This film just looks curioser and curioser. Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. (Hat tip to D. Andrew Kern at Beside the Queue.) Read more

While New Line Cinema continues the long, torturous process of patching things up with Peter Jackson and thereby giving us a film version of The Hobbit — a recent Entertainment Weekly cover story summarizes everything that has happened on that front over the past four years — the studio is also proceeding with its plans to make Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials the cinematic heir to Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003). If the Italian website Queste... Read more

If you’re curious to know what the film version of The Year of Living Biblically might be like, the Globe and Mail has posted an excerpt from the A.J. Jacobs book, which comes out on Tuesday. Read more

Lou Lumenick of the New York Post says Feel the Noise is “so good that Sony label Tri-Star didn’t hold advance critics screenings.” Read more

For those who may be following the saga of The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising and its ever-morphing title, I saw the film this morning — and the title of the version that I saw contains all six words. It is not simply The Dark Is Rising — which is the title of the Susan Cooper book that the movie is based on and the title with which the movie went into production almost a year ago. And, contrary to... Read more

I just heard that Why Did I Get Married? will be opening next week without any press screenings. Nothing too surprising about that, since at least two previous Tyler Perry movies — Daddy’s Little Girls and Madea’s Family Reunion — were also released without being screened for critics on one or both sides of the border. Read more

Justin Shubow has a fun article up at National Review on “the man-crush romantic comedy”, a genre that has emerged in recent years thanks to films like Wedding Crashers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Superbad. Among its insights: Having been described in these ways, there can be little doubt that the friendship at the center of all three movies follows the conventions of the romantic comedy, with the exception of the meet cute. In lacking that sort... Read more

The official website for Wallace & Gromit now has a video in which Nick Park says he is making a new half-hour film featuring these wonderful characters. (Hat tip to ComingSoon.net.) UPDATE: The Variety story adds the following quotes from Park: “I love making films for the cinema but the production of ‘Chicken Run‘ and ‘Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ were virtually back to back and each film took five years to complete, ‘Trouble At’ Mill’ will be so much quicker... Read more

Just in case anyone’s interested, that Christmas-themed Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem trailer that I mentioned over a month ago — the one that uses ‘Silent Night’ — is finally online, at IGN.com. Read more

Variety‘s Russell Edwards reviews Paul Cox’s Salvation — a movie that is apparently so new it isn’t on his IMDb page yet: A disillusioned biblical scholar finds that getting up close and personal provides real answers to life’s questions in “Salvation,” a deliberately paced meller from veteran arthouse helmer Paul Cox. Fans of the Dutch-born, Oz-based director will embrace this wholeheartedly, but pic is unlikely to convert any new acolytes. Local release date is currently unconfirmed but, even though Cox... Read more