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Dave on Thursday, 16 April, 2009 at 5:10 pm

We haven’t heard that much from My Sister’s Keeper in awhile. Not since Bald Cameron Diaz, that’s for sure. The flick tells the story of a young girl (Abigail Breslin) who sues for emancipation from her parents when she learns she was conceived to keep her diseased older sister (Sofia Vassilieva) alive.
You can see it on June 26th, if you must try to brave the sadness.
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Dave on Thursday, 16 April, 2009 at 6:57 am

Above with the open mouth? That’s Sasha Grey. She’s a porn star, and the star of Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, where she plays a high-class Manhattan call girl who provides the entire “girlfriend experience” to her clients.
The film had a secret premiere at Sundance to fairly positive reviews, and the trailer is street-percussion-tastic…
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Dave on Thursday, 16 April, 2009 at 6:40 am

Ok, so Kathryn Bigelow, director of cool vampire flick Near Dark, but also K19: Widowmaker, the Harrison Ford film that is the only film poster I own that I refuse to put up, has a new film on its way called The Hurt Locker. It’s about an Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team stationed in Iraq. They got around disarming bombs.
Which is a great pitch. I just wish I knew what this film was gong to do besides showing me exploding things. I’m all up for some character drama and exploding things, but I’m NOT up for being lectured about how all the armed services are important and we sent them over there, blah, blah, blah.
I don’t mind those films, but too often I’m lured in because I want to see a war drama with exploding things.
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Dave on Tuesday, 14 April, 2009 at 10:36 am

Part of me feels creeped out by Lars Von Trier’s new trailer for Anti-Christ starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The two play a couple who head up to a cabin in the woods, off meds, after the death of their child.
Which leads to…evil nature?…insanity?…sex on top of tree-corpses?
Yeah, it looks cool, but what looks cool? Polaroid pictures and the promise of a few good character scenes?
If it was anyone but Von Trier, this trailer wouldn’t cut it, but Lars always has something deformed to show us, so I’ll hold on for more info before “meh-ing” this one off…
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Dave on Friday, 10 April, 2009 at 11:30 am

Granted, I was sold when I heard that Moon was the story of an astronaut played by Sam Rockwell, going slowly crazy (maybe) on the moon. What else do you need to hear? Rockwell even made Charlie’s Angels interesting, and that movie was not at all about character…or plot…or anything besides women being hot and appearing to kick ass in a world where physics didn’t apply.
However, with the above SWEET poster (click it to see the full thing at AICN) and the trailer (inside the cut) hitting me over the head with atmospheric awesomeness, I now know that I will be seeing Moon when it hit limited release June 12th.
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Dave on Friday, 10 April, 2009 at 10:41 am

The good news is that The Ugly Truth wasn’t made for me, I don’t think it was even made for guys. But the thing about women and their romantic comedies, is that you can fit an unusual amount of scantily clad hoes and chauvinistic jokes in the film, AND let your lead woman act like a bitch as long as it ends up like it’s supposed to. In this case, Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler will be getting together. That means powerful women need a chauvinistic man around to keep them in line.
And thus, Romantic Comedies continue to be films powered by THE MAN for WOMEN pandering to MEN.
Good thing Katherine Heigl looks like she has stone-cold bitch-face most of the time and I won’t be drug to this movie. No sir. I will make all my anal sex jokes on the way to the theater with whomever convinces me through the power of their beauty (I’m guessing woman, but don’t shut down your options) to see this…well, this Ugly Truth that isn’t the titular one.
Trailer under the cut…
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Dave on Thursday, 9 April, 2009 at 11:14 am

It’s about time Mike Judge came to the table with another comedy! Idiocracy was killed by the studio, but this one, with it’s star power, will hit theaters in September. Rock…
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