Saoirse Ronan stars in “How I Live Now””How I Live Now” is prolific filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s latest film, adapted from a…
Paramount Pictures has released four new character themed posters for “Anchorman: The Legend Continues.” Featuring the franchise’s four main stars—Will…
Domhnall Gleeson and Bill Nighy star in “About Time”Tonight’s mystery Director’s Choice screening at the Savannah Film Festival was truly…
SCAD brought quite the party to Broughton Street for the opening night ofthe 16th annual Savannah Film Festival.Celebrating its Sweet Sixteen…
An annual tradition here at the Savannah Film Festival is a mid-week mystery screening, the Director’s Choice. No announcement is made,…
Pinewood Atlanta Studios as of October 2013.Photo: Pinewood Atlanta StudiosIn April 2013, The Pinewood Group announced plans to break ground…
Ben Affleck to film his next project in GeorgiaAlthough Ben Affleck’s first followups to his Best Picture Oscar-winner “Argo” have…
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels filming “Dumb and Dumber To” atGlover Park in the Marietta SquareThe Farrelly Brothers’ “Dumb and…
Now in its 16th year, the Savannah Film Festival is a distinguished, star-studded jewel on Georgia’s film festival crown. Over…
“THE ODDS ARE NEVER IN OUR FAVOR,” a remnant from the set of”The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” in Southwest AtlantaIt…
Jeremy Irons will be a featured guest at this year’s Savannah Film FestivalJeremy Irons has been announced as a special…
The 2013 Savannah Film Festival honorees (from left):Alexander Payne, Natalie Dormer, Terence StampLater this month, the Savannah Film Festival will…
Jennifer Lawrence, Jason Momoa and Jim Carrey are all hard at work on Georgia sets.Leading up to next month’s release…
Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman star in “Prisoners”If 2012 was a banner year for film production in Georgia, 2013 has…
The lineup for this year’s Savannah Film Festival was released this week, revealing an expanded selection for the 16th year…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson star in “Don Jon”For all three of you itching for an “Angels in the Outfield”…
Editor’s Note: Today marks a special occasion for me. I first put a bug in the ear of Lucy Doughty…
A crowd forms outside the DeSoto Theatre for RIFF’s closing night film,”The 25,000 Mile Love Story”The 10th annual Rome International…
P.J. Boudousqué stars in “Coldwater”Since its SXSW premiere, Vincent Grashaw’s “Coldwater” has embarked on a successful festival run, leading up…
Marc Halberstadt and Nathan Blindman appear in “CowJews and Indians”“CowJews and Indians,” as its massive title might suggest, is interesting…
Carol Collier and Phelim McAleer appear in “FrackNation”“FrackNation” is a feature documentary from directors Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magdalena…
Bruce Dern and Will Forte star in “Nebraska”The 16th annual Savannah Film Festival has announced Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska” as its…
Naomi Watts, James Frecheville, Robin Wright and Xavier Samuel in “Adore”“Adore,” premiering at Sundance with its original title “Two Mothers,”…
The marquee at the DeSoto Theatre during last year’s festivities.Now in its tenth year, the Rome International Film Festival has…
Ryan Jones stars in “Hide Your Smiling Faces”Having heard great things out of Berlinale and Tribeca, Daniel Patrick Carbone’s “Hide…
Starting today, September 1st, at the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta, you can catch twelve different films from Woody Allen over…
By this time next week, the 10th annual Rome International Film Festival will be underway in Northwest Georgia’s signature city.…
Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker star in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” has a lot going for it.…
Base camp at the Atlanta Civic Center. Photo: @”Kill the Messenger” wraps production this week, but has spent the last several…
A throng of film fans and cat ladies gathers outside Birmingham’s famed Alabama Theatre.Though my father hails from Alabama, my…
After filming in Atlanta last spring and premiering at Sundance this past winter, we’ve waited a while to hear what…
With Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” continuing to expand in theaters across the country, more and more people have been knocked…
Period cars parked on set at Red Top Mountain State Park.Photo: Skip Hammerman”Kill the Messenger” is the latest high profile…
Alan Rickman and company star in “CBGB”One of the more non-traditional Georgia productions of the last year is writer-director-producer Randall…
I’ve spent plenty of time over the last two years talking about Georgia’s film festival circuit, which is much more…
Editor’s Note: I am pleased to introduce a new member of the Reel Georgia team, Christo Stevens. It will be…
Campbell Scott and James Cromwell star in “Still Mine””Still Mine” has been on my radar since premiering in Toronto last…
“Prisoners,” directed by Denis Villeneuve (“Incendies”) and written by Aaron Guzikowski (“Contraband”), is the latest Georgia-lensed production to release a…
Paul Rudd.Photo: Skip HammermanAs more stars pop up in Atlanta to film scenes for “Anchorman: The Legend Continues,” you can…
Will Ferrell on the set of “Anchorman: The Legend Continues” atWoodruff Park in Atlanta. Photo: Skip HammermanMaking use of Georgia’s incredible…
Harrison Ford and Nicole Beharie star in “42”Sharing movie houses with expanding arthouse hits like “The Place Beyond the Pines,”…
Colin Farrell, Jon Hamm and Nicole Kidman have all found work in Atlanta this spring.It is certainly no secret that…
Lesley Warren and Cooper Guy star in “Blood of Man”Right from the film’s first frame, as an angry mother washes…
Maria Decotis stars in “euphonia”Perhaps the best example of experimental film out of the 2013 Atlanta Film Festival is “euphonia.”…
Triple Horse Studios has announced plans to build a $100 million movie studio in Covington. The county seat of Newton…
Surya and Rocky Braat star in “Blood Brother”The Atlanta Film Festival has finally announced the Audience Award winning films and…
For nearly a decade, MovieMaker Magazine has been releasing an annual list of the top film festivals worth the prize…
After “Identity Thief” debuted to huge numbers, despite a critical mauling, “42” marks the next Georgia film release this year…
“No Place on Earth” closed out the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival back in February. Janet Tobias’ stirring documentary on a…
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Audience Award winning films will receive encore screenings on April 21st. Georgia Theatre Company at…
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s game-changing adventure film “Jurassic Park,” Universal Studios is re-releasing the film in…
James Ponsoldt walks the red carpet at theAtlanta Film Festival for his film,”The Spectacular Now”In the past two years, James Ponsoldt…
Deragh Campbell stars in Best Narrative Feature award winner,”I Used To Be Darker”Though I’m a bit behind in my ATLFF…
Medient Studios Inc. has announced plans for a 1,500 acre movie studio near Savannah. The company is billing the project…
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More of a showcase for Georgia cinema than ever before, this year’s Atlanta Film Festival is filled to the brim…
Writer-director Andrew Robertson’s feature narrative debut is “The Mansion,” a post-apocalyptic thriller in the same vein as “The Road.” Zombies…
The cast of “Need for Speed” clockwise from top left: Aaron Paul, Dakota Johnson,Ramon Rodriguez, Michael Keaton, Dominic Cooper, Imogen…
Tye Sheridan, Matthew McConaughey and Jacob Lofland star in “Mud”Filmmaker Jeff Nichols has made a name for himself crafting nuanced…
Grayson Sides stars in “The House at the Edge of the Galaxy”Although feature films garner most of the attention here,…
From left: Ray McKinnon, Abigail Spencer, James Ponsoldt and Joseph Morganare all set to walk the red carpet at various…
Tina Meier is featured in “Submit the Documentary”As the world bemoans the death of originality– complaining that the entertainment industry…
At nearly 40 years old (37, to be exact), the Atlanta Film Festival has earned the distinction of Georgia’s foremost…
Robinne Lee and Sam Jaeger star in “Miss Dial””Miss Dial” had its world premiere at the Macon Film Festival leading…
The famed Plaza Theatre, home of this year’s Atlanta Film Festival.(Image from www.plazatlanta.com)Only nine more days until Georgia’s signature film…
Clockwise from top left: “AKA Blondie,” “Six Million and One,””Code of the West,” “Death of a Cemetery”For the first time at…
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” doesn’t come out until November 22nd, but the Georgia-filmed blockbuster-in-waiting is kicking its promotional campaign…
Shannon Harper stars in “Welcome to Pine Hill”From the first moment we hear the crickets chirp in the overgrown shrubs…
The Cox Capitol Theatre marquee.The 8th annual Macon Film Festival wrapped up a couple of weeks ago and while I…
“Anchorman: The Legend Continues” is about to begin filming in Atlanta. Director Adam McKay’s sequel stars Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Steve…
The “Videographer’s Hella-Big Show” puts on a quarterly film festival showcasing local, independent short films in Athens. The next event…
Last September, “La Source” struck a cord with me at the Rome International Film Festival. The impressive documentary, centered around…
Dean Tardioli stars in “The Suicide Kid”I haven’t embarked on my filmmaking journey yet, but I can imagine one of…
McCaleb Burnett and Cassandra Freeman star in “How We Got Away With It”You never know what you are going to…
Christopher Denham, Clea DuVall, Kerry Bishé, Rory Cochrane, Ben Affleck,Tate Donovan and Scoot McNairy star in “Argo”Here it comes! This…
The 85th Academy Awards are this Sunday and though you’ve already seen my top 20 films of 2012, I also…
Contrasting portraits of the Big Easy; “Tchoupitoulas” (top)and “The Man Who Ate New Orleans” (bottom)Aside from both being gritty, distinctly…
The 13th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival came to an end last night as the documentary “No Place On Earth”…
Saskia Rosendahl stars in “Lore”Nele Trebs, one of the young stars of “Lore,” was on hand for the film’s east…
Pamela Bowen stars in “Shoot the Moon,” a big winner in MaconThere’s still one day to go here at the…
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller star in “The Spectacular Now”The Atlanta Film Festival will officially announce its lineup any moment…
Shot in Atlanta late last summer, “The Internship” stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a couple of salesmen turned…
The Atlanta Film Festival has been slowly releasing a few titles at a time, but won’t officially announce the lineup…
Ed Koch, the subject of Neil Barsky’s “Koch”I was born in the mid-1980s and only visited New York City for…
I have yet to see Seth Gordon’s “Identity Thief,” so I can’t promise you that it is any good. However,…
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s opening night gala took place last Wednesday at the Cobb Energy Centre in Vinings. The…
Or Ben-Melech, Eli Finish, Asi Levi, Danny Steg, Naama Shitritand Moshe Ashkenazi star in “The World is Funny”Tiberias is a…
A scene from “Hava Nagila (The Movie)”The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is celebrating its bar/bat mitzvah this year! Thirteen years…
The Atlanta Film Festival is right around the corner (next month!) and this year, Creative Loafing is partnering with ATLFF again…
There is a lot of intrigue surrounding the new Georgia indie film “euphonia.” A purposefully lowercase title… a tagline of…
Instead of going with the usual speech about the subjective nature of film criticism and how one might see this…
Sam Claflin and Jennifer Lawrence star in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”Easily, the highest profile Georgia release of 2013 is…
Tomorrow night, the 13th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival kicks off at the Cobb Energy Centre. The opening night gala…
“No Soliciting” is a new comedy from writer-director-actor Will Dove. Filmed in Atlanta in 2012, the movie earned a one-week…
The first leg of Georgia’s film festival circuit is about to kick off with the always robust Atlanta Jewish Film…
Top: Jessica Chastain stars in “Zero Dark Thirty”Bottom: Chastain stars in “Mama” alongside Nikolaj Coster-WaldauIt’s hard to think of another…
Gabrielle Union, John Slattery, Jena Malone and Zach Gilford star in “In Our Nature””In Our Nature” is perhaps the most disappointing…
Jennifer Lawrence wins one of four GFCA awards for “Silver Linings Playbook”The 2012 Georgia Film Critics Association nominations were just…
Tom Holland stars in “The Impossible”The harrowing true story of the Alvarez family’s survival of and reunion following the 2004…
Adam Scott stars in “A.C.O.D.”Last spring, a host of stars were in town to film “A.C.O.D.” (or “Adult Children of…