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Yes, No, Maybe So: Jupiter Ascending
For April Fools Day a Yes No Maybe So on a trailer promoting a movie that could well be a folly. Though I am on record at having loathed Cloud Atlas I appreciate movies that operate from the outer...
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Visual Index ~ Can't Stop the Music's Best Shot(s)
April Fools! I needed an infamous 'bad movie we love' for today's edition of Hit Me With Your Best Shot a crowd source visual party, where anyone with a love for movies can watch the pre-assigned film...
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Can't Stop The Glitter. Or the Best Shots.
glitter attack!True story. In the late 1990s after graduating college, before New York City and The Film Experience years, I was working as an artist at a company that specialized in parties and...
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Curio: The Storied Career of Alec Guinness
Alexa here to wish a Happy Centennial to Alec Guinness. Born 100 years ago today to a single mother in London, Guinness' theatre career began in his 20s. It wasn't until after he served in the Royal...
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Link of All Media
big screenTowleroad James Franco to plan an ex-gay activist in a new Gus Van Sant filmGuardian Russell Crowe meets with the Archbishop of Canterbury for Noah. The things people will do for movie...
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Thoughts I Had... While Watching The "Lucy" Trailer
Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlet Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlet Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlet Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlett...
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A Year With Kate: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Episode 14 of 52 from Anne Marie's series screening Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order. In which there is a leopard on your roof and it’s my leopard and I have to get it down and to get...
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There appears to be some sort of issue. Posts have not published and neither have comments. Working on it. UPDATE: The situation is resolved. Please continue your daily reading and commenting. xo
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Seasons of Bette: Jezebel (1938)
Editor's Note: A huge thank you to my trusted right hand woman in Old Hollywood love. Anne Marie is filling in for this particular edition of "Seasons of Bette" (a sidebar series to "A Year With Kate"...
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The Boy From Hell Turns Ten
Amir here, to celebrate the tenth birthday of Guillermo Del Toro’s red devil child, Hellboy. Writing a piece for the anniversary of a superhero film is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the rate...
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Open Thread & Vacation Time
What's on your cinematic mind? I was worried you were all thinking about the exact same thing that we had neglected to write on until I realized the comments were malfunctioning. FIXED. So now that you...
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DVD Review: The Great Beauty
Tim here. The recent release of Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty on a DVD/Blu-Ray combo from the Criterion Collection means that most of us in North American finally have our first decent chance to...
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Heath Ledger: A Celebration
Here's abstew with a tribute to an actor we lost too soon. Today, April 4th, 2014, would have been Oscar winner Heath Ledger's 35th Birthday. Tragically, the talented young actor's career was all too...
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"My dear...
...is there anything you can't do? Well, I'm not sure I'll make a very good nun. If you have any problems, I'll be happy to help you... Great Moments in Screen Bitchery #235, Eleanor Parker as the...
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The Faces of Jude
Here's abstew on one of TFE's very favorite actors This past Wednesday saw the limited release of the British film Dom Hemingway about a safecracker that is recently released from prison after serving...
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Posterized: Marvel Cinematic Universe
This weekend sees the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the third film in Marvel's Phase 2 of movies seemingly designed to introduced an expanding roster of comic book figures into a...
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Review
This post was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad. Nathaniel is on vacation but it is reprinted here with their permission "On the left" Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) warns a stranger...
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Team Top Ten: The Greatest Working Cinematographers
Amir here, to welcome you back to Team Top Ten, our monthly poll by all of the website’s contributors. For our first episode in 2014, we are looking at The Greatest Working Cinematographers in the...
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Box Office: Marvel Strikes Again
Amir here, with the weekend’s box office report. Captain America defeated Noah to the top spot. There has to be a joke in there about America and freedom and jingoism and religion but I haven’t seen...
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April Showers: "Shutter Island"
We're going to be in for some weather... Even celebrities are affected. Why are you all wet, baby? April Showers are back at TFE! waterworks coming at you most nights at 11 as we turn on the...
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