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Well I don’t know if you heard folks, but MPAA head Dan Glickman has stated that the MPAA doesn’t want to lose any more money. If you or anyone you knows has a home theater, you will soon have to register it with the MPAA and pay a $50 fee. If you do not register [...]

I know that we missed another week of the Over/Under, disappointing fans from all over the world - but be happy, oh faithful Reject Nation! The Weekly Over/Under is back this week, with a few changes to better your reading experience and continue to feed your need for - Box Office Speed!

Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Movies, brought to you by RankAMovie.com
Last week was Turkey Week! Hopefully, we all enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving dinner, and are now recovering from lots of good food and friends. As we enter the month of December, the days are shortening and the nights are growing longer and [...]

Release Date: TBA (tentative March 2007)
Ahh Hatchet. You’re a tricky one. I’d heard much about it from it’s limited screenings thus far, so expectations were high. It had a promising tag line that really got to me. “It’s not a sequel, it’s not a remake, and it’s not based on [...]

Release Date: October 28, 2006 (television)
Hey all. Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes is a made for TV Sci-Fi original directed by Jake West. Screamfest was tossing around free tickets to this badboy so I went; I probably would have dodged it otherwise. But I found myself in a large theater with very few [...]

Hey all. Long time no talk. I’m going to hip you up to Screamfest just in time for Halloween. Wait what? Just in time for Thanksgiving? Oh no, really? Just in time for the start of December? Well ok. My bad. I’ve been a little overwhelmed lately and haven’t [...]

In the words of Screamfest themselves, here’s what they say:
Screamfest was formed in August 2001 by film producers Rachel Belofsky and Ross Martin in order to give filmmakers and writers in the horror/sci-fi genres a venue to have their work showcased to people in the industry. We are very proud that the majority of the [...]

I didn’t want to let this film slip by me. I am a huge fan of Christian Bale and enjoy Hugh Jackman quite a bit. Toss in Michael Caine and for [censor]’s sake I am there!

The Pursuit of Happyness is a powerful story that dances around the heartbreaks and victories of life, while being anchored by a inspiring performance from Will Smith.

I have no theory to explain it, nor even the rudiments of the seeds which might become a hypothesis, but I have for some time noted that since at least as far back the 1940’s, decades which begin with an odd number are cinematically stronger than decades which begin with an even number. The magisterial ’50’s, ’90’s and the rock solid ’70’s surpass the ’40’s, ’60’s and ’80’s by a substantial margin.

I hope you all had your fill of turkey over the past week, I know I did. The five day holiday period was dominated by holdovers from the prior weekend. Penguins and Bond proved to be more than a match for any of the newcomers, a few of which came in as turkeys. Ha! I made a pun.

You could call today Super Tuesday. The market is being flooded with all manner of Super-titles. Box sets, new stuff, old stuff, you name it and its here. That said, my selection for the week does not wear red and blue tights, nor does it wear a cape.

Being a film critic in Los Angeles two things are for certain: you are jaded and you are burnt-out. You write so many negative reviews that the venom seeps into your soul until you can no longer recognize yourself. The last time you saw Originality was; well hell it was a long, long time ago.

In 1968, having already gained much notoriety for his Fistful of Dollars trilogy, Sergio Leone directed what many of his admirers consider to be his greatest work: Once Upon a Time in the West, one of the signature Spaghetti Westerns.

Release Date: November 22, 2006
I am not what you would call an avid follower of The D, but I do enjoy the hell out of the Tenacious D CD and the passion with which they bring the worlds of metal and comedy together. Jack Black is absolutely hilarious, and with Kyle Gass at [...]

Release Date: November 22, 2006
When I saw the first trailer for Deja Vu I was less than impressed. It looked like as decent action thriller with the usual Tony Scott visual flair, but I didn’t see the hook. Why should I care about this movie? I suspected I would get a little [...]

Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the kind of movie that makes you loathe the holiday movie season. It is a movie that is devoid of heart and soul, it grinds the holiday season down to a competition of lights. It presents a story in a town of some alternate universe, probably [...]

Release Date: November 17, 2006
Bond is back. And in many ways he never left. Wait, no, that’s not true. Bond has been gone a long time. For whatever reason, I could never get behind Pierce Brosnan. I sort of liked Die Another Day and I wanted to like Goldeneye, but [...]

In honor of the recently released (and super awesome) Casino Royale, we here at Film School Rejects wanted to give you a little something extra. What better way to celebrate the re-birth of Bond than with the re-birth of his favored and fabled martini - The Vesper.
The Vesper is a gin based (traditional) martini [...]

Release Date: November 22, 2006
Darren Aronofsky first made a splash with the strange mathematical thriller Pi, he followed that with the bizarre anti-drug tale of Requiem for a Dream, now he makes a stab for the stars with The Fountain. This latest film is not an easy one to describe. If you put it all [...]

Dateline: Wednesday November 22, 2006
Ever notice how people say “Happy Turkey Day” even though everyone but the turkeys are happy? Well on the eve of that wonderful holiday, I’m gonna let you guys chew on that while you read today’s wonderful news!
Spidey! Back in Black!…and ummm Red.
In honor of the new spidey flick, Sony Pictures [...]

The infelicitously named Alejandro Gonz¡lez I±¡rritu, director of 21 Grams and Amores Perros, gives us a tale woven of several other smaller tales which, though separate in time and space, are linked together like a chain.

So, you’d like to learn a little more about the man who brought Kong back to life? Maybe you’ve heard about his ambitions to bring the popular Halo video games to the silver screen? Or maybe you’re curious about the man responsible for the epic grandeur of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Let’s go back in time, then, somewhere between Shaun of the Dead, the Evil Dead movies and Re-Animator, and revisit Peter Jackson’s 1992 zombie-horror schlockfest, Dead Alive.

I know, it’s a day early, but that can’t stop me from taking a look at the new films hitting the big screen just waiting to be that special something to make your celebrations complete. That, or they just hope to tempt you enough to grab some cash over the extended holiday weekend. Whatever the case, the films opening today look to fill a few different needs.

With Thanksgiving only a few days away, this week we’ll take a look at the Top 5 movies that deal with loving, caring, neurotic, endearing families sitting around a table, eating turkey with some gravy and sweet potatoes!

Recently I had the pleasure, nay the honor, of interviewing Tim Bradstreet. To say that I was excited to be speaking to the man who has so eloquently shaped and illustrated the mystique of some of my favorite comic book heroes, would be a landslide of an understatement. If you have not heard of this [...]

Hollywood loses a great, Anne Hathaway joins Steve Carrell, Smokin’ Aces gets us all rowdy and much, much more…

ased on the novel “You’re Going to Prison,” by Jim Hogshire, Let’s Go to Prison is a silly comedy that skates by on goofy earnestness despite it not really being about anything.

Wow, what a month. October 2006 delivered some of the best films of the year. It was the kind of month that makes me glad to be a lover of film. There good movies, bad movies, movies that land in between, a variety of genres, all offering a little bit for everybody.

The reviews on this will probably be a mix of A’s and F’s. It’s either love or hate for the D, and movie-goers won’t be able to know which side they’re on until they pay their ten bucks for a seat.