Article: What to Watch on IFC: April 30 – May 6
We’re showing “Fight Club” twice on Sunday. What else do you need to know?
“The Dark Knight Rises” debuts more new character posters
Has the Sacha Baron Cohen shtick jumped the shark?
Tim Grierson on Will Smith, the Last Movie Star
Exclusive download: Corporal, featuring Michael Shannon, presents “Glory”
Ethan Hawke
Article: Ethan Hawke says a third “Before Sunrise” film is coming
The Playlist spotted an incredibly cool and suprisingly informative interview with actor Ethan Hawke over at the French magazine Allocine. Instead of asking Hawke questions, they played him various musical tracks that connected to his career and let him free associate responses. So if they played him “Paperback Writer” by The Beatles, he’d talk about…
Article: On Saturday on IFC: It’s War!
Specifically, “The Great Raid,” “Full Metal Jacket” and “Lord of War.”
Article: Nicolas Cage: Lord Of War, Lord Of Internet Mockery
Tonight for your viewing pleasure, we are showing “Lord of War” at 10 p.m. ET. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov, a successful arms dealer who found plenty of buyers for guns and military gear in unstable Third World nations, who paid a premium if no one asked any questions. Orlov’s exploits in…
Article: Ranking the top secret projects of Abrams, Soderbergh, Linklater and Phoenix.
There are hundreds of movies that the world at large isn’t aware of until they show up at the local multiplex, but there are very few of note that go completely unnoticed. You have to wonder if there’s something fundamentally wrong with a film culture where JJ Abrams’ best laid plans to surprise audiences with…
Article: Blockbuster goes down, again.
The most surprising thing about the news that Blockbuster may have bankruptcy forced upon it is that it took so long. The longtime rental monolith has been having its once-unparalleled preeminence handed back to it on a platter by Netflix for a long time now; the last time I personally saw the inside of one…
Article: Embracing Convention
It’s unfair, perhaps, but inevitable that every cop movie made post-”Wire” draws comparison to the now-legendary HBO series, just as it’s unfair and inevitable that every one of them falls short. Arguably the best show to ever grace television screens, “The Wire” set a new bar for subtle, taut explication that both challenged and rewarded…
Article: Burning Love, “Daybreakers” exsanguinates itself.
Written and directed by brother team Michael and Peter Spierig, “Daybreakers” is a complete disaster of a film with one or two, probably unintentional, redeeming qualities. Variety gets credit for a misleading blurb (taken somewhat out of context) ‘Take…”The Matrix” and…”28 Days Later,” …and you’ve got “Daybreakers.”‘ A more accurate summation would be: Take “Starship…
