Trailer: Lawless
You may remember Lawless under its original title, The Wettest County in the World. It’s John Hillcoat of The Proposition and The Road paying homage to ...
Tag: Historical
Features
Film vs. Digital: Why everyone loses
If you follow me outside of Flixist, you no doubt saw an article I linked to yesterday from LA Weekly. The article detailed ...
Trailers
Trailer: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
When I saw the first trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, I was all like, “Okay, I see what you did there.” But ...
Let’s save the Portage Theater!
Flixistonians! If you’ve been following the site for a while, you’ve probably realized that I’m a huge proponent of saving historic movie theaters ...
Lost Robert Altman movie bought at a flea market for $10
Films that get lost over time is as inevitable as losing a Bic pen. However, Bics are disposable; if a film gets lost, ...
Accurate Disney princess dresses are historically awesome
Disney has never been terribly worried about historical accuracy in their animated movies, and sometimes it really shows. Illustrator Claire Hummel decided to ...
Trailers
Teaser: The Grandmasters
It’s been a really long while since we reported anything about Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmasters. This much-delayed martial arts epic stars Tony Leung ...
Shawn Levy developing Deadliest Warrior movie
There was a period a couple months ago where I burned through all of the episodes of Deadliest Warrior on Netflix. I’d just ...
Features
From Hell: Paul Verhoeven/Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Crusade
[This week we’ll be looking at a few movies mentioned in Tales from Development Hell by David Hughes (Titan Books). The recently released ...
Trailers
Trailer: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
After watching this trailer you’re doing one of two things. You’ve either got your hand to your face, shaking your head back forth ...
Witherspoon & Reynolds to star in Tim Burton’s Big Eyes
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds have officially signed on to star as Margaret and Walter Keane in the Tim Burton produced Big Eyes ...
Reviews
Review: Red Tails
I love World War II aerial dogfight movies. In terms of film and television, it’s a part of the war that’s about as ...