You know if Martin Scorcese and Leonardo DiCaprio keep making amazing movies we may just have to have them make all of the movies. Every one. Take the first trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street. It looks fantastic and easily ...
| Matthew Razak |
Whoa, does this movie look intense! In Prisoners, Hugh Jackman plays a father whose young daughter and her friend go missing. Jake Gyllenhaal is a detective hellbent on finding the girls, and Paul Dano plays the creepy-looki...
| Liz Rugg |
The History of Future Folk is about the origins of the universe's only alien bluegrass folk duo, and how they discovered and fell in love with Earth's music. It's charming, adventurous, and a ton of fun. I mean when's the las...
| Liz Rugg |
The East is a movie of its time, born out of a mix of outrage and advocacy. At the outset there's imagery of the BP oil spill. Scattered throughout the movie are little impressions of the Occupy, anarchist collectives, and An...
| Hubert Vigilla |
In Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Roony Mara and Casey Affleck star as a star-crossed couple on the lam, and it looks pretty intense. Also, as Dre brings up regularly on Flixist's podcast, Flixistentialism, Casey Affleck is dream...
| Liz Rugg |
Back in March we mentioned that Jon Stewart is going on hiatus at The Daily Show to direct his first feature film, Rosewater. The film is an adaptation of Maziar Bahari's book Then They Came for Me, a non-fiction account of B...
| Hubert Vigilla |
To follow up Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, two of the best character pieces ever made, was always going to be a challenge. Keeping that quality and that momentum going into a third film made another nine years later ...
| Alec Kubas-Meyer |
Even though many elements of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac have been closely guarded, a few details have slipped out from producer Louise Vesth. According to Vesth, there will be graphic sex scenes featuring actors Charlotte ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Here is the trailer for The Young and Prodigious Spivet, the latest from Amelie and City of Lost Children director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The film is an adaptation of the book The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen, ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Directed by newcomer Jonathan Singer-Vine, LICKS debuted at this year's SXSW. While Hubert, Matt, and I didn't get a chance to catch it, the film received some good acclaim. LICKS is about a young Oakland resi...
| Geoff Henao |
Here is the international trailer for The Congress, the new film from Ari Folman (Waltz with Basir). This movie is loosely based on the novel The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem (the author of Solaris) and stars Robi...
| Hubert Vigilla |
The dramatic and thrilling ordeal of the Maersk Alabama was ripe for movie making the second it started splashing across news screens. The first American ship to be boarded by pirates since the 19th century? Navy Seals?...
| Matthew Razak |
August: Osage County is an upcoming movie from director John Wells based off of the acclaimed stage play of the same name by Tracy Letts. The family drama has a star-studded cast, from Meryl Streep in one of her more bitter ...
| Liz Rugg |
Another day, another movie about a woman who needs to find a man in order to have a fulfilled life. In Baggage Claim, we follow a single flight attendant who, upon the announcement of her younger sister's engagement, decides...
| Liz Rugg |
I like film festivals for a lot of reasons, but one of the best is the way films are forced into context with a number of other, entirely unrelated films. The act of watching multiple films in a day alone creates all sorts of...
| Alec Kubas-Meyer |
In some ways Northwest could be written off as another movie about how crime doesn't pay. There's an escalation of criminal activity, there's the brief taste of a modest sweet life, there's the tragic inflation of egos, and t...
| Hubert Vigilla |
If there was a marketing blurb for The Moment that could sell its strengths, it would probably say something like "Christopher Nolan's Memento meets Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up." That's really the best possible scenario ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Sometimes I watch a film and wind up thinking about two things: length and medium. In terms of length, I wonder if a feature film should be a short instead (and vice versa). In terms of medium, I wonder if the film's content ...
| Hubert Vigilla |
Yesterday we brought you the first trailer for the upcoming Indie sci-fi romance comedy The History of Future Folk, and today we have a brand new poster for it! The poster itself is actually a bit underwhelming, it features t...
| Liz Rugg |