The Top Five Cars That Won’t Start in the Friday the 13th Movies
Today is the only Friday the 13th of the year, so if you haven’t started your Jason movie marathon yet, you’d better hurry and fire up the VCR—it’s going to be 244 days before we’re blessed with another one! For the uninitiated, Friday the 13th is a horror film franchise based around the (morally suspect) […]
Audi and Captain America Partner for New Movie
Through the years, the members of the Avengers have driven a wide array of vehicles. At one point, Tony Stark’s ride of choice was an Acura, and the Washington, DC portrayed in Captain America: The Winter Soldier seemed to be populated only with vehicles from General Motors. In May’s much-anticipated Captain America: Civil War, it […]
Anime Racing Spectacle ‘Redline’ (2009) Movie Review
Animation is a boundless medium that can communicate stories in a way that can’t be done through live-action productions. While that endless world-building potential is typically squandered on talking animals and magical spell-casters, some animators use their craft to elevate entertainment to an art. For as many live-action racing movies that have been made over the years, few capture […]
Kevin Spacey Does Something Nice, Just Like in That One Kevin Spacey Movie [VIDEO]
![Kevin Spacey Does Something Nice, Just Like in That One Kevin Spacey Movie [VIDEO]](https://thenewswheel.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fthenewswheel.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F02%2FKevin-Spacey-surprises-aspiring-actor-as-part-of-Chevrolet-DayItForward-campaign.jpeg&q=90&w=760&h=400&zc=1 "Kevin Spacey Does Something Nice, Just Like in That One Kevin Spacey Movie [VIDEO]")
Chevy is running its #DayItForward campaign today, using the extra 24 hours allotted by this Leap Year to commit random acts of kindness/marketing. The whole thing is ostensibly inspired by the film Pay It Forward—a movie that no one particularly likes, but that everyone has had to watch at least once in junior high school. […]
Pee-wee Herman Drives a Fiat 600 in Upcoming ‘Big Holiday’ Movie
Few characters from our childhood are as memorable–in both good and bad ways–as Paul Reuben’s eccentric Pee-wee Herman. The bow tie-touting man-child had a stand-up show, multiple movies, and an acclaimed television show before being retired as 1980s nostalgia. After a long hiatus in the 1990s and 2000–and proving in 2011 on Broadway that Pee-wee […]
Movie Review: ‘A Faster Horse’ Ford Mustang Documentary
Few cars have the prestigious reputation and storied history that the Ford Mustang carries, so it’s no surprise the pony car would eventually receive its own documentary. The development of the sixth generation of the Mustang was the perfect opportunity to gain insight into what makes the model so special. A Faster Horse, which debuted at […]
Optimus Prime Truck from Transformers Movies Set for Auction
Many kids played with Transformers action figures for hours and hours as they grew up and now they have a chance to own another iconic Transformers toy that’s much more suitable for an adult. The truck used to portray Optimus Prime® from the Transformers movie franchise will be available to the highest bidder at the Barrett-Jackson auction, […]
Toyota Partners with Fluency Productions to Promote Sci-Fi Movie
If you’ve never heard of Fluency Productions, you’re not alone. The multi-platform content studio belongs to the better-known NBCUniversal Hispanic Group, and it’s about to release a new sci-fi movie titled Reversion. In order to help promote the movie ahead of its release, its automotive sponsor Toyota has partnered with the studio to create original […]
The Comical Epic Fail of India’s ‘Taarzan: The Wonder Car’ Movie
To successfully launch a new car, you need to garner a lot of attention and interest, especially if it’s a model that’s outside of most people’s price range. What better way to generate hype than to introduce the vehicle as the headlining star of its own cinematic adventure? Unless you make it a romantic revenge […]
Kevin Bacon Attacks Children In New Cop Car Movie Trailer
Looking for a good, white-knuckled thriller for respite from the wave of sub-par blockbusters saturating theaters this summer? Cop Car, a unique crime thriller being released August 7th, might be up your alley. Focus Features, which purchased Cop Car at the Sundance Festival in January for about $2 million, released the full trailer for the […]
Movie Review: ‘Kaz’ (2014), the Gran Turismo Documentary
When Gran Turismo 6 was released in 2014, PlayStation wanted to make sure everyone knew the game was a big deal. So Sony funded a documentary on the video game series’ creator, Kazunori Yamauchi. Entitled Kaz: Pushing the Virtual Divide, the full-length documentary was released on January 22, 2014, online. If you’ve seen […]
Furious 7 is Now the Highest Grossing Movie in Chinese History
Furious 7, a film that finally answers the question “Why are there no good roles for bald men?” has been tearing it up at the box office lately. And nowhere is the action-heavy carsploitation flick more popular than in China, where it has grossed a whopping $325.8 million in just 15 days. That haul already […]
Can You Match These 10 Vehicles to their Classic Car Movies?
Our friends across the pond, TheCarPeople, recently conducted a survey to find out what the United Kingdom’s ten favorite (er, “favourite”) driving films are. They’ve also given us this nifty gif, which features an iconic vehicle from each carsploitation flick that was chosen. Can you match each car to the movie it came from? Make […]
BMW Confirms Partnership with Next Mission: Impossible Movie
When you think of BMW, you think luxury, power, and performance. You think of the type of car that a spy, like James Bond or Jason Bourne, would drive. And from now on, you’ll be thinking of the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation movie, because BMW has just announced its new role as exclusive […]
MINI Coopers Save the Day in New Pixels Movie
Wouldn’t it be awesome if Pac-Man was real? Well, no, not really, because he would likely try to kill you—at least if the new trailer for the upcoming movie Pixels is anything to go by. [ Click to Watch the Trailer ] The premise of the movie is this: aliens pick up signals from ’80s […]
Revealed: How Hollywood Stunt Crews Flip Cars in Movies
For all the CGI-filled blockbusters hitting the movie circuit every summer, nothing beats a good ol’ fashioned car crash. Action films these days might not be rivaling the sheer quantity of stunt crashes like those in The Blues Brothers, but their extreme executions are becoming increasingly impressive. If you’ve ever wondered how stunt crews launch […]
Review: ‘Super Hybrid’ (2011) Is a Killer Car Movie
...mostly because it slaughters a fun premise
There’s nothing more terrifying than a man-eating car going 15 mph. Well, technically there is–but that’s the scariest thing you’ll find in Super Hybrid, a 2011 Canadian B-movie which received limited American home media distribution. What else would you expect from the director of the US remake of One Missed Call and the […]
Top Five Car Horror Movies for Halloween
There aren’t a whole lot of good horror movies about cars, because, well, frankly cars aren’t that scary. Any horror movie villain that can be defeated by Eddie Murphy stuffing bananas up its tailpipe is not that terrifying. But gearheads who are looking for a way to make today’s spooky celebrations a bit more automotive-themed […]