Killing Them Softly is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, that annual cinematic extravaganza on the French Riviera.  In advance of the premiere, today we have the very first clip from the new feature by director Andrew Dominik, the man behind the excellent Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford.

Opening in theaters on April 20th is a new film from veteran director Lawrence Kasdan (Silverado, Grand Canyon) called Darling Companion. Kasdan co-wrote the film with his wife Meg, and it is was loosely based on an event from their own lives. The film stars an all-star cast of actors that features three Academy Award-winners and two former nominees including Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway), Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), and Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff). Rounding out the cast are actor/director Mark Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home), Ayelet Zurer (Angels & Demons) and Elisabeth Moss (TV's Mad Men).

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to speak with Mark Duplass, and Ayelet Zurer about their work on Darling Companion. They discussed the new film, their character's unexpected attraction to each other, what Duplass learned as a director from working with Lawrence Kasdan, Zurer's character's true intentions, and what it was like to be part of a cast of actors that includes three Academy Award-winners and two former nominees. 

Opening in theaters on April 20th is a new film from veteran director Lawrence Kasdan (Silverado, Grand Canyon) called Darling Companion. Kasdan co-wrote the film with his wife Meg, and it is was loosely based on an event from their own lives. The film stars an all-star cast of actors that features three Academy Award-winners and two former nominees including Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway), Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), and Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff). Rounding out the cast are actor/director Mark Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home), Ayelet Zurer (Angels & Demons) and Elisabeth Moss (TV's Mad Men).

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down and speaking with accomplished director Lawrence Kasdan, as well as his wife and co-writer Meg Kasdan about their work on Darling Companion. The two filmmakers discussed their new movie, the real life incident that inspired the film, working with longtime collaborator Kevin Kline, casting Oscar-winner Diane Keaton, and making their first independent film. 

Opening in theaters on April 20th is a new film from veteran director Lawrence Kasdan (Silverado, Grand Canyon) called Darling Companion. Kasdan co-wrote the film with his wife Meg, and it is was loosely based on an event from their own lives. The film stars an all-star cast of actors that features three Academy Award-winners and two former nominees including Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway), Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), and Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff). Rounding out the cast are actor/director Mark Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home), Ayelet Zurer (Angels & Demons) and Elisabeth Moss (TV's Mad Men).

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down and speaking with Oscar-winner Kevin Kline about his work on Darling Companion. The seasoned actor discussed the new film, his initial reaction to the premise of the film and the true story it is based on, working with his longtime collaborator and friend Lawrence Kasdan, his character's relationship to his wife played by Diane Keaton, working with the film's canine star, as well as looking back at two of his best but little known films: Silverado, and The January Man. 

After an excruciatingly long wait that had nothing to do with the film's actual merit (more to do with MGM's prolonged financial difficulties), The Cabin in the Woods is set to hit theaters nationwide on Friday.  The clever, enthralling twist on familiar horror tropes is built around a novel threat more nefarious than just the undead or an unhinged slasher.  The nature of that threat is alluded to in a new official clip, with some gaseous influences producing inexplicable character reversals.

A clip from next month's clever bit of horror and self-aware comedy The Cabin in the Woods has arrived online.  It features a bunch of good-looking young people engaging in a game of truth or dare with some nimble dialogue when suddenly, an invitation to horror pops up in the middle of the childish game. 

This clip doesn't exactly get across just how intelligent The Cabin in the Woods is in how it toys with genre tropes and expectations, but the Evil Dead-style spookablast opening of a cellar door should let horror fans in on the fact that this movie knows what it's doing.

So there's a new trailer for The Cabin in the Woods, and while it probably still gives a little too much away, it basically plays like an abbreviated version of the first theatrical trailer unveiled back in December.  Basically, the idea here is that a group of five oh-so attractive college coeds head to a remote cabin in order to enjoy some hormonal frivolity in the timeless manner of  horror movie victims-in-waiting.  The Cabin in the Woods changes things up, though, in the nature of the menace they encounter out there in the woods.

Way back last May, we saw the first image from Cogan's Trade, starring International Movie Star® Brad Pitt as the title character, Jackie Cogan.  Since the protagonist is a professional dealer in violence as a mafia enforcer, Pitt looked appropriately unscrupulous, sporting a greasy sorta-pompadour, tough guy leather jacket, and a giant shotgun. 

After months of hearing nothing about film, several new images from the film have emerged online today.  One eliminates the threatening shotgun but goes in closer on Pitt's profitably handsome face, while another provides our very first look at Ray Liotta playing the card game that forms the crux of the Cogan's Trade plot.  Yet another offers the first look at James Gandolfini wearing some sweet tea-shades.

What if I told you that there was a movie, The Cabin in the Woods, directed by Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard from a script by Goddard himself and Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon that has been completed for a dog's age and includes newly-minted movie star Chris Hemsworth in its core cast?  You'd want to see a trailer, if only to prove it exists, right?  Well, Lionsgate has that taken care of, as the distributor has released the first trailer for the horror tale that has sat patiently waiting for release since the total financial implosion of MGM a while back.  Goddard and Whedon have long said that The Cabin in the Woods would invert expectations in the standard scary plotline finding a bunch of young people being terrorized in a remote, wooded locale, and this trailer provides our first idea of just how the film accomplishes that.  Basically, it's not standard hillbillies, zombies, or flesh-eating bacteria behind all the mayhem.  Watch on for more clues.

The workings of the human mind are endlessly complex, and our emotions are often befuddling not just to others, but to ourselves.  Many people gain a greater understanding of themselves, their pasts, and their place in the world with the help of therapists, those laudable doctors who endeavor to diminish the suffering we so often inflict upon ourselves.  Therapy is an easy means of conveying a character's problems onscreen, so often, cinematic psychiatrists often exist as spouters of convenient, character-establishing dialogue.

Not so in A Dangerous Method, the new film from auteur David Cronenberg, the director behind A History of Violence, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Eastern Promises, and Videodrome.  In the film, Viggo Mortensen plays none other than Sigmund Freud, with Michael Fassbender as his protege-turned-rival Carl Jung.  The story explores how the rift between these two peers, caused principally by Jung's passionate affair with Sabina Spielrein, a patient played by Keira Knightley, contributed directly to the creation of psychoanalysis as we know it today.

With A Dangerous Method in limited release and currently providing a dense, layered meditation on these two great intellectuals, we here at IAR decided to create a Rogue 10 list in the film's honor, one that identifies those cinematic shrinks who, like Mortensen's Freud and Fassbender's Jung, stand out from the crowd as titans of intellectual medicine in the movies.  So here, for your list-loving enjoyment, are ten cinematic therapists for the ages.