Follow ShowHype on Twitter
IFC.com - Indie Eye Latest Blog Posts |
Add as Favorite
Claim Blog 
|
http://www.ifc.com/blogs/indie-eye/ - The all-seeing Indie Eye blog reads the news so you don't have to. (Well, maybe just the A & E section).
Click on the "hype it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.
If you're the owner of IFC.com - Indie Eye, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.
Is the sincere yet ultimately bathetic movie that is "Precious" really going to become the new flashpoint for talking about Race in America? We were totally due for a paradigm shift -- Spike Lee's had his 20 years -- but... this? It's not just all the arguments about whether or not "Precious" ...
Movies
Spike Lee
When's the last time you saw a big studio movie that had a sex scene? A real one -- you know, one with something more graphic than what you'd fine in "Sex And The City"? There's "A History of Violence," and Keira Knightley seems pretty into getting naked but I know for a fact no one saw "Domino" ...
Movies
Sex and the City
Keira Knightley
Jennifer's Body
"The Princess and the Frog" opens nationwide December 11, but hits New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on Wednesday. It's a slow, buzz-building rollout for Disney's much-publicized attempt to resurrect the traditional animation that transformed the company from mere corporation to cultural touchstone. ...
Celebrities
Disney Studios
Kermit The Frog
Shrek
Today, innumerable thousands of shrieking tweens (and older counterparts who really should know better) will descend on the nation's multiplexes, baying for "New Moon" blood. The phenomenon isn't limited to theaters: Forks, Washington -- where Stephanie Meyer set her novel without ever visiting ...
Twilight
Twilight
New Moon
Here in America, we have solid theme park rides based on movies that, for the most part, make sense, like Universal Studios' "E.T. Adventure," or the "Wayne's World" roller coaster "Hurler" (since sold and de-"Wayne"'d by Paramount, but still). But in Rome, they're building a ride based on the ...
Celebrities
Dante
Jeanne-Claude -- Christo's collaborator and partner -- died today in Manhattan at the age of 74. It was fitting, in a way, not only because the artist pair have been residents of the city since 1964, but because their last big completed project was "The Gates," which turned Central Park's ...
Movies
Bemoaning the failures of the Oscars in the Best Documentary department has become an annual ritual, like spazzing about filing your income taxes or dusting off stale jokes about March Madness obsessions. So the news that this year's doc shortlist of 15 potential nominees is full of omissions ...
Celebrities
Academy Awards
Nothing says 1969 like "Easy Rider," the bad-trip Altamont to the ebullient celebration of the next year's "Woodstock." While the hippies were partying down, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson were discovering there was no place for them in America, either old or new. On the occasion ...
Movies
Dennis Hopper
There's never been a better time to indulge in a little Italian cinema, at least if you live on the coasts. For New Yorkers, that's meant classics from the likes of Visconti, Rossellini and Pietro Germi at the Italian Neo-Realism series at the Lincoln Center, and a new 35mm print of Vittorio De ...
Celebrities
Friday sees the release of an abridged version of John Woo's new film, "Red Cliff," a two-part, five-hour epic condensed for American audiences into what's still an admittedly pretty entertaining regular-length feature. As Glenn Kenny notes at The Auteurs while comparing the two versions, what's ...
Celebrities
John Woo
Paycheck
Red Cliff
Mission: Impossible II
"The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" open Friday, Werner Herzog's supposed latest exercise in unhinged lunacy. But as a colleague observed after a screening, "If you didn't know going in Herzog had made it, would you be able to tell?" I'd say probably not: there's none of his trademark ...
Movies
Werner Herzog
Sacha Baron Cohen
Some directors are automatic punchlines, their names synonyms for lousy. There's Adam Sandler cohort Steve Brill ("Without A Paddle," "Drillbit Taylor"), Eddie Murphy's favorite Brian Robbins ("Norbit," "Meet Dave") and of course Shawn Levy ("A Night At The Museum," "The Pink Panther," "Cheaper ...
Harry Potter
Chris Columbus
Harry Potter
Shawn Levy
Daniel Radcliffe
Jena Malone
Home Alone
"Dazed and Confused" is effectively beloved by everyone who's seen it -- including me -- so I got uber-excited about the prospect of Richard Linklater making a "spiritual sequel." And now it's dead on the ground. It was apparently called "That's What I'm Talking About," in honor -- we presume -- ...
Movies
Richard Linklater
Wes Anderson
Being unreasonably easy to scare, I'm a soft touch when it comes to horror movies and basically refuse to have anything to do with them at this point, but "The Exorcist" is one movie that's never bugged me. But it has scared the hell (heh) out of every Catholic I know; it's the rare horror movie ...
Movies
The Exorcist
William Friedkin
The Unborn
C Me Dance
As you're doubtless aware, the weekend saw "Precious" making $6.1 million from a measly 174 screens, doing well on its probable journey towards Best Picture; "Fantastic Mr. Fox" did well too, pulling roughly the same per-theater average as "The Darjeeling Limited" in its first weekend, which ...
Movies
Philip Seymour Hoffman
I work at home, so I love Twitter: it's a great way to break up the monotony of one room, one laptop and eight hours. If you're a user, you know that on the right-hand side of the page there's a list of "Trending Topics" -- frequently used phrases, frequently marked with a hash-tag -- that ...
Movies
Juno
Jason Reitman
Little Miss Sunshine
Paranormal Activity
Greenpeace is a good organization that's kind of itchily annoying, the same way a college activist getting you to sign a worthy petition is -- a point driven home quite literally when Bruce Willis was whacking activists with golf balls from his oil rig in "Armageddon." That image might be a good ...
Celebrities
An American Carol
Armageddon
Jon Turteltaub
David Zucker
Bill O'Reilly
Alan Polsky wanted to tell me a story about how Werner Herzog held a gun to his head and shattered his brother Gabe's eye socket with the butt of the pistol in the middle of shooting "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," but that was just wishful thinking. "We wanted things to go crazy so ...
Movies
Werner Herzog
We, as Americans, have failed to sufficiently appreciate and venerate the humble bicycle, which is why we all drive Hummers and 2012 is bearing down on us with global wrath. Or so I've been told. My point is that American cinema associates bicycles with bad people (think Mrs. Gulch a.k.a. The ...
Celebrities
The Revolution
Thief
David Koepp
In his long and storied career, Sir Ben Kingsley has played Lenin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Simon Wiesenthal, Meyer Lansky, Moses and Sweeney Todd. Thanks to his half-Indian background, he's also frequently been a go-to generic Middle Easterner: one of his first parts was as a Pakistani cab-driver ...
