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What Should We Call a Comedy Movie With Women In It?
There’s already a term for a buddy movie with guys – a bromance. But what do we call the equivalent movie for women? Discussing his new film Bridesmaids (which stars Maya Rudolph, Kristin Wiig, and Rose Byrne) in Entertainment Weekly, director Paul Feig suggests “sismance” and “galmance” as possible options. More »
‘M. Night School’ Website Is Raising Money to Send M. Night Shyamalan Back to Film School
Tired of M. Night Shyamalan‘s recent cinematic failures like Devil and Razzie Worst Picture winner The Last Airbender? Do you yearn for the days of such masterful suspense thrillers as Signs? If you’ve got a dollar to spare, you could help M. Night School in sending the director back to his alma mater, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. More »
Snap This: A Timeline of Futuristic Movies
Only four more years until Back to the Future is a real thing, you guys! More »
Suzanne Collins is “thrilled” with the latest Hunger Games casting choices. – The author says she was in the room when Josh Hutcherson auditioned: “Josh totally captured Peeta’s temperament, his sense of humor and his facility for language.” (Entertainment Weekly)
Virgin Viewing: ‘Casablanca’
After several weeks of Virgin Viewings full of blood and guts (of the shark and mob shark varieties), I was happy to switch to a more romantic film this week. Like many classic movies I’d never seen, I knew many of the most famous lines from Casablanca before I saw it (“Here’s looking at you, kid”; “Play it, Sam”). However, what I didn’t realize was how urgent the film would be. More »
9 Non-Porn Movies Featuring Real Sex
Oh, Hollywood gossip; you are so very entertaining. And this is why we love books about you so very much.
Case in point: Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex) by former Paramount executive and Variety editor Peter Bart. Due out on May 3, Bart’s behind-the-scenes book posits that the sex scene between actors Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 film Don’t Look Now was, in fact, utterly unsimulated. Sutherland denies the claim, but it’s a fascinating possibility nonetheless. It might surprise you, however, how many mainstream films there are out there that feature actual sex; here, we’ve assembled for your consideration nine of the best: More »
Snap This: The Zuckerberger With a Side of Winklevoss Fries
To be honest, The Social Network does make more sense when explained via food. More »
Jason Bateman says the Arrested Development movie script is “incredible.” – Though Bateman hasn’t gotten to read it yet, he met with Mitch Hurwitz recently and reports that the storylines sound really exciting. The odds are good, he added, that Hurwitz will have the script done by the end of the year. (MTV)
Video: Meet Jesse Heiman, the Extra Who Has Been in Every Movie
Remember Ricky Gervais‘ 2005 series Extras? It was the painfully funny tale of an actor who doggedly paid his dues, always aspiring to break into Hollywood but perpetually falling short. It looks like Gervais has a counterpart in Jesse Heiman, a 33-year-old actor who has appeared in seemingly every movie and TV show. Many of his roles, starting with 2001′s American Pie 2, have been vague — Beer Bong Student, Monopoly Game Piece Thief, Winking Comic Book Nerd — and/or uncredited, but someone has slavishly updated his IMDb page with every appearance. There’s also this great video picking him out of the crowd in Glee, The Social Network, and Arrested Development. (The fact that it’s set to “Lux Aeterna” from Requiem for a Dream makes it all the more epic.) Considering the breadth of his Hollywood career, I think you can assume that he’s havin’ a laugh. More »
Video: Watch 36 Simultaneous Hitchcock Deaths
Oh, how morbidly cool. How many movies can you name from their tiny little deathy thumbnails? We only got eight and we took a Hitchcock class in college.
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Gallery: Famous Movie Death Scenes
Earlier this week, the posters at Reddit contemplated mortality in the fascinating discussion thread titled, “What famous movie death scene would you like your death to be like?” And while many of the answers were sheer ridiculousness, there were some choices that actually resonated with us. The scenes in this gallery are emotional, cathartic, and examples of damn fine acting and writing. Since we’re discussing pretty pivotal scenes, beware of spoilers! More »
Kevin Smith Invites Westboro Baptist Church to ‘Red State’ Screenings
In some ways, Kevin Smith is extending an olive branch to Fred Phelps and the rest of the conservative Westboro Baptist Church (the ones who protest at soldiers’ funerals): He’s offered invites for them to attend the Kansas City preview screenings of his new film Red State. The thing is, the horror movie is based on Phelps and his swollen sense of morality. Awkward. More »
Banksy’s ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ Gets a Sequel
Banksy‘s film Exit Through the Gift Shop may not have won the Best Documentary Film prize at last night’s Oscars, but this spot-on Enter Through the Stall Door spoof video is a really great consolation prize. More »
Video: Watch The Hangover Part II Teaser Trailer
It’s here! The first look at The Hangover Part II! We’re so excited for this, even though we have no idea what’s going on. Apparently they’re in Thailand? Monkeys and face tattoos and Zach, oh my. More »
Famous Last Words: The Depressing Dialogue Of Rom-Coms
I’ve realized a subversive plot on the part of Hollywood. Though we are fed cookie-cutter versions of romance and unrealistic visions of love, if you take a look at the last lines of the best romance films, they are always so…mundane. Is this the “happily ever after” we were promised? Not even an “I love you” as the screen fades to black?
We picked 12 of our favorite love films and found their last lines…see if you can pair the movie with the dialogue. More »
Video: How Much Product Placement Can You Spot In This Video?
Movies and product placement have always shared a strained relationship. There have been those meta-moments (like in Wayne’s World, where Mike Meyers gives that whole speech about not selling out while drinking Pepsi and eating chips), as well as their less self-aware, but no more subtle counter-parts (Michael Bay makes more on product placement) than he does actually making his films at this point). More »
America: Full of Jackasses – Jackass 3D may be the highest grossing movie opening in October. Ever. How is real estate in Canada looking this time of year? (Entertainment Weekly)
Video: Japan’s Idea of Blackface is a Little WTF
In America, we are used to ideas of ingrained racism, and how that’s dealt with, with our long history of turmoil in the Civil Rights movement. But sometimes it’s easy to forget that other nations didn’t enslave black people for many years, and so their version of African-American culture is kind of…um, offensive? Or maybe cut them a break because they seemingly learned everything about black culture from Tyler Perry productions, as evidenced by this blackface Japanese movie, Vampire Girl VS Frankenstein Girl. More »
Video: Cinema’s Famous Last Words
If this Screen Junkies video featuring a montage of final movie lines teaches us anything, it’s that we are a dramatic species. From “Rosebud” to “I am invincible” — even our cartoons end with a theatrical flair. We suppose issuing a spoiler alert really goes without saying. More »
This is What You Look Like Watching Movies – A mash-up not made by FourFour? Inconcievable! But this is what people in the movies look like when they are watching movies. Infinite mirrors, y’all. (Moviefone)
