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Kayla Finley is arrested nine years after she rented Jennifer Lopez's 2005 comedy from a video shop in South Carolina

Video store late-return fees used to be an occupational hazard for the forgetful cineaste in the days when every neighbourhood boasted its own rental outlet. But one Us film fan got an uncomfortably retro shock when she was jailed for failing to return a Jennifer Lopez movie rented more than nine years previously.

Kayla Michelle Finley spent the night behind bars on Thursday evening despite having earlier arrived at a police station in Pickens, South Carolina, to report a crime. Charitable officers noticed there was a warrant out for her arrest relating to the rental of the critically-lampooned 2005 comedy Monster-in-Law. They arrested Finley and charged her with petty larceny.

According to the authorities, Finley was sent several letters by Dalton Video in 2005, and later a certified warrant. The film fan...

We here at NextMovie aren't just about the big-budget blockbusters. We're shallow, but we're not that shallow. (Fine, we're pretty shallow.)

April 17 begins the Tribeca Film Festival, where "little films that could" that really aren't that little and often star big-name actors are submitted to be judged by Hollywood's finest discerning eyes and also those of Eva Longoria.

Eva has to watch many films, but we think you guys would be specifically interested in the following ten.

'Adult World'

Defying the ever-popular "girl works at a sex shop in upstate New York in order to fund her completely stagnated poetry career" stereotype in movies, "Adult World" stars Emma Roberts as protege and John Cusack as mentor as the former is forced to take a post-graduate job in an intercourse parlor (which is way more fun to say than "sex shop"). Eventually, Roberts' character bonds with her sexified (read:...

David Fincher's The Social Network is finally out on DVD/Blu-Ray this week [1], and it offers a pretty spectacular, in-depth look at the creation of the film (go here for all our past coverage of the film [2]). One of the things that's always interested me about the movie is the opening credits sequence, which has gone through several changes from conception to execution. Originally, it was supposed to be done in one long, continuous shot [3], but that idea was shelved. Additionally, Aaron Sorkin has stated in interviews [4] that he wanted to use Paul Young's cover of "Love for the Common People" over the opening credits. He later commented, "David [Fincher] didn’t just do something different; he did something 180 degrees opposite...The way that’s shot, the way that’s scored, that tells the audience, 'This isn’t your father’s college movie.'" Indeed, Trent Reznor's haunting...