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Sundance 2011: Spurlock's 'Greatest Movie Ever Sold' is Fantastic

Anyone who watches TV or movies is inherently familiar with product placement. It's prevalent everywhere you go and in nearly every movie we watch, especially as marketing becomes more and more intrusive. But no one has ever tried to make a documentary about that, funded entirely with product placement, until now. Morgan Spurlock, the acclaimed documentarian behind Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden, premiered his new documentary titled The Greatest Movie Ever Sold at Sundance and damn was it awesome. Never thought I'd use the word "awesome" to describe a documentary, but this deserves it!

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⥤ Posted January 23 in Opinions, Reviews, Sundance 11 | 20 Comments

Watch: First Creepy Teaser for James Wan's New Horror 'Insidious'

By Alex Billington

"It's not the house that's haunted... it's your son." Oh yes, this is such a perfect teaser trailer to introduce all of you to the scary new story that Saw, Dead Silence & Death Sentence director James Wan has brought us in his latest creepy horror film called Insidious. This stars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne as the loving parents of, well, a possessed son, but it's so much more, including being a haunted house movie for the first half. I saw it at the Toronto Film Festival and loved it (read my full review) and now we have the first teaser trailer from ShockTillYouDrop. It's a fantastic teaser for a creepy new horror movie - so check it out below!

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⥤ Posted January 23 in Indies, Opinions, To Watch, Trailers | 9 Comments

Check Out the First Official Poster for Richard Ayoade's 'Submarine'

By Alex Billington

Looks like they're rolling out the first phase of marketing for Richard Ayoade's fantastic indie Submarine, which is also showing at the Sundance Film Festival this week. MTV (via The Playlist) just debuted the first official poster for the film, starring Craig Roberts as the kooky 15-year-old Oliver Tate, seen on the poster. I've already preached my praise for this film in my glowing 9.5/10 review from Toronto, but I'm not the only one who loved it. /Film's David Chen saw it at Sundance, saying: "The quirk of Juno, the whimsy of Gondry, the light-heartedness of Wes Anderson, the melancholy of 500 Days of Summer. I loved it!" In full below!

⥤ Posted January 23 in Hype, Indies, Opinions, Posters | 6 Comments

Sundance 2011: Video Review of Evan Glodell's Crazy 'Bellflower'

By Alex Billington

One of the first feature films we (both Ethan and I) saw at Sundance 2011 was an "apocalyptic love story" titled Bellflower, named after the street it mostly takes place on in LA. It's written, directed by, and stars, Evan Glodell, who was also responsible for building props and vehicles in the film, including a Mad Max inspired flame-spitting car and homemade flamethrower. It's a story about a guy who meets a girl and their subsequent break-up but told through an apocalyptic and visually-stylistic lens, literally meaning they used homemade cameras and old lenses. Watch a video review that Peter from /Film, Ethan & I recorded below.

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⥤ Posted January 22 in Reviews, Sundance 11, To Watch | 5 Comments

Sundance 2011: Miranda July's 'The Future' is Bleak But Charming

By Ethan Anderton

While plenty of family films have tackled the fictional thoughts and activities of cats, Miranda July uses a feline to open The Future and introduce us to Sophie & Jason, a quirky couple. A voiceover is heard over pitch black in which we learn the cat is already enamored with the couple as they found her with an injured paw on the streets and immediately took her to a vet for treatment. The cat (aptly named Paw-Paw) dreams about her new human friends as they sit on the couch across from each other with laptops situated neatly on their laps while discussing mind powers and having a crane in the apartment to get water from the kitchen.

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⥤ Posted January 22 in Opinions, Reviews, Sundance 11 | 3 Comments

Anthony Hopkins Yet Again Considering Playing Alfred Hitchcock

By Alex Billington

A few days ago we reported on the news that Anvil! The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi was in line, but not officially signed on yet, to direct the feature film Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho that's about the legendary filmmaker and the making of his seminal horror classic. It's an odd story because years ago, Anthony Hopkins was developing his own Hitchcock feature called Alfred Hitchcock Presents that he was going to star in, and it sounds like this is the same project but revamped with a new director and new title. However, Heat Vision now confirms that Hopkins is back "in talks" to play Hitchcock once again.

⥤ Posted January 22 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 11 Comments

'Kids Are All Right' Writer & Mark Ruffalo Say 'Thanks for Sharing'

By Ethan Anderton

In case you didn't notice, we're in Park City, Utah for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and last year this is where The Kids Are All Right made its debut. Now that it's awards season, Lisa Cholodenko's film is getting plenty of attention for its performances and writing. Now the film's writer, Stuart Blumberg, looks to be re-teaming with Mark Ruffalo for a new film called Thanks for Sharing. Details aren't abundant but the project would serve as Blumberg's directorial debut and follows three sex addicts in a recovery clinic together. Ruffalo will be playing one of the sex addicts, but no one is mentioned for the other two roles.

⥤ Posted January 22 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 1 Comment

Sundance 2011: Video Review of James Marsh's Doc 'Project Nim'

By Alex Billington

Our very first film of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was the newest documentary from James Marsh, the Oscar winning director of the documentary Man on Wire. It's called Project Nim and tells the story of Nim Chimpsky (seen above), the chimpanzee who in the 70's was raised from birth by humans and taught sign language as an academic experiment at Columbia University. It's a fascinating story and both thrilling and heartbreaking, so after the first screening, Ethan and I recorded a video blog with our quick thoughts on the opening night film. We recorded this last night before heading to sleep, but it's still a good quick review.

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⥤ Posted January 21 in Reviews, Sundance 11, To Watch | 4 Comments

Full Armor and Lawmaster Bike Revealed in New 'Dredd' Set Photo

By Ethan Anderton

Though the cast of this comic book adaptation has some promising talent in the form of Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey, our first photo from the set of Dredd, the new adaptation of the Judge Dredd comic book, didn't impress some. While the armor looked pretty cool, it was a low quality photo without clear visual style. Well, sadly this new photo is probably even worse quality, but it does offer our first glimpse of the entire suit of armor that Karl Urban will wear, and we also finally get to see the Dredd cruising on his lawmaster bike. Out of context, it looks kind of silly, but hopefully in the context of the film everything will click.

⥤ Posted January 21 in Hype, Opinions, Photos | 44 Comments

James Newton Howard Set to Compose the 'Green Lantern' Score

By Ethan Anderton

We've already seen the first trailer for DC Comics' adaptation of Green Lantern along with photos of other Green Lantern Corps. members like Tomar-Re, and some of you just aren't pleased. Though it may not curb your skepticism, perhaps you can at least be pleased with the news of who'll be composing the score for the summer superhero blockbuster. Film Score Reporter (via The Playlist) has confirmed that James Newton Howard, the man who has worked with Hans Zimmer on the scores for The Dark Knight and Batman Begins and most recently scored The Green Hornet, will now be behind the music of Green Lantern.

⥤ Posted January 21 in Movie News, Opinions | 13 Comments

Jeff Daniels Joining the Impressive Cast of Rian Johnson's 'Looper'

By Ethan Anderton

As if having a high concept sci-fi film directed by the man who brought us Brick and The Brothers Bloom wasn't exciting enough, director Rian Johnson went ahead and rounded up Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano and even director Shane Carruth to star in Looper. The cast is already great, but why not throw a couple more names in there just for good measure? Variety has done just that as the trade reports Jeff Daniels (The Lookout), Piper Perabo ("Covert Affairs") and Noah Segan (The Brothers Bloom) have now rounded out the cast of this promising flick, but their roles were not specified.

⥤ Posted January 21 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 5 Comments

Watch: First Official Trailer for Dito Montiel's 'The Son of No One'

By Alex Billington

From the director of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Fighting, Dito Montiel, comes another gritty New York City drama inspired by his youth in Queens called The Son of No One. The film is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival next week and MTV has the big trailer debut for it, as this should help build some buzz for the film around the premiere. Montiel pulled together an impressive cast for this: Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes. It looks like just an okay cop thriller but not much more. And I still think Montiel is the only one who can get a good performance out of Tatum.

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⥤ Posted January 21 in Indies, To Watch, Trailers | 23 Comments

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