Spirit Awards 2015: 'Nightcrawler' Director Blasts "Tsunami of Superhero Movies"
Dan Gilroy isn't excited about comic book movies.
February 21, 2015
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Dan Gilroy isn't excited about comic book movies.
Is it wrong to wish the Razzies tried just a little harder? Let me explain. For 35 years now, the Golden Raspberry Awards have taken pride in âhonoringâ the worst of film at a cheap-ass ceremony held annually on Oscar Day Eve, just around the corner from âthat other award show.â Many of the eventâs…
âThere was an accident â about an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.â âPresident of what?â âThatâs not funny, Plissken.â Oh, but it so is funny. Either way, the big Blu-ray news of the week (at least as far as Iâm…
Maine native Elizabeth Strout won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her episodic novel Olive Kitteridge, a collection of 13 thematically connected stories set in Crosby, a coastal town in her state.
Watching movies was once the cheapest form of entertainment. Is that still true today
So who has actually seen the top Oscar movies? Take the two frontrunners: “Birdman” was written, produced and directed by Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for some $18 million, while “Boyhood” cost only $4 million to make — over 12 years.
Are romance movies more desirable when people are cold? Building on research on (bodily) feeling-as-information and embodied cognition, we hypothesize that physical coldness activates a need for psychological warmth, which in turn leads to an increased liking for romance movies. Four laboratory experiments and an analysis of online movie rental data provide support for our…
In an exclusive clip from the bonus material off the St. Vincent Blu-Ray and DVD, Bill Murray does some splendid seat-dancing in a car. Murray is almost a mythic figure in Hollywoodâjust read what it took to get Murray to star in the movieâand the video below gives a taste of what Murray…
Recommended NOTE: This Blu-ray is available exclusively at Best Buy until May 5th, but can be pre-ordered at Amazon and other outlets. Based on George Jonas' 1984 book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (much like the 1986 made-for-TV movie Sword of Gideon ), Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005) is a fictional account of the…
After a genuinely terrific cinematic year in 2013, we were probably due for a letdown in 2014, and we got it. There were of course many very good movies last year, but almost all were flawed in one way or another: too narrow, too unfocused, too emotionally remote, or what have you. I’m not sure whether a single one would have cracked my top five of the previous year.