Animal Kingdom is basically your typical crime drama. A newcomer comes into the “family” and is forced to respond – accept or reject what those around him are doing. On the surface this is exactly what David Michôd’s crime film is, but at the same time it is a gross understatement. Animal Kingdom is an excellent crime drama that stays within its genre, but tells its story very well.

The trailer for The Company Men has premiered on Yahoo! Movies. Check it out below the jump:

Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim’s documentary film about America’s broken education system, now has a trailer. In Waiting for Superman, Guggenheim, whose previous work includes An Inconvenient Truth and It Might Get Loud, turns his focus toward public education in the United States, examining the fundamental problems that haunt many schools across the country. The film [...]

Spike Jonze’s 30-minute short film, “I’m Here”, financed by Absolut Vodka, had its premiere at Sundance this year and is now available online at imheremovie.com.

The 2010 Sundance Film Festival got underway Thursday, and the first major acquisition has already been made by Paramount, who picked up U.S. Documentary contender Waiting For Superman. Superman is directed by David Guggenheim, the acclaimed filmmaker behind 2006′s breakout documentary hit and Academy Award-winner An Inconvenient Truth. The Sundance Festival’s program guide explains that the [...]

I love when I get excited about a film solely for the actors involved. It doesn’t matter what the film is about, as long as actors I like are onscreen, I can enjoy it. An Education started out that way, but by the time the credits scrolled upwards, I loved the film as a whole. [...]

When I first heard about this film, I was only presented with the idea that it is a “love story told out of order” or “it’s not a love story, it’s a story about love.” Calm down, everyone, I know what you’re thinking. Let me get this out of the way immediately and say that [...]

Sundance Film Festival is going on right now. For those of you that don’t know, one of the main points of the Festival is for independent film makers to get their films in there, show them to distributors and (hopefully) have distributors purchase the rights to – duh, distribute them. Word is no one is [...]