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When Lucy Liu signed on to the upcomming horror flick Rise, there were a few details within her contract that she wasnt exactly too sure of. She will star next to Michael “The Thing” Chiklis in the upcomming film from Ghost House Pictures as a reporter named Sadie Blake. Apparently Liu was confused by a [...]

For those of you who haven’t heard, there will be a new movie that has already created quite a cult following. Starring Samuel L. Jackson this film is about, well…snakes on a plane. Click the movie poster for the teaser trailer. It is funny how the film makers are almost deliberately drawing attention to this [...]

When I heard that they would be making a Ghost Rider movie, the little kid in me was elated while the grown up in me was saying “oh god this could be really, really cheesy looking.” Well after I saw this trailer, I was pretty impressed. I know alot of fanboys are whining and moaning [...]

Find out how both a great cast plus a cool story come to equal a very average movie
It has been 5 years since everything went wrong for Paul Barnell (Robin Williams). During that span of time his brother Raymond (Woody Harrelson) has disappeared, his business is close to chapter five and his wife Margaret (Holly [...]

You know those crazy conversations that happen after someone you know has just gotten out of a relationship? Imagine a movie entirely about those pseudo-intellectual conversations about life, love or relationships all while under the influence. Oh, and Dane Cook has a cameo.
It has been a few months since Syd (Chris Evans) and London (Jessica [...]

Final Grade: As an average movie-goer BAs comic fanboy D
X2 was by far the best and most exciting super hero film ever made (Sorry Spidey). The third and “final” film in the series promised to be a climactic action orgy of epic proportions, but when I walked out of the theater I couldn’t help but [...]

Hello there to all Rejects!
Greetings from Sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. Yes, you read that right, I am on Vacation!! As the Geeks say, w00t!
So what does that mean to you, the loyal FSR reader? Well, that means we are running on little or no updates for a while (and by “a while” I mean [...]

Directed by Rob Riener, Rumor Has It is a sophisticated, complicated and charming comedy that although is not “haha” funny, it still manages to be endearing due to the characters and actors.
Jennifer Aniston plays a recently engaged and confused woman (Sarah Huttinger) who learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and [...]

Yesterday we gave you a little taste of what Owen Wilson has done since Wedding Crashers with the trailer from You, Me and Dupree. Now it is time to take a peek at this year’s most anticipated romantic comedy, The Break-Up, starring fellow Crasher Vince Vaughn and resident Friend turned serious film-star-sans-Brad-Pitt Jennifer Aniston. Allow [...]

Final Grade: C+
I gathered three workmates and headed for the movie that everyone’s been talking about. Three of us had already read the book; one hadn’t but knew the general idea of the story. It’s hard not to when a movie gets this much press, good and bad. Because of all the [...]

We knew this day would come: The beginning of X-Men Week here at Film School Rejects. What is all the fuss about, you ask? Friday’s release of X-Men: The Last Stand, that is! And unless you have been living in a cave in Afghanistan, you are probably both aware of the release of X-Men and [...]

Have you ever lost your job for taking a week off to attend your best friend’s wedding? If so, would you expect your dear friend to take you in from the cold, hard streets and allow you to live with him and his new bride? Such is the premise for the upcoming comedy You, Me [...]

Look out Hollywood elite, the Rejects have lasted another week… Our power to entertain at your expense is growing.
Alright, now that my anti-Celebrity public service message is through, it is time to see what the Film School Rejects staff was up to this week:
From the Staff:

Brian Gibson brought us his take on all the [...]

I know what you are thinking… Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Road Trip meets The Motorcycle Diaries. Okay, maybe that is just me. Young Ellen Page stars in Mouth to Mouth, a film that is being heralded as a “gripping look” at life on the streets of Europe as a runaway. The trailer [...]

As if there weren’t enough “Devil” movies this year with the impending Omen release on 6.6.06, 20th Century Fox has decided to bring another type of evil to the silver screen. The new trailer for The Devil Wears Prada is online over at Apple’s wonderful world of movie trailers (my favorite spot.) In this flick, [...]

After the success of Spielberg’s Jaws and Lucas’ Star Wars, the two young directors, and friends, were on top of the cinematic world and looking for a new project. When George Lucas told Steven Spielberg about a new character he was sketching, an archeologist with a flair for action, Spielberg was immediately intrigued and [...]

Since the spring of 2001 one thing has been on the minds of children, parents and closet fairy tale loving twenty somethings alike: Will there ever be another animated film that will live up to the mastery of Shrek? Then in 2004, Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy returned to voice an equally as [...]

Though the film had its moments, Grandma’s Boy felt like it wasn’t so much a movie as it was an experiment to see how Adam Sandler’s friends could do without him as an anchor.
36 year old video game tester Alex (Allen Covert) has been evicted from his apartment and has no place to stay. [...]

During the next 134 minutes you may be forced to ask yourself “Is 10 minutes of Will Ferrell worth buying a $20 DVD?” This would be the question, if of course you were about to sit down right now and watch The Producers. And with constant cameo presence, Mr. Ferrell is forcing us to answer [...]

For the most part, this week has carried a fairly somber tone amongst the Film literati. At least in my opinion, the hype surrounding tomorrow’s release of The Da Vinci Code has evened out a bit. On Monday, most of the talk was centered around how Poseidon almost literally sank at the box office, finishing [...]

Mere weeks after United 93 all but answered the question, “Is it too soon?” the trailer for Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center has hit the net. The trailer, which is just as gut wrenching as the United 93 trailer, shows the film with significantly more star power with Nicholas Cage, Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal. [...]

Wrong…so, so wrong. Just look at the film’s tag “Special has been redefined.”
When all around nice guy Steve (Johnny Knoxville) asks for a promotion and gets it, his first order handed down from his boss is to fire the janitor Stavi. When Steve attempts to fire Stavi he quickly begins to backpedal and offer him [...]

Oh those British nannies, they will forever be immortalized for their ability to control the most bratty products from the world of bad parenting. They have long been focal points of some of the great family stories to ever hit the silver screen. Cut from the same mold of Mary Poppins and The Sound of [...]

When A Stranger Calls… make sure you tell him to avoid this DVD. The only thing about this film that reminds me of “Horror” would be having to watch 87 minutes of one of those PBS phone in auction fundraisers. PG-13 horror shouldn’t exist and this film is a perfect example.
When Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle) [...]

As always, it has been an exciting week here at Film School Rejects. We finished up our coverage of the Tribeca Film Festival, we featured some great under-the-radar films and we continued our HD-DVD reviews. Nothing too terribly exciting, but we hope you stuck around to read anyway. Here is the rundown of how the [...]

Overall Grade: B+
Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener of the indie hit Walking and Talking, Friends With Money is an independent character drama and social comedy about three wealthy married women, their husbands and their lone single friend who they feel sorry for.
The story itself is simple and unfolds like a bunch of conversations [...]

“In the year 2026 archaeologists working in the Nevada desert discovered a portal to an ancient city on Mars. They call this portal the Ark. Twenty years later, we’re still struggling to understand why it was built and what happened to the civilization that built it.”
Based on one of the most respected video game franchises, [...]

Here is a quick news tidbit worth looking at then disregarding. Tonight at midnight the mass marketing machine that is the Dell Computer Corporation is going to be launching an exclusive (at least for the first time it is run) 7 minute clip from the upcoming film X-Men: The Last Stand. This is in an [...]

Making the Grade: C
The French action movie District B13 came to Columbus last weekend and showed at the Arena Grand Theater. A fast paced and volatile mix of Jackie Chan style fighting scenes with a touch of sci-fi, the relatively low budget flick has only modest goals but at least it succeeds in achieving [...]

Final Grade: A+
I have long been a closet fan of small, off the cuff Indie flicks that challenge the conventional mainstream of film. No, I am not talking about Indies that sold big like Brokeback Mountain (arguably a great film, but by no means an Indie.) In fact, I am disturbed by a recent trend [...]