Movies and DVDs

Hmm isn't Gretchen Mol is a little skinny to be playing Bettie Page? I guess we'll see if she can pull it off in the movie:

Mary Harron as director is a good sign, as is the presence of Lili Taylor..

A different director this time around, hope they can keep it going.

Let's see if lightning can strike twice for Tyler Perry:

"the story of talented and tormented Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/ songwriter/ artist, revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love." Here's the trailer:

Coming in July. I think Chow Yun Fat is in this one?

Cool cool, I'm down to see anything with Elizabeth Banks from "40 Year Old Virgin" in it..

from cinematical.com

New Slither trailer

Slither appears to be one of those campy, good-natured gross-out horror flicks about which the internets tend to get very excited - and, as someone who is looking forward to Ultraviolet, I am certainly not in a position to throw stones. The film stars Michael Rooker, Elizabeth Banks, and Firefly/Serenity's Mal, Nathan Fillion, and revolves around "A small town [that] is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters." Based on the footage in the latest trailer, the plague is mostly a lot of slugs, and the main mutant form is, well, slugs with teeth.

http://www.cinematical.com/2005/12/28/v-for-vendetta-will-its-politics-hurt-its-box-office/The first post-Matrix film from the Wachowski Brothers (or are they brother and sister yet?). Hope they can return to form.. here are two trailers:

V for Vendetta trailer one:

V for Vendetta trailer two:

cinematical.com again.. i better add these guys in bloglines. Although they're wrong about Natalie Portman:

V for Vendetta: Will its politics hurt its box office?

V for Vendetta - produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowskis; based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore (who has since disowned the film), and starring a bald Natalie Portman – won't officially premiere until the Berlin Film Festival in February, but ever since its first public screenings in Austin a couple of weeks ago, the film's been trapped in a bit of a tug of war between the left and right corners of the web. The fan boy circles are, predictably, all about it, and even the Hollywood Reporter has come out with a positive review. In contrast, Jason Apuzzo's leading one of the strongest marches against the picture on Libertas. From what I can tell, neither Apuzzo, nor his commenters, have actually seen the film, but that's not stopping them from proclaiming it a national tragedy. Partially in response to the Reporter review, Apuzzo writes: "Those of you who’ve been claiming that this film is just an innocent little adaptation of an 80’s graphic novel series are, um, in for a surprise."

His commenters take this opening and run with it. Calling V "a big slap in the face to “Jesusland”", Jim Rockford claims that "What makes this film junk as a film and as storytelling is that it’s explicit pro-Terrorist and anti-American, anti-Bush politics fly in the face of the reality: terrorists really DO want to kill us all; they’ve tried very hard..."

Uhh, ok. I'm putting more stock in this report from the same page:

Well, I was one of those "fanboys" who saw the movie in Austin a few weeks ago. And, yes...it will be brutalize by Fox and their ilk when it comes out. And yes, i does happen to attack the "values" of a "democracy" that is ran by a man who believes in god. But, then again, it was the same way when the book was written in the early 80s with Thatcher was in charge of England.

Having said that, it was a wonderfully done movie. Sure, it wears its leaning on its sleeve (and cape...and mask), but it has a solid story (what else do yoou expect from Moore) and done in a tone akin to the Matrix movies. I think it will be a matter of how the will sell it. I am not expecting blockbuster numbers, but it's not going to die a flashy death either.