Here’s a few highlights from Entertainment Weekly’s Fall Movie Preview, stuff that I wouldn’t mind going to see (hint hint):
Lost in Translation: Bill Murray stars, Sofia Coppola directs
Party Monster: Seth Green (yay) and Macaulay Culkin (huh) play club kids in a based-on-a-true story murder tale
Prey for Rock and Roll: Gina Gershon and Lori Petty play punk rockers. Hooray for cute punk girls!
Shaolin Soccer: will this ever actually be released? Is it quicker to toddle down to your local pan-ethnic video store?
Underworld: vampire action film that may suck or may turn into a wolf
Wonderland: Val Kilmer as John Holmes- it’s at least a rental!
Dummy: Adrien Brody as “a ventriloquist browbeaten by his own puppet.” It’s vent figure, dammit! Also starring Illeana Douglas (yay) and Milla Jovovich (boo)
Bubba Ho-Tep: Elvis defends his retirement home from an evil mummy. Bruce Campbell stars.
Luther: Joseph Fiennes stars as Martin Luther (just kidding) (about wanting to see it, it is actually a real movie)
Intolerable Cruelty: Coen. Clooney. Nuff said.
The School of Rock: Jack Black. Joan Cusack. Sarah Silverman. Richard Linklater. See above.
Elf: Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, directed by Jon Favreau. It seems to be about an elf.
Love Actually: Directed by Richard Curtis, for whom I will forgive it starring Hugh Grant.
Big Fish: ’cause part of it was filmed near a friend’s house. Also Ewan McGregor.
Duplex: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Swoosie Kurtz. Unfortunately does not look that good otherwise.
Bad Santa: Terry Zwigoff movie about a bad santa with B. B. Thornton, John Ritter, and Bernie Mac. Hummm. Maybe another rental.
The Cooler: William H. Macy can make any film good.
Return of the King: w00t!
Calendar Girls: yes, Helen Mirren’s breasts are, in fact, afraid of the dark.
Two Men Went to War: British Army dentists invade France in WWII.