Title: The Catechism Cataclysm Director: Todd Rohal Starring: Steve Little, Robert Longstreet, Miki Ann Maddox, Koko Lanham, Rico A. Comic, Jay Wesley Cochran, Wally Dalton If one likes their horror-comedies sans logic and/or pointless; then The Catechism Cataclysm will be 75 minutes of pure bliss for them. As for the rest of us…damn this movie to hell! An inexperienced priest, Father William (Steve Little) reaches out to an old high school friend in Robbie (Robert Longstreet), and convinces him to tag along on a canoe trip. Seeing the two polar-opposites interacting – which makes up the majority of this flick – begs the question of how these guys were ever…

Title: The Hedgehog Director: Mona Achache Starring: Garance Le Guillermic, Josiane Balasko, Togo Igawa Somewhere, no doubt, adult film actor and shameless publicity whore Ron Jeremy is kicking himself over finding out that there exists a movie entitled “The Hedgehog” in which he is not the star, or the beneficiary of a large life-rights check. No, director Mona Achache’s movie is no hairy skin-flick biopic, but instead a darkly comedic broadside aimed at stuffy French elitism, a movie very loosely of a sort with “Gosford Park” and the forthcoming “The Women on the 6th Floor,” written and directed by Philippe Le Guay. Based on Muriel Barbery’s 2006 French-language novel “The Elegance…

Title: Autoerotic Directors: Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard Starring: Kate Lyn Sheil, Amy Seimetz, Lane Hughes, Kris Swanberg, Ti West, Frank Ross, Megan Mercier A darkly comedic anthology look at the sexual confusion, appetite, insecurity and frustration of a group of modern-day Chicago couples, Autoerotic is an at once breezy and deadpan little indie film that doesn’t overstay its welcome but instead delivers a few pin-prick precision assaults on both masculine and feminine foibles and preoccupations, and then skitters away, pleased and laughing quietly to itself. It’s a subversive, mumblecore-type exploration of the boundaries of self-pleasure, and a nice little cinematic aperitif that could slot nicely with any number of tonier Hollywood explorations of lust…

Title: Salvation Boulevard Director: George Ratliff Starring: Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Yul Vazquez, Marisa Tomei, Jim Gaffigan, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ciaran Hinds, Howard Hesseman Its title awash in suburban metaphorical significance, Salvation Boulevard sounds like one of those dramas where some already stressed-out parents suffer and cope with the unexpected loss of a child, or maybe reconcile after decades of emotional drift and infidelity. After an hour with plenty of chilly exchanges, someone flips their lid in the kitchen and starts yelling, maybe smashing a glass or turning over a dining set for effect. Well, histrionics do indeed eventually take center stage here, but Salvation Boulevard‘s putative area of focus is instead a…

Watch the first official trailer from the upcoming dark comedy “Choke” by director Clark Gregg and starring Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston and Kelly Macdonald. Plot: A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

Trailer for the upcoming dark comedy “Wristcutters: A Love Story” by director Goran Dukic and starring Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon and Shea Whigham. Synopsis: A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.

Trailer for the upcoming dark comedy “Juno” by director Jason Reitman and starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner. Synopsis: Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual and bizarre decision regarding her unborn child. [youtube i4vKs4pGsnM]