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It is always a great risk taking a popular play from the stage and transferring it onto the silver screen. If you can endure the criticism from theater purists and dumb it down enough for mainstream America to be entertained, then there is room for a bit of success. Rob Marshall found great […]

With Christmas out of the way, we are all anticipating the new year for one reason or another. Here at Film School Rejects we are anticipating what looks like a great year for movies. Here is a sneak peak of what Paramount Studios has in store for us in 2007, and if we think the […]

Here at FSR we already did a best Christmas films list, so why not a New Years list as well? The following flicks feature New Years celebrations and often come to my mind during the holiday. However, New Years is usually a plot used more often in TV shows where a characters night hinges on […]

With Christmas out of the way, we are all anticipating the new year for one reason or another. Here at Film School Rejects we are anticipating what looks like a great year for movies. Here is a sneak peak of what Warner Brothers Studios has in store for us in 2007, and if we think […]

The last hurrah for 2006 is upon us and what do the local theaters have to show for it? Nothing. At least, nothing in my area. There is not a single new release arriving locally for me to see. That means one thing, time to catch up on a couple that I have missed. It […]

Every year it is the same thing. Rushing around to greet grumpy relatives, opening gifts, feigning gratitude, piles of meat and cheese trays and ultimately a long, long nap - which is subsequently interrupted by a whiny child who needs batteries for their new gizmo that cost you an arm and a leg. Are we […]

This is easily one of the more pleasant surprises that I have encountered on the big screen for awhile. I was among those who scoffed at the very idea of a new Rocky movie. I remember really liking the original, and having a childhood enjoyment for IV (loved Ivan Drago), but I really don’t have […]

With Christmas out of the way, we are all anticipating the new year for one reason or another. Here at Film School Rejects we are anticipating what looks like a great year for movies. Here is a sneak peak of what Lions Gate and New Line Cinema has in store for us in 2007, and […]

Granted the plot to Dreamgirls is nothing new, we’ve all seen the pop band trying to make it story. This one features a black female pop band, the Dreamettes (later the Dreams), who are on the verge of stardom in the early 1960s and the consequences of their fame. You can pretty much predict what […]

Talk about a week of teasing from the studios… First we get great looks at 300 and Transformers - and now this! After a few days of forcing fanboys everywhere to sift through a blurred bootleg, Fox finally released a trailer for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in glorious HD Quicktime and other […]

I hope that Christmas sees all of you doing well. Today is the final week of new releases for the 2006 campaign, and the pickings are slim. The lack of a large number of worthy new releases makes this week the perfect time to use all of those gift cards you got to catch up […]

We here at Film School Rejects would like to wish all of our readers a Safe and Happy Holiday Season, and a Merry Christmas! We will be taking a break for the next few days so that we can spend time with our families, answering questions like “What movies have you seen lately?”, “What’s out […]

No holiday can compare to Halloween when it comes to the silver screen. Even if a movie is not specifically made with Halloween in mind, any horror movie can easily be incorporated into the celebration. Christmas is a little different. Though there may be more movies which are explicitly Christmas, there really […]

A second request for an online film review was sent to us, and here at film school rejects we were more than happy to take a look and give our opinion. This time the short clip is Belated Introduction, which can be seen here at youtube. The clip does not try to tell […]

Take two parts Star Wars, two parts Lord of the Rings, one part Dragonheart, and a dash of Harry Potter, mix well, servers as many as will pay. That seems to have been the formula for the genesis of Eragon, the latest attempt to create a fantasy film franchise based on a popular novel. Sadly, […]