The best trailer mash-up I have seen in awhile. The Happening meets Rerun and What's Happening. Priceless.

Chuck Palahniuk is not everyone's cup of snake venom as he has become a bit rote as of late (the Stephen King  psycho-punk of serial novels?) but I am interested in how the film version of his novel Choke, starring Sam Rockwell and Angelica Houston, will turn out,  especially when the Fox Pub Depart. is handing out anal beads to promote the film

In a new interview with the Daily Texan, Palahniuk thanked Fox for the anal beads: "And then also 20th Century Fox is gearing up to publicize 'Choke,' so they have all these Chinese factory anal beads."

No mistake about it, a tough market these days. Watch the trailer here.

Post Script: Novelist Lucy Ellmann reviewing Palahniuk's latest, Snuff, for the NYTS

What the hell is going on? The country that produced Melville, Twain and James now venerates King, Crichton, Grisham, Sebold and Palahniuk. Their subjects? Porn, crime, pop culture and an endless parade of out-of-body experiences. Their methods? Cliché, caricature and proto-Christian morality. Props? Corn chips, corpses, crucifixes. The agenda? Deceit: a dishonest throwing of the reader to the wolves. And the result? Readymade Hollywood scripts.

Hahaha...eh-hum, she's right.

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I hope Pitt gets this one right. (no worries about Fincher and Fitzgerald)

Our good friend Bill Coy was the soundman on the indie feature Mind's Eye. Go here to his-and of course everyone else's- work.

As me old friend Ross Myers knows, you had better grease the wheels.

If the thought of   Valkyrie    just doesn't do it for your (and who knows when it will come out?) then the 5 million Iron Sky just might. Nazis not only fled to South America and Cleveland, they also went to the moon.

And they're coming back!

Check out the trailer. It looks fun.

The trailer for Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely. This one might-might-just be a bit more accesible than Julien Donkey Boy.

Here is a total mind**** of a film a friend recco. yesterday from filmmaker Augusta Villaronga. The Spanish title is Tras El Cristal. I think it might only be on VHS but not quiet sure. Highly recco.

Just what you need on a Friday evening: Some iron pussy.

The One WeekendBook Series

In each issue M. Lorenz and a Guest Artist
are given 48 hours to experience a city,
document it and create a visual diary without
the use of computers. What this results to is
the documentation of a 48 hour search for
visual entertainment and the definition of the
city visited.

On one hand The One Weekend Book Series
reports of places and situations unmentioned
in city-guides, on the other hand it gives an
exhibitionistic view of the personal state of
the reporters.

Very Well-Done. Watch it!

This is how it's done kiddos. Check out the CG effects for David Fincher's film Zodiac.

Dream Regime's award-winning short "Honey, I'm Home" quotes HIT's review in their trailer. Cool.

My Dad has been bugging me about this since I first mentioned it a good while back. I have to say it looks beautiful. He, my Dad, should be a happy man as there are several 'Westerns' opening up soon. Enjoy.

Todd Hayne's  coming bio-pick of Bob Dylan sounds like real creative filmmaking. Different folks play Dylan thoughout the film. In the above clip, Cate Blanchett digs Allen Ginsburg. Very cool indeed

This opening salvo from Uwe ("I finance my films with Nazi gold!") Boll's  new film Postal has to be seen to be believed. If you like to slice the social satire out of  your humour with a straight razor, then this might be what the Doctor ordered. There is something here to offend everyone, and not in the way that Boll's previous films and boxing matches offended everyone. This is pitch-black comedy. Watch it. (It was pulled from God knows whose cam but the dialogue is what your after here.

Filmmaker (in every aspect of the word) Alex Ferrari and his team have put op the trailer of his coming feature Red Princess Blues. If you have seen his work on Broken and Cyn, you will want to keep on eye on this one and catch it when it opens.

RED PRINCESS BLUES ANIMATED TEASER TRAILER HITS

RPB Teaser Trailer: http://www.redprincessblues.com/trailer.html

Jeff Wells points us to this excellent trailer for the Dutch film about Haiti. It is damn intense and if you have ever been there, you will recognize that the filmmakers nail it. I was in Port-Au-Prince for my church's mission team ( a vocation I avoided after my brief tenure) in '94 and saw a dead body lying in the street. Chilling.

There is absolutely no need for your to sit through an  episode of FX's Dirt but

more than the kiss (is that how the dyes are doing it these days?) check out the

look on the goofy co-worker's face as he catches them at. Priceless.