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 modern times....

I’m still extremely behind on Sundance reviews. After the jump you will find my mini-reviews for Adam, Arlen Faber and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Enjoy. Fox Searchlight’s big purchase at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival is a wonderful little relationship film called Adam . I’...

With any luck, Josh Peck will soon appear totally naked with a Nike swoosh shaved into his chest hair trying to advertise sneakers. Either that or he’ll become the fourth Jonas Brother. I’m on the phone with him, and he’s in a better mood than most people are capable of - cracking...

Getting tired of googling the same old chicks? Yeah, us too. Which is why we were so psyched to see the release of Rolling Stone’s “Hot List 2008.” We highly recommend you check out the whole article, which hightlights the upcoming trends of the new year. But to make things easier ...

For all of you, “the most wonderful time of the year” might be a reference to a song by Andy Williams. But to me, that phrase marks the back half of January, when I get to spend 10 days in sunny Park City, Utah hanging out with fellow movie journos, basking in the glory of independent fi...

The Sundance Institute has announced the first half of the line-up for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Included in the first press release are the films in competition in the Drama and Documentary segments. 3,661 feature-length films were submitted this year, which is 37 more films than last year. ...

One of the films that I just won’t shut up about from this year’s Sundance Film Festival is director Jonathan Levine’s sophomore effort The Wackness , the story of a recent high school grad named Luke Shapiro, played by Josh Peck, and his drug-dealing, love-struck summer of 1994. S...

TheWackness Running time 110 minutes Written and directed by Jonathan Levine Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen Not the least of the problems facing people who write about movies on a weekly basis is the deadlines. You can’t say, “I think I’d rathe...

The Wackness Running time 110 minutesWritten and directed by Jonathan Levine Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness, from his own screenplay, takes place in New York during the summer of 1994, when the newly inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, ...

In an effort to name promising newcomers so that they can later say, "We Told You So!" Vanity Fair has come out with its Bright Young Hollywood package for its August issue. The spread of young men and women features their answers to a hard-hitting questionnaire about their lifestyle prefe...