Hey everybody, I just started a new site, which is what I’ll be posting to from now on.  Here’s the link:

http://michaelbayistheantichrist.wordpress.com/

Cannes festival winner The White Ribbon:

That’s one hell of a poster for Antichrist.

Can we officially stop paying attention to all the rumors floating around for Batman 3?  Christopher Nolan’s made it known that he is NOT working on Batman at the moment, and he’s smack in the middle of filming “Inception,” which doesn’t wrap until December.  So clearly he’s not scripting or casting for Batman 3.  And even if he was, does anybody seriously believe what all the film websites have been reporting?  Megan Fox as Catwoman?  Really??  Eddie Murphy as anybody??!?!  I’m still hearing rumors that “Inception” is secretly “Batman 3,” or just serving as a test run for Leo to see if he can play the Joker.  Christ people.  You have to be seriously dense to believe any of this nonsense.  You can stop paying any attention to these rumors at LEAST until “Inception” finishes shooting, and probably until it’s released next summer.  Ok, I’m calm now.

It’s only a minute long but I couldn’t be more excited.  Definitely my most anticipated for 2010.  Leo’s had an amazing streak of movies lately and Chris Nolan is obviously an incredible director.  Not to mention the supporting cast: Marion Cotillard (!), Cillian Murphy (!), Michael Caine, Tom Hardy (Who’s new film “Bronson” also looks incredible), Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Berenger and more.  Described as a “sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind” and boasting a $200 million budget, there’s no way “Inception” is going to be anything less than amazing.  Plus, they’re filming all around the world (Morocco, Paris, etc.), meaning that it’s a sci-fi film shooting on-location, which is kind of unheard of.  To be quite honest, I’m way more excited for this than I am Batman 3.  There, I said it.

Making $38 million over the weekend, “Inglourious Basterds” had the best opening of any Tarantino film.  The movie was pretty damn good too, with Christoph Waltz (Col. Hans Landa) stealing the show.  I’d have to say that Brad Pitt gave the worst performance of his life (though his Italian was hilarious), but it didn’t hurt the film too much.  Some people are complaining that it was too talky, but I could listen to Tarantino’s dialogue all day long.  He’s still easily one of the best writers around.  8.5/10

One of my most anticipated movies of the year, “Shutter Island,” has been pushed back from an October 2nd release date to February of 2010.  The reason?  Supposedly Paramount can’t afford to give it an Oscar campaign, and so they’ve just decided to release it in the Studio dumping grounds that is February.  Sad, sad news.

With the release of the Avatar trailer today, I think it’s a good time to announce a kind of “return” for owlpellets.  Obviously the updates have been on the slow side lately, but all that should start to change over the next few weeks.  I plan on posting things far more frequently now.  So with that, head on over to this site to view the Avatar trailer.  It’s going to be huge, that’s for sure.

Gary Oldman just revealed that the sequel to The Dark Knight should hit theaters in 2011. I’m beyond excited. No word yet on if Christopher Nolan is directing though…

Incredibly beautiful music video… incredibly. Kanye has continued his series of brilliant videos with this one.

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