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Prince Shia LaBeouf to Lay Waste to Elders, Minorities and the Poor at the Box Office

2:05AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your indispensable guide to what’s new, noteworthy and/or totally doomed this week at the movies. Today we welcome Shia LaBeouf and his million-dollar pinkie back to theatres alongside Spike Lee, Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Charlize Theron and Kirk Cameron (!), while facing a robust litter of potential arthouse underdogs and DVD release for the agoraphobes among us. As always, our opinions are our own, but if Josh Groban can steadfastly see it our way, shouldn’t you as well? More »

‘Choke’ Star Sam Rockwell On Sex Addiction, Going Full-Retard and How to Follow ‘Fight Club’

7:40AM STV | Arguably the first film to pack sex, autoasphyxia and colonial American angst into the same tidy bundle,Choke (opening Friday) features Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini, a generally kindly sex addict whose professional pursuits include sponging off benefactors who happen to have saved him from choking. In his off-time, he susses his father’s identity from visits with his ailing mother (Anjelica Houston) and a doctor (Kelly Macdonald) who reckons Jesus had something to do with it. Strippers, anal beads and hormonally charged 18th-century re-enactments round it out — perhaps the very least one might expect from an adaptation of the prodigiously perverse Chuck Palahniuk. More »

First-Look ‘Choke’ Clip Hints at Someone Getting Seriously Injured, Laid

7:20AM STV | Our recent experiments in Film Trailer and Clip Interception have been spotty at best, but this one seems to be the real thing: A new, mildly NSFW scene from Choke, the Sam Rockwell sex-addict / colonial-reenactor-angst comedy opening Aug. 29. The red-band ribaldry of the past is swapped out for a more subdued exchange, however; no bare breasts, just bare souls as Rockwell and his role-playing partner plot out … we don’t even know. Our outraged mothers switched it off after about 10 seconds, leaving us hanging until our interview with Rockwell next week. So until we can straighten out (or at least parent-proof) this clip-grabbing contraption, perv away while you can after the jump. [Fox Searchlight] More »

Your 2008 Sundance Festival Buzz-Movie Cheat Sheet

7:17AM Seth | Tonight marks the beginning of yet another Sundance Film Festival; we’ll be covering the proceedings from a safe distance, far from the intoxicating allure of all-night Ketel One-and-Strawberry Hot Tub parties with the juggsiest indie film execs in Park City. We already have some heavy-buzzers out of the gate. Like breakout hits of Sundance past, such as Once, Little Miss Sunshine, and Hustle & Flow, all your film really needs to get the buyers to come knocking at your condo door is a good antihero (Dublin busker, hip-hop pimp), a major disease or problem to overcome (death, lack of demo CD), an engaging solution (madcap road trip, recording of demo CD), and an unconventional romantic angle thrown in for good measure (love in a piano store, falling for your ho). With that in mind, we’ve taken the time to break down for you this year’s crop according to their fundamental, Sundanciest elements: More »