CELLULOID BURNING

A good friend of mine forwarded this link to me. It may be a promo for E3 or it may be something else…
Warning: VIOLENCE!

Michael Cera is the “It” geek actor out there with a long and varied resume filled with odd-ball outsiders. He is kind of the John Cusack of our generation. His latest movie Scott Pilgrim vs The World both fits in nicely and stands out at the same time. The film is directed by Edgar Wright and looks really interesting. Cera is in love with with a girl with 7 ex-boyfriends who all happen to have super powers. Cera must defeat all of them to win the girl. Sounds like pure awesomeness.

Rolling Thunder (1977) is The Limey (1999) by way of The Deer Hunter (1978), but with a hook for a hand.

I’ll fess up and admit it.

What originally drew me to Rolling Thunder was the fact that Quentin Tarantino named his production company after it. In my estimation, Rolling Thunder just had to be some sort of crazy gonzo pic full of tits and explosions or possibly exploding tits. I came to the film bracing myself for a cinematic hell on earth in an easily digestible, cheapo grindhouse form. I never expected hell on earth to get kicked off with a cheesy John Denver-ish song, but this is the way the world ends in Rolling Thunder.
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The big news of the release date for the next Batman movie may have hogged all the glory away from the latest trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. I have to admit that I was only mildly curious when I saw previous trailers for Inception. They all looked interesting but without any hint of what the story was about. This current trailer erases any confusion and Inception is now my most anticipated movie of the summer… ok second most to Donnie Yen’s Ip Man 2!

Words cannot describe how awesome…and how timely this new Machete Trailer is.

Rumors are circulating that Kick-Ass helmer Matthew Vaughn is close to directing the latest X-men movie, X-men: First Class. For those of you that enjoyed Kick-Ass as much as we did are certain to rejoice at the prospect of Matthew Vaughn taking the reigns to this comic book movie. Vaughn was at one point set to direct X-man Last Stand but walked away do the the lack of creative say and tight deadline that he was forced to meet leaving the door open to Brett Ratner stepping in and destroying the franchise making the film his own.

Is it just me or has comic book movie news been pretty good lately?

…War Horse! As reported by the always insightful Deadline Hollywood, that Steven Spielberg’s next feature will be based on the novel War Horse. Below is the trailer for the London stage production.

From what I can gather from the trailer is that this feels a lot like E.T…..ya know if he was from earth and shaped more like a horse.

MTV sat down with Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau who had nothing but great things to say about the prospect of Joss Whedon directing the Avenger’s movie. No confirmations have been made by either the Marvel camp or the Joss Whedon camp so all we can do is keep crossing our fingers.

Ok we are all assaulted by movie trailers on a near daily basis… very rarely have I seen a trailer this ballzy and encompassing it’s central premise than this teaser trailer. I don’t know who stars in the movie, when it’s coming out or ultimately if it will be any good… but for right now it does have my interest.

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It’s been a little while since I have attended to my dear little film blog, so now I’m feeling a bit like a deadbeat dad. Celluloid Burning started off as a labor of love so I figured, for this week, it would be best to get back to basics and write about things that hit close to home.

This week’s list is all about the books I love. Some are dog-eared with well-worn pages and creased spines. Others are lovingly preserved in mint condition. All of them are fun, entertaining, and insightful and all for wildly different reasons.
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