New ‘Cars 2’ TV Spot Hints to Plot, Preaches to Choir at Daytona 500
Yesterday Pixar debuted a new trailer during the NASCAR Daytona 500 to promote the impending release of Cars 2. And where the teaser released last November ...
Month: February 2011
New Robert Rodriguez Short Features Kobe, Kayne, and Bruce Willis, Now Online
Robert Rodriguez has a made a career out of the unexpected, and now you can check out his latest, an action-packed short film Black Mamba.
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[Voting Spirit] Who Will Win, and Who Should
Last week I completed my quest to see all 35 of the independent films nominated for this year's Spirit Awards. This meant weeks upon weeks of trekking to Tr...
VFX Legend Douglas Trumbull Talks Celestial Scope of ‘The Tree of Life’
Perhaps the most appealing element of Terrence Malick's long awaited The Tree of Life is his collaboration with Douglas Trumbull. The special effects guru h...
[TFS Podcast Ep. 40] Unknown
In the latest episode of The Film Stage podcast, co-host Dan Mecca and I (Jordan Raup) discuss Tommy Lee Jones' HBO Film based on the Cormac McCarthy play T...
New ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Spot Unveils First Dialogue
Uh oh. Michael Bay's films are perfect when condensed into short promotional snippets (see: the great Super Bowl spot for Transformers: Dark of the Moon). T...
Baz Luhrmann Begins 17-Week Production On ‘The Great Gatsby 3D’ This August In Sydney
After some hesitance on whether or not Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, Australia) would make The Great Gatsby his next project, it has finally been confirmed an...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’ To Shoot This Fall With Robert Downey Jr.
Last last year we heard that Paul Thomas Anderson, who hasn't directed a film since There Will Be Blood, was developing an adaptation Thomas Pynchon‘s 2009 ...
[Weekend Box Office] ‘Unknown’ Tops ‘Number Four’
Liam Neeson-led Unknown was tops at the box office this weekend, nudging out sci-fi flick I Am Number Four. It earned $21.7 million in its opening weekend, ...
[Review] I Am Number Four
When a movie has the sole aspiration to entertain its audience, without any hint of deeper meaning or a hidden agenda, it is interesting to learn what Holly...