There is a gorgeous melancholy to Oslo, August 31st—an ache that emanates from each meticulously framed shot—but the film balances every moment of despair with tinges of unexpected grace and humor. We spoke to Joachim Trier, himself no stranger to being young and hip in Oslo (he was Norway's National Skateboarding Champion, twice), last week.

“I read whatever is put in front of me,” says 13-year-old Kara Hayward. “I gobble up books. Right now I’m rereading Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Hayward’s voracious reading habits are shared by Suzy Bishop, the precocious bookworm she plays in Wes Anderson’s new film, Moonrise Kingdom.

Hair-metal superstardom is the holy grail for Diego Boneta’s character in Rock of Ages, director Adam Shankman’s new big-screen adaptation of the Broadway jukebox musical co-starring Tom Cruise and Julianne Hough, which hits theaters next month.

Among the good things that came out of Sundance 2012 is Slated, a company devoted to investing in quality indie films! Here, here. Slated's first two projects are already in the works: a look into the continuing demand for director Roman Polanski, in spite of the charges he faces for statutory rape he faces, should he ever return to the US, and a modern adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by actor Christian Camargo.

Australian director Baz Luhrman certainly has a knack for infusing his period films with an aesthetic sensibility that is licentious, fantastical, frenetic, and gloriously historically incorrect. Like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge! before it, the trailer for Luhrman's cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ür-Great American Novel, The Great Gatsby,  is a hyper-saturated, lavish depiction of Jazz Age excess.