
"Gnomeo!" It makes me giggle.
The big news in the animation world today has to do with Shakespeare, Elton John and a star-crossed garden gnome couple voiced by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt. It sounds so cute my teeth are starting to ache.
Apparently
Gnomeo and Juliet has been in the works for several years, with various other talent involved (Kate Winslet, Tim Rice).

The documentary
Trouble the Water was the winner of
the Grand Jury Prize at the
2008 Sundance Film Festival, and the buzz around this movie has continued to build from there. The film centers around Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her boyfriend who were trapped in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. Roberts videotaped the the entire ordeal, which was, as you might imagine, horrifying.

Variety has issued its annual
Women's Impact Report, highlighting women who have made an impression at all levels of entertainment. Just like
last year, the list includes executive powerhouses, household-name performers, and lesser-known talents. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be spotlighting some of the women whom I find particularly noteworthy.

Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about
Whip It!, the film adaptation of
Shauna Cross's novel Derby Girl, which
just added Alia Shawkat (a.k.a. Maeby Fünke) to the cast.

From playing foul-mouthed studio exec Les Grossman to the historical figure Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to. . .