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Emma Roberts has been in some iconic movies like Valentine’s Day, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Scream 4, We’re the Millers, and The Blackcoat’s Daughter. And ever since she first stepped into the world of American Horror Story in 2013, she has become one of the most recognizable faces in the horror genre, at least on the small screen. But it seems like she hasn’t had the same kind of luck when it comes to feature films since the 2015 film Nerve. And it’s not like she hasn’t tried. Roberts has done rom-coms, science-fantasies, action-horrors, straight-up horrors, and whatever categories Madame Web and UglyDolls fall into. However, I think she has come up with the ultimate test for her fans in the form of Space Cadet.

Liz W. Garcia’s Space Cadet tells the story of Rex Simpson, a girl living in Florida who aspires to go to space.

Season 2 of “Girls5eva” has even more hilarious, catchy tunes than Season 1, but if you listen closely they’re not quite the same. With the titular girl group being in album mode and recording their first LP in 20 years for the Property Brothers‘ Property Records, their new songs had to take on a different vibe, according to composer and executive producer Jeff Richmond.

“Last season, we were in this place where we were bringing this girl group back from the late 1990s and the 2000s, so we knew that we’d be visiting a lot of music from that time period,” Richmond tells Gold Derby (watch above). “So we could go into TLC and Spice Girls and all these kind of familiar but old songs and iconic kind of songs, and the jokes that we would have back in those days, which were all these kind of girl power, empowerment kind...

Between its music videos, flashbacks, performances and hilarious heightened version of showbiz, “Girls5eva” seems like a fun playground for any costume designer to play in. For Matthew Hemesath, who took over for Tina Nigro in Season 2, it was his dream job. “I was already a fan of the show before I was hired to do Season 2. And I just knew it was my dream job, so I begged them to hire me, basically,” he tells Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “What was so wonderful about it was that the show was already fabulous. Season 1 was great. I didn’t feel like there needed to be any fixing. It was just taking these characters further and just building on what had already been done and watching it grown. And it also was exciting to put my own stamp on their look – things that I love like a lot of color,...

After serving as cinematographer on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” John Inwood is no stranger to the Tina Fey and Robert Carlock comedy style: dense with jokes and quick cuts to flashbacks, fantasies and parodies, and there was the occasional musical number. But “Girls5eva,” created by former “Kimmy” writer Meredith Scardino and produced by Fey and Carlock, took it to the next level, following the titular girl group that reunites 20 years later for another go.

“It’s a lot of fun with this show because we have a very good TV family that’s been working together for many years,” Inwood tells Gold Derby (watch above). “Season 1 was a lot of fun and very challenging. Every time you do a first season, you’re learning how to make the show, you’re defining what the style of the show and you get better and better at it.”

One of the challenges of...

The 49th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is an epic celebration of experimental media that runs for six days on March 22-27. There’s so much great stuff screening this year, it makes one wonder what they’ll have left for their 50th anniversary next year!

A couple of the highlights include the highly anticipated feature-length documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier, which chronicles the pandrogynous love story between industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and his late wife. The film already made a big splash at the Berlinale earlier in the year and looks to be a major hit on the festival circuit this year.

Also not to be missed is a special retrospective of one of this year’s festival jury members, Vanessa Renwick, a longtime favorite on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film. Renwick will screen 10 of her quirky and artistic documentary portraits,...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"ExTerminators" (2010)

Directed by John Inwood

Released by Image Entertainment

Also appearing on VOD, Heather Graham, Amber Heard and Jennifer Coolidge team up to launch a service that will permanently wipe away your exes from your address book (and life) under the cover of Coolidge's bug extermination business in this comedy from cinematographer-turned-director John Inwood.

"Bad Ass" (2009)

Directed by Adamo Cultraro

Released by Well Go USA

A hitman (Tom Sizemore) has a change of heart when his latest job leaves the nurse of an aging mob boss as the prime suspect in Adamo Cultraro's feature debut. Frank Stallone co-stars.

"Centurion" (2010)

Directed by Neil Marshall

Released by Magnolia Home Entertainment

Following "Doomsday," Marshall returns to Hadrian's Wall in England for the story of surviving group of Roman soldiers in 117 A.D., including Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Liam Cunningham among their ranks, who defend...

Utv Motion pictures has signed a foreign sales deal with Madrid-based film sales company 6 Sales, for the Heather Graham starrer, Exterminators. Utv through its foreign sales partner has already inked deals for Romania, Benulux and Middle Eastern territories. The movie, directed by John Inwood, stars Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge and Amber Heard. It is a dark comedy about Alex (Graham), a lonely accountant whose sole act of rage results in her being sentenced to court mandated rage therapy...

Austin -- John Hamburg's "I Love You, Man" opened the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin on Friday, a week ahead of its national theatrical rollout. The comedy, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, played to a packed house at the Paramount Theatre, one of 54 world premieres set to play around town before the fest wraps Tuesday.

"It's such a cool movie town, and it feels like a really cool vibe to debut our film here," Hamburg said.

Friday's opening slate ran the typical festival gamut, covering everything from studio pics to such darker fare as John Inwood's "ExTerminators," starring Heather Graham, and Adam Goldstein and Eric Kutner's "The Snake," an indie comedy introduced and championed by comedian Patton Oswalt.

Saturday saw the premieres of two films that couldn't be more different: Duncan Jones' sci-fi thriller "Moon," starring Sam Rockwell, and Michael Stephenson's documentary "Best Worst Movie.

SXSW is one of my favorite festivals of the year as it showcases some of the best and most innovative real independent films, and with this host of world premiers, it's also playing alot of Sundance material as well as genre fare from all over the world, many of which we've covered heavily in these pages.

From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.

For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.

I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..

Lineup after the break.

Narrative Features Competition

Artois the Goat

Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart

Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...

NEW YORK -- Adam Bernstein's feature is another example of the postmodern gangster film in which a fairly straightforward plot is infused with bizarre stylization, absurdist flourishes and pseudo psychology.

Supremely weird and off-putting, Stratosphere's "Six Ways to Sunday", which could be described as the first Oedipal crime film, is the kind of quirky genre pic that goes over well at film festivals but drops like a stone in commercial release. It may benefit, however, from the presence of Deborah Harry, whose career is newly revitalized thanks to the re-emergence of her band Blondie.

Bernstein, a veteran music video director whose sole previous theatrical effort was the ill-fated "It's Pat", has adapted an acclaimed 1962 Charles Perry novel, updating it to the present and changing the setting from Brooklyn to Youngstown, Ohio, which is depicted as shabby and depressed. It concerns the burgeoning criminal career of Harold Odum (Norman Reedus), an 18-year-old recruited by the local Jewish mob when his talents for aggression and violence are revealed to them -- a result of accompanying his best friend Arnie (Adrien Brody), a mob flunkie, on a routine muscle job. The main focus, however, is the bizarre relationship between Harold and his blowzy mother Kate (Harry), who in the opening scene is seen giving her son a loving sponge bath.

Harold is taken under the wing of gangster Abie Pinkwise (Peter Appel) and mob boss Louis Varga (Jerry Adler), who delivers pearls of wisdom like "Having money and not flashing it is strictly for gentiles." Harold takes a romantic interest in Varga's beautiful maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), but the relationship is doomed by Harold's problems with dear old mom, who takes a dim view of romantic competition for her boy's attentions. By the time the complicated plot -- which also includes sidetracks such as Harold's numerous run-ins with a pair of local cops (Gregg Henry and Isaac Hayes) -- reaches its conclusion, some characters wind up dead.

In the hands of a more accomplished stylist (like, say, Jonathan Demme, who receives a "Presented by" credit here), the film might have emerged as an entertaining cult curiosity. Unfortunately, Bernstein's sluggish, often ham-fisted approach to the material robs it of whatever juice it might have possessed, and the weirdness on display is more stultifying than entertaining.

None of the performers is at their best, though Harry invests her bizarre portrayal with emotional conviction. As the disturbed Harold, Reedus is a veritable blank, though admittedly the character never really makes sense. The film gets by mainly on atmosphere, well-provided by Theresa Mastropierro's supremely grungy production design and John Inwood's lensing of several suitably bleak locations.

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Stratosphere Entertainment

Credits: Director: Adam Bernstein; Screenplay: Adam Bernstein, Marc Gerald; Producers: Adam Bernstein, David Collins, Michael Naughton; Executive producer: Charles Johnson; Director of photography: John Inwood; Editor: Doug Abel; Original music: Theodore Shapiro; Production designer: Theresa Mastropierro. Cast: Harold Odum: Norman Reedus; Kate Odum: Deborah Harry; Abie "The Bug" Pinkwise: Peter Appel; Iris: Elina Lowensohn; Louis Varga: Jerry Adler; Arnie: Adrien Brody; Madden: Holter Graham; Bill Bennett:Isaac Hayes. MPAA rating: R. Color/stereo. Running time -- 97 minutes.