The First Entry (so it begins!)

So, for this initial entry I am just going to write a few musings on various things and see how it goes...

You may have heard recently that there's going to be an "Arrested Development" movie slated to come out next year. And, if you're like me, you immediately started jumping up and down in frenzied excitement. Well, as it turns out, all that celebrating might just have been a little premature. It's been revealed that there is currently no script, deal or virtually anything giving a sign that this is actually going to happen anytime soon. Despite this, the former cast members seem to be holding out hope for the project. In his interviews for "Hancock," former "AD" star Jason Bateman has been continually teasing that a movie is planned for a 2009 release. I am still crossing my fingers that this project comes to fruition in the near future.

Also, I have recently acquired a number of movies on DVD that I am trying to get around to watching (my close friends know that this kind of thing tends to be an issue with me). Thursday night I watched "In Bruges," a film about a couple of hitmen hiding out in the titular Belgian city after a botched assassination attempt. The film stars Colin Farrel, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. It's a pitch-black dark comedy that's a welcome breath of fresh air from your typical shootem' up action films. Definitely check this out if you're looking for something outside the norm. Here's a few more movies I'm planning on watching in the near future: The Signal, a zombie-action-horror-comedy with three different directors; Frontier(s), a French horror film that supposedly rivals Hostel in terms of unrelenting violence; Suspiria, a classic in the extreme horror genre; The Machine Girl, a crazy Japanese film about a teenage girl with a machine gun-arm who takes on the bullies who killed her brother; Tekkonkinkreet, an anime film about a couple of crazy kids who battle the Yokuza in a futuristic Japanese city; and finally, Heathers, a classic 80s dark comedy starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater (back when they were still famous) that purportedly paved the way for off-kilter teen comedies like Juno and Mean Girls.

Well, that's all for now. As this was just a first attempt, I promise I'll up the quality content of my writings from here on out. Thanks for reading!