TIFF ’09: Day One
Film festivals are fun, but lord do they crush the body: no sleep, starvation, hectic running around, plus bouts of terrible, on-the-run eating. How some do this and manage to party on top of this while churnin...
Update: The Weinstein Company Buys Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man’ With Oscar Hopes In Mind
Fashion designer and perpetual chest hair-exposer Tom Ford has ignited a bidding war in Venice over his directorial debut, "A Single Man," starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Adapted by Ford from a Christo...
TIFF Review: ‘The Sunshine Boy’
I take no pleasure in tearing down a documentary that so obviously benefited everyone involved and could substantially promote awareness. But Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's "The Sunshine Boy," about one mother's ex...
“King of the Bs” Roger Corman Finally Recognized By The Academy
Avuncular, legendary cheapo genre director Roger Corman will finally be recognized by Oscar this year, with a Lifetime Achievement award for his prolific and influential body of work.In addition to producing 30...
Can New Poster & Trailer Salvage The Dull Look Of John Krasinski’s ‘Brief Interviews With Hideous Men’?
This Friday before Labor Day weekend brings us the trailer and poster for "Office" heartthrob John Krasinski's directorial debut, an adaptation of the late David Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous ...
A Bloody Look: Pics Of Megan Fox & Amanda Seyfried in ‘Jennifer’s Body’
The photo of Megan Fox as a possessed, boy-eating high school student in Diablo Cody -penned, Karyn Kusama-directed "Jennifer's Body" is old news, but today we get real stills (ok, magazine scans of stills) fro...
White Stripes Concert Film, ‘Under Great White Northern Lights’ To Close TIFF?
Buried in this National Post piece about Jack White's new Nashville recording studio/record store and new band The Dead Weather (with Raconteurs Jack Lawrence, and Dean Fertita, and The Kills lead singer, Aliso...
David Lynch Releasing Long-Delayed Album From ‘Fire Walk With Me’ Session Band, Fox Bat Strategy
Seems as though David Lynch has been devoting a lot of his creative energies to musical projects rather than film recently, what with his collaboration with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse on Dark Night of the So...
IFC Films Picks Up ‘AntiChrist’- Possible NC-17 Rating On The Way?
IFC Films has picked up Lars Von Trier's controversial, polarizing eroto-horror film Antichrist for distribution. Are they trying to prove the size of their cojones or what? Reviews and reactions from screening...
‘Taking Woodstock’ Soundtrack: Dead, Joplin, CSN, Jefferson Airplane, Guthrie, Baez; Pretty Much Par for the Woodstock Course
Hot on the heels of the leaked "Inglourious Basterds" soundtrack list, we’ve got our hot little hands on the Cannes production notes for Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock,” another film where the soundtrack will play...