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The always delightful Andrew Garfield earned an Oscar nomination this year for his performance in tick, tick… Boom! — and it was well deserved. He...

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Here’s our primer on everything you need to know about DC Entertainment’s upcoming Justice League movies…

Zack Snyder’s The Justice League Part One and The Justice League Part Two are the jewels in the crown of Warner Bros and DC Entertainment’s audaciously ambitious slate of upcoming movies.

The respective studio heads will be hoping that this brace of superhero team-up films can rake in Avengers-esque levels of dosh. And if Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice does decently by all available commercial, critical and audience appreciation barometers when it drops later this year, it’s likely that those high hopes for The Justice League will become realities.

But who on Earth are the Justice League anyway? And how will they slot into the DC Extended Universe? Here’s everything we know so far…

The Justice League in the Dceu – set-up, crossovers and spin-offs...

Blizzard artist Even Amundsen had an idea to create a Nordic school of myth and magic in the Harry Potter universe. He brought his idea to life with these illustrations of the characters that would run the school which he calls Vølurheim.

J.K. Rowling has said that there are a whole new range of schools that exist in the Harry Potter universe. So it makes sense that there would be an ancient Nordic school, and there's no doubt it would be badass.

Look at this teaching staff! You'd have to be an extremely tough and hardcore student to make it through a school like this. Of course, if all the students are Nordic badasses, I'm sure they'll be fine. I've also included descriptions of the characters below each illustration. Here's the first for the character above:

Grimstav Draugsleiven: Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts

Here is another member of staff,...

Birds of Prey

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Created by Laeta Kalogridis

Produced by Warner Bros. Television, Tollins/Robbins productions

Aired on The WB for 1 season from October 9th, 2002 – February 19th, 2003

Cast

Ashley Scott as Helena Kyle

Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon

Rachel Skarsten as Dinah Redmond

Shemar Moore as Detective Jesse Reese

Ian Ambercrombie as Alfred Pennyworth

Mia Sara as Dr. Harleen Quinzel

Show Premise

After legendary hero Batman abandons Gotham City as a result of a devastating battle against the Joker, the city enters a new era, rebranding itself New Gotham City, with a trio of vigilante heroines determined to protect the fair city from the threat of villainous Mafiosos and meta-human powered criminals, all while dealing with their daily life, relationships, and deep seated hang-ups. The trio is led by Helena Kyle, aka The Huntress, a meta-human half breed who is driven by the memory of her mother’s murder,...

1. Frank

Those of us who care about movie posters often complain about “big head” posters from Hollywood studios, but the design for Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank is the ne plus ultra of big head posters: a poster for a film about a big head. The head in question is the papier-mâché noggin worn by Michael Fassbender’s title character, which was inspired by the nearly identical prop worn by Chris Sievey, a.k.a. Frank Sidebottom, the nasal-voiced troubadour from Timperley, Manchester, who famously covered the Sex Pistols (“Anarchy in Timperley”) and had his moment of cult fame in the 80s. The poster for Frank, designed by an as-yet uncredited designer at P+A studio (the anonymity seems apt) subverts the chief function of the big head poster by not showing us the film’s star. To me it’s a thing of beauty (my affection for Frank Sidebottom and...

As is usually the case, 2014 held a rich vein of great nonfiction cinema … that went mostly untapped by any wide audiences. But just because documentaries are perpetually under-served by popular (and even critical) attention doesn’t mean that we should neglect these films. This is a celebration of all the best docs to come out this year.

But first, for the sake of full disclosure, here are all the notable docs of 2014 that I haven’t gotten around to seeing yet:

1989, 20,000 Days on Earth, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, Big Joy, Big Men, Code Black, Evolution of a Criminal, The Great Flood, The Great Invisible, The Kill Team, National Gallery, The Missing Picture, Maidentrip, Manakamana, The Naked Opera, Virunga, Watchers of the Sky, What Now? Remind Me, Whitey

Next,we have some honorable mentions — other docs of 2014 that are well worth seeking out:

A Will for the Woods, Art and Craft,...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.

no UK release dates, but you can watch them here

Being Ginger: smartly perceptive and very brave personal documentary diary of one man’s attempts to come to terms with being an oft-derided and bullied redhead [my review] [iTunes UK] The Final Member: the world’s only penis museum is no joke, but there’s plenty funny (and enlightening, and poignant) in this sweet portrait of a man dedicated to completing his life’s work [my review] [iTunes UK] La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus: follow a humble yellow school bus as it is transformed into something joyous and defiant; it’s like discovering that your grandma has another life as a secret agent [my review] [iTunes UK]

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A Long Way Down: a suicide-club meet-cute? it shouldn’t work, but it does, as...

Drafthouse Films is still a relatively young label in the grand scheme of things — their first release, Four Lions, only hit theaters in late 2010 — but they’ve already established a clear and successful identity through their films. They’ve already seen two of their titles receive Academy Award nominations, and they’ve remained unpredictable in their choices thanks to a roster that includes dramas, comedies, documentaries and more as diverse as Pieta, Miami Connection and The Final Member. That proud tradition of finding and loving odd world cinema continues with what will be their thirtieth release, The Tribe. The Ukrainian film won multiple awards at this year’s Cannes Independent Critics’ Week, but the film stands out for more than its numerous accolades. Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy‘s feature debut is a tale of youthful drama and abandon at a boarding school for the deaf, and it’s told entirely in sign language. No...

To mix things up for its 15th annual edition, the TromaDance film festival has moved! (Yet again.) This year, the grotesque festivities will take place on June 27-28 at The Paper Box art space in Brooklyn, NY and will include loads of short films and four features.

The features are: Drew Bolduc‘s hotly anticipated Science Team, the follow-up to his masterful exercise in offensiveness, The Taint; the acclaimed penile documentary The Final Member by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math; Olivier Beguin’s new twist on vampirism, Chimeres; and the fighting cannibal action of Evil Feed by Ray Smith.

The short films include international offensiveness and gore from such far-flung places as Italy, Belgium, Estonia, Australia and, of course, the good ol’ U.S. of A.

The full TromaDance lineup is below. For more info, please visit the fest’s official website.

June 27

5:30 p.m.: “Short Films Block 1″

The Bachelorette Party,...

Is there a good reason why I was recently sent a bottled bull penis in the mail? Actually, yes (although, of course, the bull might disagree). The item was “gift” from Drafthouse Films to promote new documentary The Final Member, which was released on Blu-ray and DVD earlier in the week.

Directed by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math Siggi, the film profiles Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson, who has spent four decades collecting mammalian penises for his Phallological Museum in Husavik, Iceland. But Hjartarson is desperate to acquire the penis of one particular animal. Can you guess what it is?

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Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods The Lego Movie (frenetic animated family flick; voices: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell; also available in 3D; rated PG) Son of God (religious drama; Diogo Morgado, Sebastian Knapp; rated PG-13) Ernest & Celestine (animated; voices: Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Paul Giamatti; rated PG) The Final Member (documentary on the Icelandic Phallological Museum and its quest to obtain a human penis for display; rated R) Venus in Fur (Roman...

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Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods The Lego Movie (frenetic animated family flick; voices: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell; also available in 3D; rated PG) Son of God (religious drama; Diogo Morgado, Sebastian Knapp; rated PG-13) Ernest & Celestine (animated; voices: Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Paul Giamatti; rated PG) The Final Member (documentary on the Icelandic Phallological Museum and its quest to obtain a human penis for display; rated R) Venus in Fur (Roman...

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Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. Ernest & Celestine Celestine is a young mouse still learning the ways of the world, and part of her ongoing education is learning that the bears who live on the surface above the subterranean city the mice call home are vicious, mean and constantly intent on eating any mouse they come across. She’s never met one, but she sees no reason why mice and bears can’t be friends. She finds her opinion challenged when one of her excursions up top brings her in contact with a bear named Ernest, and soon the two are on an adventure that goes against all the laws of both bear and mouse society. This French award-winner is a whimsical delight from beginning to end as it tells a sweet tale of friendship that doubles as a metaphor for...

Are you one of those people who finds it awkward watching movies about genitalia around other people? Well, then, you're in luck because Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math's acclaimed documentary The Final Member - telling the tale of two men vying to make the first human donation to an Icelandic penis museum - hits DVD and BluRay from Drafthouse Films tomorrow.Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland-a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle-boasts the world's only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm...

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The Weekend Watch is an open thread where you can share what you’ve recently watched, offer suggestions on movies and TV shows we should check out (or warnings about stuff to avoid) and discover queue-filling goodies from other Fsr readers. The comments section awaits. I’ll get the ball rolling with the movies/TV my eyeballs took in this weekend. The Final Member is a documentary about a guy who collects penises, but don’t let that fool you. For one thing it’s a Drafthouse Films release — they’re the folks who also gave a home to docs like A Band Called Death and Act of Killing — but for another it’s a damn fine film. It feels like something that would be silly on its face, but it’s actually a fairly profound and endearing look at what motivates us in life and in death. For as much as I love international cinema, I...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes casting announcements on multiple films, including Recovery, The App, and Dark, details on The Wobbling Dead, Repentance, and the 2014 TromaDance Film Festival, a review of Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives, a Q&A with Lindsey McKeon from Supernatural, and more:

Casting News for Recovery: “Kirby Bliss Blanton (The Green Inferno, Project X) and Samuel Larsen (“Glee”) have been cast in the upcoming thriller “Recovery”, starting production this summer. The film follows Blanton’s character on the night of her high school graduation after her iPhone is stolen and tracked down with a “find my iPhone” app to a house where the demented tenants plan on kidnapping her and making her part of the family. Alex Shaffer (Win Win) and James Landry Hébert (Two Step, Gangster Squad) are also on board to star.

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.

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The Final Member: the world’s only penis museum is no joke, but there’s plenty funny (and enlightening, and poignant) in this sweet portrait of a man dedicated to completing his life’s work [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit: why reboot remains a question, but this is a smart popcorn thriller with a surprisingly sensitive performance by Chris Pine, and a wonderfully badass one by Kevin Costner [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] The Lego Movie: you’ve seen this all before — it’s Toy Story meets The Matrix — just not done in Legos [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Lone Survivor: true story of a failed Navy Seal mission acknowledges the powerful fraternity of soldiers without being jingoistic, and depicts the intensity and adrenaline of a battlefield without being pornographic [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to streaming

The Patrol: a rough experience,...

Two months after ceasing regular operations on his YouTube clip show, Ray William Johnson has landed a role in a feature film. The former star of =3 is one of the three stars of Who's Driving Doug, an indie road movie. Who's Driving Doug follows a disabled recluse who goes on a road trip with his new driver. The writer of the film, Michael Carnick, is himself confined to a wheelchair. In addition to Johnson, the cast includes Rj Mitte, who played Walter White's son on Breaking Bad and himself suffers from mild cerebral palsy. The final member of the announced cast is Paloma Kwiatkowski of Bates Motel. “We are so excited to have cast these passionate performers to bring this honest and gritty story to life," said the film's producers in a press release. Johnson, who has more than 10 million subscribers on YouTube, hosted his final installment of =3 on March 13th.

Why would a man want to remove his fully-functional, healthy penis? That’s the focus of an exclusive clip we’re proud to premiere from Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math‘s new film, The Final Member. The documentary, which expands in theaters Friday, is about the world’s only penis museum and the struggle to acquire a human specimen. Two men […]

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The world’s only penis museum is no joke, but there’s plenty funny (and enlightening, and poignant) in this sweet portrait of a man dedicated to completing his life’s work. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

A penis museum. Officially, The Icelandic Phallological Museum. When directors Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math made this charming film about its proprietor, Sigurður Hjartarson, the museum was located in the tiny, remote village of Husavik, but it would appear that its stock has risen considerably since The Final Member made its debut at the Hot Docs documentary festival two years ago: the museum now calls Reykjavik home. Which will make it slightly easier for the world to come to this extraordinary place, and meet the man who runs it. Though Hjartarson admits here that the museum started,...

Get ready for more odd, exciting, intriguing cinema to catch this fall, as Drafthouse Films has confirmed release dates (via BoxOfficeMojo) for a number of their 2014 films. The doc The Final Member just opened today, and they have Borgman, Nothing Bad Can Happen and Mood Indigo set for the summer. After that, they just scheduled Ari Folman's half-animated mind-trip sci-fi film The Congress (starring Robin Wright as seen in the teaser photo) for August 29th late in the summer. Dog Day Afternoon doc The Dog will also be released in early August. Drafthouse Films has four additional films set to open late 2014. Read on! One of the two documentaries the indie distributor picked up at Sundance, Nick Cave's 20,000 Days on Earth about the musician, will hit theaters in September after playing at numerous festivals throughout the year. The other Sundance doc they bought, The Overnighters, which I went...

Editor’s note: Our review of The Final Member originally ran during Fantastic Fest 2012, but we’re re-posting it now as it opens today in limited theatrical release. It is an unfortunate state of affairs that, as far as sexuality is concerned, America is still vastly conservative. This is no place for a discussion of conservative versus liberal, but in the category of sexuality it’s important only to say that even the word “penis” is still relatively taboo despite being the proper medical term for the main part of the male genitals. People don’t go around talking about penises, generally, and if they do they tend to make other people uncomfortable. We’re also all 12 years old at heart, and so penis jokes and snickering are sure to abound when you produce a documentary about some dude in Iceland who collects penises. Fortunately, The Final Member takes its subject seriously, but...

The Final Member

Directed by Jonas Bekhor and Zach Math

USA, 2014

Thirty-seven years ago, if the new documentary The Final Member is to be believed, an Icelandic college professor named Sigurdur Hjartarson received a bull’s penis from a colleague, as a joke. Somehow this transformed into a lifelong desire to collect phallic organs from as many animals as he possibly could, and display them in the Icelandic Phallological Museum. The Final Member follows Hjartarson’s quest to find his most elusive specimen: the homo sapiens.

Directors Jonas Bekhor and Zach Math understand that most audiences will need at least a half hour to get the sophomoric laughter out of their systems. And so a hefty chunk of this 72-minute trifle is devoted to the simple oddity that is the existence of a Phallological Museum. Not coincidentally, this is also the most entertaining portion of The Final Member, by far.

What We Can Learn from the Men Who Raced to Be the First Penis in a Museum "I have no use for my penis after I'm dead." by kate hakala As I walked into the screening of Jonah Bekhor and Zack Math's The Final Member, I expected a two-hour-long fluff documentary about a kooky man who collects phallic-shaped objects. What I got instead was a thought-provoking and oddly gripping character study about mortality, masculinity, and ego. The documentary covers Siggi Hjartarson, founder of the one and only Icelandic Phallological Museum, on his 40-year quest to find a human penis to complete his collection of mammalian members.  At the forefront of the race to donate his penis to the museum is Pall Arason, a national hero and adventurer of sorts, who kept a long diary of his 300-odd conquests during his life. Thought to be a [...]...

A documentary about Siggi, the founder and curator of the world's only penis museum, The Final Member tracks his quest for one last endowment, requiring a very personal donation. Two of our writers, Jason Gorber and Dave Canfield, have seen the movie and offer their observations in the gallery below. You can also click through to watch the trailer. Via Drafthouse Films, The Final Member opens in select U.S. theaters on Friday, April 18. Visit the official site for more information. ...

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There are few movies this year where you'll see a man get the stars and stripes of the American flag tattooed on the head of his penis. But then again, there are few documentaries like "The Final Member," a warm look at a quirky subject that gets to the human story behind it. Meet Sigurdur Hjartarson, the founder and curator of the Icelandic Phallogical Museum, the only museum in the world dedicated to the penis. Receiving a bull penis as a gag gift in the '70s, something clicked in Sigurdur's brain and the next thing he knew, he was collecting specimens from any animal he could get his hands on, slowly filling his house with jars of penises of all shapes and sizes, from nearly every creature that walks, swims or flies that you can think of. With his home quickly becoming cluttered, his understanding family joked that he should he open a museum,...

The Drafthouse Films' doc "The Final Member" follows Sigurdur Hjartarson, the founding curator of the Icelandic Phallogical Museum as he embarks on a quest to find the final schlong for his extensive collection. After all, does a collection of penises really mean anything if you don't have a human subject? It's an important question for Hjartarson, but a hard one for him to answer.  We've already provided you with the poster here, and you can also watch the trailer, where we see two men fight over who has the greater specimen. It's the war of the willies and the winner gets the chance to be source material behind what's likely to be the Mona Lisa of Dick. I digress. But in this clip we get a look at how phallus becomes art. The penis in focus? Bull. This isn't any old arts and crafts project, with museum employees giving us...

Believe it or not, there is a museum in Iceland that is entirely dedicated penises. Founded in 1974, the Icelandic Phallological Museum is home to over 280 specimens collected from every different kind of creature you can think of. Except for one: human. Even stranger, this open spot generated a race of sorts between two men who wished to be immortalized forever as the representation of the human penis in the museum. That bizarre story has been captured in the new documentary The Final Member, but in case that's not strange enough for you, you should check out it's limited edition Blu-ray/DVD contents. Before we get into the set pictured above, you should first watch the trailer for The Final Member below: So what is the deal with the crazy package (no pun intended) you see above? If you pre-order the film on Blu-ray now, you will include a set that...

The Final Member

Directed by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math

2012, Canada

Reykjavik, Iceland is home to the singular and beloved Icelandic Phallological Museum. Begun in earnest by Siggi Hjartarson out of his own home in Husavik 40 years prior, the museum now features the world’s largest collection of preserved mammalian penises. Running the gamut from a 2mm hamster penis bone to several unbelievably massive whale penises, the museum is an astounding personal accomplishment. But Siggi’s collection remains incomplete without its missing piece, its crown jewel, its Final Member–the genitalia of a human male.

How does one get to that point in life? When the last driving force in your long life is the acquisition of human penis? The Final Member offers a clue. In fact, within moments of introducing Siggi Hjartarson, this documentary elicits a deep empathy for the man’s modest ambition. Of course dude needs a...

Potential penis donors, take note: Your specimen must reach a certain minimum length to be considered. And sorry, historical precedent means that the curators of the Icelandic Phallological Museum will not be going soft on their requirements. Also read: Drafthouse Buys Movie ‘The Final Member’ – About World's Lone Penis Museum Once upon a time, filmmakers Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math sought out to learn all they could about the world's only penis museum; the result of their journey is the documentary, “The Final Member.” Among the many quirky facts discovered by the documentarians was the existence of an old folk tale,...

Above: German poster for Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais, France, 1961), artist: Tostmann.

Over the past three months of Movie Poster of the Day, the two most popular posters by far were two beautiful (each in their own very distinct way) posters that I posted in memoriam of two dearly departed auteurs: Alan Resnais and Harold Ramis. And two other posters among the most popular (i.e. most liked or reblogged) were those posted in celebration of Philip Seymour Hoffman, including Chris Ware’s lovely 2007 design for The Savages, one of my favorite posters of last decade. So, if nothing else, Movie Poster of the Day has recorded the saddest losses of the year. (Not forgetting the adorable Swedish poster I posted for Shirley Temple which didn’t make the Top 20.)

I’m happy to see a number of new posters here: a very popular Dutch Wolf of Wall Street,...

The Icelandic Phallogical Museum is exactly what it sounds like—an institution dedicated to the history of the penis in all its shapes and sizes, but it's missing one key specimen: a human organ. And that's the starting point for "The Final Member," a documentary about founder and curator Sigurdur Hjartarson's quest to complete his collection. Directed by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math, the doc tells the tale of two men who want leave their, uh, legacy behind. First is 95-year-old Icelander Páll Arason, something of a legend in his native country, and a notorious womanizer, claiming to have slept with over 400 women. And his cock is fairly average in size, which makes middle-aged American Tom Mitchell's seven-inch penis a bit more prized, especially when he offers to donate it to the museum while he's still alive. Yes, this is a remarkable true story and in this clip you...

Here’s an exclusive set of photos from the very funny and oddly touching documentary The Final Member. The film chronicles the efforts of Sigurður “Siggi” Hjartarson to complete the permanent specimen collection at the Icelandic Phallological Museum – his museum dedicated to penises. Yeah, you read that correctly. The museum is missing one final member: a human specimen. […]

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We've got a solid list of updates today and we'll begin with my most anticipated film of 2014, Richard Linklater's, 12-years-in-the-works, latest movie Boyhood, which I think IFC is targeting for a release some time in May, though at this point it seems like a solid candidate for an Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Next is one of Paul Walker's last features, Brick Mansions and then Captain America: The Winter Soldier, both of which scored the expected PG-13 rating. Then we come to Decoding Annie Parker, which played a wide array of film festivals last year, was picked up by eOne, but no date has been set for a domestic release just yet. It's got an impressive cast, but the delay in releasing it isn't promising. Darren Aronofsky's Noah will start hitting international theaters this weekend, March 21, and will arrive domestically on March 28 and...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu slams Uganda anti-gay law, Kerry Rhodes doesn’t think gay rumors hurt his career, the strangest places gays have sex

George Takei and his husband Brad have strong ties to Arizona. Brad was born there. They take part in festivals there, vacation there, do charity work there. But he’s warning the state that if they make the right to discriminate the law of the land, he’s done, and will make sure everyone knows he’s done. “So let me make mine just as clear. If your Governor Jan Brewer signs this repugnant bill into law, make no mistake. We will not come. We will not spend. And we will urge everyone we know–from large corporations to small families on vacation–to boycott. Because you don’t deserve our dollars. Not one red cent.”

Just how dangerous is the Arizona law?

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is...

Here's your Wtf trailer for the day. The Final Member is a documentary about a guy who collects penises for a museum in Iceland and is only missing one "member": a human penis. And, crazily enough, it appears that men are lining up to donate their trouser snakes to be hung on a wall and admired by thousands, possibly instagrammed, and immortalized forever. Donating organs for the sake of medical needs is one thing, but it's always fascinating when folks donate their flesh to...

The fact that two men are competing to have their penises added to the collection at the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Drafthouse Films' new documentary The Final Member is merely the tip of the iceberg, and no, that was not an intentional lazy pun. The museum's extremely devoted curator Siggi Hjartarson already seems like a more than worthy subject for a documentary, and then all of a sudden the whole "phallus museum" thing drops to number three or four on the list of unexpected and bizarre elements in this trailer.

"I've always had a dream of fame and fortune... for Elmo" Today's indie trailer is for a rather awkwardly yet oddly amusing documentary called The Final Member, about the one-and-only Icelandic Phallological Museum that houses the world's largest collection of preserved male genitalia (collected for over 40 years!). So what makes this worthwhile? The story focuses on three people: curator Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, as well as the two eccentric men who want to donate their own specimens to the museum. The doc eventually becomes about the challenges of making a tough decision, and crazy enough, I have to say that this looks fascinating. Best of all, Drafthouse Films is releasing it which means it's certainly unlike anything out there. Here's the official trailer for Jonah Bekhor & Zach Math's The Final Member, direct from YouTube: Paris has the Louvre. London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik,...

Back in 2012 we posted a review for a film titled The Final Member that made its premiere at Fantastic Fest. Two years later and Drafthouse Films will finally release the film into select theaters & VOD on Friday, April 18th. The setting for this very strange documentary is a museum, located in Iceland, which houses a collection of preserved mammalian penises. But Siggi’s collection remains incomplete without its missing piece, its crown jewel, its Final Member–the genitalia of a human male. The film tells the history of the museum, and the surprising competition between multiple would-be donors. The first donor is a Páll Arason, a celebrated Icelandic explorer and womanizer who has agreed to donate his penis upon his death. The second is Tom Mitchell, a Californian exhibitionist who calls his penis Elmo and offers to undergo a complete penectomy. As the competition heats up between the two men,...

Between the Met, the Louvre, the Smithsonian, the Guggenheim and the countless museums around the globe that display and restore significant pieces of art, science and history, one would never believe that there's much more to see in this world. But that assumption is quickly dissolved upon viewing the trailer for "The Final Member," a documentary about the Icelandic Phallological Museum, an institution that dedicates itself exclusively to featuring and preserving male genitalia. Proudly touting it as "the world's only penis museum," the museum's founder and curator Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson has managed to procure the genitalia of almost every species under the sun, and his long quest for a museum that's "fully equipped" has never brought him to a halt -- until now. There remains one species from which the penis aficionado has yet procure the prize: man. With that, Siggi's mission becomes clear. But complications soon arise, especially when...

Some things are simply too strange to be anything else but true. Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math's acclaimed documentary The Final Member is very much one of those things.Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland-a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle-boasts the world's only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every "thing" in between. Lamentably, Siggi's collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggi's world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic...

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The one "thing" this Icelandic museum is missing is a human specimen. A trailer and poster have arrived for Drafthouse Films' doc "The Final Member," which chronicles the world's sole penis museum's "quest for one last endowment," i.e. a human phallus to add to their collection. Give it a gander, below. The film, helmed by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math, has its theatrical and VOD release on April 18, 2014. Here's the official synopsis:Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland-a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle-boasts the world's only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and everything in between. Lamentably, Siggi's collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a.

Drafthouse Films have sent along the latest trailer as well as the first poster for their "The Final Member" documentary directed and produced by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math. Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland-a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle-boasts the world's only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite...

"The world's only penis museum needs one last endowment." That's the tagline for "The Final Member," the documentary following Sigurdur Hjartarson, the founding curator of the Icelandic Phallogical Mueseum. After collecting an array of specimens from a range of species, he's looking for a final member to complete the intriguing display of his life's work: from a human.  Directors Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math head this production, a 75-minute documentary from Drafthouse Films. The Us release date is April 18th.  Check out the fun title sequence here, and behold the poster below. [Olly Moss and Jay Shaw designed the poster]...

Drafthouse Films has acquired U.S. rights to Michel Gondry’s “Mood Indigo” from Studiocanal, the distributor announced Monday. A return to the surreal landscape of emotion and imagination for Gondry, “Mood Indigo” showcases the acclaimed auteur’s signature whimsical aesthetics, gorgeous cinematography and colorfully eccentric characters. The film is a love story set in a charmingly surreal Paris about two newlyweds, Chloe (Audrey Tautou) and Colin (Romain Duris), whose whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloe — a flower begins to grow in her lungs. Also Read: Drafthouse Buys Movie ‘The Final Member’ – About World’s Lone...

The actor who played Carrie Bradshaw on the long-running TV show has suggested a third movie spin-off may be in the offing

Sarah Jessica Parker has hinted at the possibility of a third Sex and the City movie, more than a decade after the hit show last hit television screens.

The 48-year-old said she felt the saga of four Manhattanite friends, which has already spawned two financially successful films, had unfinished business on the big screen.

"A part of me thinks there is one last chapter to tell," Parker told InStyle magazine. "But timing is a peculiar thing. It isn't a decision that can wait for ever. I don't want to have to wear muumuus!"

Sex and the City enjoyed a critically acclaimed six-year run on TV from 1998 to 2004. But its two big screen outings in 2008 and 2010 were less well-received, with the second instalment especially damned by savage reviews.

Parker's...

Drafthouse Films acquired North American distribution rights to “The Final Member,” Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math’s documentary about the world’s only museum dedicated to preserved male genitalia. The film tracks Sigurour “Siggi” Hjartarson, who founded the Icelandic Phallological Museum. The museum is home to decades of phalli, displaying the members of both mice and whales. The one thing it is missing: human genitalia. Also read: Breaking Glass Pictures Nabs U.S. Rights to Penis Documentary ‘Unhung Hero’ “The Final Member,” which has screened at HotDocs, Fantastic Fest and Doc NYC, will open in theaters next year. Drafthouse will release the movie in theaters.

Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math’s documentary The Final Member, while in a separate deal CNN Films has acquired Us broadcast rights to Documented.

The Final Member has screened at HotDocs, SilverDocs, Fantastic Fest and Doc NYC and centres on an Icelandic museum dedicated to the penis.

Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math mark their feature directorial debuts. Drafthouse Films brokered the deal with The Film Sales Company and plans a platform theatrical, VOD and partnered digital release with Vhx in 2014.

CNN Films has acquired Us broadcast rights to the immigration documentary Documented, about the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philippines-born journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.

The film will premiere on CNN in the second quarter of 2014 as a CNN Films broadcast following its international debut at the Idfa and theatrical distribution in the Us.

Vargas wrote and directed the film about his personal immigration story. Sean Parker, [link...

Though the world is full of wondrous and beautiful things, an Icelandic man felt that penises weren't given their fair shake. Sigurour "Siggi" Hjartarson founded the world's first and only Phallological Museum which preserves four decades worth of mammalian members, covering all shapes, sizes, and girths. However, Siggi's "Moby Dick" is the long sought after human specimen. The documentary "The Final Member" by first time filmmakers Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math  follow Siggi on his quest to hunt down the "tent pole" to his museum.  Drafthouse Films has acquired the North American rights to the phallically inspired picture and plans a platformed theatrical, VOD and partnered digital release with Vhx for 2014. Watch the title sequence for the documentary below featuring cascading montage of "One eyed monsters."...

The 7th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival, which runs this year on September 5-8 at the Factory Theatre, opens with a real bang when they will screen cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest cinematic odyssey, The Dance of Reality. This is Jodorowsky’s first film in over twenty years and is an imaginative and playful quasi-autobiography.

The rest of the four-day celebration is packed with more film oddities and excursions into surreal and transgressive territory. One particular highlight that is not to be missed is Don Swaynos’ incredibly crowd-pleasing comedy Pictures of Superheroes, about a slacker cleaning woman’s descent into an absurd world she can’t escape. Read the Underground Film Journal’s review of Pictures of Superheroes here.

Other twisted fiction films screening include Drew Tobias’s sick and twisted See You Next Tuesday, Cody Calahan’s apocalyptic Antisocial and Lloyd Kaufman’s highly-anticipated sequel Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Vol.