Take one Nickelodeon favorite, one celebrated Oscar-winner and one Shakespearean starlet in the making, bake in the hot New York City summer of 1994 and presto: The Wackness.

Brick Lane, an import from the subcontinent by way of the UK, is a quiet, understated film that many might miss. According to lead actress Tannistha Chatterje, though, it tells a nuanced story of home, tradition and love — all kinds of love. Read more about what she had to say here.

This dark and disturbing yet compelling and intriguing film is what indies are all about. What major studio would green light a film about a guy in his wheelchair and the emotionally disturbed people who will go to any lengths to be like him?

Ugly Betty's America Ferrera stars in a film about three generations of Mexican American women looking for love in all the right and wrong places. Is it a Summer of Love, or simply one long, hot endless summer?