“The Ballad of Narayama” is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens up between its origins in the kabuki style and its subject of starvation in a

Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful opens Friday and, so far, buzz has been generally good. The industry tracking has been even better, with some outlets projecting a near $100 million opening weekend. So it should come as no

The new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘After Earth’ teases the savage environments and beasts that Jaden Smith encounters on a long abandoned post-apocalyptic Earth.

Which star won’t be back for X-Men: Days of Future Past? Does Marc Webb‘s latest Amazing Spider-Man 2 tweet hint at yet another villain? Is there an Iron Man 3 contest where Marvel is looking for young Tony Starks? Where

Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s

The first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan‘s After Earth was a pretty tightly controlled thing, showing characters played by Will and Jaden Smith stranded on Earth in a future that has seen evolution turn decidedly against humans. This second trailer

Judge Reinhold will reprise his role from ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ with a cameo in the CBS series pilot with Eddie Murphy and Brandon T. Jackson

Sitting down with Robert Downey Jr. is as cool as you think it would be. The guy is smart, funny and comes off as incredibly open about, well, everything. So when a bunch of journalists got a chance to chat

Think about Facebook, iPods, iTunes — all things you might use every single day. They all have seeds in the “little program that could,” called Napster. Co-created by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker in the late 1990s, the file-sharing service/social

Lionsgate’s series of Capitol Portraits for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire continues today with three images of former victors. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) refuses to take hers sitting down (though perhaps that’s just due to the practical difficulties of wrangling her

Listen on the player above, or download this week’s episode as an mp3 here (right-click, “save as.”) This week on the Frotcast, we’ve got Bret back, live from Manhattan and [...]The post Frotcast 142: Matt Ufford, and Your Favorite Directors’

A Will Ferrell and Adam McKay comedy series titled ‘The Spoils of Babylon’ has received a six-episode order from IFC.