Most Anticipated Next Film

[oilgun]

Ooh, this Danish film looks like a must see!: KLOWN

Red band trailer (NSFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JyCVngbcXg

In what critics are hailing as “the funniest movie of the year!” (IFC), KLOWN follows two wildly inappropriate friends — played by celebrated international comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen — as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through endless awkward confrontations and unspeakable debaucheries. Hopelessly wrongheaded Frank “kidnaps” the 12-year-old nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his fatherhood potential to join sex-crazed Casper on his secret adulterous weekend canoe trip. From exclusive brothels, hospitalizations, armed robberies and even prison, the three paddle downstream from one chaotic misadventure to the next culminating to a surprise sentimental portrait of friendship and a final shocking reveal that you won’t soon unsee.

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/get-your-fingers-handy-kids-its-a-red-band-trailer-for-mikkel-norgaards-klown/

Apparently the Americans bought the rights and Danny McBride will be involved.

[doodler]

... and a final shocking reveal that you won’t soon unsee.

So better to not see it in the first place.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I'd like to see The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel just for the dames.

Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench, that is. 

[Jeff Wrangler]

"muscle-bound morons running around in T-shirts."

Hmmm. But sometimes all one needs or wants is a muscle-bound moron in a t-shirt. ...

  

[oilgun]

Hmmm. But sometimes all one needs or wants is a muscle-bound moron in a t-shirt. ...

  

He doesn't even have to be muscle-bound, lol!

[brokebacktom]

The Avengers. Going sometime this weekend. Been a fan of the comic book since I was 7.

[Jeff Wrangler]

The Avengers. Going sometime this weekend. Been a fan of the comic book since I was 7.

One of these days I should probably see the Iron Man movies because I've read that Robert Downey, Jr., is so good in them. I liked Captain America (but not the ending.  ).

I've never even heard of Hawkeye (outside of The Last of the Mohicans, anyway  ), but in this morning's Metro, Jeremy Renner, who plays him, says that getting together with his fellow actors in costume was "creepy and funny." He adds, "Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow. Oh, here we go, that's going to be great. That's going to get me in trouble."

 

(I wouldn't mind playing with Thor's hammer for awhile myself. ...)

[brokebacktom]

One of these days I should probably see the Iron Man movies because I've read that Robert Downey, Jr., is so good in them. I liked Captain America (but not the ending.   ).

I've never even heard of Hawkeye (outside of The Last of the Mohicans, anyway   ), but in this morning's Metro, Jeremy Renner, who plays him, says that getting together with his fellow actors in costume was "creepy and funny." He adds, "Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow. Oh, here we go, that's going to be great. That's going to get me in trouble."

 

(I wouldn't mind playing with Thor's hammer for awhile myself. ...)

I'll playwith Thor's hammer and/or stroke Hawkeye's bow any day of the week.    

[Marz]

American Reunion (2012)

I was a young teenager when the original american pie and the sequel came out and my and my school friends loved them,cant wait to see this one,

[oilgun]

YES!  Good news for those of us who loved NEVER LET ME GO there's another arty science fiction film about cloning!  WOMB stars the incredibly beautiful EVA GREEN who plays a woman who gives birth to a clone of her dead lover.  Both lover and clone are played by MATT SMITH (the latest DR. WHO).  Cloning and incest, who could ask for more!  I think it will be hard to find in theatres, it was apparently released in NYC in March and May 4th (limited) in the UK.  The fact that it gets a spoiled rating of 37% over at RT doesn't help.

Young Rebecca finds the love of her life at a very tender age of twelve with Tommy. They spend an endlessly cloudy and rainy summer on a spartan beach where they share their souls and first kiss. They watch a snail crawl over a porcelain surface, the merging of sterile and virgin and organic and slimey.  Being bound to move away to Tokyo after the summer, thousands of miles and 12 years of time do not stop Rebecca (now played by Eva Green at her most beautiful and detached) and Tommy (Matt Smith) from picking up right where they left off. An almost feral bond of love, these two are in another world completely when they are together, one where words are barely necessary such is their mutual connection. She has made a career programming sonar equipment, a job that can be done over the internet at the remote beach, and he is a biologist who has never moved away and has been breeding cockroaches for an activist stunt. All seems set for a life of bliss at the end of the world until Tommy is accidentally killed on the road to the protest -  a cloning research and technology center built in the area. Instead of grieving his loss or railing against the cloning facility for causing the protest, she takes the more pragmatic approach. After all, she waited for 12 year in Tokyo, why not another 20 to have her Tommy return, in a manner of sorts. She gets very uneasy permission from Tommy parents (Leslie Manville and Peter Wight who could not get along in Mike Leigh's Another Year, but have an implied intimate and healthy relationship here) to take a sample of Tommy's DNA and use herself as the womb to birth the child - a copy of her former lover and soulmate.
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Perhaps lost in the anticipation and buzz of Never Let Me Go at this years festival is the other cloning drama, a smaller, artier, German-French-Hungarian co-production. This is a shame, because while I have no doubt that I will love Mark Romanek's film, this one might just be the more ambitious and challenging film. Like the endless gray beach prominently featured as the backdrop of the drama, Benedek Fliegauf has created a film that the viewer will have to colourize and fill-in the spaces. He builds a scenario not unlike Jonathan Glazer's Birth, only this time, there is no mystery about things. Things are also echoes of society of Michael Winterbottom's Code 46, only if it were set in a cottage on stilts on a nearly deserted beach. You will have to bring your own sense of morality and thoughts on how much we should play around with creating life outside of the natural boundaries, the film crosses many lines of 'comfort' in western society along the way without getting heavy-handed or visceral. Like the thick knit sweaters everyone seems to wear in the film, the people are warm barriers against the landscape of a cool, cruel world. One suspects this will be a bit meta of the films judgmental audience. Expect walk-outs. (It is their loss, though.)

Resolutely an art film and perhaps putting too much of the films burden on its audience to be a commercial venture, Womb is a film worth seeking out if you like icy and precise romantic notions of science fiction.

http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2010/09/tiff-2010-womb-review.php

[doodler]

What makes anyone think Tommy Two is going to be the least bit interested in a woman more than 20 years his senior?

A more believable scenario would be Rebecca dying and Tommy making his second wife (girl friend or gal pal) carry/birth/raise the clone. Then dumping her for the younger woman. Females are always dumb enough to fall for an older man with a good line.

Filmmakers, like people in general, have the wrong idea about cloning. Whet you get is a look-alike of what ever is cloned. But you do NOT get a replica. Animals, including people, are not just looks... they are the sum of their experiences and cloned or not, are indivduals.

[oilgun]

Clones are essentially twins but it's still a fun subject matter for movies.

[doodler]

True... identical twins. BUT even identical twins are basically different in the ways that count, like emotions and mental abilities.
A clone grows up in a totally different time and environment than the parent.

I'm better prepared to throw disbelief out the window with a totally off the wall premise than with one sort of based in fact. Just me. Transformers vs I Robot.

[bubba]

American Reunion (2012)

I was a young teenager when the original american pie and the sequel came out and my and my school friends loved them,cant wait to see this one,

I want to see Jim's Dad and Stiflers Mom hook up! 

[oilgun]

I kind of figured that Bernie was gay...

Texas-born Richard Linklater is one of those rare filmmakers whose work never fails to fascinate. Unconvinced? Here's a few titles: Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Waking Life, School of Rock, A Scanner Darkly, Fast Food Nation, Me and Orson Welles. Now let's get on with his latest spellbinder.

Bernie is based on a true story. It really is. Want just the facts? Here goes: In 1997, in the town of Carthage, Texas, the body of rich, notoriously bitchy widow Marjorie Nugent, 81, was found at the bottom of her freezer with four bullets in her back. Later, notoriously nice funeral director Bernie Tiede confessed to the murder. District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson took Bernie to court and won a conviction.

End of story. Or it would be if Linklater hadn't decided to craft Bernie's tale into one of the gentlest true-crime stories ever to find its way to celluloid. As played by Jack Black, in an award-caliber performance, Bernie is everything you'd want in a friend. Oh, he's a little fastidious in his habits as an assistant funeral director, a little bizarre in his obsession with Carthage's old ladies at the expense of dating younger women. But Bernie even charms Marjorie, played by a terrific Shirley MacLaine as the ultimate Grinch. Bernie manages to soften her, as he becomes her constant companion, especially on the lavish vacations she pays for. But when Marjorie turns her temper on Bernie, he snaps and picks up that rifle, causing the DA (Matthew McConaughey in top form) to bury him in court.

A Linklater inspiration in adapting Bernie's story, with the help of journalist Skip Hollandsworth, was to include interviews with the Carthage townsfolk whose wit and wisdom make you think of Our Town as directed by Christopher Guest. No use trying to describe Bernie. It's a one-of-a-kind inspiration. You will never feel closer to a convicted killer.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/bernie-20120426#ixzz1utWG1Rrx