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--- The first installment of Preview-palooza 2007 is up at The Film Experience... head on over to see what came in at #20! And keep checking TFE for more updates!

--- Lotsa interesting movie news today even besides the brain-explosion that is Roman Polanski's Pompeii film; first up, Woody Allen's gestating Barcelona-set picture has gotten a star - Oscar nominee Penelope Cruz, acting in both Spanish and English. Does this mean that only half her performance - the Spanish half - will be amazing? Cuz that seems to be her MO.

--- And speaking of Ms. Cruz, Nat gives Volver some second-viewing love and convinces me to go see the damned thing again. Like I said in his comments, the movie has been stuck in my mind since seeing it well over a month ago, and I can't really say I was expecting such a thing. It's weird how often I keep finding scenes and moments crossing my mind. That scene of Cruz singing haunts me.

--- In other news, Ang Lee seems to have chosen his follow-up to the still-in-production Lust, Caution - a romantic-comedy pic called A Little Game, described at DH thusly:

"... James Schamus is rewriting the romantic comedy, an adaptation of a French play called "A Little Game of Consequence." The story centers on a happily engaged Brooklyn couple who decide to play an experiment on their friends. When a rumor goes around that they have broken up, they play along to find out what their pals really think of their coupling."

The story was once set to star Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz; I have to wonder if Lee will go in a different direction then those two would seem to imply the thing was headed before.

--- Glenn at Stale Popcorn aims straight for my heart today, with posts on both Jackie Brown (here) and Captain Tight-Pants (here). Oh love.

--- But First!!! Big Brother's coming back this Summer, baby! And apparently it's gonna be all mixed-up. Wisely, though, they're keeping host Julie Chen. Wouldn't be the same without her.

--- New Horror Roundtable time! This time we all cop to the dirty secrets of horror-movie moments that get us off. In the literal, erotic sort of way.

I feel like a very lonely gay amongst a bunch of blood-soaked-bosoms responses, but I manage to interject some Patrick Bateman lusting right in the middle of the boob-fest (not that there's anything wrong with that), so yay me! Getting the gay out there.
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