The Thursday Film Forecast: June 19
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After Cyd Charisse's foxtrot into the light fantastic this week, what other news is there? Well, new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko's trying to keep the glam stakes high in tribute, after the release of a Quantum Of Solace clip showing her kicking the shit out of people in a catsuit ... Sacha Baron Cohen's back next summer with a comedy based on his post-Borat gay Austrian character, Bruno, called *deep breath* Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt ... Rome's snubbed the Da Vinci Code prequel-makers for being mean and nasty to the old chap upstairs ... and Robert Downey Junior's been touted to take a space-hopping lead in Cowboys Vs Aliens, Dreamworks' mad-sounding sci-fi Western ... but more exciting than anything are the new trailers for the Heath-Ledger-back-from-the-dead Batman movie, The Dark Knight, which comes out in JUST OVER A MONTH. Yep, we're excited:
Hot tickets
It's arthouse weekend, innit. First up is the much chinwagged-about The Edge Of Love (15), the Dylan Thomas "biopic" which is actually *surprised face* about two women he loved and their friendship with each other. Cynics might turn up their snouts at the casting of Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller – hell, Sienna replaced Li-Lo, remember – but it looks bloody good from its trailer, and Sienna's Welsh burr ain't bad either...the aggro teenagers grow up in Brit-drama Adulthood (15), the follow-up to last year's Kidulthood, this time starring lovely Noel Clarke from Waking The Dead and the blink-and-you'll-start-hollering-Tom-Waits Scarlet Johnson ... then there's the melancholy ageing-Frenchman-starts a new life with a restaurant movie called Couscous (15), which in Britain would probably be a crap comedy Faggots and Peas ... and then for light relief is the very amazing Sundance-winning horror film Teeth (18) about a woman with gnashers in her vagina. It looks brilliant. And the trailer is here:
Teeth trailer
Home movies
Ooh, look, a confused old man grunting and running around with a sweaty sock around his head! If you consider this entertainment, the Rambo box set's for you ... other box-set evening flake-out options include the first season the shaky but lovely slice of Anna Friel-boosted David Lynch-lite that wasPushing Daisies, the full-throttle, fashiony L.A. vom-fest that is The Hills, or *pissed conversation about '80s kids TV down the pub alert* the THIRTY-NINE episode box set of legendary cartoon series Mysterious Cities Of Gold. Question is, did they Esteban ever find El Dorado? Let's hoping he did, and that it looked like this:
YES YES YES!
The Dark Knight \m/\m/
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