Movie News After Dark: Battlestar Galactica, Die Hard 5 and 80s Nostalgia
What is Movie News After Dark? This is a question that I am almost never asked, but I will answer it for you anyway. Movie News After Dark is FSR’s newest late-night secretion, a column dedicated to...
View ArticleVisionary Director Zack Snyder Rumored to Need Stronger Lenses
Zack Snyder has been a busy beaver ever since he made 300. That film, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Frank Miller, was able to cross over and hit both the comic book nerd and the frat boy...
View ArticleGuy Ritchie Has His Fingers in a Lot of Pies
It was a big day on the Internet for Guy Ritchie. Vulture reports that the sequel to the hugely successful sword and sandals film 300 has been taken out of its original director Zack Snyder’s hands and...
View Article‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ Trailer
Sherlock Holmes has always been a character steeped in a rich tradition of intellectual wit and gamesmanship. He’s a thinker, a strategist and an insane tactician fit to do battle with all the world’s...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: The Avengers, Nick Nolte, Sin City 2, Sarah Connor and...
What is Movie News After Dark? The more appropriate question would be: what isn’t Movie News After Dark? We open tonight with a look at The Avengers, or at least the version that will appear in the...
View ArticleSecond ‘Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows’ Trailer Explodes
Enjoy playing Count The Explosions in the next trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. While there’s still a subdued kind of excitement to the proceedings, it’s not short on very quick...
View ArticleIs Guy Ritchie Going to Direct ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’?
Well, this is certainly going to make my piece about the Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows (coming next week! only here at Film School Rejects!) press conference a touch more interesting. Deadline...
View Article11 Things We Learned at the ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ Press...
The Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows junket included a massive press conference that featured so much talent from the sequel to Guy Ritchie‘s 2009 film that they needed to be arranged in stadium...
View ArticleReview: ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ Is an Elementary Reduction But...
Guy Ritchie was far from the most obvious choice to direct a big budget, period action comedy that hoped to turn the Sherlock Holmes name into a 21st century franchise. But half a billion dollars...
View ArticleKevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: December 16, 2011
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr goes rogue and infiltrates his local IMAX theater. First, he scales the wall of the plus-sized building and slides in undetected through the air vents. He slowly lowers...
View ArticleFor Gold, Obviously: Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram to Give ‘Sherlock Holmes’...
While we all wait with baited pipe smoke-tinged breath for another highly stylized Sherlock Holmes adventure from Guy Ritchie, Deadline Trenton reports that Warner Bros. has attached the director to...
View ArticleElementary! ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Drinking Game of Shadows’
Two and a half years ago, Guy Ritchie revived the classic Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, starring Iron Man himself as the eccentric detective. This past Christmas, he also directed...
View ArticleTom Cruise Says Uncle, Unexpectedly Quits ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Feature
Want to drop a major piece of casting news? Let it loose on the Friday before the season’s first holiday weekend. Deadline Hollywood reports the genuinely surprising news that Tom Cruise has quit the...
View Article‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Adds ‘Gatsby’ Standout, Seems to Actually Be Happening
The potential reimagining of the classic TV spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for the big screen is a project that we’ve been hearing about for so long that it’s begun to feel like one of those...
View ArticleHugh Grant Set to Lend Some Britishness to ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’
Though the big screen adaptation of A Man From U.N.C.L.E spent quite a bit of time being one of those doomed projects that kept cycling through directors and stars without ever actually getting made,...
View Article‘Empire Rising’ Could See Guy Ritchie Bringing Danger and Romance to 1930s...
Even though director Guy Ritchie is still currently hard at work prepping The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to get ready to go in front of cameras, we might already know what he’s going to be working on after...
View ArticleJared Harris Cast as Someone Debonair and British in ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’
Guy Ritchie‘s adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. begins shooting in less than a week – specifically, on September 9 – so this latest casting announcement comes just in the nick of time. Jared...
View ArticleThe 12 Most Insane Genre Transitions Made By Directors
By no means are directors expected to make the same movie over and over again – but they also don’t tend to fly genre to genre like some kind of bipolar carnival game either. Here are a few directors...
View ArticleGuy Ritchie to Spend Extended Amount of Time LARPing in Forest With 6-Film...
Long ago, in a time called 2011, development began at Warner Bros. on a film called Arthur & Lancelot. Set to star Game of Thrones‘ Kit Harrington and Robocop‘s Joel Kinnaman in the leads...
View ArticleWe Now Know When ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ Will Return
Guy Ritchie’s take on NBC’s espionage series is arriving early next year, with a theatrical debut January 16, 2015, over Martin Luther King weekend. Starring Man of Steel’s Henry Cavill, this will be...
View ArticleGuy Ritchie Shows You What It’s Like to be a Pro Footballer in This POV Short...
Nike Why Watch? Wind sprints are tough. That’s why most of us will never play professional soccer. That, and a million other reasons, but it’s mostly the wind sprints. Fortunately, Guy Ritchie has our...
View ArticleThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. Trailer: Is This Guy Ritchie’s Return to Form?
Three big trailers dropped today: Trainwreck, Aloha and, here, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. If I had to pick a winner out of three, the honor would go to Cameron Crowe’s latest. As for the loser, it’d be...
View ArticleThe Man From U.N.C.L.E. Trailer: Bridging the Spy Movies of 2015
More trailers need Nina Simone, at least if they want to win me over. I don’t care if The Man From U.N.C.L.E. winds up being any good. I can just watch the latest (UK) trailer. If the movie does turn...
View ArticleHere’s a 5-Minute The Man from U.N.C.L.E Trailer from Comic-Con
Warner Bros. is on stage presenting its upcoming films to the tired masses of Comic-Con and all the while, they are also releasing some of their trailers online. The first movie on stage this year was...
View ArticleThe Man From U.N.C.L.E. Review: Guy Ritchie is Fun Again
Warner Bros. Ever since the trailer dropped for this modern update of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., some skeptics have been asking, “Who is this movie for? Are the fans of this show even still alive?” Yes,...
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