Sundance: It's a Town Full of Losers in God's Pocket
Our Sundance Film Festival coverage continues with Michael Cusumano on John Slattery's "God's Pocket". Have you, like me, been waiting impatiently for years for a filmmaker to figure out how to...
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Jeremy Cowart tales from a stunning photoshoot starring actor John SchneiderPolicy Mic 7 reasons why Frozen is the most progressive Disney movie Grantland Mark Harris on "The Nolan Effect" and how the...
View ArticleSundance Stills: The Voices, War Story, Song One
One can never be fully caught up at festivals but one does what one can. So today, three quick takes on movies I saw yesterday during a five-film day. Let's use their festival guide images as a framing...
View ArticleSundance: "Obvious Child" is a Funny Hit
Jenny Slate stars in "Obvious Child"Our Sundance Film Festival coverage continues with Michael Cusumano on "Obvious Child". If you have heard Tig Notaro’s astonishing comedy album LIVE you have some...
View ArticleA Year With Kate: Little Women (1933)
Episode 4 of 52 Anne Marie is screening all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order. In which we remember childhood fondly. When I was 11, our school librarian told me that if you love a...
View ArticleSundance: 'Land Ho!' Proves Aaron Katz is America's Next Great
Sundance coverage continues with Glenn musing on the career of Aaron Katz and his latest, Land Ho! "Mumblecore", the term given to the influx of super low-budget independent films with a rotating core...
View ArticleWe Can't Wait! (Preview)
Amir here to kick off We Can’t Wait!, a week-long series by Team Experience on our most anticipated films of 2014. The title is pretty much self-explanatory. We voted as a group and, starting tomorrow,...
View ArticleSundance: Kumiko Hunts "Fargo"s Hidden Treasure
Sundance coverage continues with Nathaniel on the fascinating oddity "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" Meet Kumiko (Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi from Babel), pictured above, a mopey Japanese woman in a red...
View ArticleHappy National Pie Day! What's Your Favorite Pie Scene in a Movie?
my first pie I baked solo! Today is National Pie Day and if you don't celebrate it by watching Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet make pies as a substitute/preamble to carnal rutting in Labor Day (reviewed),...
View ArticleA brief history of faux-Frankensteins
Tim here. All this talk of the great-looking movies we can’t wait to see, and the Sundance crop of interesting (or semi-interesting, or bad) indie films is pulling focus from the reality of filmgoing...
View ArticleShort Link 12
Today's Must ReadThe Dissolve Nathan Rabin discusses his own group home experience and his relationship to Short Term 12 which is now out on DVD and BluRay General LinkageTHR Garrett Hedlund offered...
View ArticleOscar's Losing Game
Andrew here, to talk about the Oscar nominations. It’s been one week since they were announced and are we all talked out? Of course not. The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences can't catch a break...
View ArticleWe Can't Wait #14: Veronica Mars
[Editor's Note: We Can't Wait is a Team Experience series, in which we highlight our top 14 most anticipated films of 2014. Here's Dancin' Dan on Veronica Mars.] Veronica Mars Kristen Bell reprises her...
View ArticleNicole Does Cannes, Part Deux.
Jose here. After its fall from grace (pardon the pun, no, really do) less than a day ago, Grace of Monaco is back with a punch, having just been selected as the film that will open the 67th annual...
View ArticleSundance: Putting the T in LGBT Cinema
From the Sundance Film Festival here is Glenn on three great new editions to LGBT cinema. One of my goals for my first trip to Sundance was to see as much LGBT cinema as possible. This year has proven...
View ArticleWe Can't Wait #13: "Can A Song Save Your Life?"
[Editor's Note: We Can't Wait is a Team Experience series, in which we highlight our top 14 most anticipated films of 2014. Here's Andrew Kendall on Can A Song Save Your Life?]Can A Song Save Your...
View ArticleSundance LGBT Greats: "Love is Strange" & "Appropriate Behavior"
Sundance coverage continues with Nathaniel on two terrific new LGBT films. (This article was previously published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad) Alfred Molina & John Lithgow get hitched in...
View ArticleWe Can't Wait #12: Gone Girl
[Editor's Note: We Can't Wait is a Team Experience series, in which we highlight our top 14 most anticipated films of 2014. Here's Deborah Lipp on Gone Girl.] Gone Girl Loosely based on Gillian Flynn's...
View ArticleSundance: "Blue Ruin"
Our Sundance Film Festival coverage continues with Michael Cusumano on "Blue Ruin". Thrillers like Jeremry Saulnier’s Blue Ruin live or die by the quality of their plotting. Events must unfold with...
View ArticleMr R Will Link You Now
Variety a filmmaker accidentally takes his parents to Nymphomaniac, the secret screening at SundanceCinema Blend 50 Shades of Grey gets one of those exceptionally lazy and ubiquitous 'back to camera in...
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