From political drama thrillers to biographies to action films, 2011 offered memorable and fascinating entries in numerous movie genres. In Shockya’s new mini-series, your favorite writers will countdown their Top 10 favorite films of the past year. With award season quickly approaching and the nominees for several ceremonies already announced, including the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards and the 18th Annual SAG Awards, listed below are some of the best movies of 2011. Whether the films feature believable acting, realistic storytelling, perfectly guided direction or a combination of all three, the following ten movies will definitely stand out as the best of the best in the years to come. 1….

Thank You for Smoking, Juno and Up in the Air; can director Jason Reitman do no wrong? Thanks to his latest feature, Young Adult, I’m inclined to believe so. The film stars Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary who quite literally is a young adult. She’s a professional living in the big city, but Mavis hasn’t shaken her high school years. Still believing she’s the popular girl, Mavis heads home to Mercury, Minnesota to claim what she thinks is rightfully hers, her high school sweetheart Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson). Former nerd Matt Freehauf (Patton Oswalt) attempts to talk some sense into her, explaining Buddy’s married with a kid, but thanks to…

Earlier this year saw the wrath of The Alamo Drafthouse when it came to people talking in their theater. The prestigious theater made a PSA after receiving a hilariously angry voicemail from a woman who was kicked out of the theater for using her cell phone. The PSA won a lot of fans (who really likes it when people talk in the theater?). Some of those fans include comedian Patton Oswalt and director Jason Reitman, both a part of the film “Young Adult.” Oswalt and Reitman decided to parody the now-infamous video while at the Drafthouse Cinema for a screening “Young Adult.” You can see the video below the post….

“Young Adult” is getting a lot of good press, particularly for Charlize Theron’s portrayal of an unlikeable YA writer who goes back to her hometown in order to get her “true love”(Patrick Wilson) who’s married with children. For those who are excited about the film and want to see more clips, Paramount has released a new clip called “Bookstore.” You can check it out below the post. The clip is also available for viewing on the film’s Facebook page. “Young Adult” also stars Patton Oswalt and Elizabeth Reaser and is directed by Jason Reitman. The script is by Diablo Cody. The official synopsis of the film is, according to the…

Not many movie directors have the courage or talent to bring an unconventional, passive aggressive protagonist who audiences can ultimately relate to without judging them to the screen. But filmmaker Jason Reitman did just that with his new comedy drama ‘Young Adult,’ which is now in limited theatrical release and is set to expand wide on Friday, December 16, 2011. While on the red carpet of the New York premiere of the film on December 8 at the Ziegelfd Theatre, the helmer and producer took the time to discuss with us the process of shooting the movie. ‘Young Adult’ follows Mavis Gary (played by Charlize Theron), an emotionally immature 37-year-old…

It’s not often an actress can convincingly play a passive aggressive protagonist, who is used to always being given what she wants, but can also elicit empathy and understanding from the audience. But Charlize Theron does exactly that in the new comedy-drama ‘Young Adult,’ which is now playing in select theaters and opens wide on December 16, 2011. At the film’s New York City red carpet premiere on December 8 at the Ziegfeld Theater, several of the Academy Award-winning actress’ co-stars from the film readily praised her ease at playing such an emotionally immature character. ‘Young Adult,’ which was directed and produced by Jason Reitman, follows Theron’s Mavis Gary as…

A review of this week’s new movie releases from your favorite entertainment and celebrity website. This is episode 25 of ShockYa.com Presents Movie Night. This week Rudie Obias and Perri Nemiroff review the new film from director David Gordon Green, “The Sitter,” starring Jonah Hill. They also review the new movie from director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, “Young Adult,” starring Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt and Patrick Wilson. Please subscribe via iTunes or download and listen. “The Sitter” features Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, J.B. Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez and Kylie Bunbury. Directed by David Gordon Green and written by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka….

Title: Young Adult Director: Jason Reitman Screenwriter: Diablo Cody Cast: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser Screened: AMC Lincoln Square, NYC, 12/5/11 Opens: December 9, 2011 The usual reason that people give for attending reunions of their high school and college classes is to get together with the folks they knew in better, freer times, see how they look, compare notes on who is successful and who are the flops. There may be subconscious desires to run into their old flames not just to reminisce about old times but actually to hook up. Why not? You can’t do it if you don’t try. But usually people who are…

Title: Young Adult Directed By: Jason Reitman Starring: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe Mavis Gary might not have grown up in the least, but Diablo Cody has achieved an incredible degree of maturity in her latest piece, Young Adult. While Young Adult exudes a different type of comedy as compared to Juno and most certainly Jennifer’s Body, it still maintains the zest, heart and humor that solidified Cody as a top-notch screenwriter back in 2007. Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is a successful young adult writer living in the big city of Minneapolis, Minnesota – well, a once successful ghostwriter. Not only is Mavis’ name not…

Diablo Cody set the bar pretty high with her first feature, Juno, but Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) follows right in our favorite blue slushy chugging teen pregnancy case’s footsteps. Well, somewhat. Mavis is quite literally a young adult. She’s all grown up and working in Minneapolis as the ghostwriter of the once popular young adult series, Waverly Prep, but she’s very much stuck in the past. When her marriage fails and she’s asked to pen the final installment of the series, Mavis attempts to use her high school flame, Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), to lift her spirits. Regardless of his loving wife and child, Mavis packs up her things, hops…