“Walt Whitman” is the best English paper I’ve seen since El Niño. Coincidentally, “Ode to Faggotry” was also my prom theme senior year. [HolyTaco]

“Watchmanarama” - a mash-up of Watchmen and Futurama. It’s amazing how slo-mo and Smashing Pumpkins turn anything into a Watchman mash up. [GorillaMask]

GRR, NUNCHUCK SKILLS! [ScreenJunkies]

Guide Dog, the follow up to Bill Plympton’s Oscar nominated animation, Guard Dog. Bill Plympton is also my penis’ name. [Atom]

Mark Wahlberg teaming up with Will Ferrell for a buddy cop movie. This is why you don’t invite everyone you make fun of on the show, SNL.  They start thinking they’re actually funny.  [Variety]

Jason Schwartzman writing the music for Judd Apatow’s Funny People.  Maybe he’ll finally pluck his f-cking eyebrows too. [thePlaylist]

[And thank you to Pauly for sending in the picture]

Weekend Preview has been on hiatus the last few weeks because sometimes it gets antsy and tired on Friday afternoons.  But now it’s back.  Rejoice.  Opening this week:

Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience
Well, we know what’ll be number one at the box office, anyway.  Though they’ll always be a big number two in my heart (Too subtle?).  There’s really not much I can say about the Jonas Brothers that hasn’t already been said, but I think the fact that this movie is represented by this thumbnail on Yahoo speaks volumes.

Street Fighter
Didn’t screen for critics, which is always a really good sign. Most of the reviews to hit so far are along the lines of this guy’s, who notes, “I’d rather watch my mom take a shower.”  Hopefully this won’t hurt the Justin Marks legacy.  The only good thing about this film is that it answers the age-old question - I wonder what Chris Klein is up to these days?

Crossing Over
Harrison Ford’s Crash clone about immigration looks terrible and the critics seem to corroborate.  It’s running 12% recommended to Street Fighter’s 0% on rottentomatoes though, so I guess that’s something.  Lately I think Harrison Ford may be employing the Nic Cage method of choosing scripts.

Man, the Slumpuppies‘ lives keep sounding better and better.

“Slumdog Millionaire” child star Azharuddin Mohammad (left) reportedly was beaten by his father Friday just days after attending the Oscars.
His father, Ismail Mohammad, got enraged when his son tried to avoid media in front the family’s home in the Dharavi slum.
He punched Azharuddin’s face and kicked him while the child cried and covered his face in pain.
The boy’s mother looked on in horror, crying out to her husband to stop, but the elder Mohammad kept delivering the punishing blows until his son fled.
“Azharuddin’s father was upset that he was asking to be left alone because he was tired,” an onlooker said. “It was like a scene out of ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’”
The father apologized after the incident became public, saying he was “very sorry.”
“I was so confused and stressed by my son’s homecoming that I did not know myself for a minute,” he told the Sun. “I love my boy and I am very happy to have him home,” he said. [NYDailyNews]

What a f-cking dick.  Guy’s kid does one movie and he’s already acting like a stage parent.

I realize this was sort of an odd pic for Friday Free for All.  It’s a video by a dude named Ely Kim, who’s apparently an MFA student at Yale.  It’s really repetitive, it goes on forever, and don’t expect there to be any sort of payoff, but it’s also strangely mesmerizing.  It’s kind of like the gay Asian version of Dance Floor Dale.  I also sort of wish he were Latino so I could’ve called it “Mexmerizing.”

Anyway, if that’s not your cup of tea, after the jump I’ve also got a commercial the Coen Brothers recently did, for an anti-clean coal organization.  I mean, they’re not really anti clean coal, they’re just trying to point out that clean coal doesn’t really exist.  The problem with making political commercials overly satirical like this is it only leaves you about five seconds to explain what the f-ck it is you’re actually talking about.  And putting the web address at the end of your commercial?  Doesn’t work.  Remember those ads with “Now what?” and nowwhat.com at the end?   No one went to that site and I still have no idea what those were for.  Because the answer to their rhetorical question was almost always, “now I’m being entertained by something.”

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This is the trailer for 50 Dead Men Walking, based on the story of Martin McGartland, a British police recruit who infiltrates the IRA.  It stars Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, and Rose McGowan.  It’s also the film that convinced Rose that she would’ve joined the IRA, if only she’d been born a Northern Irishman instead of a slutty actress.

Other notes: the song in the beginning is “Alternative Ulster” by the Stiff Little Fingers, and if you don’t like that song, it’s probably because you’re a f-cking idiot.  Also: did anyone understand a single word of dialogue in that entire trailer?  It’s no wonder Irish people are drunk all the time. Whenever they talk to me I just have to take a sip of my beer and nod like I understood.  It’s true, taint bells are furrikin, I totally agree.

[via ThePlaylist]