Wow.  Brace yourself for news that will rock your weekend!  Tim Blake Nelson’s LEAVES OF GRASS stars Ed Norton as a set of brilliant identical twins, one of which is an Ivy League philosophy professor and the other, an even more brilliant pot farmer living in rural Oklahoma.  Although living very different lifestyles, they come together when the professor ends up getting lured back to their Oklahoma hometown in some sort of scheme designed to rip off a local drug lord.  Along side the two versions of Mr. Norton will be Keri Russell, Melanie Lynskey, Tim Blake Nelson, and Susan Sarandon as their mother.  Oh wait, one more thing…that local drug dealer will be one, Mr. Richard Dreyfuss, and with this plotline, I’m assuming we will get sme great Dreyfuss freakouts.

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In 1962, the first James Bond film, “Dr. No,” made an impact on audiences everywhere. The film featured a young Sean Connery as a British secret agent who traveled the globe to fight deadly assassins and rendezvous with femme fatales.

Growing up watching Connery and Roger Moore play Agent 007, actor Joaquín Cosío believes the opportunity to star in a James Bond movie was part of his destiny. Cosío, who was born in Nayarit, México, stars in the newest James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” as General Medrano, an exiled political figure. According to Cosío, his character is a “classic villain that makes up the James Bond franchise.”

During an interview, Cosío, who started his career in Mexican theater, talked to me about what it was like to be a part of the popular espionage series.

“Quantum of Solace” is your first English-language feature film. How was the experience?

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I completely underestimated Jason’s ass kicking/acrobat abilities after seeing him as the skinny gangster in SNATCH and LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS. He’s definitely morphed himself into in action star with the success of THE TRANSPORTER 1 & 2, CRANK (and soon to be CRANK 2), and DEATH RACE.

In this clip, which you can see after clicking KEEP READING, he fights a group of baddies. They should have known from the first two films that you don’t mess with his suit or his car. Check the clip out and let us know what you think!

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I have to admit, after seeing the original trailer for THE SPIRIT, I wasn’t too excited.  I thought it looked too much like SIN CITY, and just left it at that.  That all flew out the window when I watched this new trailer for the graphic novel adaptation hitting theaters Christmas day.  Maybe it was the music, but more than anything I think it was the fact that this movie just looks incredible!  Sure, I still see some of the similarities, but this IS STILL Frank Miller, and how could you work with Miller without getting that ultra-noir style?  Now I’m ticked…this trailer just made my decision harder for which movie I will be seeing on Christmas this year.  What do you think?  Which movies will make you want to use that gift card right away?

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Bond-mania may be in full swing, with Quantum of Solace hitting theaters today, but director Marc Forster has already found another project to work on.  The project is an adaptation of the book WORLD WAR Z: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ZOMBIE WAR.  This is not your regular run of the mill zombie story though.  WWZ tells the story of a worldwide zombie apocalypse through interviews and stories from multiple people who somehow survived.  Max Brooks, the son of Mel Brooks, wrote the novel with an actual WWII oral history as his main inspiration in order to keep the book feeling more factual legitimate.  The selection of Marc Forster is no real surprise to me.  Before BOND, it would be a totally different story, but post-BOND makes perfect sense…he’s a hot commodity right now, and zombies are all the rage, so they make a good pair.  I can’t wait to…

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Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! This is the first Wes Anderson film I saw, and it will always remain my favorite. I have quoted this more than I have ever quoted a film. And now, Mr. Anderson is releasing an ultra-hip Criterion Collection DVD packing BOTTLE ROCKET out with lots of goodies. There is so much he’s giving us with this. Click KEEP READING to see the list of specs!

Fun little fact: Wes Anderson’s brother does all the artwork for his films.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson and director of photography Robert Yeoman
Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
Commentary by director/co-writer Anderson and co-writer/star Owen Wilson
The Making of Bottle Rocket : an original documentary by filmmaker Barry Braverman featuring Anderson, James L. Brooks, James Caan, Temple Nash Jr., Kumar Pallana, Polly Platt, Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Musgrave, Richard Sakai, David and Sandy Wasco, Andrew and Luke and…

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