Four of Them

Everybody seems to be obsessed with making a female The Hangover, with Natalie Portman producing and starring in stoner-road-trip-but-with-gals 'Best Buds', and now Anna Faris and Jennifer Garner are up for 'Bachelorette Party', which might as well be called "The Vagina Hangover". Not that I mind, because the ultimate feminism is letting girls act like idiots for a debauchery tale. Or something. Plus, anything that makes me think of Smiley Face is A-OK.

In other Lady News, Hailee Steinfeld has been cast as Mattie in the Coen Brothers' upcoming adaption-not-remake Jeff Bridges-starring True Grit. So, you know. Good for her. Apparently this one will be a lot more faithful to the book than the one that won John Wayne an Oscar.

Jason Segel, Christopher Guest, and Lucy Punch are going to be in 'Bad Teacher', a Cameron Diaz vehicle. I don't know what to make of this.

Holy shit, they're actually making a movie based off of a book on etiquette. What have we come to, lads? What next?

Sppedy Gonzales gets a movie. Yay him.

Matt Damon to play Robert F. Kennedy, the second-banana of John who eventually got killed anyway.

Happyhappy birthday, Billy Zane



If I see one more Greek God movie brimming with people I mostly like, I'm gonna quit everything forever and just become a candlemaker.

Frida Pinto has joined 'War of the Gods'.

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Since I haven't really reviewed anything lately, here be a million short ones.

MOVIES

Smiley Face (2007)--Directed by Mysterious Skin's Greg Arraki, and I guess he wanted something really light to compensate for the misery incarnate of Skin. And light it is. About a stoner/struggling actress named Jane who accidentally eats all of her roommate's special brownies (played by Danny Masterson--figure that reference out), and ends up on a half-thought-out journey across LA, that involves her dreadlocked dealer Adam Brody, a nerdy John Krasinski, and the Communist Manifesto. Featuring John Cho, Jane Lynch, and Danny Trejo. Jane's exploits are fucking hilarious to watch. She's so innocent in her state, she just can't help herself, and Anna Faris is right in her element as a ditzy girl, even when she isn't wasted, but who sometimes shows surprising bouts of intelligence. Funny and light.


Romeo + Juliet (1996)--Directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Romeo and Juliet for the MTV age, where the opening lines are spoken, first by a TV anchorwoman, then by an epic voiceover. Pretty much the original dialogue put in modern mouths, which can get pretty ridiculous. Some innovative modernizations, like the swords being remade as guns with brand names like 'Rapier" and 'Dagger'. The performances are fine enough. Overall, more of a gimmick that just barely keeps you interested it's feature length.

Wished on Mabel (1915)--Directed by Mack Sennet, starring Fatty Arbuckle. Watched in my film class, and my teacher was deadset against it and Fatty Arbuckle. And I see why--it's not very funny, even by the standards then, and I don't know why Arbuckle was the star...he really didn't do any of the physical comedy. Ever.

BOOKS:

CHERUB: The Recruit--I can see why people like it better than Alex Rider-it shows the actual kid aspects of teen-spies-but as an Alex Rider devotee, I just found the constant redirects to personal bidniz annoying, and the adult-trying-to-sound-like-an-eleven-year-old very noticeable.

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LOCAL:
Midterms suck panda dong. There, I said it.

MOVIES:
I am so fucking excited for Inception I can't even stand it. Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Cillian Murphy in the same movie? My god, the shear amount of pretty would set the screen up in flames, Inglorious Basterds style!

(How good was that movie?)

I have recently watched a trifecta of awesomeness in the form of Anna Faris-starring, Gregg Araki's Smiley Face (he made The Doom Generation and Mysterious Skin, the latter starring one of the Pretty People above, which you should know if you're worth the price of your internet connection. Unless you are in a Starbucks. I which case, I hate you. Go back to your screenplay), Point Blank (starring Lee Marvin and the eh Angie Dickinson, at least trying not to be all shrieky-useless, and getting a nice little breakdown scene near the end), and 24-Hour Party People (Steve Coogan in a quasi-biopic about Tony Wilson, founder of the Factory, non-Warhol edition. I say 'quasi' because he's really more of a minor character, by his own admission. It's remaining 2/3 consist of a Joy Division/New Order biopic, and the Hey Mondays). I might get around to reviewing them, perhaps. Or not. Enjoy pretty covers.

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