• This Week In Trailers: Mindhorn, Flatball, Lost In Paris, Cargo, Band Aid

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…

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  • 'Lola Versus' Trailer - Greta Gerwig Can't Get It Together

    A prim and proper version of Greta Gerwig takes charge this weekend in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, but this summer will see a much messier, more uncertain version of Gerwig trying to get her life together in Lola Versus. Directed by Daryl Wein, the comedy centers around a young woman who's dumped by her fiancee (Joel…

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  • Greta Gerwig And Orlando Bloom Cast In 'Lola Versus'

    The new version of Arthur didn't do so well, but co-star Greta Gerwig, who took on the Liza Minelli role, came out of it all more or less untarnished. She has already shot Whit Stillman's very long in the making Damsels in Distress (fingers really and truly crossed for that to be good), and is…

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  • Movie Trailer: 'Stuck Between Stations'

    There's a new trailer for the indie romantic drama Stuck Between Stations, which stars Josh Hartnett, Zoe Lister Jones and Sam Rosen. Brady Kiernan directed the film, which is named after the opening track on The Hold Steady's 2006 album 'Boys and Girls in America.' Check out the trailer after the jump. I've watched this…

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  • Daryl Wein Is A Motherf***er

    Fox Searchlight has acquired a comedy pitch titled Motherf***er from actor/writer/director Daryl Wein , who you might remember from the indie Breaking Upwards (which we have profiled on the site in the past). According to Deadline, the film will be scripted by Wein and screenwriting partner/actor Zoe Lister-Jones (Breaking Upwards) and is about: "a guy…

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  • Sundance Photo And Trailer Preview: Armless

    Habib Azar directed his first episode of As The World Turns at age 22, and has since directed over 100 episodes of the drama series, winning him a daytime emmy, as well as helming a handfull of plays and composing the music for a couple of operas. His feature directorial debut Armless will premiere at…

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  • SXSW Movie Trailer: Breaking Upwards

    The reason why I like the SXSW Film Festival is because it contains a lot of smaller films, movies that speak to people of my generation, and the even more technologically hip generation after mine. SXSW is very much what I imagine Sundance use to be 20 years ago, but if it were set in…

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