Is this funny? Because I'm pretty sure it's not. Below is the the teaser trailer for Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno and it's not 1/10 as funny as even the worst outtakes from a Judd Apatow film (whom Smith seems to be ripping off blatantly here).

Harvey Korman has died; Hedley Lamarr lives.



I stole the above sentence from Hollywood Elsewhere but the clip was my idea.

Wow, I can honestly not believe that this film is going to be made. Danny McBride is starring in the comedy Your Highness, which will be directed by David Gordon Green. The story, written by McBride along with Ben Best (the two also wrote The Foot Fist Way), is about an arrogant, lazy prince (McBride) who must complete a quest to save his father's kingdom.

This has been one of those rumored projects for David Gordon Green for a while now but I just thought it was him throwing ideas out there, as he is known to do. I never thought in a million years he would actually direct this film. I would say that I hope that DGG doesn't get stuck in a rut making comedy after comedy but after seeing Pineapple Express I could care less if he ever goes back to his poetic, meandering films. OK, thats a lie. I hope he does at some point but he seems to be too interested in all genres to just get tied down to one.

Elizabeth Berkley is still making movies. She has joined the cast of S. Darko, the Chris Fisher-directed sequel to 2001's cult hit Donnie Darko, a film a lot of people like because its weird and angsty but I am of the opinion it makes absolutely no sense and is a bit of a miss. Christopher Kelly, the original director/writer has nothing to do with this film which tells a story that is set seven years after the original as Donnie Darko's sister, Samantha (played by again by Daveigh Chase), flees town with her best friend (Briana Evigan, Step Up to the Streets, Fear Itself) when they are plagued by bizarre visions. Berkley plays a speed freak-turned-Jesus freak obsessed with cleansing the world of sin and infatuated with her dreamy pastor. Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) and Justin Chatwin (The Chumscrubber) also have roles.

This is the first paragraph of Roger Ebert's review of Mister Lonely. A film I wanted to like but just couldn't. He sums up my feelings of the film in these few sentences better than I could in a proper review.

I wish there were a way to write a positive two-star review. Harmony Korine's "Mister Lonely" is an odd, desperate film, lost in its own audacity, and yet there are passages of surreal beauty and preposterous invention that I have to admire. The film doesn't work, and indeed seems to have no clear idea of what its job is, and yet (sigh) there is the temptation to forgive its trespasses simply because it is utterly, if pointlessly, original.

The Coen's return to comedy, the fantastically funny (especially Brad Pitt) trailer for Burn After Reading.

Rainn Wilson has revealed to MTV that he has landed a small role in director Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers 2. Wilson will join returning stars Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and John Turturro in the action flick — his first role in a big-budget franchise — playing one of LaBeouf's college professors.

Muppets take "Manhattan"

Finally, finally, finally somebody got it right and put the correct names over the correct actors head instead of listing the biggest name first, regardless of where said person is on the poster.

The New York Times has a story about one of my most anticipated movies of the year, The Road. Since I am not a registered user I can not read this story so I will instead direct you over to First Showing who sum up the story nicely.

My Winnipeg

Here are the WINNERS of the 2008 International Cannes Film Festival:

IN COMPETITION - FEATURE FILMS

Palme d'Or
ENTRE LES MURS (THE CLASS) by Laurent Cantet

Grand Prix
GOMORRA by Matteo Garrone

Prize of the 61st Festival de Cannes ex-aequo
Catherine Deneuve for Un CONTE DE NOËL by Arnaud DESPLECHIN
Clint Eastwood for L’ÉCHANGE (The Exchange)

Award for the Best Director
ÜÇ MAYMUN (Three Monkeys / Les Trois Singes) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jury Prize
IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino

Best performance by an Actor
Benicio Del Toro dans / for CHE de / by Steven SODERBERGH

Best Performance for an Actress
Sandra Corveloni dans / for LINHA DE PASSE de / by Walter SALLES, Daniela THOMAS

Award for the Best Screenplay
LE SILENCE DE LORNA de / by Jean-Pierre et Luc DARDENNE

IN COMPETITION - SHORT FILMS

Palme d'Or
MEGATRON de / by Marian Crisan

Jury Prize
JERRYCAN de / by Julius Avery

Camera D'OR
HUNGER de / by Steve McQueen (Un Certain Regard)

Spécial Mention Caméra d'Or
VSE UMRUT A JA OSTANUS (Ils mourront tous sauf moi) de / by Valeria Gaï GUERMANIKA (Semaine Internationale de la Critique)

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Un Certain Regard Prize
TULPAN de / by Sergey Dvortsevoy

Jury Prize
TOKYO SONATA de / by Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Heart Throb Jury Prize
WOLKE 9 de / by Andreas Drese

The Knockout of Un Certain Regard
TYSON de / by James Toback

Prize of Hope
JOHNNY MAD DOG de / by Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE

CINEFONDATION

First Cinéfondation Prize
HIMNON (Hymne) de / by Elad Keidan (The Sam Spiegel Film and TV School, Israël)

Second Cinéfondation Prize
FORBACH de / by Claire Burger (La fémis, France)

Third Cinéfondation Prize
STOP de / by Park Jae-ok (The Korean Academy of Film Arts, Corée du Sud)
KESTOMERKITSIJÄT (Signalisation des routes) de / by Juho Kuosmanen (University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finlande) Back Prin

Ewan McGregor will co-star in the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia, reports Variety.

Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Virginia Madsen have already boarded the project, which Mira Nair is directing.

The story centers on the legendary aviatrix (is that a real word?) and chronicles her rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam (Gere) and passionate affair with Gene Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal. Ronald Bass wrote the screenplay.

From Roger Ebert, his tribute to Sydney Pollack.

Sydney Pollack, who directed some of the best mainstream films of the last 40 years and acted in some of the others, is dead at 73. He died Monday of cancer at home, in Pacific Palisades, according to a friend.

Born in 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, the son of Russian immigrants, Pollack was encouraged to try acting by his high school drama teacher in South Bend. "From almost the first time I stepped on a stage," he told me, "I knew that was what I wanted to do."

He went to New York to study acting under the famed teacher Sandy Meisner, taught acting at Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse, moved into television, and stepped behind the camera. Although his main occupation from the 1960s on would be directing, he never lost his love for acting, and had more credits (30) as an actor than as a director (21). He most recently was seen as the powerful, authoritative head of the law firm in "Michael Clayton," and had top billing in Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives."

A tall, handsome, immediately charismatic man, he was a director most actors loved to work with, because when he talked to them about acting he knew what he was talking about. He and Robert Redford were each other's favorite director and actor, working together seven times. Indeed, in "This Property is Condemned" (1966), he was instrumental in establishing Redford as a star.

“I am not a visual innovator," Pollack told me shortly before the release of his "Out of Africa," (1985), which won seven Oscars, including best picture and best director, and was nominated for four more. "I haven’t broken any new ground in the form of a film. My strength is with actors. I think I’m good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs.”

To mention the titles of some of his films is to stir smiles, affection, nostalgia, respect: The Depression-era drama "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969); the epic Western "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972); the Redford-Streisand love story "The Way We Were" (1973); the CIA thriller "Three Days of the Condor" (1975); Robert Mitchum against Japanese mobsters in "The Yakuza" (1975), Redford and Jane Fonda in "The Electric Horseman" (1979); Paul Newman as the maligned son of a gangster in "Absence of Malice" (1981); hungry actor Dustin Hoffman in drag in "Tootsie" (1982), Redford with Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa" (1985); Tom Cruise as a lawyer in "The Firm" (1993).

When I invited the great cinematographer Owen Roizman to join me in analyzing a film using the shot-by-shot approach at the Hawaii Film Festival, he choose Pollack's "Havana," pointing out the director's instinct for compositions that helped underline the point of a scene. Instead of discussing the film's visuals as representing what he himself did, Roizman often said things like, "Look how Sydney handles this."

Although he got on well with most actors, he had well-publicized differences with Dustin Hoffman during "Tootsie," for which they both got Oscar nominations. They actually acted together in the movie, with Pollack playing his dubious agent, and Hoffman a desperate actor who says he can play tall, he can play short, and "nobody does vegetables like me. I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway. I did the best tomato, the best cucumber -- I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass."

Hoffman persuaded Pollack that he should cast himself in the role, and they worked on the scene together. "I think it benefitted from the experiences both of us have had in that situation," Pollack smiled.

He is survived by his wife since 1958, Claire, and two of their three children, Rachel and Rebecca. A son, Steven, died in an airplane crash in 1993.

Sydney Pollack is dead. There will be many tributes written about this man, an Oscar winning director but I was also always a fan when he stepped in front of the camera. His turn in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives is at both times completely honest and frightening. I will post the words of others as I read them, they can give him a much better farewell than I ever could. I'll leave you with a scene from my favorite film he directed, Jeremiah Johnson.

From Roger Ebert's blog.

At noon Sunday, I attended a press screening of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." I returned to my laptop, wrote my review and sent it off, convinced I would be in a minority. I loved it, but then I'm also the guy who loved "Beowulf," and look at the grief that got me. Now Indy's early reviews are in, and I'm amazed to find myself in an enthusiastic majority. The Tomatometer stands at 78, and the more populist IMDb user rating is 9.2 out of 10. All this before the movie's official opening on Thursday.

Why did I think I would be in a minority? Because of what David Poland at Movie City News poetically described as "one idiot." As everybody knows, an exhibitor attended a closed-door screening last week, and filed a review with the Ain't It Cool News website. This single wrong-headed, anonymous review was the peg on which The New York Times based a breathless story on a negative early reaction to the film. That story inspired widespread coverage: Were Spielberg and Lucas making a mistake by showing their film at Cannes? Would it turn out to be a fiasco like showing "The Da Vinci Code" there? The Code got terrible reviews, and only managed to gross something like $480 million dollars at the box office--suggesting, if not to the Times, that even a negative reception at Cannes might not cut Indy off at the knees.

Maybe even Harrison Ford was influenced by Mr. Wrong-Headed. "It's not unusual for something that is popular to be disdained by some people," he said at the press conference following the Cannes screening, "and I fully expect it." What he got was a standing ovation in the Palais des Festivals that night. The S.O. was heralded in all the coverage, even though any Cannes veteran would tell you it meant--nothing. Every film gets a standing ovation at the black-tie evening premiere at Cannes, unless it is so bad it transcends awfulness.

There are really two premieres at Cannes: The press screening at 8:30 a.m., and the black-tie, or "official," screening in the evening. Both fill the vast, 3,500-seat Lumiere auditorium. The morning offers a tough audience: Critics, festival programmers, people who have may have seen hundreds of other movies in this room. They are free with their boos, and if a movie doesn't work for them have been known to shout at the screen on their way out.

The black-tie screening, on the other hand, includes many people who have a financial motive for wanting a film to succeed: The worldwide distributors and exhibitors, their guests, and lots of Riviera locals. Or they may have been given tickets and are thrilled to be there. ("I recognized the woman sitting next to me from my hotel," Rex Red told me one year. "It was my maid.") In some cases, they may simply think it's good manners to cheer movie stars who flew all the way to Cannes. Then too, the stars are seated in the front row of the balcony. Everybody below stands up after the movie, turns around, and sees them bathed in spotlights. The Standing O creates itself.

Nevertheless, I believe the S.O. was genuine the other night. It takes a cold heart and a weary imagination to dislike an "Indiana" film with all of its rambunctious gusto. With every ounce of its massive budget, it strains to make us laugh, surprise us, go over the top with preposterous action. "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" does those things under the leadership of Spielberg, who knows as much as any man ever has about what reaches the popular imagination. The early reviewer on the web site, on the other hand, knew as little.

Spielberg at heart will always be that kid who sneaked onto the back lot at Universal and talked himself into a job. He's the kind of man who remains in many ways a boy. He likes neat stuff. He thinks it would be fun to have Indiana and friends plunge over three waterfalls, not one. He knows that we know what back projection is, and he uses it blatantly (Indy arriving in frame as if he had jumped there, while the background rolls past a little out of focus). He knows back projection feels differently that perfect digital backgrounds -- it feels more like a movie. He likes boldly-faked editing sequences: We see the heroes in medium shot at the edge of a waterfall, we see a long shot of their boat falling to what would obviously be instant oblivion below, and then he shows the heroes surfacing together and near the shore (no rapids!) and spitting out a little water. The movie isn't a throwback to the Saturday serials of the 1930s and 1940s. It's what they would have been if they could have been.

Consider another action series, the Matrix films. They're so doggedly intense and serious. They seem to think the future of the universe really is a stake. There's a role for serious action, but not when it's hurled at us in a cascade of quick-cutting and QueasyCam shots that make dramatic development impossible. Even if the they are constructed out of wall-to-wall implausibility, the Indy films have characters who aren't frantic. Harrison Ford and Spielberg are wise: They know a pumped-up Indy would seem absurd. Indiana Jones himself is so laid back he sometimes seems to be watching the movie with us. He's happy to be aboard, just as long, of course, as he can stay in the boat/truck/airplane.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

I love Indiana Jones so I am probably the wrong person to review this. Even the worst of scenes from this series is at least a 6 on my scale. Instead of offering up any of the story or critiques I am just going give a list of some of the chill inducing I witnessed during my first viewing.

• Indy's silhouette entrance.
• The first notes of the Indy theme on the soundtrack
  
• "I thought that was closer."
• The brief glimpse of the ark.
• Mutt's The Wild One homage entrance.
• The campus chase.
• "They weren't you babe."

Ok, I am going to stop. I realized I was basically going to list moments from every scene from the film and I don't want to go into any more detail. This is a movie to experience in the darkened lights of a theater. With the sound loud so you can feel every punch and be there with the characters. Characters I could watch on the big screen a thousand more times.

Mister Lonely

I took an extended lunch break on Friday to see this and to be honest, I probably should have grabbed a bite to eat. Mostly a group of scenes containing characters you don't really care about that last too long. There is a much more interesting subplot about skydiving nuns that isn't so much connected to the film plot wise as it is thematically its opposite. It also contains a firecracker performance by the director Werner Herzog, I perked up anytime he was on the screen. I will say this, thinking back on the film I seem to enjoy it more and more but I still don't ever need to see it again.

Martin Scorsese has exited the authorized Bob Marley documentary that's in the works, citing scheduling conflicts. Jonathan Demme, who previously directed music-related projects like the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense and Neil Young's Heart of Gold, has taken over the Tuff Gong/Shangri-La Marley film, set to be released on Feb. 6 2010, which would have been the late reggae singer's 65th birthday

Che is currently screening at Cannes, Jeff Wells just gave part one of the four hour presentation a rave. Here are a few short excerpts from scenes.

The Burning Hotels - Lola's 4/19/08 from You and Yours on Vimeo.

Another one from Festival Central.

Woody Allen at lunch in Cannes. The creator of the video says the video below begins with Woody's answer on why he doesn't shoot in New York anymore and goes on from there.

Summit Entertainment will produce a remake of fantasy thriller Highlander.

They have signed the Iron Man writing team of Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to write the script, with plans to expand on the originals premise of immortals battling each other for a mysterious prize.

The 1986 original was directed by Russell Mulcahy and starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown and Roxanne Hart. It launched four sequels and three TV spinoffs.

I have very little interest in this project and am only posting this news to tell this story. In the winter of 1995 I saw Highlander III: The Sorcerer 4 times in the old Weatherford movie theater on the square and to this day I still have no idea on Earth what happens in the film. I was an annoying kid, more interested in Cherry Sours and Milk Duds than anything happening on the screen. Why did I see this film four times? When your 14 and the local movie theater only has four screens you don't have many options.

When you think of the actor to most likely portray a Middle Eastern prince does your mind immediately race to Jake Gyllenhaal? I know mine does and apparently so does Hollywood's as he is set to star in the video game adaptation, Prince of Persia. Gemma Arterton has also been cast as the female lead in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. She next appears in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) will direct the film with a script from by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, Boaz Yakin and the game's creator, Jordan Mechner.

Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a prince in sixth-century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

After a night in Shreveport spent watching Michael Jordan highlights on Youtube, I can think of nothing better than Mars Blackmon himself making a documentary on the greatest athlete of all time. Spike Lee will helm a feature-length documentary about his airness, he revealed at the Cannes Film Festival. He said he hopes to bring the basketball legend to the festival with the film next year.

The Jordan film will include extensive unseen footage shot by NBA cameras during the final two years in Jordan's career, the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons.

The Cannes website has three clips up from Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York.

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My God, I fear for my social life when this is released.

Via Collider, a clip from Michel Gondry's segment of Tokyo, Interior Design. The film is a surreal fable of a young couple who moves to Tokyo in search of a future. While the boy's ambition is clear - be a movie maker- the girl drifts gradually apart. Both of them will be drowned in the imensity until the girl, feeling alone, discovers something strange.

Tokyo! Movie Clip
by ThePlaylist

Apple has the trailer for Baz Luhrmann's Australia, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. Looks like Luhrman has subdued his directorial antics (Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge!) on this and is going for something much more classic and epic.

Ray Liotta and Steve Buscemi have joined Michael Cera in the cast of Youth in Revolt, a comedy based on C.D. Payne's novels. The story focuses on Nick Twisp (Cera), a sexually-obsessed teen who meets the girl of his dreams on a family vacation and destroys the trip trying to be with her. Buscemi plays Cera's father, and Liotta plays a cop having an affair with the teen's mom (Jean Smart). When the tryst comes to a messy end, the cop takes out his revenge by trying to nail Twisp for arson. Director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty) is helming the project.

Roger Ebert has posted his three and a half star review of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (the same rating he gave The Last Crusade). I am steering clear of the full review for fear of spoilers until I see this later in the week but I present you here with the opening paragraph, which gets me even more excited about the film. A film I am already giddy about.

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Say it aloud. The very title causes the pulse to quicken, if you, like me, are a lover of pulp fiction. What I want is goofy action--lots of it. I want man-eating ants, swordfights between two people balanced on the backs of speeding jeeps, subterranean caverns of gold, vicious femme fatales, plunges down three waterfalls in a row, and the explanation for flying saucers. And throw in lots of monkeys.

The Hollywood Reporter says Mark Ruffalo and Amy Adams are attached to star in writer/director Noah Baumbach's next movie, Greenburg, for producer Scott Rudin.

The trade says plot details are under wraps for the film, which is said to be a relationship comedy-drama. While no timetable is set for principal photography, Rudin is aiming to shoot later this year.

Rudin produced Margot at the Wedding, which I sort of hated.

If this goes through, I am now formally presenting myself as a directorial candidate for this project. MGM said at the Cannes Film Festival that Red Dawn, John Milius' 1984 movie about a group of American rebels fighting Soviet forces, is a consideration for a remake.

Apparently reports of The Arcade Fire writing the score for Richard Kelly's The Box were a little wrong. This is from singer Win Butler's blog on their official site (via The Playlist).

"Hi everyone. Just to let you all know that (Internet-based fact checking aside) Arcade Fire is NOT doing the soundtrack to any film. We are all off for the summer, writing songs, reading books and keeping our plants alive. Regine, Owen Pallet [violinist Final Fantasy] and I may do an instrumental piece or two for Richard Kelly's new movie...we met at a show this year and hit if off, but we are not planning on doing any major work for a while, and this would not constitute a soundtrack or a release."

This is from Roger Ebert's Answer Man column. Not sure what it says about the next Danny McBride film but it makes me even more interested.

Q. I'll try to be brief. Are you ever offended simply by the content of a film? By violence, sexuality, language etc. Or is there another criteria that has caused you to be offended by a film? For example, I did not find the violence in "The Passion of The Christ" to be offensive, but I was appalled by the film "The Boondock Saints," a much less violent film. Have you ever been faced with this question in your own career? (Lynwood Bradley, Cleveland GA)

A. I would prefer to say I am offended by bad movies but not by good ones, regardless of the content. But I know what you mean. I had a real wrestling match with myself while writing a review of "The Foot Fist Way," which will appear June 6.

George Clooney is going to star in Stare at Goats, an adaptation of Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare at Goats, the true story of a U.S. Army battalion charged with using paranormal powers, starting in 1979. The title comes from the notion that you can kill a goat simply by staring at it. Clooney's producing partner Grant Heslov (Good Night, and Good Luck) will direct the project.

Yahoo has an extended clip from M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening up with a longish intro from the director. In his typical fashion, Shyamalan basically sets this up to be the greatest horror film of all time. Is it just me, or do all the performances in this scene come across as really wooden and bad? I know it's not right to judge the clip without the context of the rest of the film but these seem so unnatural (something I thought Zooey Deschanel was incapable of) and forced that I don't know what to make of it.

The official site for City of Ember has the teaser trailer up. It sort of looks like a kids adventure version of Brazil (the film, not the country) and is worth watching for the fact that Bill Murray is in it (though he does little in the trailer).

David Lynch's Absurda production company has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical gangster movie King Shot.

Marilyn Manson is touted to appear as a prophet in the "Sin City"-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.

I've seen Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain three times and I still don't know what the hell it's about, so there is no telling what will be going on with this one.

Here is the trailer for The Holy Mountain.

This is also from The Playlist and will make sense of the Tango and Cash comment in the sotry below. It also gives insight into what kind of movies DGG wants to make with his (sure to be once Pineapple Express is released) mainstream success.

With "Pineapple Express" right around the corner, everyone's saying indie movie fans should prepare to say goodbye to director David Gordon Green who's likely going to take a leap into the major leagues with this mainstream, Judd Apatow-produced comedy.

However, maybe its surefire success will give DGG the juice to put some of his eclectic and myriad projects into fruition. Like the medieval stoner movie he's working on right now with his longtime buddy Danny R. McBride called "Your Highness."

"It's a medieval movie, so we want a bunch of Ray Harryhausen 'Clash of the Titans' effects. We've been watching 'Beastmaster' and 'Yor, the Hunter From the Future.' We want to make a movie on a big scale, but utilizing pre-CGI effects like matte painting, animatronics, and puppets. It's about a prince who smokes weed and fights dragons."
Green mentioned the project briefly in various interviews promoting "Snow Angels," but this is the first time he's really spilled the beans on the project. McBride who will be seen later this summer in his kung-fu comedy, "The Foot Fist Way," and Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder," got his acting start in DGG's relationship drama, "All The Real Girls."

Wait, is this the same medieval movie Green wants to make with dwarves and Peter Dinklage? Sure sounds like it. McBride is being called one of Hollywood's fastest rising comedians, so we'll see, but a little preview: "The Foot Fist Way," was unfortunatley not very good at all aside from a few very funny, but scattered laughs.

As for "Pineapple Express"? Green hopes it plays out a lot like 1980's action film, "Tango & Cash," no really.
"It was the perfect '80s buddy/action movie: It took all the clichés that had come before it and put it all into one movie," he told the Village Voice. "When we were going into productionon Pineapple Express, [co-writer/star Seth Rogen] and I wanted that kind of tone, where [the movie] was taking itself seriously but mocking itself also."

This is from The Playlist, another early review (sort of) for Pineapple Express.

Last night our infrequent deep-throat contributor Mr. Snruff snuck into a screening of the Judd Apatow-produced, David Gordon Green-directed action comedy, "Pineapple Express."

It's probably one of our most anticipated films of the summer (where the hell's the summer preview piece already?), but we wanted to keep our expectations low just so we weren't disappointed.

But our contributor whole-heatedly loved it and kept pinging us with effusive and glowing emails about it late last night. Some small spoilers ahead, but nothing major.

The Music
- M.I.A.'s Paper Planes (featured in the trailer) was NOT in the movie.
- Eddie Grant - "Electric Avenue" (this is one of the first songs you hear)
- Falco - Der Kommissar
- Bone Thugs & Harmony - 1st of the Month
- Bel Biv Devoe - Poison
- Huey Lewis and the News - Pineapple Express (song is about getting high - pretty amazing)
- Others: Shaq, Bob Marley, Public Enemy (pretty sure it was PE #1, not 100% tho), Mountain (I think it was "Southbound Train," but not 100% on this)
-Seth Rogan's character DEFINITELY had a Cypress Hill ringtone [ed. niiice]
One awesome musical reference: Seth Rogen tells his gf that she's going to go away to college and 'start listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor or the Shins or something and start hating men and become a lesbian' (paraphrasing here)

There's been a few reports out there that 'Pineapple' is a lot more violent then people are expecting and Snruff echoed that sentiment. "The movie was bloody and hysterical. It was definitely like no other movie I've ever seen," he/she wrote seemingly out of breath. " [There's] lots of killing, at least 12 on camera deaths, and lots of blood. Insane. PS Danny R. McBride is a scene stealer."

"Did you read the comparison to 'Tango and Cash'? After I read that I was like 'EXACTLY!' Funny and violent.

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Daniel Day-Lewis may soon settle on his next project. The always-in-demand actor, who is known to be very picky with the roles he chooses, is in negotiations to star in Nine for director Rob Marshall (Chicago). The musical is an adaptation of the hit Broadway show, which was inspired by Fellini's classic film 8 1/2. Day-Lewis would be taking over the lead role of harried movie director Guido Contini from Javier Bardem (who dropped out of the production citing exhaustion). Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, and Judi Dench are already on board. Who knows what kind of crazy method acting Day-Lewis will bring to this role? What else could he do, actually direct a film, go back in time and star in Fellini's original 8 1/2? The possibilities are endless.

What promises to be the strangest movies in the history of moving pictures, directors Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming up to make the horror-tinged, low-budget indie My Son, My Son. The movie, a murder drama, is based on the true story of a disturbed San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind, and kills his mother with a sword. Herzog wrote the movie with his assistant director Herbert Golder; Lynch will exec-produce. A digital video shoot is tentatively scheduled for March.

Tommy Lee Jones will adapt, direct, produce and star in a movie based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel Islands in the Stream.

Morgan Freeman and John Goodman also in discussions to co-star.

The story centers on the various life stages of a reclusive male painter named Thomas Hudson before, during and after World War II after he moves to the Bahamas. Like many Hemingway characters, Hudson, who in the tale has a stint working for the U.S. Navy and also endures a series of family tragedies, leads a complicated emotional life that he hides behind a stony exterior.

If you haven't seen it yet, make an effort to see Jones' first feature directorial effort, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. It's one of my favorite movies of the past few years and features what may be his best and most moving performance.

Director Jason Reitman's next film has been revealed by LatinoReview to be an adaptation of the book Up in the Air by Walter Kirn. Here's the synopsis:

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor – he fires people – has kept him airborne for years. Although he despises his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls, “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms. With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss’s desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles. Kirn takes on the corporate world's weirdly mystical and paranoid side, its rhetoric of personal empowerment and its messianic devotion to gurus.

Waltz With Bashir an animated feature chronicling the real life experience and aftermath of director’s Ari Folman recollections and traumas as a soldier in the first Lebanon war will have its world premiere on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Michael Moore is developing a follow-up to his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Although the untitled project is being described as a sequel, it will not simply pick up where Fahrenheit left off, but give a broader overview of America's place in the world after eight years of President George W. Bush's foreign policies.

This is some of the most surprising news I have read in some time. Not because of who is starring in it, I feel like that guy would star in your child's school play if you asked him, but because of the director. Not that he isn't perfect for something like this. Nicolas Cage will star in an updated version of 1992's Bad Lieutenant with Werner Herzog directing.

The original film starred Harvey Keitel and was directed by Abel Ferrara from a screenplay by Ferrara and Zoe Lund.

Story followed the depraved New York police officer of the title, who was heavily involved in drugs, gambling, sex and stealing; it received an NC-17 rating.

Hopefully this will mark a return of the edgy Nicolas Cage, something that hasn't really been seen since Adaptation (ok, maybe Matchstick Men).

Recently Richard Kelly teased on his MySpace blog "The last few months have been an amazing time for us on the editing of The Box. We're starting to work with a very famous band who is honoring us with being the first fillmmakers they've ever scored a film with." Who exactly that "very famous band" was Kelly wouldn't say but Pitchfork has an answer. They say Montreal's The Arcade Fire will be scoring Kelly's upcoming thriller. This is either a step forward for Kelly or a step back for The Arcade Fire. Only time will tell.

I posted a little written preview of this earlier, now here is on in video form. The trailer for Woody Allen's next (which plays at Cannes this week and opens on August 29), Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Nothing of the story is revealed in this clip but one things for sure, the film features a lot of making out.

This is via The Playlist. I was going to tell you what it is about but it's all laid out there in the first sentence of their story. I will say this, its got some more info down there about an upcoming Ed Lachman project. I'm sure you are all very excited about that.

Miranda July is making another movie? Yes.

We tried to ask him about it afterward, but got cockblocked from some wealthy, air-kissing sycophants, but during the Q&A following a Brooklyn screening of "Ken Park," the co-director and lauded cinematographer Ed Lachman revealed his next project would be lensing July's next film.

Who knew? Like we said, we tried to ask him details, but got disturbed and then gave up, but that was one eye-raising tidbit that came out of the film's screening (Lachman co-directed Ken Park with perv-cinema auteur Larry Clark and his cinematography work is currently being feted at BAM).

But further research tell us that July is currently working on the script which is going to be based on her performance "Things We Don't Understand and Definitely Are Not Going To Talk About." Apparently this multi-media stage performance which incorporated live and taped video segments included musical help from Jon Brion, so will he be scoring this thing? Let's hope so (Brion previously scored, Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind," "Punch-Drunk Love" and in recent years produced an album with singer Dido that is expected to finally see release later this year.).

Either way, if Lachman is onboard, the project must be getting closer to fruition.

Miranda July last film, her debut, was the extremely auspicious "Me And You And Everyone We Know" in 2003 and we'd heard some rumors from a reliable source that she would never make a film again, so we were happy to hear she'll be back as 'Everyone' is one of our favorite indie films of this decade (yes, it's too precious for some, whatever, to those we say: ))< >(( . And we gotta throw down the gaunlet. The 'Everyone' score by Michael Andrews ("Walk Hard," "Freaks & Geeks") is probably our favorite (our one of a few) of this decade (at least so far).

Earlier this year Alia Raza directed a short based on July's short story collection "No One Belongs Here More Than You," with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Lavender Diamond's tinkerbell, Becky Stark.

Maybe this good news will force something to come out soon. Lachman also said that the many Polaroid portraits he took of the actors – including the now deceased Heath Ledger – on the set of "I'm Not There," (he was the cinematographer) would soon arrive as an photo art gallery showing.

From /Film, a preview of Woody Allen's next, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

And the last photo we bring you from Festival De Cannes, is our first official look at Woody Allen’s next film Vicky Cristina Barcelona about two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), who come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they’re drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Of course, all of this is set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona. The official plot synopsis lists a 96 minute running time and calls the movie “Woody Allen’s funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations…”

From EW, a preview of the next season of Survivor with Jeff Probst.

With Survivor: Micronesia in the books, the reality franchise is now gearing up for season 17 by going back to Africa. The show will be setting up shop on the continent’s west coast in the country of Gabon. “I didn’t know where it was,” confesses host Jeff Probst. “I had to look it up on a map. It is probably the most remote place we have ever gone.” What does that mean in terms of wildlife? “We don’t know,” Probst says. “No one’s really ever hung out there. We’re going to leave a boma with some sticks and stuff, and the contestants will be given instructions that they need to finish it since we’re a little concerned because it’s so unknown. In Kenya [season 3], we had armed guards everywhere so that if something did happen, we could take care of it. We’re not gonna have that because they’re telling us it is so remote and will probably be remote forever. But a gorilla could wander into camp.” (You mean, Joel from Micronesia?)

Season 17 marks another big change for Survivor in that it will be the first time the show has been shot in high definition. “Survivor is one of those shows that you want to see in HD,” says Probst, while noting that the scenery will look a lot more stunning than the stranded contestants, “People with bug bites are gonna look worse, people that don’t have great bodies are gonna look worse, and people who are really attractive are probably gonna look… worse.” And what about you, Jeff? “I went through every scenario: Is there any way I can wear makeup? Is there any way I could not shoot in the middle of the day? And the answers are all no. I’ve just come to terms with it.”

Jimmy Fallon will be replacing Conan O'Brien on Late Night whenever O'Brien makes the switch over to the tonight show. Read more about it here.

Another Indiana Jones trailer.

Samuel L. Jackson is starring for director Gregor Jordan in the feature thriller that sounds an awful like a season of the television show 24, Unthinkable. The story is about a black-ops interrogator (Jackson) and an FBI agent who have just two days to find the locations of three nuclear devices hidden within the United States by a single terrorist.

The trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I'll definitely be seeing this but I'm not that excited. This is essentially the same as the prequels though, which were almost entirely CGI creations but the animation of the humans still feel a little off. Not that any of these films were ever about good performances.

Stop reading this now if you have not seen last nights episode of Survivor and plan on watching it in the near future. There will be a spoiler, quite a major one revealed in the next paragraph.

OK, so I am assuming you have seen the show now and seen what is easily the dumbest move in the history of the series. And this is coming from someone who has seen every episode of every season,except the first three of the Amazon season (release more seasons on DVD!). Even though my two favorite castaways were forced to leave the game due injuries (Jonathan Pennar and James) I can't really complain about the final four. Cirie (whom I hope wins), Amanda, Natalie, and Parvarti have probably played the game the best and deserve to win, especially after last night. Convincing Erik to give up his immunity necklace is some sort of brilliant move. Erik actually giving it up, after he had a guaranteed spot in the final four and was only one more challenge away from the final tribal council was the most boneheaded decision I have ever seen, maybe in my television watching history. At least when Ian made a similar move in the Palau season he regained some friendships, I don't even think Erik accomplished that. It made for some damn good tension but well, wow. How can you give up the chance at a million dollars on a promise a tribe mate, who has repeatedly lied to you, makes at the 11th hour? At least James will no longer go down as the dumbest survivor in history and for that, I can thank Erik.

UPDATE: This is an excerpt from Dalton Ross' recap of the episode over at EW. A pretty bold claim but I might have to agree with him.

I think you should sit down now because I'm about to say something that may shock you. Are you sitting? I have to assume so, because it would be very awkward if you were reading a computer screen standing up. Okay, here goes. This is the best season of Survivor since the very first one. There, I said it. And there's no taking it back, either. This is the Internet — crap statements like that live on forever. Not only is it the best season of Survivor since Richard Hatch took home the loot, but these past four episodes constitute the most amazing month-long run in the history of the show. Four straight blindsides done in the most dramatic fashion possible (Ozzy not using his hidden immunity idol, Jason not using his hidden immunity idol, Amanda shocking everyone with her hidden immunity idol, and then Erik — and I still can't even believe it as I'm typing it — giving away immunity for absolutely no reason whatsoever). That's right — no reason.

You know those mornings when you don't have to be in work until 1 so you sleep a little later than usual and once you wake up you just lay in bed wasting time? Then you find out the director of your favorite movie is going to direct a pilot for HBO. I really love those mornings.

Alexander Payne, who masterminded Election, About Schmidt and Sideways, has signed on to direct the pilot Hung, which revolves around a well-endowed man who is plodding along in middle age as a struggling father and high school coach. The character was once a high school sports legend, and his luck returns when he figures out a way to use his best asset.

Here are the first seven minutes of Speed Racer. I kind of want to see this just for the sheer audacity of how it is put together, thought I'm not sure if I could take the onslaught of colors for two hours. And even though he is just a kid, do you think we could get a little bit of a better performance from the junior Speed Racer?

Directed by Judd Apatow.

Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in the Marc Webb-directed romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer.

Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Matthew Gray Gubler and Rachel Boston round out the cast of the film, which centers on a man (Gordon-Levitt) who falls hopelessly in love with a woman (Deschanel) who doesn't believe in love.

The Swedish Hancock trailer. Exactly the same as but with cussing!

Directed by Mr. Madonna, Guy Ritchie.

Its too big, I know, but the player screws up when I adjust its size. I'll just have to do some more posts to move it down on the page.

Its been 10 years to the month that Seinfeld finished its run on television and Newsweek marks the occasion with a debate on whether the show still holds up. It's not much of a debate, really, as even the writer taking the anti- side concedes the show's verbal dexterity and the must-see-ness of its best episodes.

Johah Hill will not be in Transformers 2 after all, according to this.

Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey will star in John Waters' upcoming Christmas movie, Fruitcake. Little is being revealed about the plot, though it is said to center on a boy, named ''Fruitcake,'' who runs away from home during the holidays after he and his parents are busted for shoplifting food. He meets up with a runaway girl, who was raised by a gay couple and is searching for her birth mother. I am guessing this will be a very straight forward, sobering drama.

Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge (For Your Consideration, Joey), Matthew Settle (Gossip Girl), and Amber Heard (The CW's Hidden Palms) are starring in the indie black dramedy Ex-terminators, which will mark the feature directing debut of Scrubs helmer John Inwood. Here is the reason I am posting this story, this plot description. The story is about three women who meet at an anger-management group and decide to form an interesting business together. I mean, wow, could you get a more exciting and less vague log line? I want to see this now, I must know what this interesting business is. I must.

EW has the first look of Oliver Stone's upcoming George Bush biopic, W. It features a pretty extensive article on the history and the fast nearing production of the film and also gives us the first photos of James Brolin and Elizabeth Banks in character.

This ultimately might be what makes me buy a blu-ray player:

Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber,

We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.

Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.

Here’s what’s in the pipeline:

The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear

Rainn Wilson's new movie The Rocker has gotten itself a trailer that you can check out over here. Weirdly enough, it is directed by the guy who made The Full Monty and honestly looks better than I had expected, if a little over the top at times.

Not really sure why but Tom Cruise now has an official website. In all seriousness though (and is there any other way to be when dealing with Cruise), watching his 25 year retrospective you forget how many really good films he has been in.

The Alamo Drafthouse has posted photos from the Pineapple Express screening on their flickr page. Nothing that exciting but in that second photography you will notice a noticeably handsome arm jutting just into frame, adjusting his rolled up sleeve. I feel like it really makes the photo complete.

James Brolin has gotten on board David O. Russell's Nailed, while Kirstie Alley has also joined the cast of the political romantic comedy. Brolin replaces James Caan, who left the film three weeks ago largely due to a dispute with Russell over the way his politician character should choke on a cookie. Cowritten by Kristin Gore, the movie revolves around a woman (Jessica Biel) who starts up a relationship with a congressman (Jake Gyllenhaal) after she's shot in the head with a nail. Alley will play Biel's aunt, a veterinarian who can't remove the nail and is thus incapable of stopping her niece's uncontrollable behavior.

Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton have joined the cast of Oren Moverman’s The Messenger.

The duo join the already announced Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma), Jena Malone (Into the Wild) and Eamonn Walker (Unbreakable).

This marks Moverman’s directorial debut after writing scripts for (this is where I get exciting about the project) Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There and Ira Sachs’ Married Life.

Common is going to be in the next Terminator movie, the one with Christian Bale in the future blowing shit up. I could write more about this but I really don't care enough about it.

This is apparently concept art of Harvey Dent once he becomes Two Face in The Dark Knight. This fits with Christopher Nolan's direction of reality but I don't know. It almost seems a bit too much. How could anyone live through this? Then again, I should hold my judgment until a final version is released and I can see it in motion.

I thought I had already posted this but I was wrong. A new trailer for The Dark Knight has shown up on the internet. I saw this last week before Iron Man, not much to say other than it looks fantastic and Heath Ledger's performance could be something special.

Collider.com talked to writer/director/producer Adam McKay who says that he and Will Ferrell are definitely planning a sequel to 2004 comedy hit Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

"I'm looking to do another movie, I might do this other movie called 'Channel 3 Billion' which is kind of this science fiction/Brazil type comedy. Then after that, Will and I are like let's do 'Anchorman 2'... so you're talking like 2 years maybe we'll do it. But we're going to do it, for sure," he said.

Pineapple Express

In lieu of an actual review I thought it was a better idea to recap the entire event, hitting on the most interesting aspects as well as the movie. This is going to be a little scatterbrained and stream of consciousness, so I am sorry for that. I originally intended to take notes but then I got caught up in everything and never picked up the pencil again. There will be no cohesive narrative to this story, just my random thoughts and memories from one of the best movie theater going experiences of my life.

We showed up to the Alamo Drafthouse on Lamar an hour early with the parking lot packed and were greeted to a line of about 200-300 people wrapped around the side of the building and around the corner. I had a bad feeling that the night was going to be filled with waiting in lines. It was then we walked into the theater and realized all we had to do was check and and were placed in a line inside, one made up of about 20 people and right next to the bar.

After only about a 10 minute wait we were ushered down the hall and towards the theater. Before we could enter we had to have security guards wave one of those metal detector wands over our body and Emily's bag was checked. My small video camera and her digital camera were discovered at this point and she was made to return them to the car, my plans to film the post film Q & A were dashed.

Entering the theater I was given a free box of popcorn. I was one of the first in so I had pretty much any choice of seats I wanted, outside of the first two rows of stadium seating, which were reserved. I chose four rows up on the left aisle, knowing the theater would be completely full I wanted to avoid any and all chance that I would have to be seated next to a stranger. Pre-show entertainment was already playing on the screen, a variety of hilarious old anti-drug psa's. One featuring Sonny Bono (a clip is embedded below) and another with the message that its okay to have a few drinks after work, it gives you a sense of accomplishment, just don't get high. Also, one of the stranger trailers I have ever seen, from the Peter Fonda film The Trip (also embedded).





As the theater filled to capacity, and then even past that point (folding chairs were brought out to make new rows along the wall and in the front walkway) AICN'S Harry Knowles made his way to the front to to introduce the film. He mentioned that we were the first audience to see the film outside of test screenings and that he received over 7,000 entries for this contest and that we should feel very lucky we were picked to see the film, I did. He then introduced the special guests, David Gordon Green, Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride. Nothing much was said at this point, just thanking everyone for coming out to "get drunk, nibble on some food, and watch our crazy movie." Danny McBride added that if David got up and left during the movie, its because he has diarrhea.

I don't want to get into too many specifics about the rest of the movie, seeing as how it won't be released until August. I will just touch upon my initial thoughts and a few random items I noticed.

• The movie starts with a prologue shot in black and white that really has nothing to do with the rest of the story, I sort of love it for that fact. It features Bill Hader and is very funny. It could be cut from the movie and nothing would be missed but I hope they don't.
• Tim Orr shot this, immediately making this the best looking of all the Judd Apatow produced film, even though it is the least interesting visually of David Gordon Green's films.
• I'm not 100% positive but I don't think David Wingo did the score. At least I can't imagine it was him. It's very synth heavy with a number of 80's songs dominating the soundtrack. Though I didn't recognize it in the movie, I noticed during the closing credits that the film features a song by Shaq.
• Huey Lewis' theme song plays over the closing credits.
• The film is very much in the vein of 80's action/comedies like 48 Hours and Midnight Run, just much funnier and crazy. The third act is out of control.
• Don't go into this worried about the plot, it's basically an excuse to watch Seth Rogen and James Franco run around, be funny, and shoot lots of guns. Their is a bit of heart in this, as it's more about friendship than a drug war.
• This is a career changing performance for James Franco, please find more good comedies to put him in.
• David Gordon Green is really good a filming action scenes.
• This features probably the funniest fight scene I have ever seen, with Rogen and Franco doing battle with Danny McBride in his home.
• Before the fight, Danny McBride delivers what may be the best moment of the film, a monologue about his dead cats birthday.
  
• Craig Robinson is very funny in his limited screen time.
• The trailers only hint at the hilarity and craziness this film offers.

The film ended with rapturous applause. Tim League, the owner of the Alamo Drafthouse, went up front to start a contest. They had five people come up to a table in the front and were given a few small supplies, including a miniature pineapple, and they were to race to see who could make the pineapple into, well, essentially a bong. Of course the dreadlocked gentleman won and was given a signed Pineapple Express poster.

Next, Harry Knowles came back up front to re-introduce the guests. They took their seats and the Q & A followed. This is where my note taking should have come in handy but since I had abandoned that at his point, my memory will have to do. Here are a few of the details I remember:

• Seth Rogen dominated the conversation, with the others only receiving a couple of questions each.
  
• The idea for the film came from Judd Apatow who thought it would be funny to make an action film starring two stoners. Rogen and co-writer Evan Goldberg then just took the idea and put a lot from their lives into the story, such as the drug dealer who always wants to hang out.
  
• Seth Rogen has smoked a lot of weed in his life
• David Gordon Green hopes that this film gives him the opportunity to explore other genres, saying he didn't want to get bored making nothing but dramas.
• James Franco doesn't think much of his early films.
• Most audience members didn't ask relevant questions. With the guests actually skipping over a few to get to the next question.
• Everyone on the set of Knocked Up watched The Foot Fist Way over and over in their trailers.
• Danny McBride and Seth Rogen were both injured in their fight scene.
• There is a real Pineapple Express, its just not what you would expect it to be.

The be honest, I wish the Q & A had gone one longer, I could have watched it all night. Someone from Fantastic Fest filmed the whole thing, so hopefully it will show up online sometime soon. After it was over, the guests made their way to the hallway outside the theater where everyone soon crowded around them. I took a photo of James Franco's back on my phone before making my way to the exit. It was only once I was in the lobby that Emily told me nobody was standing around Danny McBride. I rushed back in to see him standing basically alone on the outskirts of the group. Once he saw Seth Rogen leave, he followed suit. I was about two feet from him and couldn't think of a word to say.

I will definitely be seeing this again once it is released. I need to view it in a normal atmosphere to see if the whole experience clouded my over all judgment of the film, because where it stands now, this is the best film I have seen all year.