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Although it may not be having its premiere at Cannes this week, Lars von Trier's upcoming sexual odyssey Nymphomaniac continues to constantly be making news. Much has been discussed about the taboo nature of the film and how that will factor into the distribution of the picture and how its actors will be taking part in its highly-sexual content. And in today's bit of new information, producer Louise Vesth has told The Hollywood Reporter that the von Trier's two-part feature will include "graphic" and "groundbreaking" sex scenes between the members of the cast—which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Shia LaBeouf, and Uma Therman. We learn that the more explicit sex scenes will use digital technology to morph the body-doubles with the actual stars.

With Memorial Day sneaking upon us this weekend, summer is right on our heels. And as is traditional for the cinematic season, our theaters are about to be inundated with a slew of big-budget blockbusters, dominating the box office and luring in crazed audiences around the world. But if that's doesn't seem to tickle your film affinity, between the cracks of massive Hollywood studio pictures, are some of the year's most-anticipated and brilliant features from Xavier Dolan and David Lowery, to Joss Whedon and Pedro Almodovar, to Sofia Coppola and David Gordon Green—to name a few. So as we get closer to June, July, and August's wonderful releases, let's get excited about what will be premiering this summer. Enjoy.

Being in space is hard for a number of reasons—the loneliness, the lack of gravity, the time away from loved ones, the food. Granted, astronaut food has come a long way since the perception of dehydrated meals and Tang, but it’s hardly gourmet. That’s why the team at Tested—Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman and Will Smith (no, not that one) enlisted a famous spaceman and a famous chef to try out some space-friendly meals.

The incarnation of Seinfeld creator Larry David with which audiences are probably most familiar is his Curb Your Enthusiasm self: clean-shaven, mostly bald and always in the midst of an uncomfortable situation. This perception is so ingrained in our collective cultural memory that most people probably won’t even recognize Mr. David in his latest role, the upcoming HBO film Clear History. In the new trailer for the movie, David appears as a grizzled old man with a yacht-rock-meets-hippie vibe, driving a convertible and belting out Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4.” Cool.

First off, we already know that right-wing nutjob Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has smoked crack cocaine. Secondly, that’s Canada’s problem—as far as I recall, the U.S. reelects crazy drug addicts without much fuss. Third of all, do you care about Gawker getting an exclusive video of this ruddy, racist, drugged-out mess, or the people who shot it getting a bunch of money for being there when he smoked crack cocaine? Man, for $200,000 I’ll win public office and smoke crack cocaine right in front of you. Deal. 

Ben Wheatley's romantically murderous road movie Sightseers premiered but two weeks ago in the states, and yet, today we're already graced with a trailer for the director's next feature A Field in England. When we spoke with Wheatley back in April, he told us that the film was:

With the political upheaval of the time and the world in a state of disarray. the late 1960's spawned some of the most iconic and memorable works of cinema from people trying to make sense of the vastly changing world around them. With a need to not only tell what the hell was going on, but how it felt, director's were making films that provided a "cinematic snapshot of the era," and one of those filmmakers was acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler.

When it comes to matters of love, it's often platonic devotion that proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one's life. It's the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning, unbreakable connection to someone that stays around as lovers come and go. Yes, romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the heart, but without a best friend to guide you, life becomes less tolerable. Cinema has long been awash in tales of romantic love, of course, but it's rare to see a tale of love between two female best friends, especially one that genuinely shows what it is like to have that kind of soul mate, without whom everything else would be askew. But with Noah Baumbach's latest film, Frances Ha, we see one woman's journey of self-discovery, ignited by a fractured friendship.