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Review: CHARLIE'S ANGELS, Refashioning What Action Means

Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska star in the action-adventure, directed by Elizabeth Banks.

Destroy All Monsters: Myths Evolve Because We Need Them To, And Other Things I Learned From LOGAN

Spoilers for Logan. With Logan, the modern comic book movie finally enters its revisionist phase. The film is the conclusion of a cycle: not just of a phase of Hugh Jackman's career and of the X-Men movies in general, but...

Review: LOGAN, Superheroes Aren't Just for Kids Anymore

Tough, tense, thoughtful, and terrific, Logan is truly the first superhero movie for adults, not for kids or arrested adolescents. Granted, it's best for adults who have a tolerance for bloody, vicious violence. One of the characters claims the violence...

Gamera Obscura: GREEN ROOM, the Definitive Film on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Let me start by being perfectly clear about something: Green Room is wonderful and powerful in so many ways and on so many levels, that it hardly requires the following topical tie-in to provide a reason to appreciate it. But if you’re...

Interview: Anton Yelchin on GREEN ROOM, STAR TREK, Hardcore Punk & Softcore Porn

Getting to interview filmmakers and actors can sometimes be quite a thrill, sometimes a surprising dud. The fluctuation in quality is sometimes disheartening, when people you’d like to think of in glowing terms give pat answers honed by years of...

The Many Faces Of Patrick Stewart

This week, Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room premieres wide, and is getting rave reviews (like the one by our Ryland Aldrich). And it stars the great, GREAT Patrick Stewart as the evil leader of a right-wing organization. Which settles who we...

Review: GREEN ROOM, Awesome, Smart, Assured And Clever

Some gigs really aren't worth taking. That's a maxim that the members of broke touring punk band Ain't Rights probably haven't heard of and certainly aren't going to adhere to when they get offered $350 to play a backwater skinhead...

GREEN ROOM: Second Trailer For Saulnier's Punk Rock Thriller Arrives

Following a lengthy - and enormously successful - festival run, Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room is surely one of the most anticipated releases of the coming months. And while the general public will still need to wait until May for its...

GREEN ROOM: Watch The Bad Ass Red Band Trailer For Saulnier's Latest

Wrong place. Wrong time. Great fucking movie. That's basically what you need to know about Jeremy Saulnier's follow up to the acclaimed Blue Ruin with the equally acclaimed Green Room, in which a group of punk kids end up in...

GREEN ROOM: Watch The UK Teaser For Saulnier's Fabulous Latest Effort Now

Is it hyperbole to refer to director Jeremy Saulnier as the current darling of the American indie scene? After making his well received but relatively minor debut with horror comedy Murder Party the cinematographer turned director positively exploded internationally with...

Cannes 2015 Review: GREEN ROOM Doesn't Pull A Single Punch

Some gigs really aren't worth taking. That's a maxim that the members of broke touring punk band Ain't Rights probably haven't heard of and certainly aren't going to adhere to when they get offered $350 to play a backwater skinhead...

GREEN ROOM: Watch The Exclusive First Clip From BLUE RUIN Director's Next

How do you follow a film that many have acclaimed as a masterpiece? Well, if you're Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier you gun to do it with another one. Cue up 2015 Cannes selection Green Room, Saulnier's third feature soon...

GREEN ROOM: Check Out Patrick Stewart In First Look At Saulnier's Latest

Things are well under way on Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier's upcoming Green Room and star Patrick Stewart has done fans hungry for a taste a little favor by tweeting out the first official image from the film in which...

Patrick Stewart Joins Jeremy Saulnier's THE GREEN ROOM As White Supremacist

So, how do you follow up on of the more acclaimed indies of recent years? Very stealthily, apparently, and with a fantastic cast.Blue Ruin writer-director Jeremy Saulnier is already well into principal photography on follow up The Green Room and...

Review: LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY'S RETURN Is A Trip Worth Taking

In a period of perpetual celebration of the 75th anniversary of MGM's The Wizard of Oz -- including a glossy theatrical re-release, Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful, and a tribute at the Academy Awards -- an independently produced animated sequel...

Patrick Stewart Returns To The Big Screen In The Trailer For HUNTING ELEPHANTS

You might have noticed that it's been a very long while since we've seen Patrick Stewart's presence on the big screen. It's been several years in fact, during which his voice did most of the acting, from video games and...