March 2013

by David Christopher Bell First popularized by Hitchcock, Merriam-Webster defines a ‘MacGuffin’ as “an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves…

Director Antoine Fuqua first came into the public’s consciousness with Training Day, a powerhouse film that garnered Denzel Washington an Oscar and gave moviegoers a…

Coming-of-age films are often centered around something big like death or sex, but most people grow up with hurdles built on somewhat lesser obstacles. Tony…

https://medium.com/media/3fa112a7b1fa683ee4bfcb2f0061a730/href If you’ve seen Judd Apatow’s This is 40, you know that Megan Fox’s character Desi co-owns a boutique with Leslie Mann’s Debbie, and she…

Have you seen that Key and Peele sketch where the one guy is helping the other guy move and hasn’t heard of dubstep? You should,…

Was there ever really a “film festival” season? It seems you can’t go more than a few weeks without news of films premiering at another…

Briefly: Focus Features has just sent around word that Edgar Wright’s highly anticipated The World’s End, the final film in his Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy…

Between Wanted, Danny Boyle’s upcoming Trance, and Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch, James McAvoy is making a nice little cottage industry for himself out…

The Jane Got a Gun news just does not stop around here. Just a day after original director Lynne Ramsay exited the project in spectacular…