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Sundance 2010 Video Review: The Duplass Brothers' Cyrus

The Duplass Brothers' new film Cyrus premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Almost everyone I know was at the screening, including our own Brandon Tenney. The Duplass Brothers have premiered many of their short films and their last two features, The Puffy Chair and Baghead, at Sundance previously, but this was the first year that their film has ever played in the biggest Eccles Theater. Dave and Peter of SlashFilm recorded a video review of Cyrus with Brandon after the premiere last night. In short, they all loved it, even Brandon, and all had great things to say. Cyrus is pretty much a knock out of the park. Watch these below!

⥤ Posted January 24 in Sundance 10, To Watch | 3 Comments

Alex's Sundance 2010 Review: Rodrigo Cortés' Buried

By Alex Billington

I think I might have just found my favorite film of Sundance. We're only three or so days in, but this is at the top of my list, for now. Earlier tonight I caught the midnight world premiere of Rodrigo Cortés' Buried, the stuck-in-a-coffin film starring Ryan Reynolds. In short, it was phenomenal. The film already has plenty of early buzz because we've been talking about it since Reynolds was cast last year. I already knew it was set entirely inside a coffin where Reynolds is stuck and buried, but the big question is if they could actually pull off a 90 minute film set entirely in a coffin. They did. They not only pulled it off, but it's an amazing film.

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⥤ Posted January 24 in Reviews, Sundance 10 | 33 Comments

Brandon's Sundance Review: John Wells' The Company Men

By Brandon Lee Tenney

Television staple John Wells makes his feature writing and directorial debut with his timely, socially harrowing drama The Company Men. Starring Ben Affleck as Bobby Walker, Tommy Lee Jones as Gene McClary, and Chris Cooper as Phil Woodward, the film is centered around these three men as they attempt to survive after a devastating round of corporate downsizing. We see just how losing their jobs affects their families, their psyche, and the community at large. It's as terrifying a film as I've seen. Well's nearly pitch-perfect screenplay captures the utter bleakness of our current economic recession and how it's effecting the

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⥤ Posted January 24 in Reviews, Sundance 10 | 9 Comments

Indie Trailer Sunday: US Trailer for Bong Joon-ho's Mother

By Alex Billington

Magnolia recently debuted an official US trailer for Bong Joon-ho's new film Mother, which first premiered at Cannes last year. That's where I first saw it and although I never wrote a review, I did love the film. The more I think back to it, the more I remember really enjoying it as one of my highlights of that fest (even over Park Chan-wook's Thirst). In fact, Mother eventually becomes a Park Chan-wook kind of film, but with Bong Joon-ho still behind the lens. This trailer calls it a "masterpiece" and I honestly don't think that's too far off. The film is about a mother who desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for a horrific murder.

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⥤ Posted January 24 in Indies, To Watch, Trailers | 6 Comments

Polanski Already Working on His Next Film, God of Carnage

By Ethan Anderton

Though there's some decent buzz building after the trailer premiere for Roman Polanski's forthcoming thriller The Ghost Writer, the legendary filmmaker can't enjoy much praise as he is currently under house arrest in Switzerland. However, despite his legal entanglements and continued post-production work on The Ghost Writer, his wife, actress Emmanuelle Seigner, revealed via LA Times Culture Monster that Polanski is already hard at work on an adaptation of God of Carnage, the Tony Award winning dark comedy about two sets of parents brought together by an altercation between their respective children. Sounds interesting.

⥤ Posted January 24 in Movie News, Opinions | 7 Comments

Check These Out: Great Series of X-Ray Posters for Repo Men

By Alex Billington

In the midst of all the Sundance mayhem comes these four poster for the upcoming movie Repo Men, the "wannabe remake" of Darren Bousman's Repo! The Genetic Opera. We just featured the trailer a few weeks ago and it doesn't look that bad either, so maybe I'm being a bit harsh. But anyway, IMPAwards has posted three new posters from Repo Men that put together are part of the fourth poster. It's kind of a play on the MasterCard commercials with the price of various fake organs (which is part of the concept for this movie) and the "Total Price: $2,600,000." They actually do look pretty cool which is why I'm featuring them today.

⥤ Posted January 24 in Hype, Opinions, Posters | 15 Comments

Thomas Lennon Hints at a Third Night at the Museum Movie

By Ethan Anderton

You know that a studio like 20th Century Fox with a two film franchise like Night at the Museum that has grossed almost a billion dollars worldwide won't be leaving it out to dry. So it comes as no surprise that a third installment might be on the way as Access Hollywood caught up with franchise co-writer Thomas Lennon who hinted at the possibility of a sequel: "I think it's a really outstanding idea to do Night at the Museum 3, in fact, I wonder if someone's not even already working on a script for that." But it's not totally official. “I cannot confirm that for a fact, but I cannot deny it for a fact either. It might be in the works."

⥤ Posted January 24 in Movie News, Opinions | 9 Comments

Alex's Sundance 2010 Review: Spencer Susser's Hesher

By Alex Billington

Going into the Sundance Film Festival, Spencer Susser's film Hesher was one of my most highly anticipated films. I had seen writer/director Spencer Susser short film I Love Sarah Jane previously (watch it here) and loved it. I was hoping to discover that his first feature film was also as exceptional as that short, especially with a cast that included Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, and Rainn Wilson. Unfortunately it didn't meet my expectations. And the more I think about it, the less I like the film. The best part about it is that Gordon-Levitt is totally crazy in an awesome way and plays a character that I've never seen him play before.

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⥤ Posted January 23 in Reviews, Sundance 10 | 2 Comments

Sundance Video Review: Spike Jonze's Short Film 'I'm Here'

By Alex Billington

The first film that most people, including our own Brandon Lee Tenney, saw at Sundance this year was actually a short film on Thursday night. Included in the Shorts Program I (which featured three other good short films) was Spike Jonze's I'm Here, a 31 minute short about robot love. We ran a trailer for the film earlier this week and have been talking about it lot because it's getting great buzz. After seeing the short, Brandon recorded a video review of I'm Here with Peter Sciretta and David Chen of /Film and also Erik Davis from Cinematical. For those interested in hearing their thoughts on Spike's short, watch the video.

⥤ Posted January 23 in Sundance 10, To Watch | 1 Comment

Neil Gaiman Says 'Graveyard Book' Movie is Dead, For Now

By Ethan Anderton

After the adaptation of author Neil Gaiman's quirky fantasy adventure Stardust failed to receive proper and respectful marketing attention from Paramount, the author is no stranger to disappointment when it comes to adaptations of his award-winning books. Unfortunately the director has to feel that pain yet again as he revealed to LA Times' Hero Complex that Neil Jordan's adaptation of his Newbery Medal winning children's story The Graveyard Book can be placed in the cemetery itself as a dead project, for the time being. This bad news comes one year after the Coraline writer announced the project on The Today Show.

⥤ Posted January 23 in Movie News, Opinions | 5 Comments

2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners, Basterds Wins Big

By Ethan Anderton

Earlier tonight the star-studded 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards were broadcast live on TBS and TNT. What separates the SAG awards from the Golden Globes and the Oscars is not only its exclusivity to honoring only performers, but it's the only award show where the best performances are chosen by their fellow acting peers. And if any of you are still reeling from James Cameron's Avatar getting supreme awards action at the Golden Globes, then its exclusion from any of the SAG Awards nominations should make this the awards show for you. After the break, check out the full list of film actors who were honored tonight.

⥤ Posted January 23 in Awards News, Movie News, Opinions | 23 Comments

Floating Heads & Fog Abound on The Final Wolfman Poster

By Ethan Anderton

With all the ridiculous problems Universal's monster movie revival The Wolfman, including flip-flopping back to Danny Elfman's original score for the film, everyone here at FirstShowing is ready for the film to be released already so we can just see if it's a disaster or not. But while we're waiting for it to hit theaters next month Bloody-Disgusting gives us an obligatory look at the final poster for the film which has an infamous floating head design. While the poster is nowhere as special as Basil Gogos' painted Wolfman poster, it gives us one final ominous look at the monster himself in his usual stalking grounds of the dark woods. Check it!

⥤ Posted January 23 in Movie News, Opinions, Posters | 11 Comments

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