At long last we have a trailer from Whip It, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut about a girl (Ellen Page) who doesn’t want to be in beauty pageants so she joins the roller derby.

Bliss (Page) tries out as Babe Ruthless for a team named the Hurl Scouts, where she hopes to skate alongside the likes of Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig) and Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore). The movie also features Marcia Gay Harden as Bliss’ disapproving mother, and Jimmy Fallon as a hungover announcer named Hot Tub Johnny [if the name sounds familiar it's because Andrew Dice Clay used to talk about a guy named Hot Tub Johnny West a lot].  [via /Film]

Anyway, you can tell it’s about teenage rebellion because all the girls wear plaid skirts, and plaid skirts = subverting the dominant paradigm.  “Find your tribe,” reads the title card. Because that’s what rebellion is; you find some people you think are cool and then try to dress and act just like them. Like when I used to rub dirt on my face and yell “Look, I’m Mexican!”  Okay, bad example.
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Here’s a homemade music video of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,” starring Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat (aka Maeby Funke from Arrested Development), and uh, some fat guy.  Apparently it’s dedicated to Page’s mother Martha (??), and if nothing else proves the stars’ ability to annoyingly sing a half step behind the beat of the song. Anyway, I’m not sure what the point of this was.  Maybe it was to see whether they could finally play out “Don’t Stop Believin,” which has been able to maintain semi-ironic popularity for an absurdly long time now.  And speaking of semi-ironic, Ellen Page is rocking both a Che hat AND a keffiyah scarf, which is like +20 hipster points. I’ve heard if you get 25 you can redeem them for getting knocked off your long skateboard. 

I got through two minutes.  See how far you can get!

[via BWE]

After the jump I’ve got a clip from Bart Got a Room, which premiered at Tribeca last year and opens April 3rd.  The film stars William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines (the wife from Curb Your Enthusiasm), newcomer Steven Kaplan, and Alia Shawkat (aka Maeby Funke).  And yes, this is all just an excuse to point out that awesome Jew fro.  As someone who knows a thing or two about Jew fros, that thing is just amazing.  I’m thinking of asking it to do my taxes.
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I broke my own rules this week when I reported on Jeffrey Tambor and later Ron Howard saying the Arrested Development movie was go for launch.  As positive as they sounded, Jeffrey Tambor is an actor and Ron Howard is a former child actor, so between them they have all the credibility of a schizophrenic crack whore. However, The Hollywood Reporter is now reporting that both Howard and director Mitch Hurwitz have reached deals with Imagine and Fox Searchlight, so it’s with a fair degree of certainty that we can say an Arrested Development movie will happen.

Now, let us never speak of this again.  At least until a trailer comes out, at which point our avatars can have a heated discussion about how they took a good show and bukkake’d all over its corpse, and their families should all be raped to death by syphilitic hyenas.  This is an outrage!  What will I do with these Handi-Snacks now that I’ve lost my appetite?