Glance at David Lowery’s IMDB page and one will see that the man has been involved in quite a few projects with a wide variety of jobs. Writer, director, editor, actor, cinematographer, producer, camera and electrical, and sound department – if his resume is any indication, the guy seems to be interested in every aspect of the process of filmmaking.

I’m not familiar with any of his previous work, but if the trailer for his latest feature-length film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, is a sign of his usual quality, well then, I have some homework.

In the trailer for Lowery’s film, we see an escaped convict (played by the nearly always brilliant Casey Affleck) making his way across rural Texas in order to reunite with his wife (Rooney Mara) and child, all the while be pursued by the police. If those two actors aren’t enough to convince you, the rest of the cast includes a nearly unrecognizable Ben Foster along with Keith Carradine and Rami Malek.

Really, Casey Affleck being attached is probably all you need to know in order to be interested, but check out the trailer. It looks beautiful. It looks brutal. It looks stellar.

No controversy here, just a bit of mild amusement as the re-think engine on Brad Pitt’s Zombie Blockbuster, World War Z continues to chug along. The designers have taken Pitt off a cargo plane (left), moved him to a rooftop (right), tilted the city, altered the time of day (judging by the lens flares from the sun), and accessorized him with a heavy calibre fire arm. Photoshop fixits are nothing new in the world of key art, they’re par for the course, when you look at the minor tweaks often done across countries for any given studio tentpole, but this might be the first time that changes are metaphoric for the production history of the film.

Back to two shows a week will hopefully continue to be the norm from here on out. This week’s b-side focuses on two episodes of “Game of Thrones” in which there is a lot to haggle over. The least of which is probably the sheer amount of boobs, butts and blue balls. A nice distraction from a voice mail from a regular listener has us evaluating the career of Leonardo DiCaprio and other that may or may not follow the same career path. From there it’s more on DiCaprio in the Watch List as we cover his latest, The Great Gatsby, as well as Kurt’s opinion as his best role in Catch Me if You Can. Spanish horror, Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis’ fall to mediocrity all round out a nice, even Watch List. We’ll be back next week with more NOS and Paul Walker.

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As a financial supporter for Braff’s new film, Wish I Was Here, I get almost daily updates on the progress of the film. So far the cast has been put together, the script polished and now concept art is being laid out. In the video below, we get a look at some of the first images of what the film’s style is going to be like.

Although it’s just an opening sequence and probably not what the rest of the film’s ideas will encompass, I like the idea of the sci-fi nod from Braff. A futuristic looking knight with some sort of space suit armor, a Conan sword and a floating droid. I dunno, looks somewhat intriguing so far. If anything else new comes along, I’ll be keeping track and will let you know. Oh, and the cast is as follows: Zach Braff (me), Kate Hudson, Mandy Patinkin, Josh Gad, Anna Kendrick, Jim Parsons and Donald Faison.

I missed this very talked about documentary from Joshua Oppenheimer when it was on the festival circuit (and it’s brief Toronto run at Lightbox) but those who did see it came away devastated from the experience. This should come as no surprise when you have both Werner Herzog and Errol Morris offering their names to the project (which it should be added was conceived in Denmark, land of crazy doc experiments. It looks to be, all in all, barking mad.

This chilling and inventive documentary examines a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.

It’s up at Apple.com, we’ll embed one when it is availble in that form but until then, go here to have a look.

As one would expect, this is going out in very limited release, and Drafthouse Films has the dates here.

Are you one of those assholes complaining that Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn’t have any range as an actor? Well, quit being a fucking asshole and check out this trailer. Written, directed by, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Don Jon tells the story of the sexy, suave, and porn-addicted Jon Martello and how he deals with a disillusioned rom-com addicted new girlfriend.

It’s a pretty stellar trailer, which not only demonstrates Gordon-Levitt’s chops, but shows off the pretty spectacular cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly and Brie Larson. Also, and maybe more hilariously, it includes a movie-within-a-movie which stars Channing Tatum in a faux-film not unlike many of which he has starred in.

Really though, if you’re one of those assclowns complaining about JGL, you probably never saw Manic, Mysterious Skin, Brick, Hesher, or Looper. And you probably should see those, because this guy is the real deal (and this isn’t new news).

Yep. I can think of few other moves that I’m looking forward to as much as this one.

The film opens in theaters nationwide on October 18, 2013.

Faring far fairer than the editing and tone of previous international teaser, comes the US trailer for Edgar Wright’s The World’s End. Where Shaun of the Dead went poked friendly towards George Romero’s Zombie cinema, and Hot Fuzz wickedly skewered Michael Bay’s big city cops by mashing it with awe-shucks rural Britain-isms (and a few classic horror pictures, naturally) it appears that the Philip Kaufman 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the genre film of choice for this, the trilogy capping film starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. Some of the jokes still fall flat, but the presentation and premise are better articulated here..

In case you have not heard, J.J. Abrams’ second installment in his version of the Star Trek universe is now in theaters. There seems to be some disagreement in the amount of enjoyment to be had. We parse it out. But we all agree on something much more fulfilling that allows and the audience to breathe (even godforbid, think) a bit. Mike Jeff Nichols’ (Take Shelter, Shotgun Stories) new film, Mud, featuring the ever-on-a-roll, Matthew McConaughey as well as fine supporting work from Michael Shannon and Sam Sheppard. We discuss all plot and character points in both titles (that is your *SPOILER ALERT* folks) Thus, if you want to remain in the dark, please just stop by later this week (Thursday night) as Andrew and Kurt get back to doing the live video version of the show with a double helping of “Game of Thrones” recaps as well as the Watch List that will include [rec]3, Jack Reacher, Great Gatsby and Catch Me if You Can.

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It’s been over 20 years since Alejandro Jodorowsky has made a film. Famous for surrealist midnight movie fare (to the point where he is credited with ‘inventing’ the midnight movie with his first feature, El Topo in 1970) that piles images and provocations one top of each other with only the barest brush up against typical genres, things looks to be no different with La Danza de la Realidad (aka The Reality Dance)

It looks like it is going to be a good year for Jodorowsky because the documentary on his infamous aborted attempt to film Dune (before it was handed over to another surrealist, David Lynch) played at Cannes is playing right alongside his latest. Have a look at the trailer for Jodorowsky’s return to the big screen below.

The first prequel-sequel in the Star Trek reborquel lands with a wet thud and Team Mamo assembles to discuss what went wrong with Star Trek Into Darkness…

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Since I’m posting nothing but trailers today, I suppose I better just keep it going. Did you know there is a remake to Patrick being made? I didn’t. Do you even know what Patrick is? It’s an Ozploitation film from 1974 that’s sort of Carrie in a coma; in which a young man in a coma can manipulate the world around him with telepathy – to dangerous consequences.

I first learned about the original film from Mark Hartley’s documentary Not Quite Hollywood. Appropriately enough, Hartley is the director behind this remake.

After killing his mother and her lover some years before, Patrick is the comatose patient in room 15 of a remote, private psychiatric clinic run by the secretive Dr Roget who treats him as guinea pig in his bizarre studies of life and death. When Kathy, a nurse who has recently separated from her boyfriend, begins working at the clinic, she is instructed to care for him. She is disturbed by Roget’s treatment of him and somehow feels that Patrick is trying to make a connection with her. When Kathy realized that the lifeless murderer can communicate, she is shocked but compelled to prove her theory. Patrick has psychokinetic powers, which he uses to talk to Kathy by transferring his thoughts to her computer. As Patrick’s communication becomes stronger, strange and terrifying events begin to occur. Patrick has feelings for Kathy and his affection is about to manifest itself as a deadly, bloody obsession.

I gotta say I’m not all that excited about the movie and probably wouldn’t have given it a second glance, but two words caught my attention: CHARLES and DANCE (aka Sardo Numpsa aka Tywin Lannister). Now two fucks are given. The film also stars a bunch of hot nurses and Jackson Gallagher as Patrick.