Hopefully a new episode will be posted by the end of the week. This epsiode’s theme is Dennis Hopper and we’ll review The Sons of Katie Elder and Mad Dog Morgan. It should be a ridiculously fun episode.

The most cocaine fueled creator (allegedly) since Dr Rockso the Rock ‘n Roll Clown somehow survived to reach his 50th birthday. Thankfully, he seems less inclined to direct 18 movies a year, thus allowing his system to actually expunge some of his more sleepless years, but along with that he still keeps churning out some of the most interesting films you are bound to see in the cinema, well, if they even make it to the cinema. Hopefully Thirteen Assassins will.

In the era of the Shogun, an evil young lord rapes and kills, assured of immunity by law. But he didn’t count on the Thirteen Assassins. A feared secret force, each with their own deadly skill, the Assassins undertake a suicide mission to wipe out the Lord. As he embarks on a perilous journey, the Assassins close off his escape route and ambush him in a village of death. But little do they know, they are outnumbered four to one by the Lord’s crack team of bodyguards. The streets will run red.

Check out the trailer for Miike’s latest opus after the break!
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This is going to be so freaking good.

Going to keep this short and sweet since Avatar takes a decade to watch as it is, but Avatar: Special Edition will be playing a one week engagement at the Showplace ICON next week and one of the big announcements that goes with that is that tickets will be $7.50 (except VIP which is $5 more) for all shows not matter what time of day. On top of that, their will be no 3D charge either for this run.

And as if that wasn’t enough, anyone who is an Extras member can get a free upgrade to VIP at any show, continuing a trend that they started with this week’s run of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Which means Extras has now just one other perk that no other theatre in town can match. So if you haven’t signed up, make sure you do. After all, its free to join, so really you have no excuse.

Oh, I almost forgot. Someone finally started listening to me (not really) and I’m also happy to announce that The Last Exorcism will have a midnight screening on Thursday night IN THE VIP. Finally, finally you can watch a horror film the way it was always intended, with an appletini in hand.

Darren Aronofsky is fairly hit and miss with me (don’t get me started on the bile inducing The Fountain) due to the fact too often he shifts from merely dabbling in indulgence to rolling around and catering to it at the cost of a good narrative. And sure, Black Swan certainly looks like it could fall into the same repetitive traps of Aronofsky’s other films, but it also seems as if it just might be so compelling that all the indulgences can’t drag me away from it.

And that is certainly a good thing.

Black Swan follows the story of Nina (Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who zealously supports her daughter’s professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

Watch the trailer after the break!
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