You like noir, you say? Sin City tickle you? Did you want to chain smoke cigarettes and go after those who wronged your dame? After Brick, were you wondering why your high school experience was soft boiled in comparison.

I dig noir almost as much as I dig sci-fi. They both have their tropes, but these days with actioneers bleeding into sci-fi/fantasy territory because it allows people to make pretty CGI, the hard boiled detective noir stories look like a series of cliches.

I’m not sure if it’s bad that director Russell Mulcahy (Resident Evil: Exitinction) and writer Mark Hosack have the dame in red, the detective behind his desk and stoic reaction shots of Thomas Jane as he unravels the deal gone wrong.

This is how familiarity works for non-franchise films. If you’re into noir and violence and caper films, the second trailer for Give ‘Em Hell Malone (the first was just violence) actually does what it’s supposed to: shows you what to expect.

The above production still from District 9 a film produced by Peter Jackson and written and directed by 3D special effects artist Neill Blomkamp went up on Coming Soon without me paying much attention. Talk about the ShoWest trailer had me intrigued, but I’m not gonna lie; the way ti was described I thought it was going to be some sort of “aliens used to live here” mocumentary. Sort of if Cloverfield met 60 minutes.

That being said, I wasn’t far off in the plot/style department, but WAYYYY off in the coolness department. The more this movie’s advertising evolves, the more interesting it gets and the more I move District 9 up my list of badass sci-fi to take in this summer.

The first teaser graced the webs last week and piqued my interest by coming on like a documentary about immigration…until they showed me a huge spaceship and an alien I couldn’t understand with a pixelated face.

If that wasn’t cool enough, and it was, IMDB released and then pulled an “uncensored” and subtitled version of the trailer, which actually added pathos to the alien by showing his face and letting us know that the humans are keeping the aliens on Earth, in District 9, seemingly against their will.

I’m interested in this movie and the preview hasn’t even breached the Kafka-esque plotline. The movie takes place in South Africa, where a man is sent to do an investigation within the alien district. He’s infected by some kind of alien bio agent, and learns enough about the condition of the aliens’ lives to start fighting against humans on their behalf, possibly by slowly turning into one.

Nifty huh?

I think so.

Nothing like sci-fi with awesome effects, sympatheti aliens and a timely immigration theme.

Oh noes! No inter-galactic politics? No moral? Lame.

Both of the “secret” endings to X-Men Origins: Wolverine will get their own films, so SPOILERS abound, let’s look at ‘em:

This scene shows Wolverine drinking shots at a bar in Japan, claiming he’s “drinking to remember” but he probably won’t be drining for long, as he’ll most likely get the shit kicked out of him by some samurai who will hopefully teach him not to be such a plot-less crazy soldier. That’s right, I want the new Wolverine film to be about Wolverine. Jackman, help me out:

Fox and Seed are in development on a sequel to “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which topped the domestic box office over the weekend.

The Seed partners have begun planning the sequel, which they are squarely focusing on the samurai storyline originated in the comic series, and whose Japanese locale was teased after the film’s final credits. A writer has yet to be hired. Seed will produce.

Yay, Wolverine. I guess. I’m still kind of mad at film one, but I can’t bitch forever.

I’m sort of surprised that we haven’t heard more buzz about other X-Men franchise spin-offs before Star Trek comes along and steals all Fox’s Wolverine profits. We know that X-Men Origins: Magneto is in the pipeline, as well as X-Men: First Class, but now one of two “fan-favorite” character introductions in Wolverine is getting his own spin off. And it’s not Taylor Kitsch, yet…

Okay, this is going to be a flurry of links that might have come a tad too late. If you remember, I’m of the mind that Dollhouse was canceled in the minds of FOX execs long ago. However, I managed to tune into last week’s episode “Briar Rose” before I left the house last Friday and was surprised how Joss Whedon’s vision is falling together. For one thing, Echo is now interesting (sorry Eliza Dushku, but one-shot procedurals where you’re a back-up dancer weren’t really pulling me in). Also, Alan Tudy (Wash from Firefly) stole the show with his performance that promises to wrap up in an ultra creepy way this Friday.

Long story short, I’m impressed by Dollhouse. I get it now, Joss. I would walk y’all through why I think saving Dollhouse is now worth it, but a blog over at the TIMES did most of my work for me (SPOILERS included in the piece).

So, what am I going to do for you?

Well, Friday might be the last Dollhouse ever unless this new super-awesome story arc can prove that the series has potential for an audience. In other words, just watch it.

But, I can’t in my right mind suggest that the first episode you see of something is the last one ever broadcast, so with some help with a Dollhouse fan at AllThingsFanGirl.com, I have assembled the must watch episdoes and rejected the filler. And it’s Tuesday, so you have some time to watch some internet TV between here and Friday at 9PM EST on Fox…

Below is the video from the New York Post reporting on the Times Square car crash on the set of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice starring Nicolas Cage. For a chase scene in the film, a stunt Ferrari was driving down seventh avenue chasing a stunt Mercedes, when the the Ferrari lost control and skidded up onto the sidewalk and into a Sbarro pizza. A woman was grazed by the car and was treated for minor injuries, as was a man who was hit by a lamp post struck by the stunt car.

Yesterday saw the release of a 40-minute-long Lord Of The Rings fan film that is based off the original Tolkien text, following Aragorn (still Strider) at this point in the months leading directly to Fellowship of The Ring.

Producer Brian Lavery assembled a team of 160 volunteers to make his piece, directed by Chris Bouchard (who Lavery described as “the biggest” LOTR fan in the team), for a budget of 3,000 pounds, about $4,464 dollars. The film’s epic scope owes a lot of it’s look to digital matte paintings and rotoscoping, allowing this low-budget fan film to take on a look similar to Peter Jackson’s trilogy.

As a guy who has a semi for fan films, sitting down to watch a good one last night made me geekily-giddy.

If your interested in LOTR, independent film, no-budget costume design or digital matte painting, you should check it out for FREE (long live independent online cinema!) at TheHuntForGollum.com