Trailer: Upstream Color

For a while there (nearly 10 years!), it seemed that Shane Carruth, writer/director of the exceptional, mind-bending 2004 sci-fi indie Primer (sadly out-of-print here) would go by way of Charles Laughton (Night of the Hunter) and Barbara Loden (Wanda) as a filmmaker who would only end up making one film in their entire career. But that spell is now - rather excitingly - broken: Carruth's long, LONG-awaited follow-up, Upstream Color, is coming out this year and the full trailer's just popped up online. Based on its cryptic imagery and synopsis ("A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism"), it's clear Carruth hasn't gone down the route of easy-to-digest conventions again and the film could be something genuinely transcendent and original. Or maybe sophomoric, pretentious sub-Malick-ian twaddle. Colour me intrigued either way.

More Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves

Those Larry King tweets: Ouch, and hilarious.

For the Star Wars Fan with Everything #24

How about an R2-D2 yarn bomb?

More Tarantino/Django Unchained Bits

I'm probably risking Tarantino/Django Unchained fatigue on this blog after the last post, but what the heck, it's a new year, and Tarantino may not be making movies anymore very soon so let's just bask in this stuff while we can. Also, next week we're giving away tickets to see the movie, so in the spirit of generating buzz, here are some clips for your viewing pleasure:

• QT on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson - he tells us what he thinks of Prometheus and talks about kids movies.
• Interview with Jake Hamilton - if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, fast forward to around 13:57 for the best segment of the interview.
• Every Pop Culture Reference from Tarantino Movies in Chronological order - 'nuff said.

Fatso's Top 20 Biggest Titles of 2012

Here it is, Fatso's Top 20 most rented titles of 2012! Game of Thrones - Season 1 was the champion by a surprising long shot (Season 2 is due in March).

1. Game of Thrones - Season 1
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3. The Help
4. Crazy, Stupid, Love
5. The Hunger Games 
6. Boardwalk Empire - Season 1
7. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
8. The Iron Lady
9. True Blood - Season 4
10. The Descendants
11. Abduction
12. Friends with Benefits
13. Hugo
14. The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
15. Drive
16. Hanna
17. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
18. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
19. In Time
20. Moneyball

The Worst Films of 2012 Review Themselves

The John Carter swipe's gotta hurt!

Source: Film.com
PS: If anyone's hanging out for A Thousand Words, it's coming to DVD and Blu-ray on January 2.

Django Unchained Reviews Are In! + Tarantino stuff

There's only one thing causing more noise in film news than The Hobbit this month and it's The New Film by Quentin Tarantino. Django Unchained, the 49-year-old director's 7th feature, has been screened for critics stateside and the reviews are now starting to pop up on the web. Anne Thompson over at Indiewire has this mostly positive round-up, although she isn't as crazy about the film as some of other critics. Also: reviews from The Guardian, Badass Digest, Slant Magazine.

Recently the Hollywood Reporter held a Director Roundtable featuring Tarantino, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper, Ang Lee, David O. Russell and Gus Van Sant. I didn't get around to posting it last week but here are a couple of Tarantino highlights from that session:
And last but not least, the following is a great interview Tarantino did with Howard Stern. The interview is very frank, revealing (he doesn't like Owen Wilson!) and often hilarious. Listen to its 75-minute entirety here: