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Editorials > FilmWad Breaks it Down #1

This is our new daily segment where we break down the biggest stories of the day and post some trailers for upcoming movies that look good/bad/worth laughing at.

Probably the biggest news of the day is that Leonardo DiCaprio and Vinnie Jones might be teaming up (at last) to rule 11th century Ireland. Leo's gotten some flak over the years for his so-so accents, but the man can act, and to paraphrase Sin City, Jones would look right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face.

Darren Aronofsky has released his "unauthorized commentary" for The Fountain on his website. So listen to a director sit down with a bottle of Scotch and tell you all about what can go wrong when you're trying to make what should be your masterpiece.

Eastern Promises proved its worth both at the box office (on a limited release scale) and in the director's native Toronto, where the film took the Best Picture award. Cronenberg is still pleasing the critics, his fans, and his fellow Canadians after forty years in a crazy business.

The Last Starfighter is being turned into a musical. So buy your tickets now. With tunes like "Out of this World" and "To Make a Hero" those seats aren't going to stay empty forever. Take a listen on their Myspace:

Also, while you're spending money needlessly, Will Ferrell is auctioning off walk-on roles in his next big comedy Step Brothers (co-starring John C. Reilly). The bidding begins at $5000, which means you get to pay them thousands of dollars for the kind of work they should be paying you a couple hundred dollars for. It's actually a brilliant strategy on their part, I must admit.

Here are a couple trailers that look good today.

The first is for Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth. The big guy's been out of commission for ten years, making wine and financing his daughter's films. The trailer is about thirty seconds long and tells us virtually nothing about the story, but it's got Tim Roth and Nazis so it should be worth a look.

The second is for Jason Reitman's Juno, which came in second place behind Eastern Promises at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend. The film's been getting a lot of buzz about its actors and dialogue and the trailer demonstrates why.

 

The third is for The Bucket List, which we all probably first became aware of when Jack Nicholson was bald at the Oscars last year. People who watch this trailer are probably going to groan that Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are just playing themselves like they always do, which isn't entirely fair. They can't help being old and having distinctive voices. Who else are they going to look and sound like? That said, the movie looks a bit cheesy.

 

Written by David Morgan