David Cross and Portia de Rossi describe Lindsay and Tobias’s “trajectory of sadness” in “Arrested Development” season 4
Chris Gethard gets greasy at his favorite New Jersey diner
Jessica Walter winks suggestively and describes Lucille Bluth’s “dire straits” in “Arrested Development” season 4
Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat discuss sex and awkward love in “Arrested Development” season 4
Meet Dr. Strangelove (played by Peter Sellers): And this is Captain Mandrake (also played by Peter Sellers): Finally, meet President Merkin Muffley (also played by Peter Sellers): They are all trying to save the world after an unhinged United States Air Force general orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The film…
Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” is one of those movies that every film fan absolutely must watch, lest they end up getting cornered at a bar by some drunk man with anchovy breath who has no personal space boundaries and is determined to tell them in excruciatingly explicit detail how amazing the movie really…
We run down our favorite performances from the erstwhile drill instructor.
IFC covered the Hero Complex Film Festival in Los Angeles over the weekend, and here’s what we found out.
Hollywood demands plenty from directors. In a forest of remade classics, “Chipmunks” sequels and other safe, dependable investments, studios want bankable reasons to invest in innovation. Indie filmdom has long been a launchpad for Hollywood careers, but only a select few filmmakers can claim to have gone against the grain with enough force to change…
The line between film critic and film maker has always been a blurry one. “Battleship Potemkin” director Sergei Eisenstein wrote essays and books about the language of motion pictures that continue to be studied by film students to this day. Many of the biggest figures of the French New Wave, from Jean-Luc Godard to Francois…
Eeeek! “The Shining” airs tonight at 8 and 11 p.m. ET.
Happy horror holidays.
Specifically, “The Great Raid,” “Full Metal Jacket” and “Lord of War.”
Full Metal Jacket! Full Metal Jacket! Full Metal Jacket! Is that enough reason for you to tune in on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET? Or should we add to the refrain: Stanley Kubrick! Stanley Kubrick! Stanley Kubrick! Does that do it? It should. “Full Metal Jacket” marked the auteur filmmaker behind “The Shining,” “Eyes Wide…
At The AV Club, Steven Hyden wrote a really interesting piece today calling for a new measurement of excellence in the world of popular music. In addition to judging a band’s “popularity” and “critical respectibility” he suggests you apply “the five-album test” to determine musical greatness. If an artist puts out five great albums in…
Tonight at 12:15 p.m. ET we are showing the brilliantly twisted or, shall we say, slightly off, comedy “Spanking the Monkey”. Directed by David O. Russell and starring Jeremy Davies (of “Lost” and “Justified” fame) the movie tells the tale of a very close relationship between an invalid mother and her son who is home…
Each night at midnight something scary happens. We’ve been making sure of that all month long during Indie Screams. Tonight’s feature is Maximum Overdrive. Haunted big rigs? We’re there. As we wile away the hours waiting for Maximum Overdrive and for Dead Set to start (Monday Oct. 25 at 10 p.m. ET), we’re getting in…
At a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey” at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theater on Friday, a man named Robert apparently attempted to chemically enhance his viewing of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic, ’60s style. Hilarity ensued. As Todd McCarthy reports at indieWIRE: Toward the end of the film, when Keir Dullea’s Dr. Dave Bowman finds himself in…
When someone says that Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese are his or her two favorite directors, it doesn’t mean that much. Both are responsible for films of cold, hard, almost universally valued quality — they’re almost unassailable cinematic institutions (there’s always going to be someone around to insist a director is overrated). They’re also dorm-room…
It’s tempting to still think of Leelee Sobieski as that underage ingénue from “Deep Impact,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “The Glass House” and her Emmy-nominated role in the TV miniseries “Joan of Arc,” but according to the fair-skinned beauty (who turns 27 this month and, as of December, is a new mother), the opposite is true:…
One of the more intriguing items in today’s round of development and production updates is the laconic Twitter update from Production Weekly noting that “Lunatic at Large” — a story written by Jim Thompson and Stanley Kubrick in the ’50s, the manuscript lost for decades, then rediscovered in 1999 — is moving forward into production,…
In the new film “Breaking Upwards,” struggling twentysomething couple Daryl and Zoe decide to address their relationship problems by planning and then executing their own breakup. Daryl is played by director/producer/editor/co-writer Daryl Wein, Zoe is played by producer/co-writer Zoe Lister-Jones, and the breakup in the film is based on the one the two went through…
Though best known for his lyrically stunning work as the director of photography on “Afterschool” and “Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell,” Jody Lee Lipes would rather be known as a filmmaker than as a cinematographer. His directorial feature debut, the provocative doc “Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same,” premiered at…
W. Magazine‘s article on the auctioning off of the late Ingmar Bergman’s home and belongings confirmed what I’d long suspected: Animal was, in fact, his favorite Muppet. Bergman was also known to relish the odd blockbuster during his two daily film viewings at a screening room ten minutes’ drive from his house. Watching “Jurassic Park,”…
h4.lucy-byline {margin-bottom: 33px;} When you sit down to a horror film, you know, at least on a basic level, what you’re getting into. Whether or not the movie delivers, what you’ve been promised, and what you’re braced for or looking forward to, are scares. Which is why, when we look back on those truly traumatic…
If you feel like you’ve seen this week’s new slasher flick “The Stepfather” before, you probably have, even if you’re not a fan of the 1987 original starring “Lost”‘s Terry O’Quinn. That’s because the family-bands-together-to-fend-off-the-one-member-who-turns-on-the-rest trope is at the heart of dozens of horror movies. Need proof? Here’s a list of ten different types of…
[Spoilers ahead for those who haven't seen "Inglourious Basterds."] There have been two moments in film this year that have moved me to my cine-loving core. Both involved individuals stirred by the power of image, art and mythology. And both illustrated a personal investment for each character (some, real-life characters), revealing a potent significance and…
We trust the movies. We have to. Most of them only work if we look up at the images changing 24-times-a-second in front of us and believe that they reflect some sort of objective reality where a man can fly his house to South America or alien robots can transform into cars. Even when a…
A silence fell over the bus full of journalists that were being ferried from a preview of 20 minutes of Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedy, “Bruno,” over to see Sam Raimi’s new horror film “Drag Me to Hell.” The mood was so unexpectedly solemn that one prominent online journalist asked loudly, “Why is it so…
