something to be said about remakes, I know. And over the course of the nearly 4-year existence of Film School Rejects, we’ve said a lot about them. Overall, the sentiment we all seem to feel is a negative one. We question whether Hollywood is even interested [...]
Paramount Pictures has started up a pretty cool new website in support of the release of Up in the Air, Jason Reitman’s spectacular film about Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), a man who lives his life on the road. It’s a film that [...]
What smells like money and workout sweat? According to the LA Times Hero Complex Blog, that smell is probably New Moon star Taylor Lautner’s potential next project: Max Steel. The film will chronicle the adventures of a 19-year [...]
Editor’s Note: We hope you enjoy this new Friday afternoon column, Junkfood Cinema, by Brian Salisbury. It celebrates movies that are so bad, even though they are also sometimes so good. For more (coming each and every Friday), stay tuned to the Junkfood Cinema [...]
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to…
China!
It’s a full fifty-nine minutes into John [...]
If there were ever a milieu made for Jim Sheridan, a military town amid the current war in Iraq is it. Throughout his prestigious career, in movies as different as In the Name of the Father and In America, the Irish filmmaker has specialized in portraits of [...]
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