Everyone at Sundance is always looking for the next Little Miss Sunshine or Beasts of the Southern Wild, that breakout hit that will make millions of dollars and maybe win an Oscar or two. What they're missing is that, beyond quality buzz, there are crazy trends that run from movie to movie.

This year had its fair share of hype, but one film stands out as a work of art that lives up to the buzz. In Fruitvale, Friday Night Lights and Chronicle actor Michael B. Jordan puts on the shoes of Oscar Grant, victim of an infamous 2009 incident of police brutality that ended in the 22-year-old's death.

To the many devotees of Apple, the tech company is a religion, with Renaissance employee Steve Jobs as its figurehead. The inventor of the Apple II remained an important part of the conglomerate up to his passing in 2011, and its clear from the new biopic jOBS that his legacy will continue to be a driving force and an inspiration for years to come.

Late Saturday night, former 20th Century Fox head honcho and proponent of independent film Tom Rothman took the stage at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards ceremony to deliver the final prize of the night....

It's sort of ironic that the documentaries are the stars of the Sundance Film Festival but, because there are no real stars in them, they usually go ignored by the public at large. Here is a round up of some of the best that we saw during this year's festival.

A radical 3D experiment by directors Robert Berger and Karlyn Michelson, Charlie Victor Romeo one ups Hollywood's adrenaline-infused plane crashes with a stripped down presentation that finds tension in the real life reactions of plane crews.

Most people had Michael Cera "figured out" around the time Scott Pilgrim vs. the World came and went from theaters in 2010.

The funniest thing about divorce comedy A.C.O.D. is that it shows that divorce has been around long enough that we can now laugh about it. And watching this movie, you will laugh plenty.

"Some people believe the Devil is fake, like Santa Claus. I assure you, the Devil is real. And he is a dick."

There are many things about a movie that will get people at Sundance talking: a celebrity doing something risque, a script so bad it makes people laugh, or a performance that's so revelatory that prognosticators are already putting it down for the 2014 Oscar short list.

Remember when, for a hot second, Lindsay Lohan was supposed to play '70s porn icon Linda Lovelace in a biopic while a similar project was also being shopped around Hollywood?

Even with the 2012 Presidential election behind us, the political and social debates in America are hotter than ever. The country has trust issues: who is really fighting for the freedoms the nations affords its citizens, and who is bending the rules to fit their agenda?

The Sundance Film Festival is the premiere place for cinema buffs to soak in films rooted in every corner of the globe, but it's also a circus for studios looking to pick up movies to add to their slates. Check out the big buys of the festival thus far to find out when you'll see these indie gems in theaters.

First I must apologize to the makers of Toy's House. I am sorry. I am very, very sorry and I will never do it again. I fell asleep during the movie.

Upstream Color arrived this week to hype raging on message boards, tweets, Facebook posts, along with an eager Sundance audienced. Exhale, Cult of Shane Carruth: the movie delivered on its mysterious promises.

I'm going to start this review off with a spoiler. Shia LaBeouf is awful. Haha. Just kidding. That's not a spoiler. We should all know by now that the naked music video star is pretty bad.

People in the media continue to argue over whether "woman are funny" (OK, mostly Adam Carolla). But sift through the past decade of comedy and it's painfully obvious that when it comes to making us laugh, ladies can bring it.

Based on one of David Sedaris' stories from the book Naked, this is the first time Sedaris has given permission to a filmmaker, in this case Kyle Patrick Alvarex to turn a story into a feature film.

People have either loved Escape From Tomorrow and praised it as the bravest piece of cinema they have seen in years or savaged it by saying it is a wacky incoherant mess. But there is one thing that nearly everyone agrees on: Disney will probably never let it see a commercial theater.

The credits for Stoker, the new Chan-Wook Park movie that debuted at Sundance Sunday night, run backwards. Yes, instead of blooming up from the bottom of the screen and traveling up, they pour town from the top in a slow cascade.

With the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival behind us, the mecca of independent film segues into phase two: the buying frenzy. While new films will continue to roll out and amass buzz, ones that hit earlier in the week are already being chased by movie studios looking for the next breakout hit.

Building upon the events of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, director Richard Linklater and his two stars, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, continue the exploration of their romantics in Before Midnight.

Alicia Keys' music career isn't going anywhere — we're still humming "Empire State of Mind" and the singer/songwriter is set to perform the National Anthem at this year's Super Bowl — but at this year's Sundance, the prolific artist solidifies herself as a new and essential voice in the movie business.

Lynn Shelton's features are considered "mumblecore," a movement of modern film defined by small casts (and usually smaller budgets), improvised scripts, and real life situations. Her latest movie, Touchy Feely is not that. It's also not as good but, in the long run, that could be a good thing.

James Franco wears so many different hats it is almost comical. He does so much, in fact, that that he had two films premiere at Sundance Saturday night and he served different roles in both of them.

On Friday, the first day of the Sundance Film Festival, I was standing in line for a movie when suddenly, there was a loud, rapid fire string of popping sounds.

Every year there are those Sundance darlings who come to the festival with several projects under their belt and build the buzz not only on quality but also on quantity. This year, one of those darlings is Mexican star Gael García Bernal, who is having a resurgence after breaking out in 2001 in Y Tu Mamá También and both of his projects were definitely worth checking out.

Jennifer Coolidge has built a career saving scenes in American Pie, Legally Blonde, and every David Gest — no, wait, that's Liza Minnelli's ex-husband — every Christopher Gest mockumentary. She does it yet again in Austenland, which debuted Friday afternoon at the Sundance Film Festival.

Back in 2005, writer Nathan Rabin coined the phrase "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" to describe Kirsten Dunst's character in Elizabethtown, a type of recurring female character that "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures."

In October 2004, Google announced an ambitious project, one that has imagined by the greatest minds of the world for as long as humans have recorded their thoughts. The Google Print Library aimed to be an all-encompassing destination for information.

There are things to like about writer/director Jeff Nichols' (Take Shelter) heartwarming coming-of-age story, but its problems outweigh its delights. It's biggest problem is that the 130-minute running time is about 40 minutes too long.

50 Shades of Grey has ushered in the age of "mommy porn," and Two Mothers, an Australian movie that debuted at Sundance on Friday night, has changed that idea all over again.

According to director John Krokidas, his feature debut Kill Your Darlings took nearly 11 years to bring to screen. After premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Friday afternoon, the slow cook appears to have only strengthened the film.

Freedom versus safety — the thematic core of every political debate and dystopian novel in civilized history, two human values of inarguable importance that are often placed in direct contrast to one another.

This year's Sundance Film Festival has only just kicked into gear, and has already launched some of the more interesting, and some of the strangest, prospects for the future of film.

This year's Sundance Film Festival has only just kicked into gear, and has already launched some of the more interesting, and some of the strangest, prospects for the future of film.

In January of 2012, director Benh Zeitlin's debut feature Beasts of the Southern Wild premiered to 1,270 Sundance attendees who, as the triumphant score crescendoed into the end credits, leapt out of their seats into a standing ovation.

This year, Hollywood.com will once again be jetting off to Park City, Utah for the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. For 10 days, the small mountain town becomes the epicenter for all things movies, with A-List stars and filmmakers from around the world congregating to get their taste of independent cinema.

Every year, filmmakers young and old congregate in Park City, Utah, to show off their latest creations in hopes of playing to raves and finding distribution to a theater near you.

This thursday morning, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association weighed in with their nominations for the Golden Globe awards, naming the best actors and movies of 2012 and shaking up the race to the Oscars.

We'll have to wait with bated breath to find out if, in fact, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Star-Lord in the upcoming Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy, but we know this for sure now: the actor, who is a big time movie star with some serious indie cred to boot, will host the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony.

While the annual Sundance film festival continues to be a place that launches young filmmaking talent, over the years it's also become a star-studded publicity machine attracting big names looking to debut their new films.