In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley geek out about the new Terminator Salvation trailer, ponder the fate of the Green Hornet project under Gondry’s direction, and get pessimistic about a Total Recall remake. Dave also chats with Watchmen illustrator ...

Image via Wikipedia The movie American Teen is out on DVD, and I was sent a copy to review. After watching it, I emailed the PR rep and asked him if he was sure he wanted me to post my honest opinion? He said absolutely. So, here it is: This movie is awful. Let me quantify that choice of words. Amer...

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High school can be hard to shake. With “American Teen,� the director Nanette Burstein can claim a certain expertise on the subject....

Is American Teen a brilliantly accurate doc that catches you up in the intense hormonal drama of five high school students on the verge of leaving small town Warsaw, Indiana for college? Or is it a manipulatively fake reality-TV-style doc that alters fact to preserve dramatic narrative drive? Nanett...

The Los Angeles Film fest is looming large; tickets went on sale Monday. Fest director Rich Raddon and programmer Rachel Rosen are offering a wide swath of entertainment designed to pull in moviegoers of every stripe. Raddon and Film Independent, which puts on the fest, feel strongly that they are n...

One of Sundance 2008’s critical and audience faves was “American Teen,” director Nanette Burstein’s profile of a series of students at an Indiana high school. A cross between John Hughes and the PBS reality show “American High,” “American Teen” introdu...

Every year we go through it: What are your most anticipated movies of summer? Which movies will make the most money? What will be the biggest flop? I can’t even begin to think of the infinite variations that we’ve seen of the pre-Summer movie lists. So this year, we are going to do somet...

It is extremely hard to look at a film that made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January and call it “Best of the Year” material. It defies reason for any moviegoer to be looking at a film that early in the year, with months and months of releases ahead of them, to be counting...