(... whatever that means.) Industry newcomer A24 Films deals in a very distinctive oeuvre. Look for mainstream, a-list talent delving into oddball projects with strong writing and fringe concepts, but modest budgets, and there's where you'll find A24. Sometimes...
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Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz Publicly Release Sex Tape
...and prove that making them is a lot more fun than watching them. (I mean, so I've heard.) Still, you might be curious to take a peek... Synopsis: Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) are a married couple still very...
North America Goes Bananas for New Planet of the Apes, As It Tops Weekend Box Office
So, this absurdly fit, young guy was chatting me up in a public men's room last week, and boy was he excited. It was a little awkward, but I was interested... He was talking about Dawn of the Planet of...
Almighty Johnsons Bring Down Their Wrath On Sy-Fy Tonight
There's only one way to make it in Hollywood: take off your clothes. So, Kiwi boytoy Emmett Skilton goes the Full Monty on his first trip to tinsel town, when The Almighty Johnsons airs tonight on Sy-Fy. Ok, that might be...
Captain America Goes Art-house In Snowpiercer, Only At The Spectrum
Hollywood inexplicably walked away from about $100 million in receipts by not releasing any blockbuster movies over the 4th of July weekend. Why was Spider-man 2 positioned in the early spring, leaving Earth to Echo, a low-budget kids movie, the only big...
SNL Alum Jenny Slate’s Obvious Child Now At Spectrum
Prediction: "Expect Obvious Child to tick the usual indie rom-com boxes while somehow turning the genre on its head." Result: Mission accomplished. Synopsis: A twenty-something comedienne's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the...
22 Jump Street’s A Slam Dunk
Expect 22 Jump Street to make some serious money this weekend. Like Kobe money. And not just because 21 Jump Street earned 5x its budget at the box office - though that itself is astounding - but also because 22...
Seth McFarlane Full Frontal In A Million Ways To Die In The West
With an impressive career behind many of the most popular night time animated shows, Seth McFarlane puts himself front and center in his latest motion picture effort, A Million Ways To Die In The West. Synopsis: Seth MacFarlane directs, produces,...
New Godzilla Will DEMOLISH Weekend Box Office
GODZILLA!!! Quick! RUN! Go see it today!!! Oh, and see it in Imax. And don't be even one second late. Seriously: The opening seconds left the Imax audience in a giggle fit. On first look, several aspects of the film...
Blood Brother: How One Man Traded First World Privilege For Third World Humanity
Wanderlust... Blood Brother opens on the late night torment of an old man pacing, helpless as a lethargic child writhes on the floor of one of those ramshackle, third-world shanties. Help arrives in the form of a young man on...