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In case you missed it ... Have you heard of "mumblecore"? Lynn Shelton It's what many are calling a style of cinema some believe is becoming the dominant low-budget film form of the generation.

Lynn Shelton , the award-winning filmmaker behind Humpday , and Sean Nelson , the musician/actor/film buff , host a movie night at your house .

Nominations for the Spirit Awards, formerly known as the Independent Spirit Awards but now known as Film Independent's Spirit Awards or better known as That Fun Awards Ceremony They Have On the Beach The Night Before the Oscars, were announced this morning .

American independent cinema, especially in these days of relatively cheap digital means, is too varied and disparate a thing to ever have an overarching trend, but one strong movement that's emerged of late has been mumblecore, a poorly named but nevertheless important reaction to some of Hollywood's excesses.

Clooneya s Oscar tipped comedy drama Up In The Air has been named film of the year by Americaa s National Board of Review.

Are you man enough for a little man-on-man action? Lynn Shelton's film Humpday pushes the boundaries of the buddy movie right over the line Bromance is one thing, queer sex another ... Humpday You might have noticed that films about guys have been getting pretty gay lately.

Some loves are meant to be. This one, not so much. I think this a first for me: a low-budget bromantic comedy with a rather gay plot aimed at a straight audience.

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's "La Pivellina" and Lynn Shelton's "Humpday" shared top kudos at the Gijon Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday.

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"Bruno" - The latest mock-documentary satire from comic provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen was mostly a misfire.

Star Trek: Rebirthing the entire franchise at the exact moment we seem to need the Star Trek magic more than ever, director J.J. Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman stir up a powerful concoction that puts you in a spell from the opening sequence.

Pick of the week: "ThanksKilling" Ever since Eli Roth put the idea out there with his trailer contribution to Tarantino's Grindhouse, you knew it was only a matter of time before someone would release a full-length Thanksgiving horror movie.

One per year. Side A 4. The Mars Volta - "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" It was between this and "Ignition ." One Jord loved and one Jord cut off midway through when it shuffled up on Tony's iPod during our drive back from Montreal .

Sacha Baron Cohen returned to the silver screen last summer to take on another role from his HBO hit "Da Ali G Show." "Bruno" wasn't able to capture the heights of the comedian's 2007 phenomenon "Borat," but the mockumentary comes extremely close.

"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.