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Exciting news for Polley fans...

Deadline.com is reporting that Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams have signed on to star in Sarah Polley's latest film effort, the romantic endeavour Take This Waltz. Titled (it would seem) after the Leonard Cohen song of the same name, the script examines the life of a young woman coming to the realization that her infidelities and relationship troubles may be rooted in an addiction to "the honeymoon period" of relationships.

Nominated for an Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay" for her work on 2006's Away From Her, this script has earned her a place on the 2009 Black List ("a snapshot of the collective taste of the people who develop, produce, and release theatrical feature films in the Hollywood studio system and the mainstream independent system"). Though still in the final stages of financing the film is set to be produced in Toronto this summer and I, for one, am looking forward to what Ms. Polley has in store.

No escape from seing Nick Nolte...

This man is a disaster and I need to watch it unfold before my very eyes:

Is it wrong for kids to swear?

It always surprises me when I realize that I really am a lot more of a prude than I think I am. There's something both hilarious and unsettling about young children using swear words and this video made me cringe for exactly that reason. Though very funny, it begs the question of what type of influence these kids' parents are having on them.

Alternately am I putting too much importance on words? We're constantly trying to reclaim words which have been deemed offensive as they encompass negative emotion towards women, homosexuals, or a specific race or belief system. Am I falling into the same trap by caring whether these girls swear or not?

Little asian PC girl vs. MAC parody - watch more funny videos

It's Spooky...

It happens to me every year. I forget about it and then it just creeps round again. Usually I notice a few weeks after it has begun, so I'm able to do it every night for awhile cause I have to catch up. Last series ended with them putting Harry Pierce in the trunk of a car.

You don't put Harry Pierce in the back of a car.

And now it's back and better than ever, starring many of Britain's top acting talents and certainly a few of the BBC's most marketable stars. The ever-charming and very scrumptious Richard Armitage (of North and South and the BBC's Robin Hood reboot), Hermione Norris (most notably of the 90's series Cold Feet) and the only surviving member of the original series' cast Mr. Peter Firth (playing the recently knighted head of MI: 5 Sir Harry Pearce).

Those who have been reading for some time will already know about my love affair with BBC's Spooks (the ongoing show about British Secret Service Agents working in London to foil the world's terror plots against Her Majesty's kingdom) but just for the record: it's back and it's STILL worth checking out.

Cheers.
Sio

Enough already!

In yet another of my random rants regarding marketing on public domains please see the attached ad which popped up while I was shamefully perusing one of my social networking accounts. I really can't stand this obsession with Vampires.

This is not to say that I am against the genre, I think that like anything else it can be a great metaphor for deeper and darker desires and be used to work out those demons in a socially acceptable (and lets face it, sometimes sexy way). For instance, I'm a fan of True Blood. But between the terrible adaptations of horrible paperback novels (yes I'm talking to you Stephanie Meyer) and the penchant of the powers that be to ride something until you've put it in the ground (please excuse the turn of phrase) it really is enough already.

But seriously...Vampire Romance Novels with your name in it? Guess what guys?! There's also a service where you can Photoshop your kid's head into an Alphabet book to get them interested in reading.

Vomit.

You're an adult, read a real book and stop lusting after teenaged boys. And if you're a teenager yourself I hope that there's an adult around to set you straight.

Trailer Trolling: Mid-Winter edition

Was trolling trailers again today (yes this will likely read as an update on Apple's latest trailers) and found Fish Tank in the mix. Hailed as the "best British film of the year," by several sources, the film received four start from The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and The Times (as well as five start from The Guardian). It went on to open at Cannes and win the Jury prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in addition to winning its newcomer star (Ms. Katie Jarvis, then only seventeen and in her first role) an award for most promising newcomer at the 2009 British Independent Film Awards. Needless to say, I'm excited to see the film. Now I just have to figure out where it might be playing (as I've clearly missed it at TIFF). Any ideas?

Multiple Sarcasms is a film about a man reaching the middle years of his life and deciding that he'd like to write a play about his own experiences. By exploring the complex relationships between those people who are in his life he begins to unravel his own existence in a way that is not conducive to those around him. I'm really hoping that this one becomes a little existential (à la Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Fiction) but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will likely read as a traditional drama. Either way I think I'll be pleased to sit down and watch it as the cast includes Stockar Channing and even though she seems to always play the same strong brazen woman, I do so love that character.

Complex and a vaguely risqué in a way I very much enjoy, La Belle Personne finds newly transferred student Junie as the object of one student's love and one teacher's desires as the young woman attempts to sort out her own muddled feelings for them both. True the film features the classic love triangle but the French trailer gives the young woman a voice where the apple version does not. If you speak French take a moment to peruse the film's website and watch the French trailer as the subtle differences give me hope that this film may not be quite as standard as it seems.

talhotblond: is a documentary about whose subject matter--to be honest-- I have no clue. The thing is, the trailer is just so damned cool it makes you want to know what's going on. Take a look, you'll find yourself wanting to find the newspaper articles explaining the story. Could be interesting...I suppose time will have to tell on this one.

That's all for now folks. Please join in if there's something exciting around the corner that I haven't yet mentioned. I'm pumped for the upcoming season of films as the networks seem to have had a giant collective brain fart and won't be playing new content for many of my favourite TV shows for a little while...