A slow weekend saw the ladies rushing out to the cineplexes to have their fun before football madness descended upon the land and all was boy until Monday.

Friday means movie releases! So if you feel like braving the elements to check one out, here are your options. There's a mumblecore mystery, a drama about Natalie Portman being sad, a spelunking adventure, and sexy roommate thrills.

Funny or Die figures out how all SXSW movies are all the same.

Mumblecore short Joe Swanberg's Quiet City is a "film prank," included on the new DVD for mumblecore classic Quiet City. Get this: it actually makes fun of the genre's hackneyed, but adorable stylings! Too self-referential! Click to see the trailer for the a.) hauntingly beautiful, or b.) jaw-grindingly self-indulgent trailer for the original Quiet City, directed by Aaron Katz. [Vulture]

Caroline is an NYU film student currently working on her final project. Her movie is called Phantom Vibrations and Caroline refers to it as "a freestyle mumblecore piece." It seems to be mostly about her roommate drinking beer. All shot on expensive, precious 35mm. Roving videographer Alex Goldberg went over to meet the future of independent film/food service.

(Full disclosure: I actually dropped out of NYU's Tisch School of the Performing Arts, where I was studying playwriting and screenwriting until I realized no one paid for the former and, as pictured above, no one thought they needed the latter. If I'd followed my dreams, though, I might be on strike right now. Sigh...)

Two minutes or so into 'Hannah Takes The Stairs,' the little film that's had its proverbial shaggy haircut lovingly mussed by every critic under the sun, a dickish but clueless boss character announces to his employees that he's gonna "go check my email and update my blog and all that." Upon hearing this line, the entire audience of the 8 p.m. screening of the film at the IFC Center last night broke out in hearty laughter that sounded remarkably like 200 American Apparel-clad backs being self-patted simultaneously. Also, one person literally started applauding. If only I'd left then!