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Watch the trailer for controversial Korean crime drama Pieta

PIETA, which beat THE MASTER for the grand prize at last year's Venice Film Festival, is finally getting a North American release thanks to Drafthouse Films . Despite getting acclaim across the globe, PIETA failed to qualify for the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and is just starting to get some buzz here in the States. From this trailer, it seems to share a...

Review: Simon Killer

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage. PLOT: Reeling from a bad breakup, a recent college grad, Simon ( Brady Corbet ) heads to Paris, where he hooks up with a prostitute (Mati Diop), who takes him in. From there, he gets lost in a sea of sex, drugs, and blackmail- all of which could have deadly consequences. REVIEW: SIMON...

Review: Upstream Color

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage. PLOT: Kris ( Amy Seimetz ) is an ambitious exec who, after a chance encounter at a nightclub, wakes up after several days to find she's lost her job, along with all of her savings. She's even lost her home equity. Some time later, she's drawn to a man named Jeff ( Shane Carruth )- and the two fall...

Get reunited with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in the first trailer for Richard Linklater's Before Midnight

The third part of director Richard Linklater 's relationship spanning series, BEFORE MIDNIGHT, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as bickering romantics who cross paths and exchange dialogue that dives deep into the heartbeat of two people struggling to love and understand one another.  BEFORE SUNRISE and it's sequel BEFORE SUNSET, both played on the walking-and-talking beat...

Review: Wrong

PLOT : When Dolph Springer’s beloved dog Paul disappears, he comes to the realization that his pet has been kidnapped. Soon, he is on a strange journey looking for Paul after he discovers who may have taken his dog. He persists through his desperation after meeting the man behind it who offers him the suggestion of telekinesis to reconnect with his pooch. His search leads him through a...

More plot details for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel have been unveiled

We've known very little about Wes Anderson 's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL. What we do know is that the director has put together a hell of a cast for this one: Ralph Fiennes , Edward Norton , Owen Wilson , Tilda Swinton , Jude Law , Bill Murray , Adrien Brody , Harvey Keitel , Jason Schwartzman , Willem Dafoe , Jeff Goldblum , Saoirse Ronan , Tom Wilkinson , Mathieu...

Check out the first two parts of Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola's short film for Prada

Call me what you like, but I love me some Wes Anderson movies. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS holds a special place in my heart and I will forever be a fan of RUSHMORE. I feel that Anderson has slipped a bit in recent years until MOONRISE KINGDOM brought him right back to the top of his game. His next film, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, is looking to be a winner. His collaborator and friend,...

First trailer for Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson, Leslie Mann, and Taissa Farmiga

Director Sofia Coppola 's THE BLING RING has its first trailer, which is in typical Sofia Coppola fashion, letting the music take center stage with the quick cut images following along.  Starring Emma Watson , Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story season 1), Leslie Mann , Erin Daniels , Katie Chang , Kirsten Dunst , Israel Broussard , and Gavin Rossdale , the film is inspired...

First look at Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel: beards, motorcycles, and purple suits

If you could search for films based on "first world problems" I'm pretty sure you'd find Wes Anderson 's complete filmography listed. I'm not complaining but you kind of know what to expect when you sit down for a new Anderson film: father-son issues, great music, and comedy so dry you'll develop a chapped ass from laughing. Wes Anderson 's latest film THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL is in...

WTF news: Red-band trailer for K-11, a violent transgender prison flick directed by...Kristen Stewart's mom?

Your mom directed that movie!  So, in some really odd news, it turns out that Kristen Stewart s mom is not only a director, but one that made a movie called K-11, about a man trapped in a secret section of the L.A. jail system that houses gay and transgendered bad boys/girls.  So, yeah.  The pic stars Goran Visnjic as the trapped man locked up in the secret jail who...

The trailer for Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist looks like an intriguing glimpse at our post-9/11 world

Sometimes all it takes is a recognizable actor to get a movie seen that would otherwise be avoided. I have a feeling that the cast of THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST will get a lot of people to see a movie with an interesting perspective. Kate Hudson , Liev Schrieber , and Kiefer Sutherland are big enough stars for people to check out Mira Nair 's latest. From the looks of this...

David Cross and Julia Stiles prepare for the end of days in the trailer for It's A Disaster

Back in the day, the plot device of "the end of the world" was reserved for horror and science fiction films. But, since the zombie genre took off in the early 2000s, you see the armageddon device used in every possible film from art house fair to mainstream comedies. Now, we have an indie film featuring a roster of recognizable faces from television and film focusing on surviving the...