One of the films that excited a bit of interest when it was announced for Sundance was the comedy HappyThankYouMorePlease, starring Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara and Richard Jenkins. Now a trailer for the flick has shown up online, so you can get more of an idea about what the film is about (although let’s hope the movie isn’t as confusing as the trailer). In the film, Sam Wexler (Radnor) is a struggling writer who’s having a particularly bad day. When a young boy gets separated from his family on the subway, Sam makes the questionable decision to bring the child back to his apartment and thus begins a rewarding, yet complicated, friendship. Sam’s life revolves around his friends – Annie (Akerman), whose self-image keeps her from commitment; Charlie and Mary Catherine (Pablo Schreiber and Zoe Kazan), a couple whose possible move to Los Angeles tests their relationship; and Mississippi (Mara), a cabaret singer who catches Sam’s eye. Click below to take a look.

There’s been a huge amount of interest all across the web in Kevin Smith’s plans to self-distribute his new movie, Red State. Yesterday we reported on how he took to the stage at Sundance following the world premiere screening of his flick to announce plans for a premium priced road tour of the movie, which will see it play one night in various US cities in March and April – followed by a Q&A with Smith himself – before a more conventional release in October. Much of his reasoning behind this is because he’s fed up with the way movies are ditributed, particularly the fact it normally costs a huge amount more to advertise one of his movies than it does to make it. So he wants to try something different, eventually morphing himself from director to producer and distributor, with plans to find a way to get indie movies to the public in an effective but comparatively inexpensive way. His ideas have provoked various reactions, from outright support to others saying Smith may be getting a bit too big for his boots. But perhaps it’d help you to make up your own mind if you could hear what Smith actually said! Well now you can, as we’ve embedded a Youtube video below, posted by someone who recorded the director’s entire Sundance talk about why he’s doing what he’s doing, so click below to take a look (but just beware, it’s a chunky 26 minutes!).

Channing Tatum reunites with the director of Fighting for the rather intense looking The Son Of No One, which also boast Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes and ever Tracy Morgan in its cast. It’s an impressive ensemble for a film about a young cop (Tatum) who is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, with an old secret surfacing and threatening to destroy his life and family. It looks like it could be pretty good, although it’s difficult pay attention to anything except Tatum’s bizarre little bumfluff moustache. Click below for the trailer.

Orignally announced as ‘The Further’, but now called Insidious, the latest movie from Saw director James Wan (backed by Paranormal Activity producers Jason Blum, Oren Peli and Steven Schneider) look like it could be pretty effective. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne star as a couple dealing with the fact their son has fallen into a coma. However this is no ordinary coma, as evil supernatural entities are keeping the child’s consciousness in a realm called, The Further, and refusing to allow it to return! While that sounds a little Cheesy, Patrick Wilson is normally good value for money, so hopefully he can help raise this above it bargain basement roots. Expect it in cinemas this spring, and click below for the teaser trailer.

What’s the betting that real life college fraternities are a lot more boring than they are in the cinema? On screen, when they’re not Bacchanalian, Animal House houses of excess (which to be fair, isn’t too far from the truth), they’re hazing pledges in oddly homoerotic ways. Brotherhood deals with the problems of pledging, with a plot where where an initiation spirals out of control and turns deadly. A young pledge (Trevor Morgan) is challenged to rob a convenience store, and it all goes wrong from there. Now I know peer pressure can be intense and a lot of US kids really want to belong to a fraternity or sorority, but are there really that many people so keen to join they agree to commit an armed robbery just to get in? Oh well, the movie looks like it might be fun anyway. Click below to watch the trailer.

Yes, we know many places had this up several days ago, but The Weinsten Company was yanking them down as soon as they put up, as the trailer had leaked rather than been released, so we thought we’d wait until it was properly available online, so that hopefully the video wouldn’t go dead. So here it is, the full trailer for Scream 4, showing that the movie is going even more meta and taking into account how the last decade and a half – essentially since the Scream movies first arrive – have changed the rules of horror. Indeed the killer in the film is basing his killings on Stab, which is the movie-within-a-movie from the Scream sequels taht starred Tori Spelling and was based on the events in the first film. Postmodern enough for you? Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are back onboard, along with a new generation of potential victimes including Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin and Hayden Panetierre. It hits cinemas April 15th.