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Exclusive: Patton Oswalt has joined Oscar-qualified short film Sardinia as executive producer, along with his wife, actress Meredith Salenger.

The dark satirical short, written and directed by Paul Kowalski (Paper Tiger), stars Philip Ettinger as a deeply serious man battling a deadly laughing plague alongside Emmy winner Martha Plimpton. Olek Krupa, Breeda Wool and Sorel Carradine also star.

“Sardinia takes less than twenty minutes of your life to watch, but then takes up days and weeks of your brain-space when you’re done. It’s that rich, that stinging, that deep,” Oswalt said in a statement. “What Paul Kowalski does, with equal measures of hilarity and horror, is show the world go quickly off-kilter—and the subsequent ‘correction’ to ‘normality’ makes this worse. If this sounds familiar, keep in...

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

The actor: Though he’s the son of an actor (John Carradine), the brother of two notable actors (Robert and David Carradine), and a man with three kids—Martha Plimpton, Cade Carradine, and Sorel Carradine—who have all grown up to be actors, Keith Carradine originally had no plans to pursue the life of a thespian himself. Thankfully, he eventually succumbed to the inevitable and changed his mind, resulting in a long and prolific career which has seen him earning acclaim for his work in film (Nashville), television (Chiefs), and Broadway (The Will Rogers Follies), even making his way into the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 (“I’m Easy”). Carradine recently wrapped up a new film ...

Moody indie dramas about pretty twentysomethings consulting their pretty navels about whether or not they should be happy are a dime a dozen. And you can’t swing a hipster by his mustache these days without hitting a film or show about the daily grinds of life, love, and career in New York City. But Rodney Evans‘s The Happy Sad manages to stand apart from the herd for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is that the romance at its core is between two gay men of color.

Aaron (Chicago Fire‘s criminally adorable Charlie Barnett) and Marcus (Leroy McClain) are happy and in love. But after six years together they recently experimented with a threesome to rekindle the home fires and are considering trying an open relationship. Elsewhere in the neighborhood, straight – but as we will soon learn, far from narrow – couple Stan and Annie...

2004 Sundance award-winning "Brother to Brother" director Rodney Evans is back with his follow-up "The Happy Sad," a film that examines modern relationships in all their complexity and contradiction. Evans's second film follows two New York couples--one black and gay, one white and straight--as they navigate the intersections (or maybe collisions) of race, sexuality and most of all monogamy.  Things get messy and get patched up, but all four lovers are left changed and in some way more enlightened than they were before. After playing as part of San Francisco's Frameline37 and La's Outfest this year, "The Happy Sad" opens in New York and Los Angeles on August 16.  In the following clip, provided exclusively to Toh!, Stan (Cameron Scoggins) and Annie (Sorel Carradine) discuss the possibility of opening up their relationship in more ways than one, free from the expectations of gender and orientation.  As "The Happy Sad" points out, our...

Rodney Evans' sophomore effort, The Happy Sad, which made its World Premiere at Frameline San Francisco International Lgbt Film Festival, as a Showcase Screening, last month, will open in theaters on Friday, August 16th at the IFC Center in NYC and at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in La. Rodney's 2nd feature follows two young couples in New York - one black and gay, one white and heterosexual - who find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy. The film's cast includes: LeRoy McClain (The History Boys), Sorel Carradine (The Good Doctor), Charlie Barnett (Gayby, Chicago Fire), Cameron...

A Many Splendored Thing: Evans’ Sophomore Feature Candidly Explores the Nebulous Nature of Desire

It’s been nearly a decade since director Rodney Evans debuted his tenderly recuperative Brother to Brother (2004), though his resulting sophomore effort, an adaptation of Ken Urban’s stage play The Happy Sad, has been well worth the wait. A realistic exploration of the pressures and expectations of modern day relationships depicted through the main intermingling of two couples, one black and gay, the other white and heterosexual, there are perhaps one too many coincidental encounters upon which the furthering of the narrative depends (especially considering this is NYC). Nevertheless, you’ll be hard pressed to find a film that takes such care to explore the difficult issues of love, desire, and sexual fulfillment (as hurdles that every relationship must address) as equally well as it delivers engaging characters. In a world obsessed with labels and the idolatry of tradition,...

We just learned that Rodney Evans' sophomore effort, The Happy Sad, which made its World Premiere at Frameline San Francisco International Lgbt Film Festival, as a Showcase Screening, last month, will open in theaters on Friday, August 16th at the IFC Center in NYC and at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in La. Rodney's 2nd feature follows two young couples in New York - one black and gay, one white and heterosexual - who find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy. The film's cast includes: LeRoy McClain (The History Boys), Sorel Carradine (The Good Doctor), Charlie Barnett (Gayby,...

Here's a first poster for director Rodney Evans sophomore effort, The Happy Sad, which will be making its World Premiere at Frameline San Francisco International Lgbt FIlm Festival, as a Showcase Screening, on Tuesday, June 25th, 9:30pm at the Castro Theater. Rodney's 2nd feature follows two young couples in New York - one black and gay, one white and heterosexual - find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy. The film's cast includes: LeRoy McClain (The History Boys), Sorel Carradine (The Good Doctor), Charlie Barnett (Gayby, Chicago Fire), Cameron Scoggins (Lovers), Maria Dizzia (Martha...

Title: The Good Doctor Director: Lance Daly Starring: Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough, Rob Morrow, Michael Peña, Troy Garity, Taraji P. Henson, J.K. Simmons, Sorel Carradine A solidly constructed little character study of dark romantic bloom commingled with slipping-knot mental instability, “The Good Doctor” finds star-producer Orlando Bloom once again attempting to strike out and proactively define a screen personality separate and apart from the blockbuster pin-up status conferred upon him by the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “The Lord of the Rings” movies. The scale and stakes are much smaller than in something like “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (and the behavioral urges somewhat different as well), but director Lance Daly capably [ Read More ]...

Magnolia Pictures has released the first trailer and poster for The Good Doctor, which arrives in theaters August 31. Orlando Bloom stars as the title character, whose successful treatment of a patient starts to inflate his ego in bizarre ways. Check it out.

The Good Doctor - Trailer

Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) is an ambitious but anxious young doctor, eager to impress his superiors and colleagues: Chief Resident Waylans (Rob Morrow), self-assured fellow intern Dan (Troy Garity) and no-nonsense nurse Theresa (Taraji P. Henson). But things are not going Martin's way and he can't seem to shake off his insecurities. When 18-year-old patient Diane (Riley Keough) is admitted for a kidney infection, Martin steps in, getting the much-needed boost of self-esteem he craves. But things take a dark turn as his enthusiasm begins to become an obsession.

The Good Doctor comes to theaters August 31st, 2012 and stars Riley Keough, Taraji P. Henson,...