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--- The All Sam Express - Continuing with my self-inflicted edict of reporting all Sam Worthington news whenever it shows itself, Mr. Worthington's signed on for a new movie! It's called The Last Days of American Crime and is described thusly:

"Set in a near future where, as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts.

To keep this from the public, the government creates a distraction, installing a new currency system using digital charge cards.

A not particularly successful career criminal intends to steal one of the charging stations, skip the country and live off unlimited funds for the rest of his life.

The media however has leaked news of the anti-crime signal one week before it was to go live...and now Graham and his team have just a few days to turn the crime of the century into the last crime in American history."

That's a complicated sale there, ain't it? That story is decidedly not easily boiled down to a sentence or two. Not that I demand such things! Complicated can be good! Or it can be needless complications in search of a meaning. We'll see. Still, Sam's cute! Aww. Cute.

--- Lovely Lady - There's no way I'm gonna get around to seeing her new movie, Women In Trouble, until it's on DVD, there's too much out right now and on its way, but I love Carla Gugino all the same so y'all oughta check out this interview with her if you love her too (and if you don't love her, wtf is your problem dude?). It's mostly about that film.

--- Split Up! - That's CRwM's wise theory that he's extrapolating over at And Now the Screaming Starts with regards to how one would wisely behave and therefore survive in a horror film. I think he might have something here.

--- Orphaned - Larry Fessenden, the low-budget horror director, has abandoned on the studio's doorstep in a little wicker basket the remake of the highly regarded Spanish horror flick The Orphanage. I thought the original was alright but hugely overrated, but I was definitely curious to see what Fessenden could've done with it. Alas - he was probably trying to figure out a way to cram a Wendigo into the story anyway.

--- 7 outta '09 - Over at STYD they looked at seven horror films that have not gotten released this year, and why they've been shuffled where ever the hell they've been shuffled, and when and where they might see the light of day. Ti West's abandoned Cabin Fever sequel, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, and four others are represented.

--- O' Tennessee - Over there to the left is the not-half-bad poster for The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (via), an adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play, which stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Evans. I'm unfamiliar with the story so here's how they summarize it:

"Bryce Dallas Howard is Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis debutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her.

After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy (Chris Evans), the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father (David Strathairn) and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt (Ann-Margret) who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy."

This being Tennessee Williams, I think you can forgive me for hoping that Chris Evans spends a majority of the film sweating in a wife-beater and repressing his homosexual desires. But judging from some pictures of Mr. Evans in the film that are out here on the internets, he seems to rock a tux for most of it...

Still, hot. The film's out in NYC & LA on Dec. 20th.
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