The Asheville Film Festival wrapped up this weekend. The Year of the Fish, an animated take on a Chinese version of the Cinderella story garnered top film honors. Given America's perpetual fascination with gangsters, though, the comedy Randy and the Mob, a runner-up best feature award-winner, may prove to have the most legs.

Another one the weekend's most popular films, at least according to audience buzz, came from the world of pop horror. Keep an eye out for Blood Car, a clever twist in the mold of A Little Shop of Horrors—that is, if you swap in a blood-swilling car for the talking plant.

Two big releases also screened in Asheville. I wrote about Tamara Jenkins's The Savages in my first post. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Albert Finney, and Ethan Hawke, was also on the roster. I can't decide what was more surprising: the film's lackluster reception here, Ethan Hawke's overacting, or the frequency with which Tomei appears topless in the film? To report that is to risk the wrath of my wife.