n a bit of gutsy counterprogramming, Summit Entertainment is opening The Darkest Hour on Christmas Day, giving moviegoers a 3-D sci-fi thriller to check out at their multiplex instead of the Oscar bait and family fare.
“We are so different than those, I’m confident it’ll find its audience,” says director Chris Gorak. “So many years I’ve wanted to go to theaters over the holiday just looking for that fun, entertaining action thriller.”
Destroying the world is right in the director’s wheelhouse. He set off a dirty bomb in downtown Los Angeles in his 2006 feature debut, Right at Your Door, and lets loose a horde of invisible aliens on downtown Moscow in his follow-up.
In The Darkest Hour, two Internet entrepreneurs (Emile Hirsch and Max Minghella) travel to Russia to close a business deal and get bamboozled. They go to a nightclub to drown their sorrows and meet another pair of young friends (Olivia Thirlby and Rachael Taylor). Read the rest of this entry »

Nobody Walks / U.S.A. (Director: Ry Russo-Young, Screenwriters: Lena Dunham, Ry Russo-Young) — Martine, a young artist from New York, is invited into the home of a hip, liberal LA family for a week. Her presence unravels the family’s carefully maintained status quo, and a mess of sexual and emotional entanglements ensues. Cast: John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt, India Ennenga, Justin Kirk.

I’ve added three new stills to the gallery for one of Olivia’s new films, Darkest Hour.