10 Films To See In April
The calm before the summer blockbuster storm is here. We have a few bigger budget pictures to recommend, but April mostly includes limited releases from film ...
Festivals
[SXSW Interview] Director Billy Corben and Team on ‘Square Grouper’
I’ve been a fan of Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman and their Miami-based production company Rakontur since the highly entertaining documentary Cocaine Cowboys p...
[SXSW Review] Sound of My Voice
From the first moment to the last, Sound of My Voice grabs hold and doesn't let go. In an age of smart phones, a compliment like that goes a long way. As the st...
SXSW Alum Accuses Festival of Cutting Experimental Programming
Filmmaker and SXSW alum Jeanne Stern is circulating a petition regarding the festival's reorganization of shorts programing. The Film Stage followed up with...
[SXSW Interview] James Gunn, Writer/Director of ‘Super’
Sunday was a wonderful day. Why? Because I got to wake up in Austin, TX and go to South by Southwest Film Festival. And then there was the roundtable intervie...
Benicio Del Toro to Take Directors Chair for ‘7 Days in Havana’, Josh Hutcherson to Star
7 Days in Havana will be a Cuban-set drama made up of seven vignettes helmed by seven different directors. (Think Paris Je T'aime.) According to Deadline, t...
Bloody Disgusting & AMC Theatres To Distribute Horror Films
AMC Theatres and horror movie site Bloody-Disgusting.com are teaming up with The Collective (a multi-platform media group) to distribute a series of horror ...
10 Films To See In March
With the Oscar season finally over and weak early months of the year coming to an end, we can finally look forward to 2011. We recently posted Our Most-Antici...
Acquisition Round-Up: SPC Snags Farmiga’s ‘Higher Ground’; Magnolia Gets LSD Doc; FilmDistrict isn’t ‘Afraid of the Dark’
First up in this bevy of acquisitions is the directorial debut from actress Vera Farmiga entitled Higher Ground. The film, which debuted at Sundance, will b...
[Oscar Anticipation Review] 2011 Academy Award Nominated Live-Action Shorts
Ever apparent in this year's Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts selections is that the dominant force in filmmaking (Hollywood) and various governmental ent...