I have not given up on the movie blog!!!

It's been several months since any of us have written anything on this blog. I can attribute that to the following:

1. Complete disinterest in films starring Jessica Simpson and her peers
2. All of my energy I've expended for popular culture has been used up by Project Runway, and the return of the fall TV season (my first with a DVR, which is nice).
3. A bunch of other crap that leaves me too tired to think about movies.

But, it's now October, and time to start watching Ebert and Roeper again. There are a lot of movies coming our way this fall into winter that I am particularly psyched out of my mind about. To wit:

1. I'm not the biggest fan of the "intense relationshippy drama about infidelity" genre, but if the movie is half as good as this incredible trailer for Little Children, I think you can count me placing the film on my "must see" list this movie season. I'm not kidding when I say I think this is the BEST. TRAILER. EVER. Seriously, like the trailer should get an oscar for its fantastic traileriness.
2. I quote the film Elf on a nearly daily basis (and once so far in this post). Will Farrell is already my hero, but I've had grave concerns for his career after that bad kid soccer movie. After seeing the trailer for Stranger Than Fiction, I am confident that he's firmly back on track (and co-staring with Emma Thompson at that, good on ya, Frank the Tank!).
3. I've only watched a few of Da Ali G show, count me in as intriqued by all of the good press Borat has been getting from its debut in Toronto. I may not make it to see this in the theatres, but it's already on my netflix queue.
4. On pedigree alone, I will be seeing this movie (Nicholson! Scorcese! Damon! DiCaprio! Baldwin! This is a sausage fest, but you have to admit, it's good sausage). Based on the fact that I have crushes on Leo and Matt Damon, I will be seeing this movie. Most importantly, the reviews sound great. I want to see The Departed.
5. Finally, Richard Linklater's latest. I feel like I've grown up with Richard Linklater. When I as a senior in high school, he made Dazed and Confused. We just wanted to party and beat up freshmen. Then when I was in college, our world opened up to wanting to make out with hot foreign people and hear ourselves talk in Before Sunrise. 10 years later, we still wanted to hear ourselves talk, but we had to own up to our responsibilities in Before Sunset. His latest project represents further maturity in realizing how absolutely complicated and messed up the world is: Fast Food Nation. I'm psyched about this movie for so many reasons. First of all, it has Greg Kinear in it. So, there's that. Also, I thought it was such a brave and smart choice to fictionalize the incendiary non-fiction book upon which this movie is based. It can emotionalize this very disturbing subject of the non-food that is in our food without resulting to the Michael Moore school of disturbing subject documentaries. I am hoping that the end result will be just as mobilizing, but not as polarizing. We'll see. ALSO, the movie has launched a totally kick-heinie website, which includes retorts from and blogs written by McDonalds, safe food advocacy and activist website links, etc. It's pretty cool.

Anyway, I'm back on board for another movie season. I hope all of the hype is worth it!