Here’s Ebert testing out his computer voice in an Oprah segment. If they did this for Oprah, they’d need two programs.  One regular one, and one for when she talks black. |Videogum|

Best Worst Movie, a documentary about the cult popularity of Troll 2, is getting a theatrical release courtesy of the distributor behind Anvil.  I’d like to see Snooki maintain this kind of popularity after 20 years. |FilmSchoolRejects|

OH MY GOD IT’S A NEW PICTURE FROM TRON, HOLD MY MAN PURSE WHILE MY BUTTHOLE PROLAPSES! |SlashFilm|

Nicole Kidman is attached to The Wedding Doctor.  “Kidman would play a relationship analyst who advises couples on their interpersonal dynamics before they marry. But after she meets her latest clients, the doc decides she’d actually be a better match for the groom-to-be, triggering a showdown with his fiancée.”  Sounds like she’ll be channeling Nia Vardalos in her last movie.  Hey, she’s got the neck veins for it. |Vulture|

Hyundai can’t run the commercials for which they’d bought spots during the Oscars, because Jeff Bridges does the voiceover and he’s also a nominee, which is against Academy rules.  The Chinamen are not the issue here, dude.  Also, Dude, Chinamen is not the preferred nomenclature.  Hyundai is Korean. |AdAge|

Zach Galifianakis Interview Excerpt — Lupe Fiasco recently used your name in a rap lyric about his own greatness. How do you feel about that? I heard that. I haven’t heard the song. I will be happy when Dolly Parton uses me in a song, then I’ve made it. There are a lot of rap guys out there.  He said he was the “black rap Zach Galifianakis.” He should have said his name was Black Galifianakis. That would have been a better song. —- I would gay marry you so hard, Chad Farthouse. |NYMag|

Russell Brand is set to star in a remake of Dudley Moore’s Arthur.  I didn’t see that, but given it starred Dudley Moore and Russell Brand, I’m guessing it didn’t involve pulling a sword out of a rock. |THR|

Along with Anvil!, Best Worst Movie is the film every bearded fat guy’s been pissing his Spider-Man panties over ever since it premiered at SXSW.  It’s a documentary about Troll 2, the epically bad 1990 horror film, and its journey from forgotten turd to cult classic (nowadays, it’s kind of like Rocky Horror without theater kids).

Everything about this 1990 bomb is an idiot’s delight, beginning with the title. It has no connection whatsoever to an earlier film called Troll, and is in fact troll-free.
It’s about vegetarian goblins (dwarves in latex and burlap) who try to trick humans into eating a green slime that will transform them into plants, and hence a tasty treat.
Filmed in the summer of 1989 in Heber City, Utah, Troll 2 was directed by Italy’s Claudio Fragasso (using the pseudonym Drake Floyd), an unrepentant man of serious auteur delusions. [TheStar]

Michael Stevenson directed the documentary about the film, to which he has a special connection, having starred in when he was 11.  The trailer focuses mainly on George Hardy, now a dentist in Alabama, which is kind of a shame because I’d really like to hear from the director, who was actually earnest in his desire to make a good movie, rather than just content to go along for the ride.  Plus, I’d like to hear how he got the dwarves to hold still long enough to get the latex and burlap on them.  In my experience, they start to struggle as soon as you cover them in the net.

[Watch the super ghey non-embeddable trailer here]