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Movie Preview: The Boat That Rocked
Sometimes you come across a movie trailer that makes you chuckle or cry a little or gets your heart racing, but the trailer for The Boat That Rocked just plain makes me happy. With a ridiculously fun cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, and Nick Frost (among many others), and an equally fun premise (a group of "rogue" DJs standing up to the British government in the '60s? Yes, please) this comedy looks like it's right up my alley.
Valkyrie: Shallow and Underwhelming
While there are a zillion World War II movies out there already, I kept an open mind going into the Tom Cruise star vehicle Valkyrie. Sure, this is a movie that has been dogged by bad press from start to finish (even due, in part, to the fact that Cruise is a Scientologist) but I can see that there is a fascinating movie to be made out of a German resistance movement involving Nazi officers in Adolf Hitler's inner circle.
High-ranking, aristocratic officers attempting to assassinate Hitler?
Buzz News Roundup, 9/29
- Kenneth Branagh is in talks to direct the live-action Thor movie. — Variety
- Jesse McCartney and Ken Marino will guest-star in upcoming episodes of Greek. — Zap2it
- It's official: Bruce Springsteen is the entertainment for this year's Super Bowl halftime show.
Link Time! 7/24
- Gawker notes that the posters for the upcoming TV show True Blood and the Diablo Cody movie Jennifer's Body look eerily similar.
- It's a big day for movie-musical news. In addition to The Rocky Horror Picture Show remake, Cinematical has news that a Hairspray sequel might also be in the works.
- Stereogum has two videos from the very intense Amanda Palmer, who both intrigues me and scares me.
- Want to see Neil Patrick Harris's Sesame Street guest spot? lilsugar hooks you up and wonders if Sesame Street is the new Oprah.
- MTV News reports that My Chemical Romance will be recording a cover of a classic Bob Dylan song for the movie Watchmen.
- Speaking of Watchmen, Popwatch wants to know: If you could only see one, which film would you choose between Terminator: Salvation, Watchman, and The Spirit?
Link Time! 11/20
- TV Filter is stunned at The Bachelor's actual surprise ending.
- Kenneth Branagh tells MTV Movies Blog that he'd hoped his character in the Harry Potter series would have turned out to be Harry's dad.
- Popwatch wonders who has the catchier commercials: iPod or Zune?
- TV Squad wonders if there will really be a Green Acres remake.
- Cinematical dissects the news that Jennifer Garner will join Ricky Gervais in the comedy This Side of the Truth.
- Color me jealous: TiFaux saw 30 Rock's live show.
- Over on Stereogum you can enter to win 2007's 50 best CDs
- The TV Addict has an interview with Sarah Strange from Men in Trees.
- You Ain't No Picasso has a hysterical playlist of songs for Pushing Daisies.
- Give Me My Remote is livid over the Thursdays-at-9 time slot for The Apprentice.
First Look: Valkyrie Featurette
The full-length trailer for Valkyrie can't be very far off, since it was shown before my screening of Lions for Lambs this week, but for now we can get a glimpse at the making of the movie, complete with commentary by Kenneth Branagh (who has a role in the film) and writer/producer Christopher McQuarrie. While it seems a little cart-before-the-horse to me, the featurette is actually pretty interesting and successfully piques my interest in this film. So, mission accomplished, featurette.
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