There’s a new poster for director Todd Solondz’s (Life During Wartime, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse) new drama (or is it a black comedy? It’s hard to tell with Solondz) Dark Horse, starring Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber and Christopher Walken.

Romance blooms between  two thirty-somethings (Blair and Gelber) in arrested development: an avid toy collector and a woman who is the ‘dark horse’ of her family. Blair’s character is a failed writer/academic who moves back in with her parents and begins a tentative relationship with Jordan Gelber (“Boardwalk Empire” Broadway’s “Avenue Q,”) Dark Horse also stars Justin Bartha, Mia Farrow, Donna Murphy and Aasif Mandvi (“The Daily Show”).

Here’s a very short little teaser, that’s basically a sight gag. Watch closely. The first few seconds you could swear nothing’s happening.

Dark Horse will play the Venice International Film Festival before moving over to the Toronto International Film Festival. No other release dates are currently scheduled. I’m sure there’s a distributor of discriminating taste ready to snatch it up. (My money’s on IFC Films.)

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Paul, director Greg Mottola’s comedy about two British comic-book geeks (Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. Do I really need to say more?) who are traveling across the southwestern U.S. when they encounter an alien outside Area 51, is now out on dvd. It is, in a word, hilarious.

The script, co-written by its two stars, probably contains a reference to every sci-fi movie made in the last 30+ years. (I’m sure I missed some of the references and I am dying to see it again to try to catch them all.) Filming part of the movie at Comic Con (and indeed using it as the jumping off point for the plot) was inspired. It was obviously a labor of love and a valentine of sorts to comic book geeks and sci-fi nerds.

Seth Rogan as the voice of Paul, is pitch perfect. I honestly can’t remember when, since “Freaks and Geeks”, that I’ve enjoyed a performance of his more.  It’s also evident in his voice that he was enjoying himself as well. Indeed, it looked to me like everyone involved was having a great time. (Perhaps that’s because I was following Simon Pegg’s Tweets while they were making the film, but I don’t think so.)

Blu-Ray and DVD features include:

• · BLOOPERS
• · THE EVOLUTION OF PAUL: An inside look at how Paul became a living, breathing alien.
• · SIMON’S SILLY FACES: Simon Pegg makes an assortment of wildly funny faces for the camera.
• · WHO THE HELL IS ADAM SHADOWCHILD? Find out about the legendary sci-fi writer from the characters in Paul.
• · FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH GREG MOTTOLA, SIMON PEGG, NICK FROST, BILL HADER AND NIRA PARK
• · PHOTO GALLERIES, STORYBOARDS AND POSTERS

There are a helluva lot more on the Blu-ray but I don’t want to be elitist.

I’m trying to remember a comedy team with which to compare Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Their timing can be compared to Abbot and Costello or Martin and Lewis, and Nick Frost certainly has the sweet charm of a Lou Costello or 50’s era Jerry Lewis, but Simon Pegg is nowhere near as arch as Bud Abbott or as suave as Dean Martin. Over the course of three films and a television series, their chemistry has not been diluted at all, probably owing to the fact that they are close friends. Some of the best laughs in Paul come from just a look or a tilt of the head between them. Indeed, the bromance is at the heart of the film. Not only is it laugh out loud funny, it is also very sweet, in an ET kind of way, as well as a ‘we all have to grow up sometime and realize our true potential’ kind of way.

Paul also stars Kristin Wiig, Sigourney Weaver, David Koechner, Jane Lynch, Bill Hader and the boy of summer 2011, Jason Bateman.

“Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t touch anyone.”

Six new character posters for Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion have come online thanks to Yahoo Movies. Poor Gwyneth Paltrow. You know the expression, “she should be the poster child for {fill in the blank}”  Well, Gwynnie looks like the poster child for sheer terror.

The other principal actors Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion Cotilliard, Laurence Fishburne and Matt Damon get posters too with variations on their scenes from the trailer. All are designed to heighten the panic and paranoia, especially when viewed altogether like this, since they all contain the film’s tag lines, “Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t touch anyone.”  Does it get any more paranoid than that? Why wait for the government to quarantine the populace if you can get them to do it for themselves? Considering that fear begets aggression, I envision this getting very ugly indeed.

Contagion, in case it has escaped your notice, is an action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.

Contagion will infect the good people of Venice at the Venice International Film Festival (luckily, the Venetians have survived plague and pestilence for centuries, so they’ll be fine), before “The World Goes Viral” on September 9 when it’s released in the US then spreads to the UK on 21 October.

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There’s a new trailer online for Lynne Ramsey’s We Need to Talk About Kevin. (Pay no attention to the French subtitles, unless of course you are or read French and want to read them.) Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly star as the parents of a teenage old boy who goes on a high-school killing spree.

Based on the award winning novel of the same name by Rory Kinnear, We Need to Talk About Kevin marks the Scottish Ramsey’s first feature film since 2002′s critically acclaimed Morvern Callar.

Official synopsis: Eva (Swinton) puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15 , he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?

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I love this trailer. Usually the music used gives us cues as to what the mood and tone are of what we’re about to see. If that were true here, coupled with the expression on Swinton’s face for the first half of it, I’d think this was a comedy of sorts. The mood and tone shift about half-way through and we know we’re dealing with something much darker.

We Need to Talk About Kevin also stars Ezra Miller as Kevin and will be in competition at the Toronto International Film Festival next month before opening in the UK on 21 October, followed by a limited (grrrrrr) US release on December 2. (Double grrrrrrr.)