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Tom Waits to Appear in New Film

The persona of Tom Waits has got to be one of the most consistent of our generation. At the ripe age of 61, Tom Waits has just released a full length album and is now set to act in the upcoming film Seven Psychopaths alongside big names like Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken.   read more

Mashup Producer Releases Concept EP Based on Sam Rockwell's Moon

Max Tannone, mashup artist behind the Jay-Z/Radiohead Mixtape Jaydiohead, has just released a sci-fi hip-hop concept EP. Selene was inspired by the 2009 Sam Rockwell film, Moon, about man isolated on the moon during a three-year stint for a mining company....  read more

Iron Man 2 Review

Director: Jon Favreau Writers: Justin Theroux (screenplay), Stan Lee (comic book) Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke Studio: Paramount Pictures Starting to rust...  read more

Sam Rockwell Joins Cast of Cowboys & Aliens

Sam Rockwell will join Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde in the upcoming film adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The casting re-teams Rockwell with his Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau. Rockwell plays a bar owner who joins a team of cowboys and Native Americans who team up to fight off an alien invasion. The part was originally meant for a heavy-set actor, but when Favreau and the writers learned Rockwell was interested in acting in the film, they re-wrote the part just for him....  read more

Paste Casts the Five Remaining "Lost" Stanley Kubrick Films

Last week, word emerged that one of Stanley Kubrick’s long lost film scripts, Lunatic at Large, would be brought to the big screen, some 50 plus years after Kubrick abandoned the project to work on Spartacus. According to The New York Times, the film, a mystery about a mental asylum escapee set in New York City during the ‘50s, was found by Kubrick’s son-in-law among trunks of papers left behind after the filmmaker’s death in 1999. The main story centers on an ex-carnival worker with anger-management issues who seduces a bar floozy. Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell have signed on...  read more

Watch the New Iron Man 2 Trailer

Back in December, we showed you a trailer for the upcoming Iron Man 2. Well, scrubs those images from your brain, dear reader, because that trailer is old news! Last night (March 7), Robert Downey, Jr. debuted an updated, flashier version on Jimmy Kimmel’s show....  read more

Catching Up With... Sam Rockwell

With over a dozen films to his credit since 2007, Sam Rockwell is currently garnering Oscar buzz for his performance(s) in Moon. He discussed the role with Paste as well as his dual portrayal in the just-released Gentlemen Broncos which was helmed by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess....  read more

Gentleman Broncos Review

A blast in another galaxy falters when it returns on Earth.  read more

Fantastic Fest 2009 - Day One

Just like everyone else, film festivals have been hurting from the economic downturn. A piece of advice for all you ailing fests: give Tim League, co-founder of Fantastic Fest, a holler. Now in its fifth year League has created a monster of an event where I, the fan, am the most important person in the theater. You know you're doing something right when next year's VIP seats sell out in a matter of minutes which is exactly what happened earlier this week. You hear that? Sold out one year in advance! Aside from the typical horror genre they cover other...  read more

Was This the Summer that Saved Sci-Fi?

There were enough awful sci-fi movies this summer to leave discerning fans a little queasy about the state of the genre...  read more