The new movie Date Night, in which Steve Carell and Tina Fey star as a suburban couple haplessly stuck in the middle of some sort of crime spree for an evening's time, is the latest installment in the grand tradition of "up-all-night" movies. To commemorate the occasion, I've pulled together my favorite cult classics of the underappreciated genre and listed them here. Feel free to peruse and then promptly tell me all of the ones I forgot.

Tags: 25th Hour, Adventures in Babysitting, Before Sunrise, Cloverfield, Date Night, Dazed and Confused, Do the Right Thing, From Dusk Til Dawn, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Midnight Madness, Night of the Comet, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, Spike Lee, Steve Carell, Tina Fey

If there's one thing you are guaranteed to get out of a Quentin Tarantino film, it's good dinner table conversation. Not to say that you'll necessarily want to discuss the events of a Tarantino film around your dinner table, especially if there are children present, but within the reality of the movies themselves you can expect to spend at least part of your time in a restaurant or a bar, watching characters converse over a meal or drinks. In Inglourious Basterds, we get three -- one in a kitchen over milk, one in a bar over drinks and one in a restaurant over strudel with cream -- and each one of these little sit-downs is just as pulse-poundingly terrifying as any action sequence you will ever see.

Tags: Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino, review

Spike Lee is far better known for what he does off the screen than what he puts on it. It's a shame, because Lee is one of the few directors working today whose style permeates every movie he makes. Like Scorcese's work, one need only look at a few shots to immediately peg a Spike Lee Joint. And like the people IN Scorsese's work, Spike Lee appears to relish picking fights. After settling the fight he had over WWII movies with Clint Eastwood, Spike has now set the stage for one with penis-obsessed director-producer Judd Apatow. For what Apatow has done to shame my Johnson, he deserves to get punched out.

Tags: Clint Eastwood, Do The Right Thing, feud, Flags of Our Fathers, Judd Apatow, Letters from Iwo Jima, Miracle at St. Anna, Mo Better Blues, Morgan Freeman, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee

In the last couple of months, we here at the Moviefile have brought you quite a few reports from Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards casting couch. And I have to say, out of all those reports -- from Brad Pitt to Eli Roth to Ryan the Temp -- I don't think I ever did have an LP-scratch-moment of casting surprise until today. [Not even Mike Myers? - Zach] The film, which began its principal photography yesterday on location in Germany has a cast as varied as the director's lexicon of profanity.

Tags: Cloris Leachman, Dancing With the Stars, Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino

These days, you can't fire up the Internet without hearing more casting news about Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. Today is no exception, as we bring you not one, not two, but three new bastards and one bastardette who have joined the cast. German actors Christoph Waltz and Til Schweiger, American comedian Paul Rust and National Treasure star Diane Kruger are the latest additions, according to reports in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. I'm pretty sure roughly one-third of the globe's population are playing roles in this movie, or have at least been considered for a role. In fact, just a few weeks ago, Tarantino even tried to tap me for a part.

Tags: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Inglorious Bastards, Mike Myers, National Treasure, Quentin Tarantino, Simon Pegg

Nope, that joke still isn't old. But lest you think that I am actually calling Brad Pitt and Simon Pegg total jerks (they're not -- Pitt speaks up for causes around the world, and Pegg gladly shakes hands with nerds), what I actually mean is that they are both involved in bastard-related casting news. Pitt has definitely signed on to play Lt. Aldo Raines, the Tennessee-born hillbilly leader of the Nazi-killing WWII Army unit known as the Inglorious Bastards, the subject (and title) of writer/director Quentin Tarantino's next film. Tarantino flew to France specifically to recruit the actor, and the news that he has accepted has made me stab several pictures of Nazis in excitement. (I currently do not have access to real Nazis.)

Tags: B.J. Novak, Brad Pitt, David Krumholtz, Eli Roth, Hostel, Hot Fuzz, Inglorious Bastards, Nastassja Kinski, Numbers, Quentin Tarantino, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Spaced, The Office, WWII

Now that things are really cooking on Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards, yet another bit of casting news has come rolling down the pipeline. Not a day after it was announced that director Eli Roth was joining the cast as the baseball bat-wielding Donnie Donowitz, it was announced this morning that The Office's B.J. Novak has signed on as well. Novak will play PFC Utivich, who is described as a soldier of slight build who comes from New York. In the script, Utivich quickly ascends the ranks and by midway through the movie has attained the rank of Major and grown a fugly beard. While I was maybe lying about that second part, this will be Novak's first movie since the small part he played in last year's Knocked Up. And since his character Ryan on The Office is apparently on his way to jail, which will most likely cut down on his screen time, scheduling shouldn't be too big of a problem.

Tags: B.J. Novak, Eli Roth, Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino, Ryan, The Office, WWII

After months of geeking out over every bit of news we could find about Quentin Tarantino's war movie -- and misspelling the title every time we wrote about it -- it's finally here: the teaser trailer for Inglourious Basterds. And while it looks pretty bad-ass, it also kinda looks like any other World War II movie, if all World War II movies had Brad Pitt leading an all-Jewish squad of Nazi-killers. While it was cool seeing actors B. J. Novak and Samm Levine on the team, we were kind of hoping for a bit more of Quentin's usually inspired casting of familiar faces. However, Hostel director Eli Roth did creep us out as the smirking, baseball-bat-wielding sadist of the group, so maybe Quentin should have cast more of today's best-known directors? We would totally go see a movie where Quentin led a team of eight filmmakers against the Nazis -- or better yet, the MPAA! Here's who we think should be on that directorial dream team.

Tags: Brad Pitt, directors, Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino