Jeff Baena

Cinema Toast: Showtime anthology will reinvent public domain movies

Posted 5 years ago

Showtime has ordered ten episodes of an anthology series called Cinema Toast, which is described as a "post-modernist reinvention of older movies that turns pre-existing imagery from the public domain on its head to tell brand new unique stories". Each...

Review: Horse Girl

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A meek young woman (Alison Brie) working in a crafts store begins to lose her grip on reality. REVIEW: Jeff Beana’s HORSE GIRL is a major step-up for the filmmaker, following his reliably silly Sundance entries THE LITTLE HOURS...

Alison Brie loses her grip on reality in trailer for Netflix’s Horse Girl

Posted 6 years ago

Netflix has released the first unsettling trailer for HORSE GIRL, a darkly humorous psychological thriller from director Jeff Baena (THE LITTLE HOURS) which stars Alison Brie as Sarah, a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee who finds herself more...

Alison Brie hears the future in trailer for Netflix’s Horse Girl

Posted 6 years ago

Writer/director Jeff Baena's darkly comedic thriller HORSE GIRL will be screening at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27th, but those of us who can't make it to Sundance won't have to wait very long to see it for ourselves...

Face-Off: Life After Beth vs. Burying the Ex

Posted 10 years ago

Sometimes it’s crazy how similar two movies that come out in the same year can be. There have been several high profile instances of this, most recently the year of OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN and WHITE HOUSE DOWN, but it happens...

Life After Beth Blu-ray cover art and release details, starring Dane DeHaan

Posted 12 years ago

We just got the word on when you can pick up Jeff Baena’s feature debut LIFE AFTER BETH on Blu-ray as the film will hit shelves on October 21st. It centers on a young man whose life takes a turn...

Review: Life After Beth

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Days after dying via snakebite, Beth Slocum returns from the grave and tries to resume her relationship with her boyfriend, Zach, who is delighted at first, but increasingly worried by her strange, even deadly behavior. REVIEW: At this point,...

Review: Life After Beth

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: When a young man’s recently deceased girlfriend shows up seemingly unaffected by death, he suspects something may be afoul. His fears are soon realized when she develops a sudden desire for dark and damp places, smooth jazz, and the...

Watch a clip from Life After Beth starring Aubrey Plaza

Posted 12 years ago

With Jeff Baena’s zombie comedy LIFE AFTER BETH getting released today on DirecTV, A24 sent out a brand new clip that sees Dane DeHaan’s Zach breaks into Beth’s family home only to find out that she’s somehow still alive and...

Two new stills from zom-com Life After Beth, starring Aubrey Plaza

Posted 12 years ago

Last week we brought you the trailer for the upcoming zombie comedy LIFE AFTER BETH, which stars Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHann and is set to hit theaters on August 15 from A24. While it doesn't appear to be anything...