I suffer through an annual end of the year meltdown. As we get closer and closer to the close of the year, I get more and more concerned that I won’t have enough films to fill out my top ten. Now how sad would that be? Fortunately, this is merely a bad habit I’ve gotten myself into and not only did I come up with a nice selection after running through everything I’ve seen in 2011, but I had a pretty tough time narrowing the list down to just ten. Per usual, my goal as a critic is to find the happy medium between my growing film studies background and…

Watch a hilarious behind-the-scenes video starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page in honor of the on demand release of the new IFC Dark Comedy “SUPER”. The crime fighting duo meets with Personal Security Expert Frank Corpus during this year’s SXSW Film Festival. “SUPER” by director James Gunn stars Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Liv Tyler. Synopsis: In the outlandish dark comedy SUPER, James Gunn has created what is perhaps the definitive take on self-reflexive superheroes. When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyler) willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he decides to…

Title: Super Directed By: James Gunn Starring: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fillion I’m all for bizarre and outlandish comedy. When Napoleon Dynamite hit back in 2004, I fell in love. The difference between that film and James Gunn’s Super? Whereas Napoleon Dynamite was innocent silliness, Super is insulting madness. Perhaps the films would be comparable had Napoleon’s Liger jumped off the page and mauled Pedro to death. Super stars Rainn Wilson as Frank, a lame loser who happened to get lucky in the romance department and marry Liv Tyler’s character, Sarah. Sure enough, Frank’s luck runs dry and Sarah’s drug addiction creeps back into the…

According to a report by Variety, Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Liv Tyler have all been announced to star in the superhero genre-spoof comedy “Super”. James Gunn (“Slither”) wrote the script, and will also be directing the project. Wilson plays an average guy with no special abilities or powers at all, who takes on the heroic wrench-wielding alter ego of the Crimson Bolt after watching his wife succumb to the charms of a local neighborhood drug dealer. Filming on “Super” will be starting in December 2009. Stay tuned for more news on “Super”, right here at Shockya.com. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety)