A red band trailer has been released for The Death of Stalin, the latest political satire from Armando Iannucci, the Emmy-winning creator of Veep and Oscar-nominated director of In the Loop.

The movie follows a group of people engaged in a power struggle to take control of the Soviet Union following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. It stars Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, and Andrea Riseborough.

You can read more about the movie and watch the new trailer below.

IFC Films has released a new trailer for Wakefield, an upcoming drama starring Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Godzilla) as a man with a successful career and a loving family who one day decides to disappear from it all.

The movie is written and directed by Robin Swicord, who previously helmed 2007’s The Jane Austen Book Club and also worked on the screenplays for Little Women (1994), Matilda, Practical Magic, Memoirs of a Geisha, and this week’s The Promise, as well as the story for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It also stars Jennifer Garner, Jason O’Mara, and Beverly D’Angelo.

You can find a synopsis and the trailer for Wakefield below.

IFC Films has released a trailer for a dark fairy tale thriller titled American Fable.

The movie is produced, written, and directed by Anne Hamilton, who makes her feature directorial debut. The cast includes Peyton Kennedy, Richard Schiff, Kip Pardue, Gavin MacIntosh, Zuleikha Robinson, Rusty Schwimmer, and Marci Miller.

The story follows a young girl in the 1980s who escapes to a world of fantasy as her family’s farm is in danger of being lost in the midst of a crisis. You can read an official synopsis for American Fable and check out the trailer below.

IFC Films has released a new trailer for Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny, a documentary taking a closer look at the life and career of the five-time Academy Award nominated filmmaker Richard Linklater.

Linklater has directed various titles such as Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, Waking Life, School of Rock, Before Sunset, A Scanner Darkly, Bernie, Before Midnight, Boyhood, and his latest title, Everybody Wants Some!!

You can read more about Dream is Destiny and check out the trailer below.

Room 237
Blu-ray
Directed by Rodney Ascher
Starring Bill Blakemoor, Geoffrey Cocks, and Juli Kearns
IFC Midnight/MPI Home Video
Release Date: September 24, 2013

Even though I tend not to believe most fan theories regarding hidden details and messages in certain classic films I have to appreciate the imagination and insight that goes into their creation. It’s amazing when your love of a movie inspires you to look at it again with a modestly skewed perspective to see what you may have missed before, and then to try and interpret what it all means. I may not buy into the theory that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon functions as an alternate soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz, but for every five people who are told that same theory for the first time at least one of them will sneak away from the others to their nearest Barnes & Noble to grab the Moon CD and Oz DVD so they can test it out for themselves.