The DGA‘s are pretty much the last indication of the Hollywood Award season and with a year that’s been particularly tricky to call, these awards leading up to Oscar night are more important than ever. This brings us to tonight’s awards with the DGA, or Director’s Guild of America. The big win of the...
Paul Thomas Anderson, or PTA, has long been known as a slow director. Like fellow auteurs Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson, he writes and directs his films so they’re usually long in the pipes and take a high level of meticulous planning. Frequent Anderson collaborator and producer JoAnne Sellar confirmed that PTA’s next film,...
HBO‘s Entourage ended its small screen run back in 2011 with a cliffhanger of a series finale. There had been speculation from the get-go of a movie in the pipes but no immediate plans for a follow-up film. That all changed today though as Warner Brothers has given the movie adaptation of the popular television...
The notorious NC-17 is both alluring and repelling, the rating alone stands as a statement and a double-dog-dare. While some of our jaded generation may see a film just to see what exactly made it so explicit, most won’t even be able to see it because the bottom line is many theaters...
Set under the banner of Fox Searchlight, Danny Boyle‘s Trance offers an hypnotic view of gangs consorting within the art thievery realm. Boyle has a great eye for color and camera composition and, in my opinion, is one of the greatest working directors out there, making anything he does something worth anticipating. Some of...
You may or may not of heard stirring of what is really going on over at Fox with X-Men: Days of Future Past. Following this year’s The Wolverine, this series entry will attempt to draw together the entirety of the franchise by playing with time travel and expanding the cast to essentially include...
“Once love was stronger than gravity” says Jim Sturgess in the closing moments of this physics defying trailer for Upside Down. A sappy sentiment, yes but I’ll admit that the trailer played on both the heart strings and the ‘how’d they do that?’ sensibilities. What seems to play out in this two and a half...
Set in the mountains of Utah, the Sundance Film Festival has solidified a top spot for must-go indie film festivals. With over 4,000 submissions and 119 selected this year alone, there’s no shortage of talent going on here. The Sundance Film Festival 2013 began last Thursday, January 17, and wraps up this Sunday, January 27....
Back at the beginning of the month when I was drafting my 40 most anticipated films of 2013, I plopped the Coen Bro‘s Inside Llewyn Davis at a lofty tenth place. This had nothing to do with the synopsis or the talent in front of the camera. No, all my expectations arose from the...
The days of speculation and doubt can end, as J.J. Abrams (Lost, Star Trek) has officially been confirmed as the director for the seventh entry to the Star Wars saga. TheWrap has reported that although Abrams initially turned down the offer from producer Kathleen Kennedy, he has had a change of heart. As...