I'm not sure what Beau saw, but there are some totally awesome-looking movies coming out this year. For one, there are finally movies opening this upcoming weekend at the Cameras to see!

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• He Was a Quiet Man
• Uwe Boll's Postal
• Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
• Surfwise
• David Mamet's Redbelt! Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor! In a leading role!
• Planet B-Boy (I liked the teaser they had with just dancing a little better, so I don't know how I'll like the movie)
• Leatherheads
• Paranoid Park

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Speaking of the holidays, movie trailers:

• Cloverfield trailer.
• What Would Jesus Buy?
• Jumper.
• Redacted.
• Slipstream.
• Vantage Point.
• The Savages.
  

Also Blade Runner: The Final Cut is showing at the Camera 7 starting next Friday. Woot.

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Garth suggested that, contrary to every review I read, Sunshine was actually worth seeing. (Not really every review, I guess, since the consensus seemed to be it was great until it revealed itself as deeply flawed, and some deeply flawed movies are worth seeing.) But unfortunately today was the last day it was playing anywhere in the south bay (at least according to IMDB) and I just couldn't drag myself to see it, so I guess I'll catch the DVD.

Hopefully these movies will be some good:

• Michael Clayton, a Steven Soderbergh-produced legal thriller starring Tom Wilkinson. Plus George Clooney. ("Language including some sexual dialogue.")
  
• Rendition, an accused terrorist/torture thriller (?) with Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal.
  
• Exiled, a Hong Kong gangster film from Johnnie To. ("Strong violence and some sexual content.")
  
• The Kingdom, the FBI-in-Saudi-Arabia police procedural with Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman (conspicuously absent from the new trailer?) that I thought already came and went. ("Intense sequences of graphic brutal violence, and language.")
  
• The Darjeeling Limited, the new Wes Anderson picture starring the Wes Anderson Players. ("Language.")
  
• King of Kong, which was screened at California Extreme but hopefully I can catch some time. ("A brief sexual reference.")
  
• The Nines, this year's psycho-numero-scifi thriller. You know, like The Number 23 × The Thirteenth Floor... which happens to be 299, which can be read more than one nine. SPOOKY. ("Language, some drug use, and sexuality.")
  
• War, in which Jet Li's next action film is also Jason Statham's next action film. ("Sequences of strong bloody violence, sexuality/nudity and language.")
• Shoot 'Em Up, Clive Owen's next action film opposite a wild-eyed Paul Giamatti.
• Get Smart, in which Steve Carell has some big phones to fill.
• And of course this trailer that you probably already saw.
  

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Requiem for Borat

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What's with all the (hopefully) good movies coming out?

• Breach, which I was planning to see tonight after listening to a bunch of stuff on NPR about it, but the only showing across the street was at 8:20 which was kinda late and probably bad news that there's only one showing.
• The Host, if it actually comes out anywhere here.
• Angel A, the new Luc Besson film that, if not a La Femme Nikita, might at least be a The Transporter.
• The Kingdom, which could be good if they played it subtle.
• Sunshine, the new Danny Boyle film.
• Hot Fuzz, "in theaters: April 20th 2007?!"
  

And that's plus Zodiac, 300, and Grindhouse (!!) that have yet to come out.

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• Zodiac. The new David Fincher film. Jake Gyllenhaal is a political cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who gets involved in tracking down the Zodiac killer. Also starring Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr.
• 300. An epic of cinematic, arty violence made by no one I've heard of (except Frank Miller).
  
• Breach. Chris Cooper (Bourne Identity, Adaptation., Jarhead) is shadowed by Ryan Phillippe (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Antitrust, OutKast: The Videos) because the FBI believes he's a Soviet spy. Also starring Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, and the voice of Dennis Haysbert.
• Evan Almighty. Steve Carell reprises his role from Bruce Almighty, Evan Baxter, who is instructed by God (again played by Morgan Freeman) to build an ark. I confess this looks to me like it might actually be funny.
• Grindhouse. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino direct a "double feature" of two pulp films.

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These are in addition to the remainder of these movies. (I intend to see Little Miss Sunshine this weekend, and I didn't bother seeing Scoop after poor reviews.)

• The Illusionist, which I decided looks sufficiently different from The Prestige to see, out now
• The Protector; I've heard bad reviews, but it's the one single film on both of these movie lists that someone will go see with me
  
• Renaissance, a beautifully animated dystopia story
• All the King's Men, with a bunch of names and Sean Penn as Huey Long
• Hollywoodland, a fictionalized story of George Reeves' suicide
  
• The Departed, a double-undercover crime drama with lots of names
• Fast Food Nation, a fictionalized version of the book, screenplay by director Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser

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• Miami Vice
• Scoop (with Hugh Jackman)
  
• Little Miss Sunshine (11 August)
• Idiocracy (Luke Wilson discovers devolution in the new Mike Judge pic; 1 September)
• Crank (aka Jason Statham Kicks Ass 7; 1 September)
  
• Children of Men (Clive Owen in a near-apocalyptic thriller from the director of Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; 29 September release but not listed where I was looking for dates)
• The Science of Sleep (Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg in a Michel Gondry film; 29 September)
• The Fountain (Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in a Darren Aronofsky film; 13 October)
• The Prestige (even more Hugh Jackman in the new Christopher Nolan film; 27 October)
• Casino Royale (Daniel Craig is the new James Bond; 17 November)
  

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Some good movies are coming out soon!

• Thank You For Smoking
• Silent Hill (hopefully good)
  
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston (hopefully interesting at least)
• A Scanner Darkly
  

What'd I miss?

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