Over the weekend at Telluride, I had the opportunity to meet Andrew Garfield, one of the stars of Never Let Me Go (which I loved), The Social Network (which I probably will love), and will be playing the new Peter Parker in the Spider-Man reboot. Garfield seems like a really nice guy, down to earth, he's definitely very talented, and judging by his list of upcoming credits -- things are looking up

We've known for years that Ridley Scott has wanted to return "to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created" for his Alien prequels, and bit by bit, he's been expanding on what such an origin story would entail.In an interview with The Independent, Scott spent a great deal of time not-so-modestly reflecting on his career, but also shared some brief details on the

Two years ago, Danny Boyle came to Telluride to give the surprise premiere of Slumdog Millionaire, a movie which was almost doomed to be a direct-to-dvd but was saved by Fox Searchlight at the last minute. The film played to a standing ovation, and as you know, went on to critical acclaim and Academy Award wins. So it isn't much of a surprise that Boyle decided to come back to Telluride to premier

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is Rocky: The Undisputed Blu-ray collection for only $32.99, 53% off the $70 msrp. The 7-disc set features all six movies thus far (Rocky / Rocky II / Rocky III / Rocky IV / Rocky V / Rocky Balboa) and the Rocky Anthology Bonus Disc. With all of Amazon's Gold Box Deals, this price will disappear at midnight.

A lot of you probably might not recognize Mark Romanek's name, but you've almost certainly seen his work. He was probably one of the best music video directors to come out of the 1990's. His videos have included Nine Inch Nails' "Closer", "Scream" - Michael Jackson's grammy award winning collaboration with sister Janet Jackson (at $7 million, it might forever hold the title as the most expensive m

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on,

The first image from Source Code, the new film from Moon director Duncan Jones, has appeared online. It's not a staggeringly exciting photo, but it does show Jake Gyllenhaal in character and dual-wielding a gun and cell phone. What's really going on there? No idea. We know the actor plays a soldier who is brought into a government program designed to investigate terrorism; Gyllenhaal's consciousne

Every September, a small rustic mountain ski town in Colorado becomes host to one of the most elite film festivals in North America -- The Telluride Film Festival.My friend Alex Billington of FirstShowing has a theory that most of the good film festivals are hard to get to. Alex's theory is that to see the good films first, you really need to work for it. To attend Sundance, you need to fly into S

I wasn't too broken up about what happened to Newt, Pixar's now defunct tale about two newts who can't stand each other and then (presumably) fall in love. The premise just sounded too bluntly familiar, and not up to caliber we've come to expect from the studio that brought us Wall-E and Up. When they canceled the project, I took that as confirmation that my initial response was more than me just

There's a new Judge Dredd film getting underway, and it's possible that this one will be a lot better, or at least far more faithful to the source comic series, than the '90s film starring Sylvester Stallone as the helmeted, law-giving Dredd.Karl Urban plays Dredd this time out, and now Olivia Thirlby has signed on as Cassandra Anderson, aka Judge Anderson. Thirlby is a great actress who we've bee