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We went to the movies last night and saw Stranger Than Fiction.
The cast was great. Will Ferrell playing a “straight” role, without his usual comedic asshattery.  Emma Thompson was brilliant (as always).  Dustin Hoffman played a great eccentric literature professor.  Maggie Gyllenhaal was cute as ever.  and let’s not forget Queen Latifah.  I like it when she gets to play a real character.

Parts of the movie reminded me of “I Heart Huckabees” meets “Adaptation”.  Quirky, and brilliant writing, with a cast that can make it work.  Go see it.

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

They finally released one of my favorite movies on DVD.  I called Best Buy.  they guy claimed that it isn’t being released until Sept. 5th.  Bullshit !  So I got it at Hastings instead.
Kicking and Screaming, was Noah Baumbach’s debut film.

Paralyzed with post-graduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them. Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s hilarious and touching directorial debut was one of the highlights of the American independent film scene of the nineties, speaking directly to a generation of adults-to-be unable to reconcile their hermetic education experience with workaday responsibility, and posing the eternal question, “Where do we go from here?” Stingingly funny and incisive, Baumbach’s breakthrough features endlessly quotable dialogue delivered by a stellar ensemble cast.

Starring… Josh Hamilton, Olivia d’Abo, Eric Stolz, Parker Posey, Elliott Gould.

The Descent (2005)

Plot Outline: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.

What makes this movie even scarier is watching it and realizing just how claustrophobic you really are.

i love clerks 2. watched it 2 times within 2 days.

highlights:

1. dance/song from “silence of the lambs”
2. samantha fox. “naughty girls need love too”
3. homage to “bachelor party”
4. “i miss my donkey”
5. “a b c” dance scene
6. randall.
7. “may your first child be a masculine child”
8. transformers vs lord of the rings vs star wars
9. kevin smith’s mom checking the date on milk bottles at the end of the quickstop sequence

J. Michael Straczynski announced a new Babylon 5 project.

It’s called Babylon 5: The Lost Tales.

It will be a direct to dvd collection of 20 minutes stories set in the b5 universe that will feature the prominent characters.

These stories will expand on the characters that were previously established. The only character he mentioned would not be covered would be G’Kar since he believes no one should ever voice G’Kar except for Andreas Katsulas, who passed away earlier this year.

Warner Bros has greenlit the project and he says production starts this September, hoping for a DVD release in the second quarter of next year.

found at Aint It Cool News