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Sundance Review: The Company Men
I’ve already heard several folks here in Park City draw lines between John Wells’ recession drama The Company Men and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. I suppose this is exactly the kind of parallels...
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John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Olivia Thirlby in Talks for Lena...
Nobody Walks is the next project from Lena Dunham, the writer/director/star of last year’s ultra-low budget indie film Tiny Furniture. It tells the story of a Los Angeles family that takes in an artist...
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Will the ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Have Enough Funding to Add Rosemarie DeWitt and...
Things seem to finally be coming together quite nicely for the long troubled comedy Neighborhood Watch. After a period of uncertainty where it was having trouble getting financed, it now has two big...
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Billy Crudup Joins the Comedic Crew of ‘Neighborhood Watch’
Neighborhood Watch has had a pretty dicey past, but under the eye of director Akiva Schaffer it seems to now be coming together nicely. The film has a new script penned by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg...
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Sundance 2012 Review: ‘Nobody Walks’ Turns the Standard Homewrecker Story On...
The notion that nobody walks places in Los Angeles is one of the biggest L.A. clichés, right up there with the belief that Southern California is populated by beautiful sunglasses-wearing people who...
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‘Your Sister’s Sister’ Trailer Features Mark Duplass Getting Down With Emily...
There are a good number of reasons to get excited for Your Sister’s Sister, not the least of which is that our own Robert Levin saw it at Sundance and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. The biggest...
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Review: Shabby Tearjerker ‘A Little Bit of Heaven’ Is (Slightly) Better Than...
Kate Hudson seems doomed to never get a chance to repeat her Almost Famous glory, stuck in a rut of endless romantic comedies, from the passable (Alex & Emma, How to Lose a Guy in 1o Days) to the...
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Review: Heartfelt and Funny ‘Your Sister’s Sister’ Bonded By Solid Performances
Editor’s note: With Your Sister’s Sister beginning its limited roll-out this week, we thought it best to re-run Robert Levin’s sterling Sundance review of the film, already a Reject favorite. This...
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Review: ‘The Watch’ Is a Funny and Foul Blend of ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Attack...
It can be difficult making friends once you’re past a certain age because the older people get the more set in their ways they become. Youth offers any number of bonding experiences that bring people...
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‘Nobody Walks’ Trailer Is Full of Forbidden Fruit and Foley Artistry
If there’s one thing that seems to be able to provide endless material for indie films to mine, it’s infidelity. There’s no need for special effects, fancy locations, or even big name actors to make a...
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‘Promised Land’ Trailer: Matt Damon Is a Good Man Doing the Wrong Thing
Things get perhaps a bit zippy and drippy and cliched at the end of this first trailer for Gus Van Sant‘s Promised Land, but there’s just so much good stuff before all that upbeat music and hackneyed...
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‘Promised Land’ Director Gus Van Sant Sets Up Another Mystery
Promised Land has been met with a few Frank Capra comparisons, clearly establishing it as one of director Gus Van Sant‘s more easily digestible and accessible pictures. The filmmaker has never been...
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‘Touchy Feely’ Trailer Wants to Get Close and Relieve Your Tension
Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister was one of the best films of 2012, and is still probably criminally underseen, so let’s make sure that doesn’t happen to her new film, Touchy Feely, by spreading...
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Casting Couch: Terence Stamp to Work With Tim Burton, Rosemarie Dewitt is...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the daily column that’s back with the first load of casting news for July, and if you love the CW’s 90210, then prepare to get excited, because two of the actors mentioned...
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Casting Couch: Rosemarie Dewitt Will Make Contact With a Spirit in...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a rundown of all the important casting news that occurred in the last 24 hours. Today Hollywood’s movers and shakers have found jobs for former sitcom stars, former...
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Jason Reitman Wants Adam Sandler to Do Some Real Acting in ‘Men, Women and...
When’s the last time we saw Adam Sandler buckle down and do some real acting? Do things like Spanglish and Reign Over Me count because they were more drama than comedy, even though they were still...
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Sundance 2015: How Steven Spielberg Influenced Joe Swanberg’s Digging for Fire
Sundance Institute I know what you’re thinking. Steven Spielberg – the guy behind Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler’s List, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Hook – influenced… Joe Swanberg? Any...
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They’re Back: The First Trailer for the Poltergeist Remake is Better and More...
They’re here! The full trailer(s) for the Poltergeist remake, that is, and the new movie sure does look almost like a note for note rehash of the original 1982 horror blockbuster. It also doesn’t look...
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Poltergeist (2015) Is a Mere Ghost of Its Former Self
20th Century Fox Remakes are frequently dismissed sight unseen because they show a lack of creativity and far too many have proven themselves to be outright stinkers, but there have been enough...
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Digging for Fire Celebrates the Booty Right in Front of Us
The Orchard The line between immaturity and adulthood isn’t a fine one. It comes in stages, and it’s wiggly, and it can differ from person to person. Writer/director Joe Swanberg‘s latest film explores...
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