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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, [...]

Based partly on the life of one of the founding fathers of the CIA, James “Jesus” Angelton, The Good Shepherd follows Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) through a thick fog of deception and suspicion. When a man who loves and serves his country with pride is forced to make a decision that would effect the [...]

In We Are Marshall, the dubious tandem of Director McG (Charlie’s Angels) and actor Matthew McConaughey team up to relive the story of the 1970 Marshall University football team that was lost in a plane crash coming home from a game against Eastern Carolina. The deaths of 75 players, coaches and boosters was a devastating [...]

This last weekend before Christmas features a lot of new movies hitting theaters around the nation. Some are seeking to bring out families for the holiday vacation, some are looking for Oscar consideration, and still others are looking to spill a little blood in the name of good taste. All I hope for is something [...]

‘Tis the season for some Box Office battles, eh? Along with the painfully long Awards season that has been upon us for weeks now, it is also time for Hollywood to shell out some Holiday blockbusters – something to give the kiddies something to do while they are off school. For the most part, moms [...]

Welcome to this week’s Top 5 movies about Christmas, brought to you by RankAMovie.com. Yes, it’s that time of year again. I hope you’ve all bought your presents, stocked up on egg-nog, and pulled out the Bing Crosby records. Below are some of the best Christmas [...]

Release Date: December 20, 2006
Rocky Balboa? Seriously? The world of boxing needed a warrior with great heart and determination, and this is all they could come up with? Or maybe someone in Hollywood needed a story for a film and they just couldn’t conjure up anything original. Either way, the Italian Stallion is back for [...]

Another movie from Christopher Guest and Company, the ones who brought us Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, now graces the silver screen. Like its predecessors, For Your Consideration follows a now familiar cast as they play characters participating in some chosen endeavor. Before it was an amateur play, [...]

It has been a few days since I last blogged Oscar bliss, but rest assured that there has been plenty of news; all of which I will deliver to you now in my own special way.
We start with something that is more than just speculation, and it actually relates to the Oscar ceremonies (everything else, [...]

There has been much teasing lately of a theatrical trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers. First Yahoo! Movies gave us a countdown (which right now sits at about 30 minutes), then /Film tipped us off that the UK version of the trailer is live now! I would have posted this earlier, but I had to watch [...]

We’ve come a long long way together, Mel, through the good times and the bad. And I want to celebrate you baby, like I know I should. Mel Gibson has had a tough year. Got a little drunk, did a little driving, pointed some fingers, called a cop “sugar tits.” But [...]

Will Smith gathered some of the best reviews of his career on his way to the top with yet another number one movie. This week’s top film is the inspirational drama Pursuit of Happyness. It is based on the true story of a man who struggled out of homelessness to provide a better future for [...]

I know what you’re thinking. With a cast this huge, how can it be bad? Well, it probably can’t be bad. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Listen, I loved the cartoon as a kid and probably haven’t watched it in at least six years. I don’t think this need [...]

I was trying to kick around a few clever things to say but all I came up with was “Don’t call it the Good German” and “Was it a good Shepherd.” Yeah both of those suck. Luckily for me, and you, and the world, and Matt Damon, and Robert DeNiro, this movie did [...]

One thing we know for certain is the apocalypse is close. Paris Hilton is an actress. How’s that for a sign? What we don’t know is in what form the end will strike upon us. Alfonso Cuar³n read an interesting theory in a novel which he translated to an even better movie. Sci-fi has never [...]

Jamie Kennedy took the road less traveled to celebrity status. As a struggling actor in Hollywood, he used his talent for creating eclectically interesting personas to pose as his own “agent” to finally get meetings with real agents. So when Kennedy’s childhood passion to become a rapper stalled, he once again pursued an [...]