It’s time for us to officially get excited for this year’s SXSW film festival. We’ll be heading down March 10th and will have writers down in Austin for the duration of the festival. The first few nights of the festival always feature some great premieres, and this year is no exception. The opening night...
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When Emily Giffin’s chick-lit novel Something Borrowed came out in 2004, every woman I knew was reading it, myself included. We thrust copies of the book on our uninitiated friends, declaring “You MUST read this.” Something borrowed tells the tale of Rachel, who has one too many drinks one night and sleeps with her...
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Lots of exciting news is coming out of Austin as the town braces for the SXSW Film, Interactive, and Music festivals. The official midnight movies have been announced, and they are sure to offer up some of the usual scares and surprises. Midnighters Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls...
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A couple of weeks ago, I named The Company Men on my top 10 films of 2010 list. The movie tracks a handful of employees at a large company, and follows their stories through the economic downturn. It’s an amazing film (full review will run on Friday) that captures all the anguish, anger, and...
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I like dance movies. I prefer my dance movies to be blatantly, unabashedly stupid and I am happiest when such a film features a dance-off of sorts. I recently saw Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and I feel like I had reasonable expectations going into it. I knew it would be beautifully shot. I suspected that the storyline would...
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I was surprised at how much trouble I had narrowing down my top ten movies this year. My top 20 were all very close, but here are the movies that I ultimately enjoyed the most. I readily admit that I did not see near as many foreign films as I would have liked, but...
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I have a caveat. It’s nearly impossible for me to write about Tron Legacy (directed by Joseph Kosinski) without the veil of nostalgia clouding my eyes. I was nine years old when the original Tron came out and a few years later my brother watched it on constant rotation at our house. I have...
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Update: This contest is now closed. Win passes for you and a guest to see an advanced screening of the upcoming movie Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Trader. The film is the third in the Narnia series. Starring Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, and Georgie Henley. Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to...
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Hatchet 2 debuts on Video On Demand today Back in October, Hatchet 2 made history as being the first film to be released by a major movie theater chain (AMC) with no rating. Horror aficionados hailed the decision as breakthrough, now a horror movie could be seen as the director originally intended. Their praise...
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After the Twilight books were derided for being poorly written and too full of teen angst, people quietly starting devouring an alternative: Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy. Although the series is technically geared toward the same age group (teenagers), The Hunger Games is infinitely more dark and disturbing. In fact, after I finished...
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