Currently in limited release and opening wide on December 16th is director Alexander Payne's long awaited follow up to his Oscar-winning film Sideways, entitled The Descendants. The film is set in Hawaii and is based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The Descendants features an impressive cast of veteran and young actors including Oscar-winner George Clooney (The Ides of March), Oscar-nominee Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), Beau Bridges (The Fabulous Baker Boys), Judy Greer (TV's Arrested Development), Matthew Lilard (Scooby-Doo), Rob Huebel (TV's Children's Hospital) Shailene Woodley (TV's The Secret Life of the American Teenager), and newcomers Nick Krause, and Amara Miller. 

IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down and talk with Oscar-nominated actor Robert Foster about his role in The Descendants. Forster discussed the new film, why he wanted to be in it, collaborating with director Alexander Payne, balancing the film's dramatic and comedic moments, acting with George Clooney; what he learned from him on set, shooting in Hawaii, punching Sid, working with the film's young actors, and how Quentin Tarantino went about asking him to be in Jackie Brown. 

Netflix's streaming Watch Instantly service is fast becoming America's favorite way to watch movies.  The library of available titles is so vast and mutable that you, the avid instant watcher, could no doubt use a guide as you navigate the streaming frontier. 

Luckily for you, we'll be here every Tuesday to update you on the latest titles available for instant-watching, as well as bringing attention some gems and even some enjoyable calamities out there in the instantly watchable wilds.

Netflix's streaming Watch Instantly service is fast becoming America's favorite way to watch movies.  The library of available titles is so vast and mutable that you, the avid instant watcher, could no doubt use a guide as you navigate the streaming frontier.  Luckily for you, we'll be here every Tuesday to update you on the latest titles available for instant-watching, as well as bringing attention some gems and enjoyable trainwrecks out there in the instantly watchable wilds.

Paramount Pictures has spent four years developing Dune, a new big screen version of science fiction novelist Frank Herbert's masterpiece first published in 1962.  After two directors and plenty of time spent pulling together a screenplay, though, the studio has opted to give up on the project, according to Deadline.  Paramount allowed their option on the film to lapse, but producer Richard P. Rubenstein hopes to find a new home for the enduring material.

Jay Roach is not your average director. Besides the fact that he has made a ton of hit films, he didn’t follow the same path many young Hollywood directors find themselves on.

In this second part of our Rogue Spotlight with Jay, he discusses his influences which include films like David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Much like Allen, Roach infuses tragedy and pain into comedy and it works incredibly well. Although we are still waiting to see what Jay would do with a bleeding chicken!

In this exclusive "Rogue on Rogue" interview, Korn guitarist Munky and Machete star Michelle Rodriguez meet up to discuss music, what their art means, fans, James Cameron, David Lynch, Black Sabbath and life with artistDIRECT’s Editor-in-Chief Rick Florino…

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is a sort of hybrid project created by producer David Lynch and director Werner Herzog, a sort of art house dream team. Add to that, the immense talent of Michael Shannon, Chloe Sevigny and Willem Dafoe and you have… something strange, strange and inspired by a true story.

This odd little film focuses on Brad McCullum (Shannon) who murders his mother (Lynch regular, Grace Zabriskie) in a Medea fashion after becoming obsessed by a Greek play. This slow burning tale revolves around flash backs as we learn how Brad seems to lose himself to some sort of mental illness. The police arrive and have him surrounded. They proceed cautiously as it seems he has a couple of hostages. This could have been a by the books Hollywood action thriller, but it is far from it.