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It's Jon Favreau Double Feature Day
By Melissa on 09/02/2010
Jon Favreau is now a big time Hollywood director with multi-million dollar successes under his belt including "Iron Man", "Iron Man 2", and the upcoming "Cowboys & Aliens", but he was once just a Hollywood newbie with stars in his eyes. He broke onto the scene with "Swingers" in 1996. In today's double feature, we take a look back at his career in 2001's "Made" and 2003's "The Big Empty". In Made Jon Favreau reunites with his "Swingers" co-star Vince Vaughn in this caper about a boxer and his loud-mouthed friend who are aspiring gangsters. Bobby (Jon Favreau) and Ricky... MORE »
Win Two Passes to Fantastic Fest!
By Melissa on 09/01/2010
Filed under: Contest
Here at IFC we are pretty excited about this film festival "with all the boring parts cut out" and now is your chance to win two badges to Fantastic Fest 2010 in Austin, Texas. Highlights of the festival include: Bedevilled (2010) Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment a country girl for her entire life, take note: when she reaches the breaking point, you'd best hide the farm implements. The Dead (2010) Directors: Howard J. Ford and Jonathan Ford South Africa, 100 min. After his plane crashes in the South African bush, Rob... MORE »
Love and Music in the "Garden State"
By Melissa on 09/01/2010
Filed under: What to Watch on IFC
Scrubs is a great comedy. It's no Kids in the Hall, but it is a fun way to spend half an hour. But as a proving ground for burgeoning directorial talent it was untested until its star Zach Braff walked out from behind the camera and created Garden State. Zach Braff stars as a wannabe actor who is stumbling through life in a lithium-induced haze trying to make it in Los Angeles. When his mother dies in New Jersey, he is forced to return home after nine years. Back in his childhood home, he finds his world strangely unchanged, except... MORE »
'The Sea Inside': Life and Sometimes Death is Beautiful
By Melissa on 08/31/2010
Filed under: What to Watch on IFC
Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside (or "Mar Adentro" in Spanish) is a heart-wrenching yet unsentimental look at the life of a man who fought for decades for the right to die with dignity. The film could have easily been a very preachy biopic of a man's legal, physical, and emotional struggle, but it is instead a beautiful and stirring portrait of a man yearning to be free. After a life of adventuring, an accident paralyzes Ramón Sampedro from the neck down. Based on the true story of Sampedro's years-long fight with the Spanish courts for a medically-assisted suicide, the story... MORE »
Win a Date With Todd Margaret!
By Melissa on 08/31/2010
Filed under: Contest
Enter our sweepstakes for the chance to win a trip for two to the New York City premiere of IFC's new comedy, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. The show stars David Cross as a bumbling and aggrandizing American business man who bluffs his way into an executive job in the London office of Thunder Muscle. What's Thunder Muscle? It's an awesome new energy drink that is extremely energizing, but might possibly be toxic. Head HERE to enter the sweepstakes for a chance to mingle with the stars of the series (David Cross! Will Arnett!) at the VIP screening... MORE »
'The New World': Not Your Mother's American History
By Melissa on 08/31/2010
Filed under: What to Watch on IFC
Writer and director Terrence Malick built a name for himself on the dark, twisted, but mostly true story of Badlands. In that film he cast Martin Sheen as a 25-year old psychopath on a killing spree while his 15-year old girlfriend, Sissy Spacek, twirled her baton in the background. The movie was based on the real life crime spree that haunted the Dakota badlands for years. In Malick's hands the story was a cinematic wonder that was half-In Cold Blood and half-Midwest travelogue. Malick re-surfaced in 1998 with "The Thin Red Line", a look at the WWII bloody battle for... MORE »
"Chapter 27": Jared Leto Takes on John Lennon
By Melissa on 08/31/2010
Filed under: What to Watch on IFC
On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon outside of his home at the Dakota apartments in New York City. The murder stunned the world and senselessly robbed the music scene of one of its brightest and most prolific stars. Chapter 27 goes behind the crime and the headlines and explores the makings of the man who would kill one of the world's most beloved musicians. Since everyone knows how the story ends, with Chapman gunning down John Lennon on his doorstep, the movie instead focuses on why Chapman developed his deadly fixation on the legendary Beatles star... MORE »
What to Watch on IFC: August 30-September 5
By Melissa on 08/30/2010
Filed under: What to Watch on IFC
Monday When the local steel mill closes, two men with nothing to lose come up with a unique way to raise money ...as well as more than a few eyebrows. The Full Monty was a major box-office hit both in England and the United States and was nominated for Academy Awards as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. The Full Monty airs at 7:35 p.m. ET. Tuesday The adventures of Roy, Moss and Jen in the underbelly of the Reynholm Corporation continue in Series 4 of the BBC comedy 'The IT Crowd'. Don't forget to read our... MORE »
Coming of Age in 'Paranoid Park'
By Melissa on 08/30/2010
Filed under: What to Watch on IFC
With unflinching cinematography, Paranoid Park gives a dark portrait of adolescent longing and anxiousness. Alex, played by newcomer Gabe Nevins, is an unfulfilled and apathetic teenager who befriends a young anarchist at the local skater hangout a.k.a. Paranoid Park. The teens aren't satisfied with the uneasy existence of adolescence and long to experience something gritty and intense. When the teens hop a train and a tragedy befalls the security guard chasing them, this traumatic experience is too much for Alex. When the murder goes unsolved, the police find Alex at his high school and he must confront his guilt, mortality,... MORE »
360 Sessions: A Look Behind the Music
By Melissa on 08/27/2010
Filed under: What to Watch on IFC
From IFC comes a new documentary series that takes viewers behind the scenes with their favorite musicians. 360 Sessions is a unique music series driven entirely by the artists and filmed in major cities around the world, including New York, LA, London, and Copenhagen. Travel around the world as artists tell their stories in their own words in their own spaces. In intimate conversations with musicians as diverse as Snoop Dogg, The Editors, David Gray, and Stereophonics, 360 Sessions explores the artists' influences, experiences, and private lives that inform their music. Each interview is paired with three musical performances in... MORE »
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