I would have thought Brothers would be in the conversation by now. You know the conversation, the end-of-the-year talk where movies come out of nowhere to gain the indie world's rapt attention. But so far, it's kind of flying under the radar. Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, and six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan are a pretty good foursome. Seriously, Jim Sheridan has six Academy Award nominations, so maybe Brothers being under the radar is par for the course. (No more golf ... Read Full Story

There's a great opportunity for Paranormal Activity fans to have one final, permanent connection with the micro-budgeted horror flick/multiplex phenom. Paramount is giving the fans a chance to have their names featured on the DVD credits. This has been done before, and it's always a bit of a publicity stunt, but that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has followed Paranormal from its "Demand It" infancy to back-to-back $20 million weekends to the most profitable movie ever made and ... Read Full Story

If these things lived in a vacuum, it might be a different story. On its own, there's nothing wrong or inherently evil about making a movie based on The Flintstones or Scooby Doo or even Rocky & Bullwinkle. But when you add them all up (and pay attention to the success rate), you start to get a bad taste in your mouth. That's probably why I was so opposed to this update initially. I enjoyed Yogi Bear as a kid, although it wasn't an all-time favorite. And because it has a big presence in the ... Read Full Story

Brüno was damn funny in small doses, but as an entire movie, it kind of lost its way. But when the film comes out on DVD November 17th, it will have a few more small doses, like this deleted scene with Pete Rose. If you saw the film, you know that Sacha Baron Cohen tried the same stunt with Paula Abdul, using "migrant workers" as makeshift furniture for an interview. I didn't think it would be funny the second time through, but I was kind of wrong about that. I don't love the clip, but it's ... Read Full Story

We've gotten plenty of traffic here at The Big Picture thanks to the story alleging that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis will have mad sapphic sex in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, so thanks for the hits. Portman recently talked to V magazine about the film and the scene, and while she makes a semantics argument against what's been reported, Natalie is certainly not denying it. "It's not raunchy - it's extreme," she said. I'm sure there's a difference, if only qualitatively. The tone of the p... Read Full Story

After footage from the film debuted at Comic-Con, Kick-Ass immediately became one of next year's most anticipated fanboy movies. There was a bidding war to secure the rights for the young non-superheroes superhero movie, which Lionsgate eventually won. The irony is the subject matter and the tone kept all the studios away from Mark Millar's comic book title before director Matthew Vaughn (Stardust, Layer Cake) financed the project himself. I know, I know: It's hard to believe the studios all... Read Full Story

So what did we learn this week? Well, we learned that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the Oscars, we learned that if you've got the coin, you could buy the rights to Terminator, and we learned that Owen Wilson is either out of options or a much bigger fan of Marmaduke than anyone else I know. There were also a couple new trailers for next year's summer movies, which we're featuring below, and we found out that if you want The Hurt Locker for the holidays...that holiday better ... Read Full Story

A Christmas Carol Starring Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman Directed by Robert Zemeckis Rated PG There are two ways to perceive A Christmas Carol. You can either look at this film and see a brave new use of technology to bring a classic piece of literature into the future about as far as it can go or you can see a classic story kidnapped and outfitted with bells and whistles that just get in the way. I'm voting for the second option. And it's to the point now, three movies in, that I... Read Full Story

The Men Who Stare at Goats Starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Directed by Grant Heslov Rated R It's a deviously warped story, the kind that has to be at least partially true, and according to the disclaimer at the beginning of the film, it is: "More of this is true that you would believe" replaces "Based on a true story" or "Inspired by a true story" in The Men Who Stare at Goats. And while it veers off the road from being true at some hard to defi... Read Full Story

I think you should just go ahead and ask Kristanna Loken out. Clearly, she'll say yes to just about anything. Director/pugilist/laughingstock Uwe Boll says Loken will return for yet another BloodRayne movie. Seriously: They're not done making BloodRayne movies. Somehow. Boll tells DreadCentral that BloodRayne 3: Warhammer, which might be the greatest album title Armored Saint never used, will shoot beginning in January. Also, we'll have Nazis this time around. Can it get any better? Can it g... Read Full Story