FOUR-MINUTE MOVIE MARATHONS There’s no shortage of commentary out there for the big tent pole movies this May. People have pored over the trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness to […]

JUDGING FILMS BY THEIR TRAILERS Evil Dead April 5 It’s tough to tell who’s who in the red band trailer for Evil Dead, the remake for the Bruce Campbell-starring, Sam […]

JUDGING A MOVIE BY ITS TRAILER Oz: The Great and Powerful March 8 For legal purposes, this isn’t an official prequel to original Wizard of Oz film. Director Sam Raimi […]

IT’S A FILM TRAILER LIFE, WE ALL JUST LIVE IN IT Side Effects February 8 You gotta love Steven Soderbergh. Ever a maverick, he’s used his post-Oscar and Ocean’s trilogy […]

JUDGING A MOVIE BY ITS TRAILER Gangster Squad January 11 This trailer first caused some controversy not entirely because of its content, but when it premiered: right after this year’s […]

JUDGING MOVIES IN FOUR MINUTES The holidays are a time to get mushy, be a little open and let your heart be warmed and all that emotional business. Movie theatres […]

It’s almost unimaginable at this point that, at one point in his career, John C. Reilly’s bread-and-butter wasn’t comedic work. In the same vein, that the Walk Hard star isn’t […]

Ten years after its terrible inception the Resident Evil franchise will birth its fifth unholy entry, Retribution, on September 14. With series “mastermind” and noted trash film auteur, Paul W.S. […]

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry August 3 Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most provocative, and awe-inspiring artists of our generation and in Alison Klayman’s documentary, she paints us a portrait […]