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You haven't heard of Richard's Wedding? Don't feel too uninformed. There's been absolutely no advance buzz on writer/director/actor Onur Tukel's deliriously droll walk in the park -- Central Park, that is. With no stars in it, no major studio behind it, and no budget to promote it, this at times combustibly funny look at New York's aging children (mostly in the 30-to-40-year-old range) will be screening at Brooklyn's pioneering reRun Gastropub Theater until June 7. After that, who knows?

"This is a shande!" my Yiddish grandmother would have kvetched. "A great shame!"

Being one of the few films of the summer to rely totally on wit while not starring Taylor Kitsch, Richard's Wedding overwhelms at first, possibly because we're expecting so little. After all, this is an eensy-weensy American indie. But minute by minute, the jokes get funnier, the neuroses more elaborate, and the penetration into modern...

Director: Onur Tukel Writer: Onur Tukel Starring: Onur Tukel, Jennifer Prediger, Darrill Rosen, Randy Gambill, Josephine Decker, Oona Mekas, Lawrence Michael Levine, Dustin Guy Defa, Adam Schartoff, Heddy Lahmann, Theresa Lu, Jamie Dobie, Thomas J. Buchmueller In a Richard Linklater-esque move, writer-director Onur Tukel uses himself as the vehicle to deliver us into the narrative of Richard's Wedding. We are introduced to Tukel's character -- Tuna -- as he meets up with Alex (Jennifer Prediger). Together the two friends embark upon a journey from Brooklyn into Manhattan and for the next 14 minutes we are treated to a breathless barrage of rapid fire dialogue akin to the screenplays of David Mamet, Woody Allen, Richard Linklater and Neil Labute. This is where Tukel sets the tone for his film, and it is a tone that some (many) will find offensive, borderline racist, self-absorbed, pretentious, negative, cynical, showboating and shocking -- the...

The Twitter-Wood feed assembled after the jump is the fine work of Mr. Brian Warmoth, but he seems to have disappeared before finishing the evening's intro bump. So you're stuck with me, @geminibros, your friendly neighborhood MTV Movies Blog editor.

I may not have Brian's panache, but I can still fill you in on what's shaking in the Twitter-Wood today. Rob Zombie just wrapped up the audio commentary for the director's cut of "Halloween II," "Harry Potter" star Tom Felton decided on his Halloween costume -- I wholeheartedly approve -- and "Shaun of the Dead" writer/director Edgar Wright saw the Coen brothers' new one, "A Serious Man." I wholeheartedly approve of that as well. Meanwhile, Brian Lynch has the real scoop on the next "Spider-Man" villain and Sarah Silverman shares a downright baffling twitpic. Also, Tyrese Gibson shares his very special moment with Michael Jackson, clinching himself the top...

"This movie's a comedy, I guess," director Jody Hill said in his introduction to "Observe and Report," the Seth Rogen-starring entry into the burgeoning mall cop genre. If Hill wasn't quite certain about what he had on his hands before the film played to a packed Paramount Theater, he could rest easy after the "weird-ass" character study pretty much killed it (both figuratively and all too literally at times, as Alison Willmore noted in her review on Indie Eye). By Tuesday morning, Hill and cast members Rogen, Faris, Michael Pena and Danny McBride were at the Austin Convention Center for a panel moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell, who opened up the discussion by asking Hill, "what made you think the world needed a comedic version of 'Taxi Driver'?" (Later on in the panel, Rogen belatedly responded by asking in return, 'What if Albert Brooks was the...