So says the Independent, adding that the movie will also depict him as a dried-out drunk with a baseball obsession and a difficult relationship with his father… and I thought it was going to be a work of fiction and not a documentary!

And check out the cast so far:

• Josh Brolin George W Bush
• Elizabeth Banks Laura Bush
• James Cromwell George H Bush
• Thandie Newton Condoleezza Rice
• Ioan Gruffudd Tony Blair
• Ellen Burstyn Barbara Bush (!!!)

I’ll have to see this just for Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush!

Here’s a question for all of you out there: when the movie will be about this primary, who should play HRC, BO, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Mark Penn, David Axelrod, Chris Matthews, KO, etc?  Read more 

I wasn’t a great moviegoer in 2007, and I have yet to catch up with many of the Oscar-nominated films.

In fact, I’ve seen only six. And, frankly, the two “biggest” left me feeling a little chilly.

Few very well-made movies have made less of a lasting impression on me than No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.

I don’t demand a happy ending, but I do like, y’know, character arcs and just a little more understanding of the human condition along with my popcorn. Rich cinematography, bravura acting, and the muted-if-epic presence of directors whose work I’ve absolutely loved before don’t, for me, make up for a deficit of storytelling and meaning.  Read more 

Oh, my sweet risen Christ. This is going to be soooo much fun. Who do you think should play the Jesus wealthy enough to afford a family crypt? McGirk is right, that’s a little pricey for a peacenik son of a carpenter who never really held a real job. And Mary- well, she has to be played by a hottie; who else could tempt the son of god down off the cross? No, I won’t make a bunch of jokes in poor taste. I’ll leave that to the fundies, whom I’m sure will be out in force if this actually makes it to the big screen. Heh. Mel doesn’t know what kind of tomb of worms he’s opened up, since making it OK to profit from your own personal interpretation of the Nazarene.

I have never pretended to be a capitalist. But I respect reality, and I get the fact that I’m in a tiny minority and must function in a society that believes we should all have to work for someone else in order to eat. But I really, truly don’t understand honest, old fashioned, greedy capital people who fail to take my money from me when I’m practically begging to give it to them:

An Inconvenient Truth $1,750,000 +16.3% 404 +282 $4,331 $6,406,000

Mission: Impossible III $1,183,000 -60.8%
1,002 -906 $1,180 $130,003,000  Read more