Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath are the writing / directing duo behind Entrance, an indie, slow-burn horror film / psychological thriller. It’s a slasher film in which you might not even realize it’s a slasher film until you’re a good deal of the way through it. Entrance is about Suzy, played by Suziey Block (The Island), a lonely young woman in Los Angeles who begins to develop a growing case of anxiety and uneasiness living in the city. The movie is about the limits of our perception, how things lurking in our periphery of our lives can lead to horrific conclusions; and it’s about how Suzy fell out of love with the city of LA but the city wouldn’t let her go. It is also one of the most unique and unnerving films I’ve seen in a quite a while. Entrance is now playing in theaters, as well as IFC Midnight Cable VOD and Digital Outlets (SundanceNOW, iTunes, Amazon Streaming, XBOX Zune, Playstation Unlimited).

I recently had the chance to speak with Directors Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath about Entrance. The directors spoke about where the idea for the film came from, what films and filmmakers influenced them, creating tension and anxiety for the audience, their metaphor for Los Angeles, sound work, and their upcoming project.

Though he's best known as the author who created mega-lothario and hyper-capable spy James Bond, the subject of the longest-running film franchise in history, Ian Fleming also lived quite a fascinating life.  The journalist and novelist whose most famous creation lives on in this year's Skyfall could ably support his own movie, particularly one involving his exploits during World War II.  And it seems the late Ian Fleming will finally be getting that movie, with a terrific director to boot.

The titular quartet of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles haven't starred in a live-action feature film in just a hair under twenty years.  Though Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michaelango still form a recognizable property, it's been awhile since their early 1990's heyday, when the characters were an inescapable cultural presence.  As is the case with any movie property that carries a whiff of bankable nostalgia, there's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theatrical reboot in the works, and it might just have found an appropriately action-savvy director.

As an actress, Angelina Jolie certainly doesn't need much introduction.  One of the most famous and bankable stars in contemporary film, Jolie won an Academy Award for her incendiary supporting turn in 1999's Girl, Interrupted and was nominated almost a decade later based on her work in Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood.  Her credits include performances in films as varied as A Mighty Heart, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Wanted, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Salt, and The Good Shepherd.  As a fixture on the covers of magazines adorning supermarket checkout aisles, she arguably needs even less introduction, thanks to being one-half of one of the most famous couples on the planet.

Already a multi-hyphenate, Jolie is adding writer and director to her her resume, as her first produced screenplay is also her feature directorial debut.  In the Land of Blood and Honey, which opens in limited release on December 23rd, is reflective of Jolie's well-documented global humanitarian efforts, particularly her status as a Goodwill Ambassador United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.  The takes place in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995.  The film centers on two fictitious characters, a Bosnian solider played by Goran Kostic and Zana Marjanovic as a Bosniak woman with whom he had a connection before the war.  While chronicling the brutality of war and ethnic cleansing, the story shows how these two characters and their relationship are changed by the incredible and horrific circumstances surrounding them.

With the release of In the Land of Blood and Honey imminent, Angelina Jolie is promoting the feature extensively.  IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick recently had the rare opportunity, along with other select members of the press, to sit down and speak with the Jolie about her directorial debut.  Jolie discussed how the film came about, directing for the first time, the difficulties of making a modern war movie in two different languages, and the responsibility to depict these events with the appropriate honesty and force.

Right now, zombies are doing a pretty good of shambling through popular culture, with AMC's The Walking Dead cementing its place as the network's biggest show.  More than that, zombies have become part of the cultural shorthand to an extent that would've been pretty unthinkable a decade ago, before Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland.  Despite the current popularity of the undead, Lionsgate just can't seem to catch a break on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of the novelty mashup novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.  After having already had two directors attached, the third, Craig Gillespie has now departed the beleaguered project.

On Monday, Hasbro CEO and franchise executive producer Brian Goldner revealed that talks between the toymaker, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, and Paramount Pictures were actively in discussions regarding a fourth installment in the Transformers franchise.  Then yesterday, word emerged that Paramount is considering shooting two sequels back-to-back, possibly with Jason Statham starring and with a remote possibility of Bay returning as more than a producer.  Well, the director himself has called shenanigans on these reports.  Michael Bay will not stand for inaccurate information circulating online, and the man behind Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon has denied that he's in talks for any further Autobot adventures.

After his success with The Fighter last year, director David O. Russell made a surprise move by signing to Sony's videogame adaptation Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.  Though he brought frequent collaborator Mark Wahlberg with him, fans of the game were irked by liberties Russell was looking to take with the property, and eventually he left the project due to creative differences.  According to Variety, Sony has found their new Uncharted director in Neil Burger, who most recently directed this spring's hit Limitless.

Like many other means of modern social networking, Twitter no doubt has the potential to be utilized as little more than a facilitator of digital narcissism, but it also presents a plethora of opportunities for unique discourse that would otherwise have been unlikely, if not impossible.  If, for example, you wanted to address any number of questions to horror director/writer/composer John Carpenter, you'll have a chance to do so this week during a live tweeting Q & A session with the man behind Halloween, Escape from New York, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, Starman, and The Thing.

It's summer movie season, when seasoned studios trot out mega-budget, epic-scale stories of super-powered mutants, extraterrestrial robots-in-disguise, and intergalactic highway cops.  While veteran directors like Matthew Vaughn, Michael Bay, and Martin Campbell helm – with varying degrees of success – stories that span continents and even galaxies, Australian director Nick Tomnay is flexing a completely different set of muscles.  His feature directorial debut, The Perfect Host, takes place almost exclusively in one location, yet is no less a thriller for it.  In fact, Tomnay makes the scale of his story a unique asset.

The Perfect Host begins with John Taylor, a criminal played by Clayne Crawford, who seeks refuge from the law in the impeccably decorated home of total stranger Warwick Wilson, an intellectual played with gusto by David Hyde Pierce.  As Warwick prepares a dinner party and John attempts to stay safe, it becomes apparent that neither man is what he seems, and the two are suddenly embroiled in a competition of wits and wills that resolutely refuses to take the expected turns.  Tomnay wrote and directed the film based on his own 2001 short film The Host.  After a Sundance debut last year, The Perfect Host is on the verge of its theatrical release, and Tomnay graciously spoke with us about his first feature film.

Since Darren Aronofsky abruptly departed the X-Men spin-off/sequel The Wolverine back in March, his next project has been a big question mark.  He's been trying to find financing for an expensive interpretation of the Old Testament story of Noah and the Flood, but he's not sitting still while waiting for that would-be film to come together.  Instead, THR's Heat Vision reports that he'll direct the pilot episode of Hobgoblin, the HBO series from literary power-couple Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.