By Shelby Powell– Television fans rejoice! Arrested Development, the quirky sitcom with the most devout of cult followings, has done the impossible: it has come back from the television grave. Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz announced at a New Yorker event last Sunday that a feature length film, as well as a short 9 to 10…

By Shelby Powell– Drive is the story of a nameless Hollywood stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) that occasionally moonlights as a getaway driver for any number of Los Angeles based thieves. Gosling’s character, often referred to as the kid or the driver, has a simple rule. He works for 5 minutes. If something goes wrong before…

By Shelby Powell– David Fincher released the full-length trailer for his latest opus The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which stands at an unprecedented 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, it is an American adaptation of the literary trilogy written by Steig Larsson. In what could be classified as a…

By Shelby Powell– J. Edgar, the J. Edgar Hoover biopic helmed by Clint Eastwood, debuted on September 19 with a 2 minute and 29 second trailer that seemed poised to lead star Leonardo DiCaprio to his first Oscar winning role. Dustin Lance Black, the young writer best known for his Oscar winning screenplay for the…

By Shelby Powell– Zooey Deschanel stars in the Fox sitcom New Girl as Jess, a twenty-something in search of an apartment after finding her boyfriend with another woman. She finds herself living with three men, a mix of the male archetypes most viewers are familiar with. There is Nick (Jake M. Johnson), the overly sentimental…