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Movie News After Dark: Argo, Johnny Carson, William Friedkin, Mockingjay and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that brings you only the most excellent links, news items, art and moving images from around the web. It’s also glad to be back in the...
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Fantastic New ‘Jack Reacher’ Trailer Reveals an Evil Werner Herzog and Tom...
Lee Child has published seventeen novels with lead character Jack Reacher, and this December one of them will finally be hitting the big screen. Reacher was a military policeman once upon a time, but...
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Casting Couch: Nic Cage Is ‘Expendable,’ Kristen Stewart Is Eyeballing Ben...
What is Casting Couch? It’s your Monday look at all of the great work casting agents and PR people did over the weekend to keep those Hollywood gears turning. UPDATED: We dreamed too soon, kids. It...
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Short Starts: Watch Werner Herzog’s Very First Film in Honor of ‘Jack Reacher’
I think it’s pretty safe to say that the most exciting thing about Tom Cruise‘s new action flick, Jack Reacher, is Werner Herzog. The legendary German director does act, occasionally, but playing a...
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Review: ‘Jack Reacher’ Is What You Want for Christmas
Christopher McQuarrie has been trusted for quality ever since his screenwriting debut with The Usual Suspects. It’s an intriguing movie, not only because of the twist we all know, but it’s made even...
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Exclusive Poster Premiere: Werner Herzog Chronicles, Of All Things, ‘Happy...
It’s not often that filmmaker Werner Herzog completes a project that actually includes the word “happy” in even its synopsis, let alone its title, but there’s apparently a first time for everything...
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‘Happy People’ Trailer Sends Werner Herzog to Siberia to Bring Us Back Some...
After spending time the jungle to film Fitzcarraldo, legendary director Werner Herzog came away from the experience with the unique perspective that instead of being a landscape that represents life...
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Watch Werner Herzog Eat His Shoe in Honor of Les Blank (1935-2013)
Filmmaker Les Blank died today at age 77 from bladder cancer. He is best known for directing Burden of Dreams, a feature film on the making of Werner Herzog‘s Fitzcarraldo. Roger Ebert, who we lost to...
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‘The Act of Killing’ Trailer May Change the Way You Think About Onscreen Death
At the heart of Joshua Oppenheimer’s new documentary, The Act of Killing, is an interesting experiment. The general conceit is that he’s contacting mass murderers who are living in a culture that...
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Short Film: Take a Cardboard Trip Up Herzog’s Amazon with ‘Fitzcardboardaldo’...
Why Watch? You may think you know Fitzcarraldo, but just you wait. New York-based animator Robin Frohardt, inspired by the legendary difficulties that plagued the production of Werner Herzog‘s...
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Short Film: Werner Herzog Scares Drivers Straight with ‘From One Second To...
Why Watch? While some documentaries tug at your heartstrings, Werner Herzog rented a truck with a Hemi engine to do the pulling here. The anti-texting-while-driving movie starts off with a hammer to...
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‘Queen of the Desert’ Will Trade You a Naomi Watts For a Nicole Kidman
We’ve been hearing about Werner Herzog’s Gertrude Bell biopic, Queen of the Desert, for quite a while now. Not only is it an enticing project because it’s going to see a crazy man like Herzog taking a...
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Errol Morris
In 1988, a documentary about a man in Texas convicted of a murder he did not commit made it to the top of numerous critics’ best-of lists, became one of the most widely-seen non-fiction films of its...
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10 Unlikely Halloween Costumes Based on Recent Movies
Welcome to my 6th annual list of halloween costume ideas. These are mostly original, yet also mostly unlikely suggestions. One thing a lot of them have in common is the fact that you’ll need to...
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Who Should Win a Nobel Prize in Cinema?
There is no Nobel Prize for Cinema, but there should be. Not that it’s anyone’s fault, of course. Alfred Nobel put aside the funding for the five prizes (Medicine, Peace, Physics, Chemistry and...
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Werner Herzog Made a Student Film, This Year’s Festival Probably Sold Out
Though we may be film school rejects, one person who definitely didn’t get turned away at admissions when he signed up for classes was Werner Herzog. The director has been an artist in residence at...
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22 Things We Learned From ‘The Act of Killing’ Commentary
The Act of Killing is a fascinating piece of cinema that illuminates not only a tragic and disturbing slice of history but also the humanity behind it all. The term is usually used in a positive...
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Will High-Profile Documentary Miniseries Be The Best Nonfiction “Films” Of...
Yesterday, Landon wrote about how serial television, particularly miniseries and ongoing shows working with closed season-long narratives and involving the prestigious talent of great film directors,...
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12 Must-See Films About Environmental Disasters
First Run Features With Earth Day coming up next week, it’s the time of year to highlight documentaries dealing with our planet and its well-being. In other words, we’ve got environmentalism films to...
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16 Werner Herzog Films Find a Home with Fandor! Also, What’s Fandor?
Shout! Factory Werner Herzog is no stranger to film fans, but it’s possible that Fandor is. If like me you’re a fan of the former yet blindly unaware of the latter then this news may be very welcome...
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Earth Day Documentaries: The 7 Best Films About Our Planet
IMAX Earth Day was set up in conjunction with the growing environmental movement, and after 44 years that remains the main purpose of the occasion. But we can also think of this day as a time to...
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Bored of Netflix’s Offerings? Check Out Two Great Places to Stream Great...
Oscilloscope Pictures People often ask me where to find great documentaries outside of Netflix. Of course they mean easily and for free. Obviously there are tons of great nonfiction films not found in...
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Required Reading: Essential Documentaries and Funny Superheroes
VUFKU The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “The 100 Most Necessary Documentaries to Stream on Netflix...
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See New Movies By Adam McKay, Catherine Hardwicke and More For Free in a...
Vulvan Productions Going to the movies is expensive, and in this economy there’s less incentive than usual to make it to the multiplex just for a couple hours of entertainment, especially when so much...
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Werner Herzog is Making a Volcano Disaster Movie Called Salt and Fire
Paramount Pictures Corporation Reviews out of Berlin for Werner Herzog‘s latest, the Gertrude Bell biopic Queen of the Desert, are extremely disappointing (as of this writing, the Naomi Watts and...
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