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"Star Trek" is that rare blockbuster: It delivers everything a big-budget movie should.

Next to terrorism, swine flu and our economic recession, nothing terrifies the average American more than some dude-on-dude action.

It takes a brave filmmaker to completely change their entire process of working and do something completely different after three movies, but that's exactly what Scott McGehee and David Siegel did when they set about making their new movie Uncertainty .

I'm not saying 36 is old, heaven knows, but I am here to tell you that the Northwest Film and Video Festival has now reached an age at which a large percentage of the filmmakers with works on display in it are younger than the event itself.

Lynn Shelton's view down the barrel of a shotgun was less than pleasant. Director Lynn Shelton, most recently of "Humpday" fame, was driving down Aurora Avenue last night with three crew members and Thee Emergency lead singer Zana Geddes all stuffed in Geddes' 1968 Ford LTD.

The low-budget indie film movement dubbed 'mumblecore' has earned more than its share of scorn, as new movements often do.

Want to come hang out with me in Kirkland and drink beer and watch videos of monsters and ghouls and spiders crawling on people's stupid faces and stuff? Because you can! At BruTube ! Ranging from thought-provoking to thought-revoking, BruTube will feature six curators, each presenting a 15 minute set of videos revolving around the evening's theme, ...

It's one of those ideas that comes along and makes everyone wonder how no one else thought of it before.

Not this again. First it was Everett True and grunge. Now it's Lynn Shelton and mumblecore.

This afternoon I went to see Humpday. Here's the synopsis from the official movie site .

In this year's Humpday Joshua Leonard played the kind of character who reminds office drones of what they're missing, a 30-year-old vagabond living a life of travel and adventure and sex, rather than the monotonous but maybe more content life his old friend has built for himself.

Ha-ha. But, dudes, seriously; seriously, dudes , I think you dudes are just great.

Sitting in that dark theater, I'd heard the buzz about this little Orlando film and how its Internet presence that touted verisimilitude as a kind of cinematic performance art - as if they'd never heard of Cannibal Holocaust which, by the way, plays the Enzian just before midnight on Oct.

The outlaw US directors of the 80s have been absorbed into the mainstream, but a new gang of edgy film-makers has emerged, writes Jason Solomons Joshua Leonard and Mark Duplass in Humpday.

Beeswax was inspired by twins Tilly and Maggie Hatcher, who are in the movie. Details: Not rated.

"Dude, if it weren't for the inherent tension involved in the homoeroticism of this moment, I'd totally tell you that I love you." Photograph by: Maple Pictures, Canwest News Service The friendship between men -- straight, gay or in-between -- has become the subject of the day in movie comedies, just as scenes showing a naked penis are the go-to ...

A portrait of obsession - that could have been set in Green Bay - about a New York Giants fan, a parking attendant played by Patton Oswalt, who is beaten up by his favorite player in a bar.

This week, Jason Solomons meets director Lynn Shelton, whose mumblecore comedy Humpday kicks off the Raindance festival this week.

The 17th edish of the U.K.'s leading indie film fest Raindance opened Wednesday with Lynn Shelton's laffer "Humpday." Pic, which nabbed the special jury prize at Sundance, centers on two straight buddies who test the limits of their friendship when they attempt to make a gay porn video.

I had hopes for Lynn Shelton's Humpday - even after learning it was being lumped into the distressingly depressing category known as mumblecore, a classification that more or less means little or no budget and a good deal of meandering navel-gazing philosophizing by twentysomethings who are inarticulately dissatisfied with their ennui-infested ...