Eagle vs. Shark was one of our top 3 favorite movies at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. We called the film “the best indie romantic comedy of all time.” We gushed over the movie so much that Miramax is using our quote on the official website. We called Well now you are finally going to see what we were talking about. The movie trailer is online below.

There were 122 feature length films at the 2007 Sudnance Film Festival (culled from 3,287 submissions). So far 18 of those movies have been picked up, in addition to the 17 films that entered the festival with US distribution (please note that our list might be short, and our math might be off).

Our good friends at FirstShowing aren’t the only ones wondering why The Go-Getter hasn’t been picked up yet. I’m also wondering why John August’s directional debut The Nines and David Gordon Green’s Snow Angels have yet to receive the distribution love. Let’s take a look at the Sundance 2007 films coming to a theater near you.

My Mom was very sick the years before I entered Middle School. The only times I saw her were in the Hospital. I was young so I was kept out of the loop on how things were really going. But one night at the hospital all the relatives were there. My dad even slept over instead of coming home. I didn’t realize the significance of the situation at the time.

One of our favorite films at Sundance 2007 was Eagle vs. Shark (a film I tell people is Little Miss Sunshine meets Napoleon Dynamite). Well it looks like Eagle vs. Shark loves us back.

So we’ve been on location in the famous little mountain town in Utah for almost two weeks now. We saw over 30 films in a 9-day period, can you even imagine?

But the Sundance Film Festival has come to an end. Our bags are packed are we will be returning to sunny California on Monday afternoon. So for those of you who have been wondering: Are they going to get back to the mainstream news and reviews, fear not. We will return shortly to the relm of comic book movies and romantic comedies. We’re still behind on our Sundance reviews, so also be sure to expect some more indie in the days to come.

Andrew Wagner was at Sundance two years ago with his break-out film The Talent Given to Us. In his emotional introduction to Starting Out, he explained how he sat in the huge Eccles theater wishing to someday have a film of his own on the gigantic big screen. He couldn’t get anymore words out, he just tried to hold the tears back, for like two minutes. It was the most emotional Sundance moment I’ve seen in a while.

I didn’t want to see Snow Angels at first. I was outside the first screening when a busload of people decided to walk out. “Terrible, Depressing” they said. But then in the days that followed I ran into a lot of people on the shuttles and at the theaters that were raving about the flick. But I still refused to believe it was good. I mean, how could a busload of people walk out and it be a great movie? Than one of my Sundance friends expressed the same opinion. And so far I’ve pretty much agreed with her on every movie thus far. But the only screening of Snow Angles that remained was during Grace is Gone, which is probably the biggest hyped film at the fest at this point in. So I had to see that instead.

I got up early, ran to the Library to get in through

“I believe in Holden Caulfield and what he was saying… What he was saying to a lost generation.”

Chapter 27 reenacts the final moments before Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon. The title is a play on J.D. Salinger’s classic novel The Catcher in the Rye, which ends on chapter 26. Chapman related and modeled his life after the book’s main character Holden Caulfield.

On The Road With Judas is a movie based on a book (of the same name) which stars actors playing characters playing characters from the book and actors playing actors playing characters from the book. Not only does the film timeshift, jumping through the years but it also jumps back and fourth between scenes and a talk show set where the actors and characters are being interviewed about the book which is being filmed as a movie. Confused? You haven’t seen or heard anything yet.

From Academy Award nominated director Taika Waititi (for his short film Two Cars, One Night) comes the best indie romantic comedy of all time.