Gael García Bernal Lands Lead Role In Jon Stewart's Film Rosewater

By Benjamin Hurston at 2:00 PM on May 24, 2013

The film is based off of Bahari's 2011 memoir, Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, and it will chronicle the harsh interrogations that the journalist experienced during his time behind bars. Filming is expected to take place this summer, with Stewart leaving The Daily Show in early June.  read more

Amanda Seyfried to Star in Upcoming Noah Baumbach Comedy While We're Young

By Lori Keong at 10:00 AM on May 24, 2013

On the heels of the Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig collaboration Frances Ha that just hit theaters, new details have emerged on While We’re Young, a new Ben Stiller comedy that Baumbach directed. According to a report from the Wrap, Amanda Seyfried will join a cast that includes Adam Driver and Naomi Watts....  read more

Only God Forgives (2013 Cannes review)

By Tim Grierson at 5:34 PM on May 23, 2013

The beauty of every frame of Only God Forgives—the striking compositions, the vivid colors—is so exceptional that it mostly offsets the questionable creative decisions that go on within that frame. Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s follow-up film to Drive is even bolder in its design, mixing his trademark violence with an almost austere, dreamlike quality that positions this revenge thriller as something of a revenge tone poem. The characters never become more than well-positioned furniture in those frames, but the movie’s quite gorgeous in its own limited way....  read more

Before Midnight

By Jeremy Mathews at 2:50 PM on May 23, 2013

Before Midnight caps off one of the most compelling, emotionally satisfying trilogies ever filmed.  read more

Black Rock

By Annlee Ellingson at 2:27 PM on May 23, 2013

The ladies in Black Rock are supposed to be annoying. That’s the only conclusion one can draw from their incessant whining, catfighting and drunk flirting. Abby (director Katie Aselton, who came up with the story with husband Mark Duplass) is especially guilty, but her childhood BFFs Lou (Lake Bell), whose indiscretion with Abby’s boyfriend years ago is still a sore point between them, and Sarah (Kate Bosworth), who hopes to make peace with a private camping trip on an uninhabited rocky island off the coast of Maine, don’t come off much better....  read more

Sarah Prefers to Run (2013 Cannes review)

By Tim Grierson at 2:07 PM on May 23, 2013

In the 1980s, Nike did a promotional campaign for their jogging shoes called “There Is No Finish Line.” The idea behind the campaign was that, for the serious runner, the process of going out every day to jog wasn’t about trophies—it was about the euphoric, perhaps even spiritual experience of leaving everything else in your life behind and just being in tune with the feeling of your body cutting through the air. That tag line might have just been a way for Nike to sell more shoes, but for the heroine of Sarah Prefers to Run, that philosophy is gospel....  read more

Watch Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis in the We're the Millers Trailer

By Rachel Haas at 2:00 PM on May 23, 2013

New Line's latest comedic creation is the story of a small-time drug dealer (Sudeikis) who is hired to smuggle a "smidge" of pot across the border from Mexico into the U.S. and creates a made-up family to try and fake out border patrol. He enlists a stripper, Rose, as his wife (Aniston), and a neighbor boy (Will Poulter) and homeless teen (Emma Roberts) as his two children. The movie also stars Ed Helms and Nick Offerman, and is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball).   read more

Watch a Trailer for the Springsteen & I Documentary

By Grant Golden at 12:20 PM on May 23, 2013

Springsteen & I is an upcoming documentary, inspired by Youtube's Life In A Day project, in which fan submitted photos and videos are compiled to create a comprehensive snapshot of the beautiful connection between individuals and music.  read more

Bastards (2013 Cannes review)

By Tim Grierson at 12:18 PM on May 23, 2013

Filmmaker Claire Denis didn’t name her new movie Bastards glibly. It’s hard to remember a film in recent times that’s been populated with so many disreputable, miserable or simply unpleasant characters. You’ll never quite warm up to any of them, but if you get on this neo-noir’s wavelength, you may find yourself loving them anyway. They’re bastards, all right, but they’re bastards through and through....  read more

Behind the Candelabra (2013 Cannes review)

By Tim Grierson at 11:59 AM on May 23, 2013

At first blush, the main draw of Behind the Candelabra would seem to be its camp appeal: a true-life love story between a humble aspiring veterinarian and Liberace, that icon of kitsch and knowing excess. And while that element exists in director Steven Soderbergh’s film, what resonates more strongly is the difficulty in falling in love with someone famous. That person may love you back sincerely, but fame always gets in the way. That’s not a particularly revelatory idea, but Soderbergh and his cast at least find a lively way to say it one more time....  read more

Linklater Hoping to Shoot Dazed and Confused Sequel This Fall

By Patrick Filbin at 11:30 AM on May 23, 2013

The director hinted at the news in his Reddit AMA.  read more

eOne Films Acquires Distribution for Princess Diana Biopic

By Lori Keong at 11:30 AM on May 23, 2013

This year has been a busy one for Australian actress Naomi Watts, but even after wrapping up four films that open this year, she’s now at the Cannes Film Festival to promote her latest role as the late Princess Di in the biopic Diana....  read more

A Touch of Sin (2013 Cannes review)

By Tim Grierson at 10:47 AM on May 23, 2013

The latest film from Chinese director Jia Zhangke would appear to be a departure from his previous acclaimed work. But on closer inspection, his particular cinematic DNA has been perfectly preserved. It’s just that, this time, there’s a lot more bloodshed than we’ve come to expect from him....  read more

Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt Added to Spike Jonze Sci-Fi Film Her

By Lori Keong at 12:15 PM on May 22, 2013

Though information on the latest Spike Jonze flick Her—a sci-fi romance—has been under tight wraps for a while, new details were recently released by Warner Brothers Pictures, announcing Scarlett Johansson and Chris Pratt’s addition to an already well-rounded cast and setting an opening date for Nov. 20....  read more

Watch the Full Trailer for The World's End

By Grant Golden at 11:00 AM on May 22, 2013

At last we can revel in the glory of the final "Three Flavours Cornetto" film series—Well not quite yet, but at least we have a trailer. The British comedic trio of Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg have returned for a final take on the fast-paced dystopian comedies that propelled them to stardom.  read more

New Details Emerge About Poltergeist Remake

By Benjamin Hurston at 11:00 AM on May 22, 2013

A remake of the 1982 horror film Poltergeist is set to begin filming this September in Toronto, and as the director, Gil Kenan (Monster House), is already underway with casting calls. Like the original, the film will follow the events as ghosts terrorize a family in their home and kidnap their daughter, but according to Bloody Disgusting, the remake will deviate slightly from the original. Apparently, the characters will all have different names and roles this time around. Instead of the Freeling family, the remake will focus on Eric Bowen after he loses his job and moves his family to...  read more

Watch the New Man of Steel Trailer

By Grant Golden at 10:30 AM on May 22, 2013

If you previously weren't so inclined to kneel before Zod, then maybe you should reconsider.   read more

Watch the Trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Directorial Debut, Don Jon

By Grant Golden at 10:15 AM on May 22, 2013

While Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut won't hit screens until Oct. 18, the star-packed Sundance standout released its first trailer yesterday. Don Jon, the comedic film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson, chronicles the story of a young New Jersey native trying to balance his guido'd out lifestyle with a newfound love.  read more

Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) (2013 Cannes review)

By Tim Grierson at 9:26 PM on May 21, 2013

Easier to respect than embrace, Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) tells its true-life story with understatement and features sturdy performances from Benicio del Toro and Mathieu Amalric. But this somewhat clinical look at the unlikely therapy sessions that took place between a French anthropologist and a traumatized Native American war veteran in 1947 feels hemmed in by its approach. You sense that French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin wants to avoid the feel-good clichés associated with such a movie, but his alternative is tasteful but also a little too muted....  read more

Stories We Tell

By Annlee Ellingson at 5:33 PM on May 21, 2013

With Stories We Tell, actress-turned-director Sarah Polley has proven herself a consummate filmmaker, transforming an incredible personal story into a playful and profound investigation into the nature of storytelling itself. The central mystery of her documentary—that the man she grew up believing to be her dad is not her biological father—is public knowledge and revealed in the film’s trailer. Yet Polley conceals and reveals information—starting with her relationships to her interview subjects—in such a way as to constantly surprise, even shock, her audience. The result is a film that entertains and delights viewers while elevating her investigation to art....  read more