Besides the initial shock that comes with the news that writer/director George Hickenlooper died in the midst of a whirlwind festival run for his latest film “Casino Jack” at the far too young age of 47 is the great irony that he reportedly passed away quietly of natural causes. For anyone who has followed Hickenlooper’s…
Insert Credit endeavors to suss out where you should be allotting your video game allowance, sifting out a single title from many and crowning it as The One Game You Need to Get This Week. Don’t consider these reviews, gentle reader. Rather, think of Insert Credit as a mix of hands-on time, informed opinion and…
For some, Fall is a time of great beauty and nostalgia, a boon for the sartorialist who can finally break out favorite jackets and scarves. Others are less thrilled, perhaps victims of some primal human apprehension about the coming of winter. One thing is certain, it’s a season of greater introspection after the wanton abuses…
It’s odd what films make you a believer in the auteur theory. A few years before I had ever heard of Andrew Sarris or really started to dig into Cahiers du Cinema, I had watched a review of the Michael Richards-Jeff Daniels comedy “Trial and Error” on “Siskel and Ebert” where Roger Ebert showered praise…
Here are six concept-heavy suggestions for timely film-related costumes that require relatively little effort, wardrobe-wise. Mal from “Inception” Wear a cocktail dress. Overturn tables and throw drinks in people’s faces. When confronted about this, point at someone else in the room and claim to just be a manifestation of his or her guilt-ridden subconscious. Recovering…
As the grand finale (or maybe last gasp is more apt) of Indie Screams every night this week we have shown an episode of British import Dead Set. The show follows the cast of the reality show Big Brother UK as their 15 minutes of fame is interrupted by a pesky zombie apocalypse. Miss the…
Director Danny Boyle tapped Indian composer A.R. Rahman again to score “127 Hours” after the wild success they had together with “Slumdog Millionaire,” for which Rahman won two Oscars (he took both of 2009′s Best score and Best song). Sheila Roberts interviewed the hot composer for Collider about this new found friendship with Boyle, and…
Less than a month after he expressed his cranky desire to do a great job and retire, Keiji Inafune’s fast-forwarded to the quitting part. Per a post by Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft, the man who’s been at the publisher for 23 years feels that he’s got nowhere else to go in the company’s development hierarchy. Inafune…
“Freaks and Geeks” is now airing on IFC, and we thought we’d take this opportunity to revisit the show that launched a thousand bromance movies. Every week, Matt Singer and Alison Willmore will be offering their thoughts on that night’s episode. Episode 18 Discos and Dragons Written by Paul Feig Directed by Paul Feig “Hey,…
As David Lynch knows, there’s nothing scarier than white picket fences, old-fashioned red fire engines and a grandfatherly figure hosing down a manicured green lawn. Hidden behind his innocuous vision of Americana lies an insidious layer of viciousness, perversity and oppression. On the eve of mid-term elections, the opening of Lynch’s 1986 classic “Blue Velvet”…
On Saturday at 8 p.m. ET prepare yourself for the Alien invasion. We consider the 1979 Alien to be one of the scariest movies of all time and while obviously director Ridley Scott had a lot to do with the tension and fear infused in the movie, much of the credit has to go to…
Entertainment Weekly has a lengthy history of the making of the zombie classic “Night of the Living Dead” written by Clark Collis. Would you believe that major decisions, like who would play the very first zombie in the most iconic zombie film of all time, were made totally haphazardly? “The role of the film’s first…
Maybe you haven’t gotten around to downloading “Super Mario Bros.” off the Wii’s Virtual Console yet. Or, maybe you’re holding on to your beloved Nintendo Entertainment System so you can experience the games as you did in happier, simpler times. No one is judging you. Still, if your answer is yes to either one of…
Soundtrack details for Danny Boyle’s grim survival film, “127 Hours” are out and it features one of the smoothest songs ever written, Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day.” It might help combat the nausea and fainting spells the film is reported to induce. Built around “Slumdog Millionaire” composer, A.R. Rahman’s, original scores, including a Dido / A.R.…
We hate to say it, but we are nearing the end of Freaks & Geeks. Take a moment to weep into your Journey pillowcase, we’ll wait. While it’s true that the funny and painful high school comedy has run its course, but, like high school itself, college is just around the corner. And do we…
Deadline reports that Tom Cruise has been offered a role in New Line’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical, “Rock of Ages.” He would play a bartender who presumably has a penchant for 80′s hair rock like Foreigner and Journey, maybe a little Pat Benatar. We know Cruise can lip sync like a boss and…
Reviewed at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival. While not as freshly ripped from the nonfiction bestseller list as “The Social Network,” Doug Liman’s “Fair Game” is another film that transmutes real life events to the screen before they’ve had an opportunity to comfortably settle into something more like our idea of the set past.…
Certain movies, comics and games see to be natural fits for a transmedia journey. A “Scott Pilgrim” game is a gimme. Ditto for the recent graphic novel that ties in the “Fallout: New Vegas” game. No one would think that Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning period piece was ripe for digitization but the Tomfoolery Pictures creative…
Christy Lemire, the fine film critic for the Associated Press, has an fun interview with “Hostel” director and “Inglourious Basterds” co-star Eli Roth on his top five horror films. Cult slasher “Pieces” is his number one, but it was his number four pick that really caught me by surprise, so-called “best worst movie” of all…
Have you seen The Grid yet? Think you can keep on top of all the latest in pop culture, videogames, gadgets, viral videos, and must see websites on your own? Not if you want to keep your day job. So tune in every Thursday at 7:45 p.m. ET for 15 minutes of the latest and…
It’s hard to imagine film music today without names like Danny Elfman or Hans Zimmer (for better or worse) who both started out in bands — Oingo Boingo and The Buggles respectively — before becoming film composers. More recently, rockers like Jonny Greenwood and Nick Cave have dazzled with their turns at film scoring. Jeff…
One of our IFC.com contributors, R. Emmet Sweeney made my night yesterday when he showed me this webpage while we were flipping back and forth between Game 1 of the World Series and the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie “Red Heat.” He’d seen it on Twitter, probably after it was posted by Cinematical, who seem to have…
Every couple of years, DC Comics refreshes their properties by updating and retelling their origins for modern audiences. In the 1980s, there was “The Man of Steel,” which re-envisioned Lex Luthor as a Gordon Gecko-ish corporate raider and Lois Lane as an independent woman with a tragic fashion sense. A few years ago, “The Man…
Brian De Palma’s tense thriller Blow Out airs at 8 p.m. ET tonight. It stars John Travolta as a sound man who stumbles upon what he believes is a murder, only no one believes him. Brian De Palma’s skillful direction enhances the intrigue without being overpowering. He let’s John Travolta shine as an actor while…
Best documentary at the Oscars is, like best foreign language film, the type of category that seems invented to be grumbled over, with selections and winners rarely reflecting the films everyone else in the world finds most worthy of praise. So it’s much less frustrating to look to organizations like the International Documentary Association for…
