The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The only thing I was curious about was why David Fincher would waste his considerable talents on such a vapid, saccharine script.

Hack Director Releases Awesome Publicity Photos

When you think of the movies of Tim Burton without remembering how much fun you had watching Beetlejuice on Saturday afternoons when you were 10, you start to realize that he's easily one of the most overrated directors working today. But, to his credit, he might be the greatest set (and costume?) designer of all time. So there's no surprise that the first publicity stills of next year's Alice and Wonderland are simply mouth-watering.

Normally I'd only sit through a Tim Burton movie to confirm how bad I thought it was going to be but these photos have me eerily looking forward to AIW.

Mad Hatter, Red Queen, White Queen

The Trailer Issue Vol. 7

Moon - Space used to be the place filmmakers would go to explore life's more metaphysical issues. But the non-actioner Sci-Fi film has gone the way of the western. Will Moon lead us back to space for the answers to our more existential questions? No, but it does look pretty good

Outrage - You can make a documentary making bold accusations based entirely on innuendo and rumor? Not that I mind, but how are they getting away with this?

Girlfriend Experience - The similarities to Soderbergh's Bubble are troubling (low-budget, improvised, hd-cam), but a closer look suggests the Girlfriend Experience has a bit more to offer (Manhattan vs. Belpre, Ohio, Sasha Grey vs. Debbie Doebereiner)

Tetro - If you're a bonafide auteur like F.F. Coppola and your newest film gets denied to screen in competition at Cannes, that's not a positive sign. You'd think from the looks of this banging trailer that the selection committee passed because they're still upset at Francis for Godfather III.

Whatever Works - I saw that Larry David was starring in Woody Allen's new movie and I got excited. I saw that Woody was making his return to shooting in New York City with a script written in his Annie Hall glory days and I got very excited. I read the middling reviews and I got unexcited.

Transformers: the Revenge of the Fallen - Straight from the horses mouth, "On the foreign front, from the terrible amateur cut down trailer I received which had a 23 frame flash cut of Megatron, if someone would of given me just one call, I could of told them the whole point of the trailer was the reintroducton of Megatron." Noted Michael Bay

Taking Woodstock - Watching this trailer, you'd think Ang Lee was more invested in the Hulk than he was in the story of the guy who ran a motel next to Woodstock.