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James Franco, when not reciting poems about President Obama, can be found floating around Sundance promoting not two, but three films. There's the BDSM documentary he produced, Kink, his role as Hugh Hefner in Rob Epstein's Lovelace, and the divisive Interior. Leather bar. Co-directed with Travis Mathews, Leather Bar., attempts to recreate the lost 40 minutes of William Friedkin's Cuising, the controversial 1980 film about a cop (played by Al Pacino) who goes undercover as gay leather enthusiast to apprehend a killer. The film premiered this weekend and this is what people are saying about it thus far:

Amidst the delirium of award season, the annual Sundance Film Festival creeps up every January to remind us each year that the scope of Hollywood is changing and being infiltrated with a host of new talent and emerging artists from around the world. The festival is a beacon for A-list talent as well as those new to the world of cinema who are getting their first premieres and chance at large-scale recognition. With an enormous slate of films, the festival will commence on Thursday and feature new work from those you already know and worship and those whose names are on the tip of our tongues.