SXSW 2016: Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele’s Keanu Brings Down the House
If fans had it their way, Key & Peele would have probably never ended. Yet when it did, after five seasons, all you could do was applaud; here were two guys going out on top after creating one of the best comedy sketch shows of all time. Before their feature film debut, Keanu, played here as a work-in-progress, a great documentary called Thank you Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon ...
SXSW 2016: Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson Talk Hillary Clinton, Broad City & More
YAS QUEEN! Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of Comedy Central’s Broad City brought their special brand of irreverence and humor to SXSW on Saturday. Featured on a panel hosted by Maria Clare’s editor-in-chief, Anne Fulenwider, the friends chatted about their hilarious comedy and so much more.
Starting as a web series, Broad City made its television premiere in January 2014. The third season, which began on February 17, 2016, will complete its initial run on April 20,...
SXSW Alumni: Bryan Singer’s Start in Austin
We've already looked at Trey Parker and Matt Stone's SXSW debut, as well as Lena Dunham's. Now we turn our attention to one of the most prolific director's working today. The first edition of SXSW’s film festival hosted the regional premiere of Public Access, the debut feature by Bryan Singer and his screenwriting partner Christopher McQuarrie. Their follow-up, The Usual Suspects,...
SXSW 2016: Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some a Perfect Festival Opener
There are few filmmakers out there who have had as big of an impact on their city as Richard Linklater has had on Austin. Festival director Janet Pierson introduced Everybody Wants Some, saying that Linklater was the reason she moved to Austin in the first place. She then handed the reigns over to Lewis Black, founder of the Austin Chronicle and cofounder of Austin's SXSW festival, as well as the director of the documentary Richard Linklater: dream is destiny, ...
SXSW Alumni: Lena Dunham’s Start in Austin
Girls creator Lena Dunham can credibly say that her career officially began at the SXSW Film Festival. It started with the rejection of her short film Creative Nonfiction. Instead of giving up on it, Dunham kept working on it and re-submitted the film. The determination paid off— Creative Nonfiction was accepted. When she came to Austin with the film, she not only had what she called "the best week of her life" (which she recounted in her hilarious 2014 SXSW keynote address),...
The Hilarious Writer/Director Michael Showalter Discusses Hello, My Name Is Doris
Hello, My Name is Doris, the latest comedy from Wet Hot American Summer co-creator Michael Showalter, stars Sally Field as a woman falling in love for the first time. We talk to the writer/director about creating a new type of comic protagonist, landing Sally Field and having to be the bad guy on set.
Hello, My Name is Doris started as a short film...
SXSW Alumni: Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s Start in Austin
As we settle into Austin and prepare for SXSW 2016, we're also looking back at some of the great careers that were launched here. We begin with longtime creative partners Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who brought their animated short, The Spirit of X-Mas and its' cadre of soon-to-be-infamous characters—Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny—to South by Southwest in 1997. Yet their road to SXSW began years earlier, in 1992, when Parker and Stone, then students at the University of Colorado,...
Enter Spiderman! Check out the new Captain America: Civil War Trailer
We told you it was coming, and we told you it might include some Spider-Man action, and lo and behold, it does! Marvel Studios has dropped the new Captain America: Civil Wartrailer, and it's the most comprehensive look at the titular war between Cap (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.)—including a late, but memorable, cameo by everyone's favorite web slinger.
Let's have a look:
Some things to note:
At the 1:12 mark,...
Hilarious NSFW Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Trailer Debuts
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the 10 Cloverfield Lane of comedies; it came out of nowhere and now it feels like an absolute must see. We're not saying this is the most hilarious trailer ever, but, it sure looks like one of the most hilarious of this young year, which is not surprising considering it's coming from The Lonely Island comedy troupe (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone).
The conceit is simple; ...
Some Wild Speculation After Parsing the Game of Thrones Season 6 Trailer
Yesterday we wrote about that epic Game of Thrones season six trailer, which has the most number of views for any trailer in HBO history, heading towards 17 million at the time of this posting. Today, we're going to break it down for you and offer our speculation on how things are going to turn out in season six. But first, here it is again, because it's really that fun to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuH3tJPiP-U
Now,...
John Travolta Goes John Wick in I Am Wrath Trailer
John Travolta is looking credibly hard in this new I Am Wrath trailer, a revenge pic directed by Chuck Russell that's a little John Wick-like, only Travolta's Stanley Hill is avenging a lot more than a beloved puppy. Stanley Hill is a man whose life is upended when his wife Vivian (Rebecca De Morna) is brutally murdered by a trio of killers. Only Stanley appears to be more than just a down-on-his-luck unemployed family man grieving a senseless act of violence;...
New Captain America: Civil War Behind-the-Scenes Footage
At some point today, Marvel is going to drop a new Captain America: Civil War trailer on us, with the juiciest rumor being that Spider-Man will be featured heavily. While we await the trailer's release, there's a lot of new stuff already out there, including this behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the movie by Entertainment Tonight.
This look at the production of Civil War puts a fine point on just how crucial the stunt choreographer is—just one look at the fight behind Captain America (Chris Evans) and the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) shows you that even on a big Marvel film,...
New 10 Cloverfield Lane Clip Pits Mary Elizabeth Winstead Against the World
This Friday, March 11, all the speculation about 10 Cloverfield Lane will end and we'll finally know for certain what is happening on this now infamously sketchy street. Has the monster from Cloverfield returned (this new clip once again seems to suggest that John Goodman's character isn't the only thing that's menacing our heroine), or, has something else, tangentially related to the original film (thus earning J.J. Abrams'...
Team Iron Man v Team Captain America in Two New Teasers
Although we're still two months away from the May 6 premiere of Captain America: Civil War, that hasn't stopped Marvel and Walt Disney Pictures from whetting our appetite for the ultimate superhero brawl. We published the new photos and poster they dropped just this past Monday, and now there's two new clips, highlighting the division between Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), and just who's taking whose side.
It'll be interesting to see how former friends like the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) ended up on different sides,...
Watch the new International Trailer for Ghostbusters
We were thrilled when the first official trailer for Paul Feig's Ghostbusters dropped on March 3. Frankly, if you're not excited about watching Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones battle the supernatural in New York, well, maybe you need to have your head examined (or you're a humorless ghost). The new Ghostbusters movie, directed by Feig from a script he co-wrote with Katie Dippold,...
Game of Thrones Drops Epic Season 6 Trailer
We've got just a bit more than a month left before Game of Thrones season 6, finally begins on April 24. The big question, of course, is the fate of Jon Snow. In this new, ripping trailer for the season, GOT wastes exactly zero seconds putting the loveliest crow of them all right in center frame. There he is, just as we left him, bled out in the courtyard of Castle Black. To open with this shot (and a fine acoustic version of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" overlaying our hero's prone body), with a voice over saying "he's gone,"...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Leads MTV Movie Awards Noms
Star Wars: The Force Awakens will not be leaving the 25th annual MTV Movie Awards emptied handed. J.J. Abrams' galaxy dominating film leads the pack with 11 nominations, including one for movie of the year. It'll be competing against Avengers: Age of Ultron, Creed, Deadpool, Jurassic World and Straight Outta Compton.
That's not all—the principals in The Force Awakens have also been recognized in a bunch of categories. Daisy Ridely is up for three categories; best female performance,...
SXSW 2016: A Brief List of Some of the Narrative Features We’re Excited About
This week we're headed to the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, where we'll once again run around like lunatics, trying to figure out how to parse 139 features (52 of them from first-time filmmakers), 89 World Premieres, 13 North American Premieres and 8 U.S. Premieres. This is to say nothing of the TV lineup, which has grown in recent years, and includes some hottest properties this year from Cinemax, HBO, AMC and more.
Here's just a brief glance at some of what we're excited to see in the narrative feature category...
Writer/Director Dominique Schilling on her Film A Reason
Writer/director Dominieque Schilling's film A Reason centers on a generational clash, moving in often surprising, funny, and all-too-believably painful ways. So in other words, it feels like watching an actual family. We meet Serena (Magda Apanowicz), a young, introverted lesbian and her controlling older brother Nathan (Nathan Hilgrim), who gather, along with the rest of their family, at the house of their elegant, opionionated elderly Aunt Irene (Marion Ross) to hear the reading of her will...
Before Fantastic Beasts, new Trailer Reveals J.K. Rowling set to Release Four New Stories
Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly revealed this trailer for J.K. Rowling's History of Magic in North America, which teases the four brand new stories Rowling will be releasing on Pottermore today. As EW revealed, these new stories will help set the stage for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which will take viewers into the world of North American wizarding (specifically, in New York City) and is based on Rowling's first official script,...
