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The excitement is building for the upcoming episode of “The Loud House,” titled “The Weakest Ink.” This season 8 episode is set to air on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 5:30 Pm on Nickelodeon. Fans of the show can look forward to a fun and memorable storyline that revolves around the Moon Goats.

In this episode, the Moon Goats celebrate a big milestone: their video has hit 10,000 streams! To commemorate this achievement, the band makes a bold decision to get matching tattoos. This idea brings a mix of excitement and nerves, as each member of the band has their own thoughts about getting inked. The episode will explore the friendships and dynamics within the group as they navigate this new adventure together.

As the story unfolds, viewers can expect plenty of laughs, heartwarming moments, and maybe even a few surprises. The Loud House continues to deliver relatable themes and entertaining plots, and “The...

When Imagine Documentaries president Sara Bernstein pitched New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams on making a film about her career, even the veteran journalist didn’t understand why Bernstein was interested. “What do you want to make a doc about me for?” Adams asked the “Jim Henson: Idea Man” producer. “Everybody has a documentary. My dentist has a documentary!”

Good line — and she must have a great dentist.

An incomplete list of this year’s celebrity docs includes Simone Biles, Celine Dion, Steve Martin, Roger Federer, Stevie van Zandt, Brian Eno, Frida Kahlo, Devo, Christopher Reeve, Sue Bird, Andrea Bocelli, Elton John, Martha Stewart, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Paul Anka, Pharrell Williams, and Bruce Springsteen.

The appetite seems nearly endless, but producers say it’s increasingly difficult to find famous people whose lives haven’t flashed before our eyes. Said Bernstein, “The challenge today is, who hasn’t had a documentary?...

Luv Sinha Breaks Silence On Being Mia from Sonakshi’s Wedding, Jacqueline’s Ott Debut, Janhvi Kapoor’s Ulajh Delayed- Top Trending News(Photo Credit –Instagram)

Jacqueline Fernandes will co-star with Neil Ntini Mukesh in her Ott debut, and Maniesh Paul will star in the next David Dhawan film; Bigg Boss Ott 3 contestant Sai Ketan Rao confirms his relationship with former co-star Shivangi Khedkar. Also making headlines is Game Of Thrones star Thomas Brodi Sangster getting married to Elon Musk’s ex-wife. Also, Sonakshi Sinha’s brother Luv Sinha finally responds to not attending his sister’s wedding, and more trending news from Hollywood, Bollywood, and Ott is summed up in this listicle.

It’s another day, and we are ready to serve you a new list of entertainment updates you might have missed. The entertainment world is buzzing with the latest news.

Luv Sinha Breaks Silence On Not Attending...

NBA star Stephen Curry is often brought up in the conversation about GOATs — the greatest basketball players of all time.

While the four-time NBA champion and two-time Mvp’s ranking might be debatable, Curry is making his Goat connection official — by producing a sports comedy movie by the same name for Sony Pictures Animation.

Curry and his Unanimous Media co-founder Erick Peyton will produce the film alongside Academy Award nominee Michelle Raimo Kouyate, and Modern Magic’s Adam Rosenberg (“Creed 3”) and Academy Award winner Rodney Rothman (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”).

“With ‘Goat,’ we look forward to uplifting audiences with diverse characters and heartwarming storylines that will have you rooting for the underdog,” stated Peyton and Curry about the movie, which is aimed at families and sports fans alike.

Emmy-nominated director Tyree Dillihay (“Bob’s Burgers”) will direct the film, and Adam Rosette (“Orion and the Dark”) will co-direct. “Fairfax” creators...

Before he was Jack Reacher, Alan Ritchson was the tough-talking linebacker Kevin “Thad” Castle on the football comedy Blue Mountain State, a raunchy and hilarious mash-up of Friday Night Lights and American Pie. If you missed out on that cult favorite sports series during its original run, well, you’re in luck: Not only is it already available to stream for free with ads on services like Freevee, Tubi, and Plex, but it’s going to be available to stream uninterrupted (again) on Netflix starting Wednesday, May 1, five years after it was suddenly removed from the streamer’s library. Blue Mountain State ran for three seasons on Spike TV (now Paramount) and centered on a rather ridiculous fictional Midwest football team whose football team, the “Mountain Goats,” was full of ne’erdowellers who were obsessed with hard partying. The show ran for three seasons, from 2010-2011 but was canceled by...

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #384: How to have a career making indie...

Eva Maria Daniels, producer of independent features “Reality,” “What Maisie Knew” and “Joe Bell,” died on June 30 in London, after battling cancer. She was 43.

Throughout her career, Daniels maintained longstanding partnerships with producer Riva Marker and A24, worked as a producer for The Mill and Company 3 and served as a consultant for the Icelandic Film Fund.

“Eva died on the same terms as she lived. She played her cards close to her chest. She didn’t seek recognition when she had success. She didn’t seek pity when she suffered. I will miss her friendship greatly, but mostly I will miss seeing what she would have done next,” wrote director Börkur Sigthorsson on Facebook.

Most recently, Daniels executive produced the Berlin Film Festival selection and Max feature, “Reality,” which stars Sydney Sweeney and was directed by Tina Satter.

“Eva was hyper intelligent and had a gift for seeking out and supporting artists.

Eva Maria Daniels, the Icelandic producer and film festival favorite behind such recent indie dramas as What Maisie Knew, Hold the Dark and Joe Bell, has died. She was 43.

Daniels died June 30 in London after a battle with cancer, her friend and publicist Jessie Cohen told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed in March 2020 with a type of Stage 3 cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes, but she declared herself cancer free in an interview with THR‘s Chris Gardner a year later.

“Eva died on the same terms as she lived,” director Börkur Sigthorsson wrote on Facebook. “She played her cards close to her chest. She didn’t seek recognition when she had success. She didn’t seek pity when she suffered. I will miss her friendship greatly, but mostly I will miss seeing what she would have done next.”

Daniels most recently executive produced the Sydney Sweeney-starring Reality.

Drew Barrymore has dropped out as host of the MTV Movie & TV Awards set for this Sunday in Los Angeles, in support of striking writers.

Barrymore is signed to host next year’s awards. This year’s show will be hostless. There also will be no press access and no red carpet or talent interviews before the show.

“I have listened to the writers, and in order to truly respect them, I will pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live in solidarity with the strike,” Barrymore said in a statement. “Everything we celebrate and honor about movies and television is born out of their creation. And until a solution is reached, I am choosing to wait but I’ll be watching from home and hope you will join me. I thank MTV, who has truly been some of the best partners I have ever worked with. And I...

Any classic slasher flick is only as good as the gruesome menace that terrorizes their victims. Kill Her Goats took this to heart when casting horror legend Kane Hodder (Friday The 13th Hatchet) as the brutally awesome ‘Goatface.’ To survive him and his double-bladed chainsaw would be a tall …

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In today’s TV news roundup, The CW announced the premiere date for the sixth and final season of “Supergirl,” and Netflix revealed a teaser for the second part of “Lupin.”

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The CW announced that “Supergirl” will premiere the first part of its sixth and final season on March 30 at 9 p.m. In that time slot now is “Superman and Lois,” which will go on a brief hiatus due to a Covid-related production interruption earlier this season when “Supergirl” begins. The recently-renewed “Superman and Lois” will return on May 18 at 9 p.m., with “Supergirl” slated to complete its final season later this summer. The action-adventure drama series follows the DC character Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist), who balances her work as a reporter for CatCo Worldwide Media with her work as Supergirl, keeping National City and the Earth safe from sinister threats. The series also stars David Harewood, Jesse Rath,...

Following the news of Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek‘s death Sunday, fellow TV hosts and other stars flooded social media to pay their respects to the longtime host.

Trebek died after a battle with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. According to an official statement from the show, the host passed away “peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends.”

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Shortly after the news broke,...

Here’s another interview in Nerdly’s socially distanced series of chats with filmmakers as part of the Nerdly Out Loud podcast for Nerdly.co.uk. This time Kevin sits down with The Mime co-directors Gavin Williams (Await Further Instructions) and Mark Lediard, whose short film forms part of 20th Digital’s Bite Size Halloween.

A self-involved pedestrian accidentally angers a sinister street Mime, and pays a heavy price.

20th Digital Studio is to premiere a series of 30 diverse, genre-bending short films for Halloween 2020. Bite Size Halloween ranges from horror comedy to psychological thrillers and everything in between. Created by up-and-coming filmmakers, these films will screen across digital and broadcast platforms Freeform, FX, and Hulu’s Huluween platform hub and YouTube channel.

Bite Size Halloween 2020 features 30 exciting new filmmakers, amplifying their voice in the film community. This year’s cohort includes a well-rounded group of filmmakers representing different countries, identities,...

Updated, 12:25 Pm: The game ended over 12 hours ago and now the final numbers are in from last night’s NFL season opener. The primetime matchup between the victorious Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans snared 19.3 million viewers on NBC.

That’s a fumble of 12.3% from the Green Bay Packers-Chicago Bears opening game of the 2019-2020 season on September 5, 2019. With racial justice center stage at the beginning of last night’s game, the contest between the reigning Super Bowl champions and the Lone Star state team is up just a touch over the nine-year low of the weather-delayed 2018 season opener in total sets of eyeballs.

Additionally, there were both NBA and NHL playoffs on last night, most noticeably with the Los Angeles Lakers besting the Houston Rockets 110-100 to take a 3-1 lead in their series.

When data from NBC Sports Digital and NFL Digital platforms are...

Bob Dylan’s Q&a with the New York Times on Friday marks his first major interview in three years, following a conversation with Bill Flanagan on his own website in 2017. In it, he tells historian Douglas Brinkley about his upcoming album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, including the sprawling, 17-minute closer “Murder Most Foul” and the controversial “I Contain Multitudes.“

He also shares his favorite Eagles songs, his thoughts on the pandemic and the recent death of George Floyd that shook the nation. “It sickened me no end to see...

Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle sings of prophecies, deviltry and heretics’ blood on the gentle, almost Genesis-like light rocker “Sicilian Crest,” a song off the group’s upcoming In League With Dragons LP. The song has a jaunty synthesizer part, flickering piano and skittering drumming, all swirling around Darnielle’s lilting vocal. You’ll be able to hear the song in the full context of Dragons when the LP comes out on April 24th.

“‘Sicilian Crest,’ lyrically, is more reminiscent of early Mountain Goats than anything since a couple of...

Charity crowdfunder GoFundMe, which has been used to great effect by many top YouTube stars, has launched a video production studio dedicated to sharing stories that have emerged from the platform.

GoFundMe Studios will be led by executive producers Wil Tidman and Chris Neil, who will create short-form documentaries, feature-length films, livestreaming content, podcasts, and other editorial surrounding the platform’s campaigns -- with the ultimate aim of inspiring more acts of compassion. Tidman previously served as VP of creative, strategy, and original productions for GoPro, while Neil is a noted filmmaker who made his directorial debut with 2012’s Goats starring David Duchovny and Vera Farmiga.

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Sneak Peek new images of actress Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades Of Grey"), in the February 2015 issue of "Vogue" fashion magazine, photographed by Mario Testino, plus take a look @ Johnson in the Nsfw short film "In a Relationship":

Born in the year of the Snake (1989), Johnson made her film debut in "Crazy", playing daughter to her real-life mother actress Melanie Griffith "Body Double"). 

She appeared in "The Social Network", followed by the films "Beastly; "Theo" and "For Ellen".

In 2012, she had roles in the films "Goats", "The Five-Year Engagement" and "21 Jump Street".

Johnson also played the female lead in the film "Date and Switch".

In March 2012, she was cast as 'Kate' in the Fox comedy series "Ben and Kate", then followed up with more film roles "Need for Speed" (2014) and "Anarchy". In 2014, she also co-starred in "Black Mass", to be followed by "I Am Love".

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The Creative Coalition has announced the 2015 Spotlight Initiative Awards will be bestowed on Zoë Kravitz, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kellan Lutz and recent Golden Globe Winner Jeffrey Tambor at The Creative Coalition Awards Gala Dinner in Park City, Utah on January 24th. The annual gala evening is a marquee event with creative talent and executives from the arenas of entertainment and media gathering to celebrate these luminaries and the art and craft of independent film.

Details are as follows:

Saturday, January 24, 2015

8:00 pm

Nikki Beach at Riverhorse on Main

540 Main Street

Park City, Utah

“This year’s class of honorees represents a journey of triumph for independent film. The Creative Coalition’s Spotlight Initiative Award was created to support the artistry of independent film and those who create it,” said CEO of The Creative Coalition Robin Bronk.

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About The Creative Coalition and the Spotlight Initiative:

The Creative Coalition is the premier nonprofit, nonpartisan 501 (c)(3) social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment community. Founded in 1989 by prominent members of the creative community, The Creative Coalition is dedicated to educating, mobilizing, and activating its members on issues of public importance. Actor Tim Daly serves as the organization’s President. The Spotlight Initiative Awards are a prestigious honor in the independent film arena.

Previous recipients include Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Eddie Izzard, and Josh Lucas for Boychoir; William H. Macy and John Hawkes for The Sessions; Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, and Stanley Tucci for Margin Call; Vera Farmiga for Goats; Maggie Gyllenhaal for Hysteria; and directors Quentin Tarantino, Taylor Hackford, George Hickenlooper, Lee Daniels, Roland Emmerich, and Barry Levinson. Other Spotlight Initiative Award winners include Cicely Tyson, Marcia Gay Harden, Melissa Leo, Elijah Wood, Anna Kendrick, Ellen Barkin, Alan Arkin, Tracy Morgan, Kate Bosworth, Jane Lynch, Shailene Woodley, Alfred Molina, Cheryl Hines, Josh Gad, Jonathan Pryce, Rose McGowan, and Emile Hirsch, among others.

About Nikki Beach Worldwide:

In 1998, entrepreneur Jack Penrod introduced the world to Nikki Beach; the ultimate beach club concept that combines the elements of entertainment, dining, music, fashion, film and art into one. Today, the Nikki Beach concept has transcended its international venues and grown into a global, multifaceted luxury lifestyle & hospitality brand comprising of a Beach Club Division; a Lifestyle Division (including an exclusive branding & clothing line found at the Boutiques located at all Nikki Beach locations, a music label and Nikki Style Magazine, a luxury travel, fashion & lifestyle publication produced two times a year); a Special Events Division; a Hotels & Resorts Division; and Nikki Cares, a 501c3 Non-Profit Charity Division

Nikki Beach can now be experienced in: Miami Beach, Florida, USA; St. Tropez, France; St. Barth, French West Indies; Marbella, Spain; Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; Marrakech, Morocco; Koh Samui, Thailand; Mallorca, Spain; Ibiza, Spain; Phuket, Thailand; Porto Heli, Greece; Bali, Indonesia; and pop-up locations in Cannes, France during the Cannes International Film Festival, Canada during the Toronto International Film Festival and in Park City, Utah, USA during the Sundance Film Festival. The Hotels & Resorts division has a current location in Koh Samui, Thailand & Porto Heli, Greece and in 2015 will be opening a hotel property in Dubai, UAE; For more information about Nikki Beach Worldwide, please visit:Here...

To mark the release of Goats on 3rd February, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.

Based on the novel by Mark Jude Poirier and from first-time director Christopher Neil, Goats centres around the story of fourteen year old Ellis (Graham Phillips), who is getting ready to leave his luxurious home in the foothills of Tucson for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school. This means leaving behind Wendy (Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air, The Conjuring), his flaky, new age mother and the only real father he has ever known, ‘Goat Man’ (David Duchovny – The X Files, Californication).

At college Ellis discovers a whole new world opening up around him, with new friends and love interests competing with old problems – his real dad Frank (Ty Burell – Modern Family), being one of them. As Ellis attempts to balance the conflicting relationships in his life,...

The 2014 Academy Award nominations were announced this week and the relative snubbing of Captain Phillips, Saving Mr Banks, Inside Llewyn Davis and GI Joe: Retaliation is going to have us all cursing the Academy and discussing the actual quality of American Hustle until about May.

Nonetheless one of the great tragedies of my life is that I cannot actually watch absolutely everything ever that comes out and try as I might to rectify this, there simply are not enough hours in the day. There are a couple of films available on the streaming services that have just been nominated for academy awards this week which I have not had a chance to see thus far.

Those films are; The Square, nominated for Best Documentary Feature and now available on Netflix. The Square is about the uprising in Egypt in early 2011 that made the news around the world and the circumstances around this.

IFC Films has scooped up Tiff special presentation title "Hateship Loveship," starring Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte, Christine Lahti and Jennifer Jason Leigh.  Directed by Liza Johnson ("Return"), the film is adapted by Mark Poirier ("Goats") from a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro. Here's the official synopsis:Hateship Loveship is a multi-dimensional portrait of a young woman who has a life-altering effect on a fractured family. Kristen Wiig stars as Johanna Parry, a profoundly shy, unadorned woman who is hired by Mr. McCauley (Nick Nolte) as a housekeeper and a primary caregiver to his granddaughter Sabitha (Hailee Steinfeld). When Sabitha uses technology to foster a pseudo-relationship between her widowed father and new caretaker, Johanna is finally able to indulge in something long missing from her life: the dream of a future and a home of her own.No word yet on a stateside release.

If you were one of those people who did a little head scratch action and wondered "Who?!" when Dakota Johnson was announced as the big screen sex slave-to-be Anastasia Steele in "Fifty Shades of Grey," you are totally not alone.

Apart from the fact that she's the product of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's second marital union (yep), the public doesn't know a whole heck of a lot about the girl.

Believe it or not, though, you probably have seen her in a movie or two before without realizing it. You see, until this bondage flick score, she's only been the headliner for one project (the short-lived TV show "Ben and Kate"), but she's had a slew of cameo roles that she took full advantage of, so to speak.

Even better, some of them involved some beneath-the-sheets-ish behavior that might just make you wanna rethink signing that "Fifty Shades" recast petition.

Image Entertainment has acquired all U.S. rights to the romantic drama Last Love , based on Francoise Dorner's French novel "La Douceur Assassine." Starring Oscar winner Michael Caine ( The Dark Knight Rises , Inception ), who recently signed on to star in Interstellar - his 6th Christopher Nolan film, Last Love is written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck, and co-stars Clémence Poésy ( In Bruges , 127 Hours ), Justin Kirk ( Goats , Showtime's "Weeds"), Gillian Anderson ("The X-Files") and Jane Alexander ( Dream House , Terminator Salvation ). Bill Bromiley, chief acquisitions officer for Image Entertainment, made today's announcement. Image acquired the film from producers/financiers Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Bavaria Pictures GmbH and...

Black List writer Young Il Kim has been awarded the Sundance Institute’s Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant for his original untitled script based on the life of Stephen Hawking. Kim will develop the biopic project with the creative backing of Sundance Institute while the Arlook Group, one of the producers of the 2012 David Duchovny-Vera Farmiga indie Goats, is attached to produce. Hawking, who gained international acclaim after authoring his best-seller A Brief History of Time, has Als, a disease that slowly paralyzed him and rendered him almost speechless. Despite that, he had been married twice and has

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"Bates Motel" star Vera Farmiga is the latest name to joined the cast of David Dobkin's comedy drama The Judge , says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . She joins Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film finds Downey as an attorney returning to his hometown for his mother's funeral. Although Duvall's character is the town judge, he's also the only suspect in his wife's murder and Downey's character must balance years of estrangement and emotional distance in his effort to uncover the truth about what really happened. Farmiga will play a waitress in the small town with whom Downey's character shares a connection. In addition to her small screen work, Farmiga recently starred in Safe House and Goats , and can next be seen on the big screen in...

Hateship Friendship

Director: Liza Johnson

Writer(s): Mark Poirier (Smart People, Goats)

Producer(s): Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Cassian Elwes, Jamin O’Brien, Dylan Sellers

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Guy Pearce, Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte

I might not have connected with Liza Johnson’s Cannes-selected Return (Linda Cardellini is nominated for an Indie Spirit Best Actress award) but I’m looking at her sophomore film as what we have come to expect from an Alexandre Payne-ish type film: placing an atypical cast of flawed characters in an extreme situation. If the foursome of Guy Pearce, Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld and Nick Nolte offer some emotional bravura, then Johnson might be the second to successfully adapt an Alice Munro story for the big screen following Sarah Polley before her with Away From Her. Worth noting: Beginners‘ Cinematographer Kasper Tuxen lenses.

Gist: Based on Alice Munro’s Hateship,...

One of the stars of ABC’s Modern Family, Ty Burrell will join the human cast for sequel to 2011s The Muppets to replace Django Unchained‘s Christoph Waltz, who was circling the Disney project earlier this fall.

The Austrian actor’s schedule prevented the studio from making a deal and forced him to drop out of the running. Burrell will now take over the role of an Interpol agent in the Europe-set follow-up. Waltz will be reportedly heading off to work on Mike Newell‘s Reykjavik.

James Bobin, who directed the 2011 Muppets film, is returning to helm the still-untitled sequel and co-wrote the screenplay with returning writer Nicholas Stoller. However, The Muppets 2 will not star Jason Segel, who co-wrote and starred in the 2011 movie.

Stoller told ComingSoon in a recent interview:

We kind of felt like we completed Gary’s story in the first one, and he’s...

Both Kristen Wiig and Hailee Steinfeld have joined Guy Pearce and Nick Nolte in the indie dramedy Hateship, Friendship, which starting to shoot next week in New Orleans.

The new movie from Return (2011) director Liza Johnson is based on the book of short stories, ‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage,’ by Alice Munro.

Penned for the big screen by Mark Poirier (Goats), the Hateship, Friendship project focuses on a nanny (Wiig) hired to care for a rather wild teenage girl (Steinfeld) who using email, ignites a romantic flame between the nanny and her own estranged father (Pearce), a recovering drug addict living in a different town; Nolte will play the girl’s grandfather who blames Pearce’s character for the death of his own daughter.

Johnson said there are some lighter moments in the story:

It’s a bit more comedic, but I wouldn’t exactly call it a comedy. What...

A lot of indie films create a delightful ensemble of quirky characters and then do not really know what to do with them but let them run free onscreen. Director Christopher Neil's Goats is one of those films. The extended family that surrounds protagonist Ellis Whitman (played with natural boyish charm by Graham Phillips) is, for the most part, utterly strange. They’re the kinds of eccentrics that have enough money to justify the rather strange lives they live; no economic constraints can force them to behave otherwise.

Ellis has grown up on a relatively isolated ranch in Tucson with his New Age spiritual freak of a mother, Wendy (the always impressive Vera Farmiga, who makes what could be an overly grating and annoying role more sympathetic), and the bearded, perpetually stoned scientist known as Goat Man, played by David Duchovny with the ease of someone who was somehow...

[Editor's Note: Goats was originally scheduled to open in Austin theaters in August, but the local theatrical release was canceled shortly beforehand. As a result, we held Elizabeth's review until the movie's home video release date, which is today. You can find this movie on DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Instant Video and Netflix Watch Instantly.]

In theory, Goats seems like your typical coming-of-age story based at a boys' school. But really, Christopher Neil's directorial debut, based on a screenplay and novel by Mark Poirier, is slightly more than that tired premise. Fourteen-year-old Ellis (Graham Phillips, who plays Zach Florrick on one of my current favorite TV dramas, The Good Wife, and looks years past 14) heads to an East Coast prep school, leaving his hippie/trust-fund-baby mom (Vera Farmiga) to her own devices in Arizona with only the groundskeeper "Goat Man" (David Duchovny) to watch out for her. 

Goat Man is something of a spiritual guide to Ellis. He provides Ellis with plenty of weed and serves as a makeshift father figure since Ellis' dad has been out of the picture for years. This new prep school is his dad Frank's alma mater, however, and Ellis keeps finding hints of his dad's times there. Frank...

“Goats” is Christopher Neil’s first film as a director, but he has both an unusually deep connection to the material and an amazingly sturdy foundation of cinematic experience from which to draw. An adaptation of Mark Jude Poirier’s rangy novel of the same name, the film tracks the coming-of-age of Ellis (Graham Phillips), a 15-year-old Tucson native who leaves behind his New Age hippie mom (Vera Farmiga) and his best friend — an affable stoner and their live-in gardener, named Goatman (David Duchovny) – to attend an East Coast prep school where his estranged father (Ty Burrell) once matriculated. For ShockYa, Brent Simon recently had a chance to speak to Neil one-on-one, about the movie, [ Read More ]...

David Duchovny is an erudite guy. Although formal collegiate education is often lacking in big screen stars, he possesses both an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a Master of Arts in English literature from Yale. So his casting in director Christopher Neil’s new coming-of-age indie film “Goats,” as a bearded and not particularly motivated gardener named Goatman, may not seem like the most obvious fit. Duchovny, though, breathes dimensionality and life into his character, even if he spends most of the movie actually inhaling. For ShockYa, Brent Simon recently had the chance to speak to Duchovny one-on-one, about the movie, Craigslist, goat bleating, his thoughts on marijuana legalization and what [ Read More ]...

Coming of age stories are the bread and butter of independent cinema. They don’t require any snazzy CGI-effects, no big name actors or their $20 million salaries, and the only “buzz” created is through good ol’ word of mouth, not a multi-faceted, multi-media campaign blitz. It’s the sort of back to basics film-making that is necessitated by the budgets available to unproven directors: simple universal stories, simple old-fashioned techniques.

While more story-oriented movies are a nice change of pace from bloated, marketing-driven franchise films, “independent films” have become just as much a commodity as any of the summer tentpole films. Sundance, IFC, Sony Pictures Classic, and the rest of their ilk are all brand names that conjure up particular (and more important, sellable) images. The social outcast protagonist, usually stuck in some existential ennui, surrounded by an assortment of Carroll-esque kooks, pulling the hero in this or that unexpected direction,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 11, 2012

Price: DVD $27.97, Blu-ray $29.97

Studio: Image

David Duchovny (r.) carries on with Graham Phillips in Goats.

David Duchovny (The Joneses) and Vera Farmiga (Safe House) star in the 2012 comedy Goats, based on the novel by Mark Jude Poirier (who also penned the screenplay).

At 15 years old, Ellis (Graham Phillips) is the most adult member of his eccentric family. His mom (Farmiga) is a New Age hippie who spends all of her time working on self-help rituals with her hustler boyfriend (Justin Kirk, TV’s Weeds), while his estranged dad (Ty Burrell, TV’s Modern Family) is more focused on his new wife (Keri Russell, TV’s Felicity) and family. And then there’s Goat Man (Duchovny), the goat-herding sage who has lived in their pool house since Ellis was a child, teaching him the meaning of stability, commitment, and expanding one’s mind. When Ellis decides...

Offbeat coming-of-age movie, “Goats,” is in theaters now! Based on Mark Jude Poirier’s best-selling novel, director Christopher Neil’s hilarious and poignant film is a witty reversal of the coming of age formula, a beautifully honest portrayal of life with its rough edges, awkward moments, and non-endings. In “Goats,” Ellis (Graham Phillips) is the most adult member of his eccentric family at 15 years old. His mom (Vera Farmiga) is a New Age hippie that spends all of her time working on self-help rituals with her hustler boyfriend (Justin Kirk). His dad (Ty Burrell) left home years ago and is more focused on his new wife (Keri Russell) and family. And [ Read More ]...

Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, with much due respect, lightened the tension surrounding Robert Pattinson's first TV appearance since the Kristen Stewart scandal with what any "two gals" would use to commiserate over a bad breakup: Ben & Jerry's ice cream and saucy relationship tips. "Boy, you are better off," Stewart snapped, "Kick her to the curb. Whateva!" That sass broke RPatz's stoicism into laughter and a cute "Is that an impression of yourself?" He also loved the ice cream, so Good Morning America, get your freezers ready. Plus: David Duchovny and his high school crew had been bleating like goats even before Goats; and Andy Samberg, like all New York residents, had his own gross vermin-in-the-kitchen story. Watch our compilation to see what you missed.

Sweet and simple, almost to a fault, Goats tells a familiar story of a child at the center of a bitter feud between his long-since divorced parents. In his debut film, director Christopher Neil plays it safe (though this may not necessarily be a bad thing). In the end, a strong cast and the sweet and simple nature of the script (based on the novel by Mark Poirier) makes Goats a charming little indie tale worth the viewing....

It's a common practice for movie productions to bring in specialists to coach actors in preparation for roles that require them to perform certain complex behaviors, such as driving, fighting or playing the piano. But, what if the complex behaviors in question are rolling joints and smoking pot? Well, according to Graham Phillips, then you turn to a "master of the cannabic arts" for instruction.

In first-time director Christopher Neil's new coming-of-age movie, Goats, Phillips needed to look practiced at smoking marijuana to play Ellis, the son of a New Age "hippie" mother (Vera Farmiga) whose mentor and father-figure is the Goat Man (David Duchovny), a "botanist and a goat trekker" well-versed in said "cannabic arts." For his role, Duchovny joked that he "didn't need" a coach to teach him how to smoke pot, but he did need some instruction in rolling joints. Duchovny also conceded that he isn't...

The X-Files had a film open in theaters in 1998 while the show was still running, and its disappointing follow-up X-Files: I Want to Believe came to theaters in 2008, six years after the series' end. Despite some underwhelming box office numbers for the second film, franchise star David Duchovny wants to keep things going and continue the adventures of Mulder and Scully on the big screen. In an interview with Collider about his indie film Goats (out in theaters today), Duchovny spoke a bit about the reasons the second movie didn't fare so well at the box office and how he'd love to return to make another film. Read on! Here are some choice quotes from Duchovny's interview with Collider: That book doesn’t close until somebody dies, really. One of the greatnesses of the show was its open-endedness. It was about possibility. It wasn’t about closure. It ...

There's been lots of small talk revolving around David Duchovny this week. His new indie film Goats arrives in limited release this weekend following rumors of a real-life romance between him and his X-Files costar Gillian Anderson. Now, speaking to Collider, Duchovny -- who would keep making X-Files movies until he dies if it meant more work -- tells the site that it boggles his mind as to why 20th Century Fox doesn't seem interested in making more X-Files sequels, admitting that he'd "love to do another film, or more." He goes on to say how "perplexed" he is that the studio isn't more enthusiastic, especially when stuff like Green Lantern is being made (by another studio, we should add). "Here’s a homegrown property that you...

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After years of playing spooky Agent Fox Mulder on TV's "The X-Files" and in two big-screen "X-Files" movies, it's only natural that David Duchovny wants to lighten the mood a little bit. The 52-year-old actor won a Golden Globe for his hilarious role as troubled novelist and unrepentant ladies' man Hank Moody on Showtime's "Californication," the sixth season of which is scheduled to air in January. Now Duchovny appears on the big screen in the quirky comedy "Goats" as Goat Man — a chill, perma-stoned wild man of the desert who has inadvertently become the father figure to the son (Graham Phillips) of the hippie (Vera Farmiga) whose garden he's been tending for years.

We sat down with Duchovny as he waxed philosophical about nature vs. technology, the legalization of marijuana, the future of "The X-Files" and why getting to play guitar with Marilyn Manson was a high point of his life.

With a title like Goats, there's no telling what a movie is going to be about, but, luckily, Reelz caught up with star David Duchovny at the Goats premiere to get the answer.

It is a true coming-of-age story, but it's realistic and it's a little harder-edged. It's just a smart, well-observed movie that parents and teenage kids would enjoy together.

More specifically, Goats is based on the novel of the same name by Mark Poirier and follows teenager Ellis (Graham Phillips), who is preparing to go to prep school, while balancing his neediness of his New Age, hippie mother (Vera Farmiga) and trying to bridge the emotional gap between himself and his straight-laced father (Ty Burrell). There's also Duchovny's Goat Man, Ellis' pot-smoking mentor, though Duchovny says that the character isn't your typical goat-trekking, pot-growing parental figure.

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Editor’s note: Goats lands in limited this week, determined to gnaw on theater chairs, popcorn buckets, and actual moviegoers, so give our Sundance review a read before heading into that situation. This review was originally published on January 27, 2012. Ellis (Graham Phillips) has grown up in a less-than-average household. Ellis lives in Tuscon, Arizona with his mother Wendy (Vera Farmiga), a free spirit who relies on Ellis to make sure their bills are paid on time while she seems to still be “finding herself.” Add to this Goat Man (David Duchovny), who tends to their pool and garden (as well as his own “garden”) and lives on the property with, you guessed it, his goats. Despite this rather unusual upbringing, Ellis seems more than well-adjusted and the film focuses on his recent decision to attend an East Coast prep school, Gates Academy, which his father Frank (Ty Burrell) also attended. Considering...

Paging Mr. and Mrs. Smith!

FX has just ordered 13 episodes of a new drama series, The Americans, created by Joe Weisberg (Falling Skies), which will premiere in early 2013. The show will star Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as two Kgb spies posing as Americans in suburban D.C. shortly after Reagan is elected president.

“The arranged marriage of Phillip (Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Russell), who have two children who know nothing about their parents true identity, grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and...

This is a reprint of our review from the Sundance Film Festival. As far as quirky coming of age stories engineered for festivals and the twee aspiring directors who love them go, “Goats” is a fine little movie. Directed by newcomer Christopher Neil from a script by Mark Poirier, who adapted his own novel, it follows a teenager struggling to deal with his estranged parents as he tries to find a place for himself, but it’s also not really about anything at all, or at least anything original. In fact, it’s the kind of entertainment that’s familiar and pleasant enough that you easily forget that nothing much is happening on screen, which may admittedly be damning it with faint praise. But in a cinematic environment already well-stocked with so many tales of teenagers taking their first steps toward finding their own identity, “Goats” feels like the descendant...

No, David Duchovny is not starring in a sequel to Evan Almighty. But that is the former Fox Mulder underneath that unruly Old Testament mane, playing a pot-smoking handyman and occasional goat herder in the Sundance movie Goats, which opens in select theaters this Friday. Duchovny’s Javier, A.K.A. Goat Man, is an unconventional father figure to the perfectly well-adjusted Ellis (The Good Wife’s Graham Phillips), who reluctantly leaves his free-spirited mom (Vera Farmiga) to study at the east coast prep school his conservative father (Ty Burrell) attended.

Watch an exclusive clip below, as Javier and mom...

Where’s an Attenborough When You Need One?: Neil’s Debut a Blank Slate

Acting and dialogue coach Christopher Neil, a vague member of the Coppola Clan, makes his directorial debut with Goats, an adaptation written for the screen by Mark Poirier, from his own novel. Having assembled a first rate cast for his feature, it’s too bad that not one memorable moment glances across the screen. Bland and tepid, the passage of time will only reiterate that quirky scenarios don’t provide the necessary backbone for a solid coming of age narrative.

Fifteen year old Ellis is about to leave his trust-fund headcase mother Wendy (Vera Farmiga) behind on her Tucson ranch house to attend the same isolated prep school his distant father found glory at. This is just too much for the New-Age advocate Wendy to handle, for, all his life, she has referred to his...

Title: Goats Director: Christopher Neil Starring: Vera Farmiga (‘Up in the Air,’ ‘Safe House’), David Duchovny, Graham Phillips (TV’s ‘The Good Wife,’ ‘Evan Almighty’), Ty Burrell (TV’s ‘Modern Family,’ ‘Dawn of the Dead (2004)’) Keri Russell and Justin Kirk (TV’s ‘Weeds,’ ‘Modern Family’) Comedy-of-age stories have often times come off as preachy and don’t always accurately portray the experiences teenagers must contend with throughout high school. While the new independent comedy ‘Goats’ does include several elements that many teens won’t be able to relate to, such as having to take care of an absent-minded hippie mother or having a drug-growing pool taker, there are many relationships and feelings that they [ Read More ]...

Goats, the directorial debut of acting coach Christopher Neil, looks crunchy. Vera Farmiga plays a New Age mom concerned more about appearing mainstream than how her son might be faring, and David Duchovny plays a bearded free spirit who hangs out with goats all the time. He once saw one born inside out. True story. However, the film really focuses on Ellis (Graham Phillips), who has to deal with a hippie mother, a spirit animal of a father figure and a real father (played by Ty Burell) who hasn’t been in the picture until Ellis heads off to a boarding school. It looks more lighthearted than leaden drama, and hopefully Farmiga’s character is as big a cartoon as this trailer makes her out to be. Even if it ends up being cheesy, Duchovny and his inability to use stamps seems to be reason enough to give it a look. Check...