Possibly the unfunniest comedy ever made, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is…. Wait, let’s back up. That’s completely backward. Written by actor Jason Segal (Knocked Up Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks), Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the kind of romantic comedy straight men can get behind and not just because Segel unveils his manliness more times than you can [...]

If you’re in the mood for survival horror (and really, who isn’t?), then Dance of the Dead, directed by Gregg Bishop (The Other Side) and written by Joe Ballarini, will satiate your appetite and then some. Made on a modest budget (not a micro-budget, thankfully) and featuring a cast of unknowns (as is usually the [...]

A comedy-drama written and directed by Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway), The Promotion gently satirizes the insular world of grocery chains, consumerism, and, of course, the American Dream of success through hard work, hard effort, and fair play. Depending less on the broad, low-brow comedy generally associated with [...]

In just three films, actor/comedian/screenwriter Simon Pegg has gone from playing a lovable, if clueless, slacker fighting off a zombie apocalypse and saving his girlfriend, his best friend, and a pint of beer (not necessarily in that order) in Shaun of the Dead to an anti-slacker/overachiever/cop exiled to a small sleepy town experiencing a rash [...]

SXSW is a film festival that celebrates the long tail of indie films. The first two documentaries I’ve seen at SXSW have in one way or another focused on the idea of pop-culture escapism. Second Skin took a look at the addicted video gamers that inhabit the online virtual worlds, and now We Are Wizards [...]

Last night I was able to catch a great movie called Second Skin (bad title), about the culture behind the gamers who inhabit the virtual online worlds of World or Warcraft, Everquest and Second Life. Over 50 million people around the world live in these online worlds, and Second Skin takes a look at a [...]

Instead of leaving bright and early to get our SXSW press passes, I spent a couple hours this morning on the computer with my housemates in the kitchen, which has quickly become our central hang-out/office. I worked on stories for the site while Alex from FirstShowing, Neil and Brian from FilmSchoolRejects and Kevin Kelly from [...]

I’ve landed in Austin Texas, and it is much colder than expected. Isn’t Texas supposed to be warm/hot? I think I brought some of the bad weather from San Francisco with me. It’s been rainy, overcast, and cold. I don’t think anyone in the house we’re staying at planned for such. It appears that the [...]

I’m sitting in an airplane at 5:45am, waiting to take off to Colorado, and then to Austin Texas, for the South By South West Film Festival. Someday maybe this job will afford me a direct flight, sans connections. This will be my first time at SXSW, as well as my first time in Austin, so [...]

We’re back with another batch of movie trailers for some of the smaller independent films playing at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival: Barry Jenkins’ meet-cute drama Medicine For Melancholy, Jennifer Phang’s cosmic family saga Half-Life, Kevin Ely & Beau Leland’s rock opera Rainbow Around the Sun, Harmony Korine’s celeb-impersonator fantasy Mister Lonely, Marco [...]

A new batch of movie trailers for film playing at the 2008 South By Southwest film festival have hit the interwebs. Check out the trailers for Beautiful Losers, FrontRunners, Nerdcore Rising, Mister Foe, Yeast, The Ostrich Testimonies, Present Company, and Dreams With Sharp Teeth after the jump. Also we have included a round up of [...]

Three new movie trailers for three more films which are set to premiere at this year’s South By Southwest Film Festival have hit the interwebs: My Effortless Brilliance, a low-budget mumblecore Duplass Brothers-esque drama about two friends, One Minute to Nine, a haunting documentary about one family’s history of domestic abuse, and Up With Me, [...]

A few movie trailers for films playing in the 2008 South by South West Film Festival have popped up online. Check out the trailers for Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, Second Skin and New Orleans Mon Amour after the jump.

Matt Dentler just announced the line-up for the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. This will be my first year going to Austin to cover the festival There’s a lot of great premiere titles like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Scorsese’s Shine A Light, Stop-Loss and Harold and Kumar 2, some great films from Sundance that I missed (Goliath, [...]

Matt Ogens’ documentary Confessions of a Superhero premiered at SXSW 2007, and is scheduled to be released in theaters courtesy of Arts Alliance America and Red Envelope Entertainment starting November 2nd 2007. You might recognize these characters from the Jimmy Kimmel show. They are a group of people who make their money dressed as superheroes, [...]