Posts

This Week In Trailers: VHYes, The Age Of A.I., Hillary, The Circle, What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Transformers 2: Does Fallen Get His Revenge? Since Hasbro announced the new name for the Transformers sequel a couple days back, fans have been trying to connect the title, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen with the mythology presented in a 2002 comic book mini-series. Since the first rumblings I’ve just assumed that the character known as Fallen and the new film probably weren’t connected. I mean, if Michael Bay was at all interested in the established Transformers mythology, why choose this over the older and more established history?...

TV Bits: ‘Parks & Recreation’ Shoots Multiple Endings, ‘Community’ Short Debuts, ‘Justified’ Renewed, Showtime Developing ‘You Kill Me’ Everything in today’s TV Bits looks awfully familiar, I suppose because it concerns three current critical favorites and an upcoming show with a recycled premise. After the jump: The series recently finished production on its fourth season, with the finale scheduled to air in May. NBC has yet to renew the series for a fifth season, but Schur maintained at PaleyFest that the producers were remaining “cautiously optimistic....

Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights Is Back, And Its Most Popular Icon Is Returning We may talk about Disney the most when we talk about theme parks here on /Film, butUniversal Studios Orlandois right there too. And with the fall peering at us like light at the end of the incredibly hot tunnel of the summer, there’s a big event on the way. Universal Orlando is celebrating its 30th year ofHalloween Horror Nightsthis fall, and last night, they announced that the spooktacular event’s most popular icon,Jack the Clown, is returning....

Vertigo Ending Explained: Dizzying Doubles And Deadly Obsession “Vertigo” was released more than 60 years ago, receivingmixed criticismandlukewarm responses, as viewers at the time felt that it lackedAlfred Hitchcock’s signature mastery. However, over time, “Vertigo” underwentmassive critical re-evaluation, having been hailed for its taut narrative threads, complex characters, and stunning cinematography. The ending of the film still baffles some, as it is an eerie thematic mirroring from a symbolic perspective, emulating the visceral sensation of vertigo....

Video: The Story Behind Wes Anderson’s ‘Royal Tenenbaums’ And ‘Life Aquatic’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Earlier this month,we wrote aboutMatt Zoller Seitz’s new bookThe Wes Anderson Collection, a book examining the work of writer/directorWes Anderson. The Pulitzer Prize finalist has been following Anderson’s career since the very beginning, and has teamed up with editor Steven Santos to bring the book to the web in a documentary/video essay format....

What If Movie Theaters Were Run Like Frontier Airlines? Over the weekend I flewFrontier Airlineshome from Orlando, Florida. It was my first time flying this discount airline, and while I had heard some bad things about the company, I honestly didn’t know what to expect. The experience was eye-opening and I fear that this model could be adopted by many other industries – like say for instance, the movie theater business....

When ‘Space Jam 2’ Wrapped Production, LeBron James Gave A Touching Farewell Speech There’s been talk aboutSpace Jam 2since NBA superstarLeBron Jamessigned a movie and TV deal with Warner Bros.back in the summer of 2015. Nearly a year later, the project started to become a reality withStar Trek Beyonddirector Justin Lincoming on board. The filmmaker didn’t stick with the project,which ended up being directedbyMalcolm D. Lee, who replaced the previously hired Terence Nance....

Wild And Unsettling Comics You Should Read After Revisiting ‘Fight Club’ (Welcome toComic Book Drive-In, a series where comic and movie fansJazmine JoynerandRosie Knightrecommend brand new, ongoing, and completed comic book series that tie into classic films and new releases.) Welcome back to Comic Book Drive-In! Thanks for joining us on our journey through celluloid and sequential storytelling. In our third edition, we’re revisiting one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented films in contemporary canon....

X Spoiler Review: Slasher Tropes Interrupt A More Interesting Conversation In his 2009 film “The House of the Devil,” writer/director Ti West took a lot of aesthetic and pacing cues from Satanic Panic movies of the 1970s to create a thriller about a babysitter hired to watch a mysterious, attic-lurking grandmother who may or may not be there. The film was set in the early 1980s, and West, using only camera technology that would have been available at that time, gave “Devil” an eerie sense of historical authenticity, opening up both favorable comparisons to beloved films like “The Amityville Horror” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” and a good deal of critical analysis as to what the above mentioned Satanic Panic films meant from a sociological standpoint....

Yes, The ‘F9’ Filmmakers Actually Went To NASA For Help On That Final Action Scene Spoilers (the non-vehicular kind, at least) forF9ahead. It wouldn’t be (much of) an exaggeration to claim thatF9boldly goes where no one has gone before… at least as far as theFast & Furiousfranchise is concerned. In the very capable hands of series proJustin Lin, the latest installment of the family saga gleefully satisfies a number of fan expectations — not to mentionincessant teaseson thecast’s part— steadily building over the years....

$500 Million Deal To Acquire The Weinstein Company Falls Through [Updated] Update: Despite seemingly being finalized last week, the $500 million deal to acquire The Weinstein Company has fallen through (viaVariety). It seems that the investors “uncovered new information about previous undisclosed liabilities.” Our original article follows below. After teetering on the edge of bankruptcy,The Weinstein Companysold its assets to an investor group led by former Obama-era Small Business AdministratorMaria Conteras-Sweet....

‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’ Trailer Steve CarellandJennifer Garnercould potentially be the perfect parents. And inAlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, they appear to be. That is, until, their family has what is easily the worst day imaginable. Based on the classic kids book byJudith Viorst, the Disney adaptation is directed by indie filmmakerMiguel Arteta(The Good Girl, Cedar Rapids, Youth in Revolt) and opens in October....