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‘Win It All’ Is A Low-Key Charmer And A Perfect Vehicle For Jake Johnson [SXSW] Win It Allis a nice movie. That may seem like faint praise, but it’s hard to think of a more accurate or complimentary way to describe the latest collaboration between co-writer/directorJoe Swanbergand co-writer/actorJake Johnson. It is a pleasant, agreeable movie about people you like, where every single scene (and the movie itself) refuses to overstay its welcome....

Abigail Spencer Lands A Role In Joss Whedon-Produced ‘In Your Eyes’ Now thatJoss Whedonhas more or less officially made the full transition from TV to film, he’s burning rubber. Of course, he’s still hard at work onThe Avengers, Marvel’s massive superhero movie out May 4. On the downtime of that shoot, hemade a low-budget versionof Shakespeare’sMuch Ado About Nothingand now actressAbigail Spencerrevealed she’s signed on for Whedon’s next movie which she describes as a “supernatural romance....

AMC Theatres CEO Understands Disney’s Decision To Release ‘Mulan’ On VOD, In Stark Contrast To ‘Trolls’ Reaction As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has begun to change the way movies are released and the way audiences consume media, theater chains are starting to change their tunes.AMC Theatres, in particular, is responding to Disney’s decision to give a day-and-date release for its mega-blockbusterMulanon VOD and in select theaters with a dramatically different reaction to Universal doing something similar withTrolls World Tourfive months ago....

BBC Polls Critics, Releases 100 Greatest Foreign Films List Over the past few years, the BBC has conducted polls to discover the100 greatest American films,100 greatest comedies, and100 greatest films of the 21st century. Now they’re at it again, but this time they’ve kicked Hollywood to the curb and instead focused on films that are made in a language other than English. Where will classics like8 1/2,Rashomon,Breathless, andLe Jour et la Nuitfall on the list?...

Changing The World: Documentary The Cove Seemingly Helped Stop Illegal Dolphin Hunting For any documentarian who makes a film about an injustice there can’t be much greater end result than seeing change take place in the real world once the film is released. This summer’s docThe Cove, byLouie Psihoyos, peered into Taiji, a small Japanese village where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered each year.Ric O’Barry, the dolphin trainer and activist who brought the location to the attention of Psihoyos, returned to the site of the slaughter this week, just as the annual ‘hunt’ would normally begin....

Cool Stuff: ‘Cinelinx’ Movie Card Game And ‘Chaosmos’ Sci-Fi Board Game I’ve become a big board gamer in recent years, but we don’t really cover board games on /Film aside from big screen adaptations like Battleship or the occasional mention in Page 2. Every once in a while we’ll cover a board game with a big movie or television license (like we did with Firefly: The Board Game) much in the same way we do with video game sequels of movies (Ripley’s Daughter is the Star of Survival Horror Game ‘Alien: Isolation’)....

Cool Stuff: Go Go ‘Inspector Gadget’ Action Figures From The 1980s Animated Series Inspector Gadgetfirst arrived on television back in 1983 in the form of an animated series. The titular detective armed with an endless variety of high-tech gadgets is always out to stop the organization Mad and their relentless, mysterious leader Dr. Claw. NowInspector Gadgetis getting the ultimate action figure treatment from Blitzway with a deluxe set that also includes his brilliant niece Penny, the helpful dog Brain, and the stealthy Chief Quimby....

Cool Stuff: Help Fund Joey Spiotto’s Storytime, A Book Of Cute Pop Culture Art We’ve written aboutJoey Spiotto’s artwork many times over the past five years, fromGallery1988’s Crazy4Cult art showsto theStar Wars Art Awakens gallery show, Joey’s tabletop bookAlien Next Doortoa seriesof solo exhibitions focusing ofJoebot’s Little Golden Book inspired pop culture covers. Now Joey is trying to collect his famous children’s book covers into a full-color 135-page artbook, and he needs your help to do so....

Cool Stuff: That’s No Moon, It’s A 40th Anniversary ‘Star Wars’ Vinyl Soundtrack It’s getting to the point where there are nearly as many different versions of theStar Warssoundtracks as there were home video releases of theStar Warstrilogy. The latest addition to theStar Warssoundtrack collection is a brand new 40th anniversary release of the soundtrack toStar Wars: A New Hopeon vinyl. Walt Disney Records is releasing a special editionStar Wars40th anniversary vinyl soundtrack that not only comes with the entirety of the motion picture score byJohn Williams, but a couple other cool features as well....

Don’t Expect Any Marvel Video Games To Take Place In The Marvel Cinematic Universe The world of video games based on movies has consistently been a depressing one. Most of the time the games are weak, uninspired video game versions of the movie offering nothing original or exciting as far as gameplay is concerned. Even with something as exciting as theMarvel cinematic universe, the video games for characters such asIron Man, ThorandCaptain Americahave been downright awful....

Early Buzz: Esquire Calls The Road “The Most Important Movie Of The Year” EsquireMagazine’s Tom Chiarella has posted the first review ofJohn Hillcoat’sfeature film adaption ofCormac McCarthy’s novelThe Road, and calls it “The most important movie of the year.” Here are a couple excerpts: “A story without guarantees. In every moment — even the last one — you’ll want to know what happens next, even if you can hardly stand to look....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Grasshopper Jungle’ Leaps Back Into Play And Might Be His Next Film AfterShaun of the Deadwriter/directorEdgar WrightleftAnt-Mana few years ago, he was shopping a few projects around town in an attempt to set up his next movie. As you know,Baby Driverended up being first in line, but one of the other films he was mulling over in that time wasGrasshopper Jungle, an adaptation ofAndrew Smith’syoung adult novel in which a teenager and his friends accidentally unleash a swarm of six-foot-tall praying mantises on his town....

Exclusive First Look: Spike Jonze’s I’m Here We don’t really know much aboutSpike Jonze’s next project, a short film titledI’m Herewhich is set to premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Funded by Absolut Vodka, the half-hour short film has been described as a “robot love story” and stars British actorAndrew Garfield(Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network). When I learned tonight that Spike wanted to know if we would be interested in premiering the first official production photo from the film, I immediately responded, “did you even really have to ask?...