What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the mysterious tribute from District 12. A coal minor’s daughter who learned to hunt in the woods outside the fence. A girl on fire. Survivalist. Star-crossed lover. Oh wait, that’s not right. It’s a nightly column dedicated to bringing you the best in stuff about movies, TV and happenings across Panem. Or something like that. We begin this evening with a shot of Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe: Retaliation. He’s got a rebooted mask for this sequel, which reboots the G.I. Joe series in a way by taking out most of the previous film’s characters and bringing in Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson instead. Good move. Now that SXSW is officially over, it’s time for our favorite part: recaps. Ours is in the works, but if you need a primer, here’s Erin McCarthy at Popular Mechanics with a list of SXSW 2012 Movies You...
- 3/20/2012
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This week on Operation Kino, we're trying to get hip with the kids these days, as three twenty-somethings review 21 Jump Street. From there we move on to a conversation inspired by 21 Jump Street star Channing Tatum, who is breaking out his pre-determined "mold" in this film, and inspires us to wonder if doing that is key to stardom these days. Before any of that, though, there's a lightning round inspired by the man-child of Jeff Who Lives At Home, and then tidbits, in which Da7e has kind words about the iPhone game Ghost Trick, Patches has even more kind words about Jeff Who Lives At Home, Katey wonders why on earth Johnny Depp wants to remake the great The Thin Man, and David checks in from the SXSW Film Festival, along with Erin McCarthy. Take a listen below and find your downloading options; for more from all of us,...
- 3/16/2012
- cinemablend.com
What a difference 13 years makes. This weekend, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace is being re-released in theaters, this time with an added third dimension, and not many seem to care. Contrast that to what happened in 1999, when the original release was caught up in a sixteen-year storm of hype. To help excavate our suppressed collective memories, Moviefone asked 13 writers -- including one who was there with George Lucas at the premiere at Skywalker Ranch -- to take us back to what we all thought was going to be a very glorious day. Kurt Loder, Movie Critic, Reason Online Who could forget their first exposure to The Phantom Menace? For a talented man, Lucas has a minimal flair for gripping dialogue ("Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo"), nifty plot devices (a galactic tax dispute?), colorful character names (Nute Gunray? Shmi Skywalker?), or, Lord knows,...
- 2/9/2012
- by Mike Ryan
- Moviefone
I met Matthew Patches (or, as he's known in the blogosphere, just "Patches" or "Sad Patches" if you're into Twitter alteregos) through Twitter from seeing hilarious tweets about him from my dear friends and colleagues Katey Rich and Erin McCarthy, who coined him as "Sad Patches" - I still don't know what that means or where it came from, but I like it. So I followed him (wise decision) and we finally met at Sundance 2011 - briefly, and on a crowded bus. I like Patches and was so happy when he agreed to try out this experiment with me.
Read more on A Whale of a Writer: Film Pundit Matthew Patches...
Read more on A Whale of a Writer: Film Pundit Matthew Patches...
- 5/10/2011
- by Chase Whale
- GordonandtheWhale
It's a short flight from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, but it was a pretty significant one for me and Matt Patches yesterday, as we got through the first leg of our trip home from Sundance and realized, wow, it really is over. Along with Erin McCarthy, who held the camera for our last video blog, we had about an hour in the Las Vegas airport before boarding our red-eye flight and waking up in Queens at dawn. Sure, we're exhausted, but since Sundance began we haven't really stopped being exhausted, so it's not so much of a difference. For our brief stopover Patches and I decided to discuss the year's Sundance awards, which you can read about in-depth here. We hadn't seen all the winners but had a few we wanted to point out in particular, in addition to a few we thought deserved more recognition. You can...
- 2/1/2011
- cinemablend.com
Yesterday was a beautiful weather day in Park City-- kinda warm, brilliantly sunny, and not nearly as crowded as it's been now that the festival is pretty much over. So for the first time Matt Patches and I made it to Main Street to record a video blog about a movie we'd seen separately in the previous few days, The Sound of My Voice. The movie only started getting buzz late in the festival, on something of a parallel track to Another Earth; both films star and were partially written by Brit Marling, an actress who started earning the title of "Sundance It Girl" as if we hadn't been saying the same thing about Elizabeth Olsen earlier in the festival. I already recorded a video blog of Another Earth with Erin McCarthy, which you can watch here; to find out what Patches and I thought of Sound of My Voice--...
- 1/30/2011
- cinemablend.com
Sometimes you have time to set up somewhere beautiful and scenic and record a video blog that captures everything worthwhile about Sundance. Otherwise you've got a few minutes to get to a party where they'll be serving the only meal you'll eat all day, and you jump on the flourescent-lit shuttle and record yourself, praying you're actually in frame. The video blog I recorded last night with special guest (and Sundance housemate) Erin McCarthy was the latter, as we were on our way from the press screening for Another Earth to a party celebrating Canadian talent at the festival (and no, that's not a euphemism). Erin, who works for Popular Mechanics, was seeing it for the sci-fi elements, though she warned me ahead of time that the low-budget film was far more a character drama than space adventure. Set an alternate version of the present where we've discovered a planet...
- 1/25/2011
- cinemablend.com
There are few movies that fill me with so much discomfort that I can’t wait to leave the theater, even while I’m watching them. Martha Marcy May Marlene, which premiered yesterday at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is one of those films, a portrait of cult brainwashing that is so discomfiting, I would have walked out if I wasn’t so transfixed by the tremendous filmmaking on display. Hit the jump for some more thoughts on the film, including a video blog I recorded with over half a dozen movie writers. Martha Marcy May Marlene tells the story of Martha (Elizabeth Olsen), a woman who escapes from a cult in rural New York and tries to reintegrate into a normal life with her sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson). Lucy brings Martha to her Connecticut vacation home, where she and her husband Adam (Hugh Dancy) are trying to enjoy a few...
- 1/22/2011
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
You may have heard by now, but rumors are swirling around the Internet that Joseph Gordon-Levitt may appear in Christopher Nolan's Batman 3 (and if you're on top of things, you know we wouldn't be surprised to hear the news at Comic-Con). To this idea I say: no thanks.
And it's not Jgl's fault. He's a great actor who can play anything: dark (Mysterious Skin), weird (Brick), charming (500 Days of Summer) and funny (G.I. Joe!), but this gripe isn't about who will play The Riddler - it's about including The Riddler in the first place.
I know, I shouldn't doubt the creative minds of Nolan, his brother Jonah and David Goyer to come up with some kick-ass way to include The Riddler into the gritty, realistic world they've created for the caped crusader. I'm sure I'd walk out of a Riddler vs. Batman movie giddy with fanboy glee.
And it's not Jgl's fault. He's a great actor who can play anything: dark (Mysterious Skin), weird (Brick), charming (500 Days of Summer) and funny (G.I. Joe!), but this gripe isn't about who will play The Riddler - it's about including The Riddler in the first place.
I know, I shouldn't doubt the creative minds of Nolan, his brother Jonah and David Goyer to come up with some kick-ass way to include The Riddler into the gritty, realistic world they've created for the caped crusader. I'm sure I'd walk out of a Riddler vs. Batman movie giddy with fanboy glee.
- 6/10/2010
- UGO Movies
Lisa Starry’s horror ballet A Vampire Tale, tersely touted as “the Nutcracker of Halloween”, will play October 21 through November 7 2009, at Phoenix Theatre's Little Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona USA, as well as at the Vampire Film Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 25 & 26.
Also at the Vampire Film Fest is The Vampire Novelist Panel – moderated by Sue Dent and featuring best-selling author Erin McCarthy and Louisiana’s own, Nicole Peeler. These established and debut novelists will be happy to detail what it's like to be a part of the astoundingly popular world of vampire and shape-shifter fiction.
Also at the Vampire Film Fest is The Vampire Novelist Panel – moderated by Sue Dent and featuring best-selling author Erin McCarthy and Louisiana’s own, Nicole Peeler. These established and debut novelists will be happy to detail what it's like to be a part of the astoundingly popular world of vampire and shape-shifter fiction.
- 9/30/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
If you don’t want to say goodbye to summer just yet, go see “Star Trek” again on the big screen this weekend. Actually, see it on the bigger screen. The franchise reboot is returning to IMAX this Friday for another two weeks, making up for the shorter-than-usual IMAX release the blockbuster received back in May.
Of course, your desire to see “Star Trek” in IMAX may bring back memories of this summer’s controversy surrounding IMAX screen size. Thanks to comedian Aziz Ansari, we’ll always be dubious of IMAX theaters and whether or not they feature “real” IMAX or just screens that are only slightly bigger than normal movie screens.
Well, just in time for you to consider revisiting Captain Kirk and the rest, Popular Mechanics' Erin McCarthy has an interview with Brian Bonnick, IMAX’s senior executive vice president of technology, and he has a new defense for his company’s inconsistency.
Of course, your desire to see “Star Trek” in IMAX may bring back memories of this summer’s controversy surrounding IMAX screen size. Thanks to comedian Aziz Ansari, we’ll always be dubious of IMAX theaters and whether or not they feature “real” IMAX or just screens that are only slightly bigger than normal movie screens.
Well, just in time for you to consider revisiting Captain Kirk and the rest, Popular Mechanics' Erin McCarthy has an interview with Brian Bonnick, IMAX’s senior executive vice president of technology, and he has a new defense for his company’s inconsistency.
- 9/2/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
IMAX has become a hotbed for controversy and exploration over the past few months; whether it be Aziz Ansari's blog post about "fake IMAX screens" and the outrage that spawned, or the rumor that Christopher Nolan wants to shoot the next installment of his Batman trilogy entirely in IMAX, the format appears to be constantly undulating between excitement and disappointment. Amidst this opposition, Erin McCarthy of Popular Mechanics spoke with Brian Bonnick, Senior Executive Vice President of Technology at IMAX, about just what's next for IMAX and how they're planning on quelling the negativity. Read on for more! In short, Bonnick's position, like that of IMAX's at large, is unwavering in the belief that there's not been any wrong-doing. Here's an excerpt from his response when asked what he would say "to people who think they're not getting a real IMAX experience because they're not watching their movie on a huge,...
- 9/2/2009
- by Brandon Lee Tenney
- firstshowing.net
• Dimension Extreme and Genius Products have issued cover art for Dorothy Mills, the evil-girl chiller they’re releasing February 10. And Paramount Home Entertainment released cover art and details for the Tales From The Darkside: The First Season boxed set, coming the same day, that we first reported on here.
Dorothy Mills, in which a psychiatrist travels to an island off the coast of Ireland to investigate the case of a teen who has tried to kill a baby and discovers the dark secrets surrounding her, is presented in widescreen with Dolby Digitial 5.1 sound and comes with a making-of documentary; retail price is $19.99. Darkside, a three-disc package with 24 episodes in fullscreen and mono sound, plus audio commentary by George A. Romero on the “Trick or Treat” pilot episode, retails for $39.99.
• Anchor Bay Entertainment has set a Feb. 24 DVDebut date for Walled In. Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s story of a young engineer...
Dorothy Mills, in which a psychiatrist travels to an island off the coast of Ireland to investigate the case of a teen who has tried to kill a baby and discovers the dark secrets surrounding her, is presented in widescreen with Dolby Digitial 5.1 sound and comes with a making-of documentary; retail price is $19.99. Darkside, a three-disc package with 24 episodes in fullscreen and mono sound, plus audio commentary by George A. Romero on the “Trick or Treat” pilot episode, retails for $39.99.
• Anchor Bay Entertainment has set a Feb. 24 DVDebut date for Walled In. Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s story of a young engineer...
- 12/3/2008
- Fangoria
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