This poster reminds me of the visual used for Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich TV spot: it’s third out of four. Fun Fact: The gravely baritoned voice over in that spot belongs to Roscoe Lee Browne (1925 - 2007) who also narrated over the Babe movies.

After the subversive punch that was David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), a new adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel Choke is coming to theaters this Fall. First time writer-director of Choke, winner of the Sundance Special Jury Price, is character actor Clark Gregg from David Mamet’s Spartan (2004), and the wonderful Nicole Holofcener comedy-drama Lovely and Amazing (2001), which stars Brenda Blethyn, Catherine Keener and love-goddess Emily Mortimer.

Choke, a very dark comedy this side of Neil Labute’s In The Company of Men (1997) stars Sam Rockwell (Joshua, 2007) as a dysfunctional sex addict trying to find his place in the world and in his mother’s physician (Kelly Macdonald - Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, 2006). Anjelica Huston (The Darjeeling Limited, 2007) plays mom who must be so proud! I hope this angry satire takes aim at all the right targets…and hits hard.

Hit the trailer right here.

Mr. Palahniuk hits a twofer this year with Paramount Vantage produced adaptation to LULLABY. Turn up your speakers for this spectacularly eerie trailer.

Just play it by ear.

Now if the producers had any real cojones, this would be the only official trailer for the film. I don’t know about you, but after seeing just this teaser, I’d race to see this one! It opens this November.

I finally watched it and I’d like to tell all the people that told me that it was a waste of time that they were wrong. Dead wrong.

I really enjoyed the movie simply because it seemed, well… real. The story, the characters, the setting, etc. All of it really jumped off the screen and hit you like it was some adaptation of a true life story. Apart from the brand heritage which Rocky Balboa has for anyone who grew up during the 70’s and 80’s. Rocky is a Legend, and Stallone really did a good job of bringing the franchise back for one last go… the same as the protagonist.

Normally, what you’ll find with the last-shot-at-it type movies is that they fall flat and don’t ring true to the originals… This one really does, paying homage to it’s glorious past and still being true to modern cinema.

I grew up with Rocky… I remember shouting at the TV every single time he was in the ring, no matter how many re-runs of it I saw. I have written something similar about Why I Like Rambo on my personal blog, and I think the same goes here. The movie does not seem strewn together in order to make a little money off the side off of a dying franchise, but it has heart… real heart. The emotions which the movie invokes on so many different occasions is incredible. The only reason I can think that so many people don’t get it and hate it (and this goes for most movies) is because they sit “outside” the movie and try and judge it critically instead of sitting there, getting involved in the movie and seeing if you really enjoy it or it irritates you.

So that’s it from me. What do you think about Stallone’s foray into making the last sequels in the Rocky and Rambo franchises? And did you enjoy them?

The first official pictures from The Road have surfaced. The adaptation of the Pulitzer prize winning novel is directed by John Hillcoat (best known for The Proposition). It stars Viggo Mortensen, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. After looking at these stills I’ve decided that I couldn’t be happier with the casting choices.

As you can tell I am ultra antsy for this movie. The release is set for November of this year. From these few pictures, it looks like they have gotten the feel down pretty well.

Do you think this film is going to turn out well?

Following the news of a new Jurassic Park IV (oh the horror…) it was announced that a new Beverly Hills Cop is planned. It is set to begin production next year to come out in early 2010. Brett Ratner is set to direct.

Now we all know Eddie Murphy’s career isn’t exactly taking off (Norbit) but what good can he see in making Beverly Hills Cop 4…

Let’s give Eddie Murphy some movie recommendations. Let me start it off. Eddie should star as a window washer who is washing bird poop off of a skyrise when he sees someone get murdered. You could intersperse scenes of him running away with a pigeon pooping  periodically. It would be ‘art’.

How sad…

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