Jun 18 2009 Moving Pictures Opening This Weekend!

Treat yourself to a movie this weekend. You've earned it. Here are some new releases to choose from:

The Proposal
Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds
Good if you want to see: Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds play characters pretending to be engaged, when in actuality they are not engaged.

Year One
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Jack Black, Michael Cera, cameos
Good if you want to see: a return to late '70s/early '80s, History of the World/Life of Brian/Wholly Moses!-style historical comedy; a preview of how well screenwriters Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, currently writing Ghostbusters III, work with Egon as a director (Rotten Tomatoes says not well).

Whatever Works
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood
Good if you want to see: Larry David in a Woody Allen movie, which, despite lackluster reviews and an unimpressive trailer, still sounds intriguing to this guy; Woody Allen explore the idea of an older Jewish guy with an attractive young blonde; the source of the thick fog of neuroses that will be drifting through select cities.

Dead Snow
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Norweigan names, many of which require specialized characters.
Good if you want to see: Nazi snow zombies. Either that sells you or it doesn't, OK?

Jan 13 2009 'Dead Snow' (Probably the Worst Snow Type) Poster

The teenagers-vs-Nazi-zombies(-in-snow) horror film Dead Snow has its first showing at the end of the week, and Rushblogg has posted the premiere of its international poster (via Cinematical). If anyone gets to the Sundance Saturday midnight showing, I hope the one thing you take away is the knowledge that destroying the brain of a zombie Nazi is of double importance. You aren't just killing the living dead; you're fighting an ideology that future legions of young zombies must understand is wrong.

Dec 5 2008 'Zombie Nazis Attacking a Mountain Cabin' Trailer

Zombies and Nazis. They're the two groups we, as a society, have agreed can be killed without further justification than their title, so it's only natural someone would eventually think, "Let's just make zombie Nazis so that we really don't have to feel any remorse in their murder." Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow isn't the first time the two forces will merge, but it may be the first time
"Ein, zwei, DIE" is used as a tagline, so for that it's won my kudos. Here's the trailer:

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