Eric Lavallée

The Sprecher sisters were at some point in their career referred to as the "Coen sisters" --- but that nickname has more to do with geographical location and not their output, as Sprecher's last film, a very good sophomore pic called 13 Conversations About One Thing was released about a decade back.

Vera Farmiga, David Duchovny, Keri Russell, Minnie Driver and Will Arnett have filled up the adults portion of the casting process for Goats, the screen adaptation of Mark Poirier's novel. Graham Phillips who is unknown in these circles appears already set in the lead teenage protag role and Ty Burrell is also on board.

Its been thirteen years since he completed his yuppie trilogy with The Last Days of Disco (I remember my videoclub having one copy and waiting interminably for its return - I did see it but preferred Metropolitan, which was my Breakfast Club several years after Breakfast Club). What I'm expecting is the best film about preppy campus youth since The Rules of Attraction, actually scratch that, this year's The Social Network.

It's been a decade since Rape Me, the road-trip fueled with sex and violence which stirred up controversy on at least one side of the Atlantic (it was pulled after one week in the U.S), but the reason why we're curious about this specimen hasn't got much to do with the skills Virginie Despentes displayed with her off-putting directing debut, but rather how she'll translate characters that were first introduced in her book back in 2004 with a pairing that includes Béatrice Dalle and Emmanuelle Béart.

Short film filmmaker and installation work artist Liza Johnson is among of the folks that we included in our inaugural American New Wave 25 series, and we're expecting a breath of fresh air in the subject matter she examines in her feature debut. In cinema, post-traumatic stress disorder following war traumas has been done to death, but I'm betting this discourse might have a little more to offer than previous viewpoints -- the small town template includes a shifting of the family paradigm and if the perf is well-calibrated then I think we might see Scooby Doo thesp Linda Cardellini's name mentioned during awards season same time next year.