Well folks, I love to rag on Hollywood for being out of ideas, but credit where credit’s due, this weekend there are two big movies opening, and they’re tracking 98 and 94% recommended on rottentomatoes, respectively, which is better than any damn weekend I can remember (that’s fancy writer talk for “I don’t want to look it up”).

Up
I bow before Pixar.  You haters can over-politicize it all you want, but Wall E was one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last few years.  And by many accounts, Up is just as good.  How do they do it?  I hear they bathe in the blood of Christian babies.  It’s true.  I read that somewhere.

Drag Me to Hell
The trailer may not look like much, but keep in mind this is Sam Raimi we’re talking.  Throw out emo Spider-Man and you’ve got movies like Spider-Man 2 (possibly my favorite comic-book movie) and Army of Darkness (GRR, CHAINSAW HAND).  Plus, everyone says it’s good.  And who are you to argue with everyone?  You’re just some asshole on a computer.

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Friday Free For All is that time of the week when I post videos that may or may not be timely, newsworthy, or relevant.  Because only your mom works hard on Friday. Send your tips to lance@filmdrunk.com.

Today’s Friday Free for All video comes courtesy of my unpaid research assistant RoboPanda.  It’s by a gentleman who goes by the name of “Ze Frank,” who demonstrates a very cool and simple optical illusion.  Another trick he has is to turn me into a 12-year-old whenever I watch this. I like it when girls hump my finger.  Even if they don’t.

Sorry for these lightning-round posts folks, but I think you’ll agree that none of these deserve a whole post for themselves. What do they look like, your mom?

Dead Snow, the Norwegian Nazi-Zombie movie has a new trailer.  It’s out in limited release on June 19th.  This trailer gives you a better idea of the story, which isn’t really a good thing, since the entire story consists of “There are zombies and the zombies are nazis.”  The blood-puking clip is far more effective, I think.  But I say that about everything.

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Danny McBride will star in Hench, based on (what else) a graphic novel about “a football player who suffers a career-ending injury and needs a job. He signs on as henchman to a successful villain.”  McBride will co-write with Eastbound & Down co-writer Shawn Harwell.  So, pretty much Eastbound & Down the movie then. I’m okay with that.  Danny McBride may not be athletic, but the man can sure swear. [Variety]

Columbia pictures bought the rights to the story of that dude who surrendered himself to Somali pirates in exchange for his crew’s freedom.  Sounds good, but… wasn’t this already a South Park episode?  [THR]

20th Century Fox hired Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Starship Troopers) to direct The Surrogate (not to be confused with The Surrogates). “Based on the 2004 book by Kathryn Mackel, the story centers on a couple desperate to have a child who find themselves in an unbearable position when they find out the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane.”  Uh… don’t all pregnant chicks go insane?  Anyway, Fox and Verhoeven is a good relationship, because no one can do trash like Paul Verhoeven.  I ordered a “Verhoeven” at a Dutch brothel once.  Once.  [THR]

BOOM! Studios (which is disappointingly unaffliated with Michael Bay) is doing a comic book called “Die Hard: Year One” about the adventures of John McClane before he yippie kai yayed Hans Gruber’s foreign ass off the Nakatomi Towers.  Let’s hope it stays a comic book.  Though I can already see the Fox execs moving their leg around like a dog when you rub its tummy. [ComicsContinuum via /Film]

We call this “Buspockke”.

[Thanks to Matt for finding and naming this - source]