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WOLFS Review: Clooney and Pitt Renew Their Onscreen Bromance in Breezy, Disposable Action-Comedy
Closer to the end of their feted, award-winning careers than the beginning, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, longtime, if not lifelong, friends, Oscar winners (Syriana and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood …, respectively), reunite once again for writer-director Jon...
Review: SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Scratches The Superhero Itch
Heads up: This review contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. The first post-Endgame Marvel film attempts to lighten the somber mood created by that film's very heavy character work by sending Tom Holland's Spider-Man on an international school trip designed to...
Interview: SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Director Jon Watts on Batman vs. Spidey, Leaning on Iron Man and Resurrecting the Franchise
Beloved as New York’s own wall-crawler is, no one was sure they wanted another Spider-Man movie so soon after the last disappointing Spider-Man reboot. It fell to director Jon Watts to either resurrect or bury the franchise. Watts spoke with...
Hey U.S. Readers, Win Jon Watts' CLOWN on DVD
Jon Watt's Clown is coming out on DVD and Blu-ray next Tuesday thanks to Anchor Bay Entertainment. ScreenAnarchy has some DVDs to give away. Enter our giveaway and see if we can swing you copy before the release date. ...
Jon Watts' CLOWN Comes Out on Blu-ray And DVD in August
The journey for Jon Watts' Clown has been very, very long. It was filmed just over in Ottawa in 2012 after Watts made a fake trailer for the film. Then Clown premiered on the festival circuit over a year and...
CLOWN: Horror Flick From COP CAR's Jon Watt In Cinemas This June
The Eli Roth-produced horror flick Clown is coming to U.S. cinemas and on demand at Starz Digital on June 17. Clown is a story of a loving father who dons a clown outfit and makeup to perform at his son's...
The Many Faces Of Kevin Bacon
This week sees the general release of John Watts' thriller Cop Car, starring a terrifically creepy Kevin Bacon. And that immediately settled the issue of who to feature in this week's quiz. The man, the meme, the heartthrob, the villain......
Review: COP CAR, A Damn Awesome Movie
Sometimes a film's premise just sells itself. Two mischievous boys stumble upon an abandoned cop car and decide to take it for a joyride. It turns out the cop car belongs to an officer on the wrong side of the...
BAMcinemaFest 2015 Showcases Some Of The Finest American Independent Cinema
The seventh edition of BAMcinemaFest, which screens through June 28, once again brings some of the best works of American independent cinema to Brooklyn, culled from Sundance, Berlin, SXSW, Cannes, and other fests. This year's edition opened with The End of...
COP CAR: Focus World Nabs U.S. Rights For Amblin-esque Midnighter
THR reports that Focus World, the 'alternative arm' of Focus Features, bought the U.S. rights for John Watts' Sundance midnighter Cop Car. They plan to share Kevin Bacon's mustache in cinemas and on VOD simultaneously.The film has been praised for...
Sundance 2015 Review: COP CAR, A Cult Classic Waiting To Happen
Sometimes a film's premise just sells itself. Two mischievous boys stumble upon an abandoned cop car and decide to take it for a joyride. It turns out the cop car belongs to an officer on the wrong side of the...
Kevin Bacon + Uzi = 4 Stills For Sundance Midnighter COP CAR
Kevin Bacon is about to get violent when the new film from Jon Watts, Cop Car, makes its world premiere in Midnight at next month's Sundance Film Fest. It's a pretty damn simple premise: Two 10-year-old boys steal an abandoned...