I Saw The Light (Trailer)
Tom Hiddleston plays country music legend Hank Williams, Sr. in this adaptation of Colin Escott’s biography. Williams’ influential singing and songwriting is eclipsed only by his tragically short life....
View ArticleDie Hard Honest Trailer
Screen Junkies pays homage to one of the best Christmas movies of all time. Watch it again and reminisce about the ’80s, a time when alpha males reigned supreme, when Bruce Willis could still move, and...
View ArticleGeorge Lucas Charlie Rose Interview
“Whenever there’s a new tool, everybody goes crazy and they forget the fact that there’s a story.” Star Wars creator George Lucas recently had a lengthy chat with Charlie Rose. Yes he’s bitter, but he...
View ArticleZootopia (Trailer 2)
Eager to prove herself, Zootopia’s first rabbit police officer asks the help of a con artist to solve a huge case. The second trailer for Zootopia explains the movie’s plot, but we think it also...
View ArticleEnsemble Staging
“What a film director really directs is the audience’s attention.” Every Frame a Painting talks about how filmmaker Joon-ho Bong (Snowpiercer) masterfully manipulates the viewer’s focus in his 2003...
View ArticleOnly Yesterday (Trailer)
A city girl takes a sabbatical to stay in the country. Her vacation makes her reassess her life. Originally released in Japan in 1991, Studio Ghibli’s classic will see a limited English language...
View ArticleTHR Director Roundtable
The Hollywood Reporter’s hour-long chat with filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, Alejandro Inarritu, David O. Russell and Tom Hooper. The host talked too much, but we’re lucky we...
View ArticleNetflix: Now Everywhere
…well, not literally everywhere. Not in China for instance. But Netflix is now available in over 190 countries, from the Faroe Islands to the Falkland Islands, so yeah, they’re kinda everywhere. As...
View ArticleHigh-Rise (Teaser)
A film adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s allegorical novel. High-Rise is about a self-contained community living in a single tower. The richer you are, the higher your floor. But minor problems and petty...
View ArticleHolorama
Filmmaker Jeff Desom teamed up with model maker Oli Pesch to recreate miniature sets of famous movie scenes, and then populated them with “holographic” images of actors projected onto an angled...
View ArticlePixar’s Tributes to Cinema
Its amazing to see how many times Pixar’s animators worked in references to classic films, as shown in this well executed, side-by-side video by Jorge Luengo Ruiz. From Hitchcock, to Kubrick, to...
View ArticleColonia (Trailer)
Set in 1973 Chile, Colonia is about a woman who infiltrates a cult in a desperate attempt to find her boyfriend, who was an activist that was abducted by the police and sent to the enclave to be...
View ArticleIn the End Sung by Movies
Ross Thompson aka The Unusual Suspects spent 4 hours every day for 4 days to make 185 movies sing one of the world’s most powerful earworms. Be a film critic, be known as that Linkin Park dude. He...
View ArticleMoney Monster (Trailer)
George Clooney plays a TV financial show host who finds himself and his studio held hostage by an irate investor (Jack O’Connell) who lost his shirt on stock he bought on his advice. Also stars Julia...
View ArticleEditing as Punctuation in Film
Inspired by Kathryn Schulz’ article on the best (uses of) punctuation marks in literature, Max Tohline posits that editing serves as punctuation in film. From the long take to the humble cut, proper...
View ArticleSing Street (Trailer)
“Rock & roll is a risk. You risk being ridiculed.” A teenager dealing with problems at home and at his new school starts a band to impress a girl. Naturally. Set in 1980s Dublin, Sing Street is an...
View ArticleThe Problem with Trailers
Now You See It outlines the parts of a trailer and calls it for what it is: a short film made of clips from a longer film. Ironically, he ends up making his point by highlighting effective trailers...
View ArticleA Brief History of Swearing in Movies
(NSFW Language) People swear like truck drivers in today’s R-rated flicks. But there was a time when swearing in movies was considered so heinous that filmmakers could be slapped with huge fines. Movie...
View ArticleSuicide Squad (Trailer 2)
“We’re bad guys! It’s what we do.” The latest Guardians of the Suicide Squad trailer introduces its villains, er, heroes, but the most important part is that it’s broadcasting one thing: fun. DC...
View ArticleNeighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Trailer)
(PG-13: Language) Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne’s characters want to sell their house, but Chloë Moretz’s crazy sorority moves in next door. Afraid that no one would buy their house because of their new...
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