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‘Afternoon Delight’ Trailer Proves That Strippers Are People Too
10 hours ago
It’s likely that you’ve been taught all your life that nothing good could come of bringing the girl who gives you lap dances home and setting her up as the nanny of your child, but the debut feature from writer/director Jill Soloway, Afternoon Delight, seems to make a case for the opposite being true. In it the hilarious Kathryn Hahn plays a housewife who is dissatisfied with her sex life—probably because her husband is played by professional drip, Josh Radnor—so she decides to make an evening trip to the local strip club in order to spice things up. While there she receives a lap dance from a troubled youth played by Juno Temple, and quite unexpectedly the two get thrust into a relationship soon after. In addition to being a comedy of manners wherein a “full-service sex worker” moves into a relatively well-adjusted home, Afternoon Delight also appears to sprinkle in quite »
- Nathan Adams
Casting Couch: Terence Stamp to Work With Tim Burton, Rosemarie Dewitt is Joining ‘Kill the Messenger,’ and More
11 hours ago
What is Casting Couch? It’s the daily column that’s back with the first load of casting news for July, and if you love the CW’s 90210, then prepare to get excited, because two of the actors mentioned are apparently on that show, which apparently still exists. Tim Burton keeps making his upcoming biopic of Margaret and Walter Keane, Big Eyes, look more and more interesting by branching outside of his usual stable of actors and bringing in more and more talented people who we’ve yet to see him work with. The latest name he’s signed up, according to a report from THR, is screen legend Terence Stamp. He’ll be joining the film as art critic John Canaday, who is said to have been openly appalled at the way Walter Keane used his wife’s work in order to con his way into art world fame. Kill »
- Nathan Adams
Latest ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Trailer Gives Us a Better Idea What’s Going On Inside Llewyn Davis
12 hours ago
The first trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen’s upcoming film about a folk singer, Inside Llewyn Davis, and the red band trailer that followed, were both good at establishing a mood, giving us a sense of the time and place in which the film is taking place, and selling us on the cast that the brothers have put together. What they didn’t much do was let us in on exactly what this Llewyn Davis was looking all melancholy about, however. As a matter of fact, they seemed to make a point about fading out right before we got to the heart of the matter. Well, now there’s a third trailer for the film, and in addition to giving us a few more laughs and featuring yet another striking song from the era, it also does more to dig into the particular problems that this Davis chap is struggling with in his day to day »
- Nathan Adams
Interview: Director Dan Scanlon Explains How He Left His Mark on ‘Monsters University’
13 hours ago
For writer/director Dan Scanlon, Monsters University does not necessarily mark his directorial debut. He wrote, directed, shot, and starring in an independent comedy called Tracy in 2009. But to compare making an independent live-action comedy to being in control of a $100-million plus budgeted animated tentpole film at Pixar — based on an existing and beloved Pixar property, no less — seems like an unfair need to do. In this context, Scanlon is the rookie. Charged with bringing characters like Mike and Sully back to the big screen, the director seemed very aware of the prestige that goes along with directing at one of the film world’s most innovative houses. Yet, as we sat down at a table just outside The Steve Jobs Building on the Pixar lot to talk about his Pixar directorial debut, the longtime storyboard artist and writer (Cars, Brave) was one other important thing: calm. If there was ever any pressure for the young »
- Neil Miller
‘The Wizard of Oz’ IMAX 3D Trailer Doesn’t Give Us Any Hint of the Upgrade
14 hours ago
There are two reasons for 3D. The first is to give a film a seemingly more realistic sense of depth, and the second is to give a film extra eye-popping spectacle. Presumably it’s the latter motivation behind the 75th anniversary re-release of The Wizard of Oz, which hits IMAX screens for one week this September (almost a full year ahead of its actual 75th birthday). The classic has of course been retrofitted for 3D, and a trailer just hit the web that surprisingly doesn’t play up the format too much. Or maybe it’s just that we can’t appreciate the heightened format via YouTube. When you see this spot in theaters (likely in front of 3D copies of both The Lone Ranger and Despicable Me 2), it’s sure to showcase the three-dimensional upgrade in each shot. I bet that’s why the trailer begins with a hallway. What »
- Christopher Campbell
Short Film: ‘The Naked Zinester’ is a Nsfw Doc That Explores Diy Sexuality
15 hours ago
Why Watch? Aaron Tsuru has gained a bit of cult fame for presenting punk-laced photography in his online Nudiezine. That link isn’t safe for work, and neither is this short documentary from Jon Nix who blends an interview with the artist and a session with (very nude) model Cherry La Voix into an experience that involves more rolling around on the floor than asking deep questions. In other words, it’s fun. Goofy, sexy fun. Tsuru comes off as a bit airy (as in, the artist isn’t totally present), but he’s disarming in a carefree way whether he’s expounding on real life flattened into a frame or dancing like a goon during his shoot. He and La Voix both share their personal passion and professional history with their respective arts, and while the entire exercise won’t cause the ground to shake, it’s delightful to see the pair take great joy in »
- Scott Beggs
Just What We Needed: A $65M O.J. Simpson Murder Thriller
16 hours ago
Hug your loved ones, reflect quietly on your life’s better moments or make peace with your God because according to The Wrap, a living human being is going to spend $65M to make a thriller out of the Nicole Brown-Simpson murder case where O.J. Simpson was acquitted due to a wardrobe malfunction. That human being is Joshua Newton, who most recently wrote and directed the not-good Iron Cross. The idea behind An American Mystery (no kidding) is to present more suspects and more information in order to shift the story into the mystery genre. No word yet on how Hercule Poirot will be involved, but Newton has already cast newcomer Charlotte Kirk (who will be seen in a small role in the Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop) as Brown-Simpson. Naturally, the project also has the backing of several former athletes and current politicians. Because, you know, why not. While I fully recognize we’ve reached such »
- Scott Beggs
Interview: William Fichtner Refused to Twirl His Mustache For ‘The Lone Ranger’
17 hours ago
William Fichtner isn’t an actor afraid to go big. Maybe that comes with the territory of being a character actor, but no one can ever accuse Fichtner of playing it safe. There are many examples, and perhaps some others better than this one, but take a moment to reflect upon the Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito comedy vehicle, What’s the Worst that Can Happen?. Not exactly a comedy classic, but, even if you only vaguely remember that movie, you definitely remember Fichtner’s performance as a flamboyant detective. It’s the kind of performance that breathes life into a scene. The same can be said for Disney’s The Lone Ranger. Bartholomew”Butch” Cavendish is a villain with a mustache itching to be twirled, but, as Fichtner put it, he refused to do any twirling of the sort. That’s right, no twirling of any kind. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t get »
- Jack Giroux
Hollywood’s Newest Half-Billion-Dollar Star: Melissa McCarthy Is Box Office Gold
18 hours ago
Well, turns out that Melissa McCarthy is bankable, and not just as an amusing bit player (though she can do that) or an Emmy-winning television actress (yup, she did that, too) or as a scene-stealing supporting actress (even though she does that, and particularly did that while also stealing puppies), but as an honest-to-goodness comedy star. Not sure about that, are you? What if we told you that McCarthy is now a half-billion-dollar star, co-starring in just five films in the past two years that have racked up more than five hundred million dollars at the domestic box office alone? McCarthy’s latest starring film, The Heat, is currently estimated to have pulled in a tidy $40m at the weekend box office, which brings McCarthy’s domestic box office haul since her breakout role in Bridesmaids to a cool $521m (including Bridesmaids, This is 40, Identity Thief, The Hangover Part III, and »
- Kate Erbland
‘Our Children’ Trailer: A Classical Tragedy for a Modern Era
19 hours ago
A regular family. One with hopes and dreams and new responsibilities. One with warmth and madness. One with a reasonable peace and an oncoming maelstrom of grief. This is Our Children from director Joachim Lafosse (Private Property). It was a favorite at Cannes, our own Daniel Walber loved it at Nyff, and now it’s getting a limited release in NYC on August 2nd. Fingers crossed that it finds a few other theaters as well. The trailer is dripping with prestige and promise, and there’s an odds on chance that it’s a name we’ll be hearing more of as we slink toward award season. Check it out for yourself: »
- Scott Beggs
10 Ridiculously Great Movies You May Have Already Missed In 2013
20 hours ago
The middle of the year brings a lot of things, but we can probably all agree that the most important of those things are lists. With that in mind, Landon Palmer and I set out to highlight ten of our favorite films of the past six months, but instead of being a straight forward list of the year’s best movies so far we chose to zero in on the great, smaller movies that may have bypassed your radar as they slipped in and out of just a handful of theaters. This factor is most obvious in the absence of Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor from Landon’s selections. The films we’ve chosen run the gamut of genres and countries of origin, but they share a sense of quality sadly missing from the majority of Hollywood films opening wide in theaters these days. (Although if you have to see a wannabe blockbuster »
- FSR Staff
3 Things You Need to Make an Impossible Movie
21 hours ago
In a time where studios are throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at movies with flash in order to make them hits, Martin Villeneuve has pulled a rabbit out of his hat for less than three. In this situation, the hat is a DVD case and the rabbit is the effects-laden sci-fi marvel of Mars et Avril. Naturally $2.3M still sounds like a lot of money for most indie filmmakers, and on the other side of the block, studios won’t be able to pay the true price that Villeneuve paid — seven years — in order to give birth to this kind of bunny. That all puts Villeneuve and his film in the middle. Not an easy place to be. While it’s played to festivals and scored a March release on iTunes and the aforementioned plastic hat, Mars et Avril is the kind of movie that deserves a lot more attention than it’s gotten — if not »
- Scott Beggs
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