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"I will die without Crazy Eyes!" Strand Releasing has debuted the official trailer for indie dramedy Crazy Eyes, starring Lukas Haas and Madeline Zima and Jake Busey. This quirky little dramatic comedy is set mostly in Los Angeles, following a "rich boy" who meets a girl unlike anyone he calls "Crazy Eyes" that he can't have, but of course there's all kinds of tension and drama and things going on. I'm a fan of Lukas Haas, you may recognize him from Brick or Alpha Dog or Death in Love or Inception or Contraband, and I like seeing him in good lead roles where he really fits the role. This looks intriguing, I'm curious to check it out. ›››

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"Watch your six." Open Road has debuted the first official trailer via for David Ayer's End of Watch, a new cop drama about two young police officers who get into deeper shit with drug cartels than they can handle. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña play Officers Taylor and Zavala, respectively. This is the cop indie we've been hearing about from Ayers (Harsh Times, Street Kings) that uses POV and various cameras, and it looks intense and intriguing, but I'm always weary of Ayer. Sometimes his films can be a bit dry, but at least there seems to be some story. Cast includes Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera and Frank Grillo. ›››

Continue reading: First Solid Trailer for Cop Drama 'End of Watch' with Jake Gyllenhaal

"Sometimes I pretend you're singing to me." This looks adorable, especially because it has Elizabeth Moss ("Mad Men") and the more I see of her, the more I fall for her. And in this, she pretty much knocks me out, there's just some amazingly cute charm in that face of hers. Yahoo has posted the official trailer for an indie film called A Buddy Story, written & directed by Marc Erlbaum, starring Gavin Bellour as a struggling solo musician in New York who lives with his pet turtle. I haven't heard of this before and wasn't sure what to expect, but by the end was sold, this looks like a charmer and the perfect kind of indie to discover. Enjoy! ›››

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"You did get the whole school high!" Yea, today is 4/20 if you didn't notice, but instead of actually releasing this entire pot comedy film today, Anchor Bay has put out just another new red band trailer for John Stalberg's comedy High School on Hulu. It's essentially the exact same as the recent trailer, but without any jokes censored, with an extra bit of nudity unnecessarily thrown in, and more marijuana shenanigans. High School is also the crazy ass comedy that stars Adrien Brody as drug dealer Psycho Ed, and he's one of the best part of this. Matt Bush, Colin Hanks and Michael Chiklis also star. Fire up this one below. ›››

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Finally the first film about our new millennium. Just before being announced as an In Competition entry at Cannes 2012 this morning, the first full-length trailer for David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis hit, sending cinephiles into a tizzy over its seductive debauchery and dark Cronenberg vibe. Out of nowhere, Twitch has followed up with an entirely different full-length Cosmopolis trailer that highlights many of its fantastic cast members. We already know Robert Pattinson stars as the billionaire who takes his limo around New York, but Samantha Morton is in it this time, so is Kevin Durand and even Paul Giamatti. See below! ›››

Continue reading: Another New International 'Cosmopolis' Trailer with Robert Pattinson

Ruby who? Yea, haven't heard of this before either. The co-directors of indie smash hit Little Miss Sunshine, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, are back after six years with a new romantic comedy titled Ruby Sparks, that almost has a somewhat familiar feel to Stranger Than Fiction. Actress Zoe Kazan wrote the script and plays the titular Ruby Sparks, a female character from one of Calvin's novels, who suddenly exists in real life one day. Paul Dano plays the struggling author, joined by Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Steve Coogan, Elliott Gould, Chris Messina & Deborah Ann Woll in the cast. The trailer just arrived online. ›››

Continue reading: Fun Trailer for 'Little Miss Sunshine' Directors' Comedy 'Ruby Sparks'

E1 has debuted a trailer for Dustin Lance Black's Virginia, originally What's Wrong with Virginia?, a drama about a "psychologically disturbed woman" which played at film fests in 2010. Jennifer Connelly stars as Virginia, with Ed Harris, Emma Roberts, Harrison Gilbertson and Carrie Preston. The film was highly disliked by many critics who saw it at fests, including our friend Brad Brevet of RopeofSilicon, who goes so far as to point out: "I despised the film on most every level, but speaking about it now, and seeing this just released trailer for it, I can tell you right now they aren't selling the film for what it is. Even the opening scene shown in the trailer is a lie. In the film it doesn't play as comical as much as it is tragic." ›››

Continue reading: Dustin Lance Black's Drama 'Virginia' Gets a Deceptive Official Trailer

"You're unique, you see... but at the moment you're a bit of a danger to yourself." What the hell is going on in this? Twitch (via TheMovieBox) has unveiled a teaser trailer for an indie film called Errors of the Human Body, directed by Eron Sheean, some weird scientific, supernatural thriller set in the world of human genetics. Starring Tomas Lemarquis, Rik Mayall, Karoline Herfurth, with Michael Eklund (The Divide) as a tortured scientist working passionately on a regeneration gene. It starts out with almost a Chronicle-like tease, then gets very wacky midway through, but it certainly got my attention. Take a look! ›››

Continue reading: Watch: Wild Teaser for 'Errors of the Human Body' Genetics Thriller