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Step aside, Twilight: vampires aren't the only monsters with pangs of high school longing written all over them. Once Make-Out With Violence screens at IFFBoston on Friday, zombies will no longer be left in the corner. Traversing the tough territory of juxtaposing human emotion and unfulfilled romance with the, um, "realities" of an archetype straight out of a George A. Romero flick seems like an overwhelming task. But the Deagol Brothers, an informal group of friends working under a pseudonym inspired by the first hobbit slain by infamous Lord of the Rings' character Smeagol, were up to the challenge. After four years of start-and-stop work on the film and at a large personal monetary cost, Make-Out With Violence has finally been hitting the festival circuit with quite a response.

Zach Braff in Conversation at the Brattle Sunday, October 7, 2007, 2:30 pm Free More info at the Brattle As if their announcement that Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman were going to be at the Brattle to discuss The Darjeeling Limited (tickets are gone, alas), the Brattle also dropped the bomb that Zach Braff would be stopping by. The Harvard Lampoon is inviting Braff, actor in Scrubs and semi-emo director of Garden State and The...

Darjeeling Limited Plus Q&A With Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman Brattle Theatre Thursday, October 11 7:00 pm Update: One commenter pointed out that the Brattle website isn't listing it yet and is showing Robert Reich reading at 6:00 pm and the Fantastic Film Festival starting at 10:00. Harvard Book Store, also sponsoring the Reich reading, sent out an e-mail saying the reading has been moved from the Brattle to the Swedenborg Chapel. Update to the...

It's a good week to take the whole week off. Well, is there such a thing as a bad week to take off? Grilled meats will be invading your pores for the first time in such a heavy dose since Memorial Day, which was only about a month ago. In addition to this weeks picks for some of the great shows creeping up on us in Boston we'd like to point you over to a little fifty state musical roundup on the internets. Trees lounge has gotten 23 states done in the 50 state project. Celebrate your independence my checking out some Massachusetts themed tunes (some of them are pretty borderline on the whole "theme" but we'll cut him some slack for finding 60 songs with MP3s to download)