Awesome Movies

This short scene from Disney’s upcoming animated film Big Hero 6 shows one of the early interactions between main character Hiro Hamada and his “personal healthcare companion” Baymax, a “synthforming” robot.

Screen Junkies and Cinema Sins switch tactics and combine forces to eviscerate The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Here’s Jon Bailey listing everything wrong with the world’s most convoluted Sony commercial.

The oil boom in Williston, ND attracted so many people that even some of those who got hired couldn’t find a place to stay. When a priest turned his church into temporary housing, tensions rose between locals and the overnighters.

(NSFW) Follow the adventures of the morally ambiguous art dealer Charlie Mortdecai and his manservant Jock Strapp. Based on the late Kyril Bonfiglioli’s novels. Starring Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor and Gwyneth Paltrow.

In the critically acclaimed sci-fi drama Coherence, a group of people are at their friend’s house when the power goes out after a comet sighting. They look around for help, only to find an exact replica of their friend’s house down the road.

Autómata is set in a bleak future where humans are relying increasingly on robots to survive. Antonio Banderas plays an insurance investigator for a robot company who finds out that their “products” might soon become their masters.

Art and Craft is a documentary about Mark Landis. For 30 years, Mark forged hundreds of paintings. But instead of earning fame or fortune, Mark would pretend to be a philanthropist and donate his forgeries to museums.

Film critic Tony Zhou looks at the various ways that films and series depict text messages and the Internet. He presents a couple of great implementations for text messages, but isn’t so sure about how online content is relayed.

A discharged soldier visits his fallen comrade’s grieving family, claiming that he promised his departed friend that he would look after them. From the makers of You’re Next. Starring Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey).

How It Should Have Ended points out the plot holes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Arnim Zola’s uselessness isn’t mentioned, but Black Widow’s secret and the Avengers-sized elephant in the room are more than enough.

The story of one of the world’s most extraordinary men, Stephen Hawking, following his life as a young man, his relationship with his wife Jane, his diagnosis of ALS, and his incredible discoveries in the face of terrible adversity.

Ever wonder what a Harry Potter movie would be like if Edgar Wright directed it? Check out this mashup of the fantasy series with the Scott Pilgrim movie by trailer enthusiast The Unusual Suspect. Original trailer here.

We like the absence of slick, Hollywood style in Ozan Biron’s teaser for CROOK. Sure, it doesn’t look like the Fast and the Furious series, but perhaps that’s why we get a grittier, more intimate vibe here. More, please.

MTV points out the Easter eggs from the past nine Marvel Studios movies – Iron Man to Captain America: The Winter Soldier – from Stan Lee’s cameos, hints to future movies and numerous references to Marvel’s comics.

A recent medical school grad takes a position at a mental institution and gets himself into a creepy jam in Brad Anderson’s Edgar Allen Poe-inspired Stonehearst Asylum; with Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.

(NSFW: Language) Michael Keaton goes for the performance of a lifetime in Alejandro Iñárritu’s upcoming film about a washed up actor who once played a superhero and his attempt to make a comeback on Broadway.

Publicly shamed and wrongfully accused of the murder of his girlfriend, a man suddenly grows demon-like horns and acquires supernatural abilities. Based on Joe Hill’s eponymous novel. Starring Daniel Radcliffe.

A rocky and icy landscape, a bubble of time and space, tiny monoliths and more abound in the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Like Rust Cohle, these clips raise more questions even as they reveal more about the movie.

(NSFW) “I hope you don’t mind me sayin’ this, but uh, that there is a dame to kill for.” The red band trailer for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is all about babes and blood. Doesn’t it now seem like the previous trailers used unpolished clips?

Quotacle lets you search movie clips based on dialogue. You can link to or embed the clip, turn it into a .gif,  download it or buy the movie. Some of our favorites haven’t been indexed yet, but the site’s library should grow in time.

“I will have war.” Bickering over Smaug’s treasure, and greed threatens to consume the heroes of Middle-earth in the The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the final film in the second Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

Film critic Tony Zhou looks at the editing style of the late Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Millennium Actress). His obsession with our multiple realities – social circles, memories, the Internet – led to his disorientating cuts and transitions.

(NSFW) After rewriting history in their favor, Nick, Jacob and Lou are forced to use the time-traveling hot tub once again to find Lou’s would be killer in the anti-Holiday movie Hot Tub Time Machine 2.