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Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin and Woody Harrelson play the usual friends who want a traditional family day out, even if it kills them.

After laying low for most of this year, James Murphy , the brainchild behind LCD Soundsystem , is revving up for a busy 2010.

Writer-director Noah Baumbach has mastered the art of "emotional torture porn," a phrase aptly applied to his past films by bloggers/ NPR radio hosts Adam Kempenaar and Matty Robinson.

Noah Baumbach is an indie writer-director known for wry, literate, darkly comic arthouse meditations on Gen-X angst like Kicking & Screaming and The Squid and the Whale .

When Mrs. Fox says there is something kind of fantastic about being different, she could have been referring to Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1970 children's yarn.

Ben Stiller has gone indie. Focus Features has just debuted the official trailer for Noah Baumbach's newest film Greenberg starring Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Messina, and Greta Gerwig.

Focus Features has set a March 12 debut for Noah Baumbach's latest, Greenberg , an earlier-than-expected release for a filmmaker whose work is typically rolled out in the fall as awards bait.

Fantastic Mr. Fox Directed by Wes Anderson. Written by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach.

With 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' Wes Anderson F... Wes Anderson is famous for his quirky sense of absurdist humor.

In "The Squid and the Whale," playing the older adolescent son of an estranged intellectual couple, and in "Adventureland," playing a recent college grad and aspiring travel writer, spinning his wheels and falling in love at a summer job in an amusement park, Eisenberg was equally potent playing fecklessness or sincerity, and better yet when he ...

There are a lot of terrible movie titles out there, and everyone has their list, but most of these titles are attached to terrible films! It's when bad titles are attached to good movies that there starts to be a problem.

If comparing music from Gillian Welch and Outkast in our 50 Best Albums of the Decade is like apples and oranges, ranking films like Amelie , The Dark Knight and Mulholland Drive is more like apples, ice cream and foie gras.

Brooklyn-based actress-playwright Halley Feiffer is probably best known for her work in heavy films like You Can Count on Me , The Squid and the Whale , and Margot at the Wedding .

Oliver Platt a ' last seen on Broadway in Guys and Dolls a ' will co-star with another stage veteran, Laura Linney, in the Showtime pilot "The C Word." The dark comedy stars Linney as a suburban wife and mother who has been diagnosed with cancer.

London-based Noah and the Whale has been dishing out their wistfully gentle indie/anti/nu/pop-folk for a mere three years.

Roald Dahl's writing for children has only a moderate record of reaching the screen with its naughtiness intact - a pair of not-bad stabs at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , a middling Matilda and Nicolas Roeg's paralysingly scary take on The Witches are among near-successes to date.

Ever since Zombieland 's impressive box office debut two weeks ago, I've been hearing a lot of chatter about how "that boy from Juno " was so funny fighting the undead alongside Woody Harrelson and company.

A location manager for "The Social Network,'' a biopic on the Facebook founders, starring Justin Timberlake, says scenes will be shot at the Thirsty Scholar Pub on Beacon Street next week, but the pop icon will not be there.

A crude little comedy, "Secret Girlfriend" invites the viewer to become a character.

Woe, be gone: Jesse Eisenberg's worry-prone Columbus has rules about dealing with the zombie behind Door No.