The end of the year is upon us. So to is the end of our annual Year in Review, which ends today. Just as 2014 has zipped by, so too has our review of the best, worst and everything in between. We’ve analyzed everything from the biggest disappointments to the best horror movies to the older movies we discovered for the first time. If you’ve been reading all week, you’re probably a little exhausted. Don’t worry though, we’ve got a little more to share. As we’ve done every year since 2009, we’ve asked all of our regular contributors (“the staff”) to each provide a list of the 5 best films they saw during the year. They’ve all written little explanations for their choices and we’ve even put together a staff Top Ten. You know, because we can’t resist the urge to turn one list into another list. To...
- 12/19/2014
- by FSR Staff
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
“For me, you just keep going. You keep trying to do original things. You want to break expectations. With Noah, I wanted to break expectations of what a Biblical epic was, because no one has done one in 50 years.”
It was Tuesday morning in Mexico City and myself and three other journalists (Peter Sciretta from /Film, Alex Billington from First Showing, and Nathan Adams from Temple of Reviews) were meeting with Darren Aronofsky at the St. Regis Hotel. We had just seen the director’s latest film, Noah (which we reviewed very positively), the night before and were now sitting down with him for brunch.
It’s only been in recent years that Aronofsky has emerged from his private life and into the public sphere. For most of his career, the visionary director has shied away from press and opted to stay out of the spotlight.
“For a while you were known as this mysterious,...
It was Tuesday morning in Mexico City and myself and three other journalists (Peter Sciretta from /Film, Alex Billington from First Showing, and Nathan Adams from Temple of Reviews) were meeting with Darren Aronofsky at the St. Regis Hotel. We had just seen the director’s latest film, Noah (which we reviewed very positively), the night before and were now sitting down with him for brunch.
It’s only been in recent years that Aronofsky has emerged from his private life and into the public sphere. For most of his career, the visionary director has shied away from press and opted to stay out of the spotlight.
“For a while you were known as this mysterious,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
The reviews are trickling in on “Noah,” director Darron Aronofsky’s Biblical epic adventure starring Russell Crowe in the title role, and the critics, so far, are suitably impressed. “Aronofky Goes Big and Bleak,” reads the headline on the Film School Rejects website. “A lot of Noah is so dark that you wonder how a big studio let a director get away with making it, and it’s not just specific moments I’m talking about here,” writes reviewer Nathan Adams. “There’s a tension that runs through the whole film about who you should be rooting for, or it it’s even possible to root for anyone in this situation. Noah goes to such dark places over the course of the movie that it’s impossible to keep relating to him as a protagonist (sometimes to the point of comedy, intentional or otherwise) ,and it becomes necessary for the...
- 3/21/2014
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
At long last, director Darren Aronofsky has revealed his biblical epic, Noah to the world. Premiering in Mexico City last night, Aronofsky along with several members of the cast (Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth and Jennifer Connelly) stopped by the Pepsi Centre to walk the red (well, it was actually blue) carpet and introduce their film.
Of course, full reviews are under embargo until release day, but several outlets (including We Got This Covered) were lucky enough to be in attendance at the premiere and now, a couple of reactions have hit the web.
You can check out a few select quotes below:
Despite being a bit uneven and too long, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is still a powerful experience with some stunning scenes #Noah #NoahMovie
— We Got This Covered (@wgtc_site) March 11, 2014
Noah is a divisive film (not from a religious perspective), akin to The Fountain, will have its fans & haters.
Of course, full reviews are under embargo until release day, but several outlets (including We Got This Covered) were lucky enough to be in attendance at the premiere and now, a couple of reactions have hit the web.
You can check out a few select quotes below:
Despite being a bit uneven and too long, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is still a powerful experience with some stunning scenes #Noah #NoahMovie
— We Got This Covered (@wgtc_site) March 11, 2014
Noah is a divisive film (not from a religious perspective), akin to The Fountain, will have its fans & haters.
- 3/11/2014
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
It’s weirdly easy to forget, but Neal and Dell make it home at the end of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The film is so much about the journey that it always strikes me funny to remember that they end up in that foyer with 90s sweaters and love surrounding them. For Neal, it’s about returning to his kingdom, and for Dell, it’s about finding a new place to settle into. Leave it to John Hughes, there’s a powerful message delivered when Steven Martin jumps off that train to find John Candy sitting alone in the station. It might be the birth of the bromance, but that’s for a different article. Obviouly PTandA is one of only a couple dozen Thanksgiving-themed movies (Rocky totally counts, right?), so it’s a nice annual touchstone for the lengths we go to in order to be in the same turkey-centric room with the people we love...
- 11/28/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
“The Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints, a team of blasphemous ministers who live in a constant state of debauchery, work to drag the worst of demons back to Hell.” Hellbenders, which stars the likes of Clifton Collins Jr., Clancy Brown and Bubbles from The Wire (Andre Royo), seems like the exact sort of just right release for the October VOD season. While attending the midnight selection at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival, our own Nathan Adams said that Hellbenders “ends the reign of generic exorcism movies by injecting some raunchy jokes and sickening gore into its proceedings. No movie with a sex rabbit could be bad, could it?” No, my dear Nathan, it couldn’t. So with Hellbenders set for a VOD release this weekend, we’ve arranged a little taste of the foul-mouthed priests hunting demons-palooza for you, our ever-discerning and passionate readers. In the clip below, you’ll see as this Order of Hellbound Saints...
- 10/18/2013
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In case you haven’t heard, Lars von Trier‘s new film Nymphomaniac is about sex. What, the title didn’t give it away? The film made infamous by Shia Labeouf‘s claims that he’s *stage whispers* actually having sex on camera, has been rolling along steadily on the Nsfw path since von Trier announced the project. And with these fourteen positively orgasmic character posters just released, it doesn’t seem like that will be stopping any time soon. Nyphomaniac centers on Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-diagnosed nympho who decides to tell the illustrious tale of her entire sexual history to a man (Stellan Skarsgard) who helps her after she is left beaten in an alley. The posters feature both characters and the film’s other main players in the throes of ecstasy, hair flying and faces screwed up in what’s either passion or a seizure in the case of Udo Kier. Then...
- 10/10/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
When it comes to horror, it feels like no subgenre is replicated most than the exorcism. And why shouldn’t it? Watching possession play out on film is a great and gruesome way to make make your audience cringe. After the fiftieth or so time you sit down to watch a nice normal girl’s life get ruined by Satan, though, it starts to get a little stale. But the sinning and swearing members of the Order of the Hellbound Saints from J.T. Petty‘s Hellbenders have arrived to spin that premise on its head (sorry). The blasphemous men (and woman) of God are a special force that, rather than waiting for exorcism cases to appear, live as sinfully as possible to bring the demons to them first so that they can battle it out and send them back to hell. It’s dealing with the problem directly at its source. True...
- 9/20/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Teens with a book report due pretty soon and Dickensian fans unite and rejoice, for Mike Newell‘s Great Expectations is finally seeing its U.S. release date. The trailer for the costume drama looks every bit like the dreary world Charles Dickens lays out for you in page one of his classic novel, with some much needed color provided by Helena Bonham Carter‘s Miss Havisham – truly the role she was born to play. For those who had to read “Jane Eyre” instead during their study groups, Great Expectations is the story of an orphan named Pip (Jeremy Irvine) who befriends an eccentric dowager named Miss Havisham (Bonham Carter) and falls in love with her beautiful ward Estella (Holliday Grainger); but since Havisham was betrayed by her love long ago (the tattered wedding gown any indication?), she’s trained Estella to hate men and destroy even cuties like young Pip. It...
- 9/18/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
After a puzzling teaser trailer left us scratching our heads and a first full-length trailer that gave us few details as to the film’s actual plot, the new trailer for Ridley Scott‘s The Counselor is offering the most cohesive look at the film so far. From previous material, we know that Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt have ridiculous costumes, Cameron Diaz writhes around on top of a car, and Michael Fassbender is in way, way over his head after making a massive drug deal. This time, we have a lot more to work with, plot-wise. Fassbender, as the eponymous counselor (or Counsellor, as the international trailer calls it), has grown accustomed to a lavish lifestyle with his fiancée, played by Penelope Cruz. But when legal work can’t keep it up, he turns to Bardem on the other side of the border to help him get into the drug business for some quick, hard...
- 8/20/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In honor of the release of The Internship being the largest release upon the masses this weekend, we’ve got it in our heads that we should talk about the film’s biggest star, arguably Vince Vaughn, and try to settle the question of his best performance. Known mostly for more recent comedic work in things like Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, Old School and the like, the Minneapolis, Mn native has had a fairly long and interesting career. From his early work in television (he once had a guest roles on Doogie Howser, M.D. and 21 Jump Street) to his breakout performance in Swingers, he’s been around for a while and he’s done more than just speak jokes written by Adam McKay. With that in mind, we put the entirety of our career to our panel of writers, asking simply: what is Vince Vaughn’s best performance to date. Their...
- 6/7/2013
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
What is Casting Couch? Today it’s Associate Editor Kate Erbland, filling in for the intrepid Nathan Adams as he enjoys vacation. Also, it’s about casting. Also, there’s not much going on today in Casting Land. Also, it’s Friday. Let’s all relax together. Looks like Brad Anderson‘s Eliza Graves is getting increasingly more British-y. The film, based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story, already has Kate Beckinsale attached to star, and now Deadline reports that Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, and Jim Sturgess have also joined the cast. This one centers on a mental hospital that gives new meaning to the saying “the inmates are running the asylum.” Spooky and such. No word on who is playing who, but we’re willing to bet the pivotal role of the handsome new doctor in town belongs to Sturgess. Wally Pfister‘s upcoming Transcendence just keeps getting better, as...
- 4/13/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
For this year’s April Fools’ gag we wanted to challenge you, dear reader, to a Where’s Waldo of movie references. Our resident webcomic artist Derek Bacon obliged with a view into our day-to-day operations at Fsr HQ where 39 movie references were scattered around between all the scenes of hard work. With a $50 Fandango Gift Card on the line, we had close to 400 entries (via email and Facebook) and we’re pleased to announce Sheri Young of Boston, Mass as our big winner. You can still check out the full image to challenge yourself, but beyond the jump is our handy guide to all the (intentional) movie references we made: Click to Largify Loki’s mask from The Mask Captain America’s shield Everyone’s friend, Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey Michael “Awesome” Bay The Maltese Falcon from, yes, The Maltese Falcon Marty’s Hoverboard from the Back to the Future movies Weekend Editor Christopher Campbell...
- 4/10/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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