Here are a couple more trailers worthy of your attention. The first is for Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy, the indie film about the day after a one-night stand between two African-Americans in San Francisco. It originally made a splash at the most recent SXSW Film Festival and I caught up to it at LAFF. The trailer [...]

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Co-written and directed by Ed Harris from a novel by Robert B. Parker and starring Harris and Viggo Mortensen, Appaloosa is almost a throwback to the old B-westerns. It’s not a cheap film or one of low production quality, but it’s a simple, almost intimate story rather than one with the epic or mythic pretentiousness [...]

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Lance Hammer won the directing prize at Sundance for this stark character drama set in rural Mississippi, but because he passed up a deal with IFC and has chosen to release the film himself, Ballast is going to need all the attention it can get.

Catch the trailer in HD at Apple or visit the website here.
Ballast [...]

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I crammed all my movies into Sunday evening and it’s late and I’m tired so I’m going to keep my half of this short. Let’s just say It wasn’t exactly a movie going weekend for the record books, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
First up was Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Téa Leoni in [...]

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