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How does a David Lynch-Werner Herzog collaboration starring Michael Shannon and Willem Dafoe grab you? Their new movie called My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done about a guy (Shannon) who kills his mother with a sword opens in New York and L.A. next month and sounds pretty damn promising to me... Director Julien Temple's next film will be about Elmyr de Hory, a notorious art forger... I wonder why people call Plan Nine From Outer Space the worst movie ever made? Have these folks not seen Ocean's 12 or Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium? Or Homer & Eddie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jim Belushi (see trailer below)... After a year of releasing awful movies (Miss March, My Life in Ruins, Amelia) and okay but entirely unremarkable films (Adam, Whip It, (500) Days of Summer) Fox Searchlight is pegging its Oscar hopes on Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall. The movie about a drunk country singer will hit theatres in December, arriving much earlier than its originally planned spring release... Saw the trailer for Brothers this week and am pretty skeptical. I remember Tobey Maguire trying to play badass in that Soderbergh Casablanca movie a few years back and he was terrible... As if year-end critics 10 best lists weren't silly enough, get ready for the decade-ending top tens too. Other than City of God and Amores Perros, nothing from the last ten years immediately jumps to mind for me. I can see Lord of the Rings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, No Country For Old Men, Sideways and Zodiac on a list like that as well. Who knows though, those top 10 and top 20 and top 100 lists are so arbitrary and meaningless... Speaking of Zodiac, I just saw David Fincher's Seven for the first time this week and if I can quote the late, great Peggy Lee, "is that all there is?" Sorry, but it was like a Nine Inch Nails video with talking and about the most ridiculous ending imaginable.
Homer & Eddie trailer
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