Movies

Nerve’s Oscar Best Picture Trope Checklist

Nerve’s Oscar Best Picture Trope Checklist

Twenty years of Best Picture winners, in convenient chart form!
Watch the trailer for James Franco's new porn drama <em>Cherry</em>

Watch the trailer for James Franco's new porn drama Cherry

Yes, James Franco is in a new movie, and yes, it is sort of about porn, and no, it is not possible not to blog about it. In the new trailer for…
Netflix will stream <em>The Artist</em>, other Weinstein Company films, before cable

Netflix will stream The Artist, other Weinstein Company films, before cable

Say what you will about Harvey and Bob Weinstein — and, at this point, pretty much everyone has, and a great majority of it's negative…
Breaking: most Oscar voters are old white dudes

Breaking: most Oscar voters are old white dudes

This President's Day, Americans have the opportunity to celebrate the myriad contributions that elderly white males have made to our nation…
The next <em>Zorro</em> movie will star Gael García Bernal and be set in the future

The next Zorro movie will star Gael García Bernal and be set in the future

The shakier world economies get, the more fertile the ground becomes for post-apocalyptic movies. Soon we'll have the Hunger Games and it…
Watch the red-band trailers for <em>Friends With Kids</em> and <em>Wanderlust</em>

Watch the red-band trailers for Friends With Kids and Wanderlust

Today's a good day if you like your comedies a bit raunchy: both Friends With Kids (AKA the Bridesmaids Reunion Special) and Wanderlust released…
4 ½ Purportedly Shocking Films That Weren't That Shocking

4 ½ Purportedly Shocking Films That Weren't That Shocking

Was Shame really that shameful, or Drive that driving? We think not.
Here are all the intros for the James Bond movies, at once

Here are all the intros for the James Bond movies, at once

Everyone knows the shot: A strange, vertigo-inducing spiral points onto a blank white backdrop. A man wearing a perfectly-tailored suit strolls…
Noted gay-rights advocate Brett Ratner now working for GLAAD

Noted gay-rights advocate Brett Ratner now working for GLAAD

And cue the damage control. Brett Ratner stepped down from producing the Oscars after he remarked last November that "rehearsal is for…
<em>The Killing</em>'s Veena Sud is remaking Hitchcock's <em>Suspicion</em>

The Killing's Veena Sud is remaking Hitchcock's Suspicion

Perhaps you were one of those unfortunate souls who stuck with AMC's The Killing all the way to the end. And perhaps, when greeted with the…
Yes, of course there's going to be a <em>Transformers 4</em> and <em>5</em>

Yes, of course there's going to be a Transformers 4 and 5

When the credits started to roll after 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, audiences were left in the dark of the theater to contemplate…
Most Brooklyn-est debate ever: is Maggie Gyllenhaal breaking food co-op rules?

Most Brooklyn-est debate ever: is Maggie Gyllenhaal breaking food co-op rules?

Park Slope, the Brooklyn neighborhood known for its aging hipsters and lesbian mothers, is embroiled in a conflict that is just so Brooklyn it…
Sarah Palin doesn't want you to waste your time with the HBO movie about her

Sarah Palin doesn't want you to waste your time with the HBO movie about her

Comfortably chatting in her second home — the set of Fox News — Sarah Palin disparaged the upcoming HBO biopic, Game Change, and its…
Samuel L. Jackson says he voted for Obama "because he was black"

Samuel L. Jackson says he voted for Obama "because he was black"

In a recent interview with Ebony magazine, Samuel L. Jackson proved that celebrities should be fitted with electronic collars that zap them…
<em>Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter</em> looks as ridiculous and awesome as we hoped

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter looks as ridiculous and awesome as we hoped

While the literary Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter may have been a follow up to the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it looks like the…
Whitney Houston is dead at 48

Whitney Houston is dead at 48

Sad news: legendary singer Whitney Houston died Saturday of undisclosed causes, according to the AP. The Grammy Award-winning performer and star…
Nicolas Cage debunks vampire rumors, reveals extensively creepy vampire knowledge

Nicolas Cage debunks vampire rumors, reveals extensively creepy vampire knowledge

If someone were to ask me what movie star I thought never aged (and therefore must be a vampire), Nicolas Cage would not pop into my head…
Watch Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in <em>Seeking a Friend for the End of the World</em>

Watch Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

In case you were wondering what Steve Carrell has been up to since that movie with the title with the crazy, stupid, grammar, we now have an…
Bradley Cooper-starring <em>Paradise Lost</em> movie is no more

Bradley Cooper-starring Paradise Lost movie is no more

John Milton fans everywhere, rejoice! That terrible-sounding film adaptation of the writer's epic poem Paradise Lost, which was set to…
Movieguide study says "conservative" movies make more money than "liberal" ones

Movieguide study says "conservative" movies make more money than "liberal" ones

For two decades now, Movieguide has been promoting the dissemination of conservative, Christian values in cinema, and tonight they mark their…