Weekend Preview is back this week by popular demand because I’m finally not too lazy to finish writing it.  Click on titles to watch trailers.

Opening this week:

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Keanu Reeves has been waiting his whole career to play an emotionless alien. All the critics say it sucks but mark my words, before the year is out, a celebrity will name their baby “Klaatu”.

Delgo
This looks f-cking terrifying.  Modeling all the aliens after Liza Minnelli probably wasn’t the best idea.

Nothing Like the Holidays
Debra Messing goes home for the holidays to meet her new Puerto Rican in-laws.  Who directed this, Tylermo Perez?  I still say it needs más Trejo.  Somewhere, Lou Dobbs is pissed they took “Christmas” out of the title.

The Reader
See Ralph Fiennes track down the SS officer he had an affair with!  See the film that spawned a thousand Jew fights! …As long as you live in New York or LA.

Gran Torino
See Clint Eastwood befriend an Asian!  Hear him sing! …But again, only if you live in New York or LA.  Everyone else can suck rocks.

Doubt
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep are priests and nuns.  Hoffmour may or may not have diddled someone.  …I said. I want you to act me. as hard. as you can. …But again, only if you live in NY or LA.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Che
If you live in New York or LA, you can see Benicio Del Tor- oh who even cares.

This is the English-language version of the trailer for Che, Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour epic about Che Guevara.  The film has two parts, The Guerilla and The Argentine, and will be released first in its entirety in New York and LA next week in order to qualify for the Oscars, and then in January it will be released separately as The Argentine and The Guerilla.  I know Benicio Del Toro seems like the perfect casting, but ask yourself this: Wouldn’t Danny Trejo have been better?  Although I guess Che would’ve had to win in the end, just to make it believable.  That would’ve been a way better movie.

28 new pictures from Steven Soderbergh’s Che that I didn’t feel like saving and resizing.  As you can see, not only can Benicio Del Toro squint and smoke cigarettes, he can also squint and smoke pipes (sort of).  So versatile! [RopeofSilicon]

11 Nude Scenes We Didn’t Need to See.  Why do I feel like this entire list could’ve been Harvey Keitel? [ScreenJunkies]

America Ferrara to star and exec produce American Tragic. I’ve liked America Ferrara ever since she shot dagger eyes at Blake Lively, but is it so much to ask for her to change her middle name to “F-ck Yeah!”? [Variety]

40 Awesome Versions of Jesus. The Easter Bunny one is just wrong.  [HolyTaco]

The 14 animated films that have been submitted for Oscar consideration in the Best Animated Film category.  Ha, that’s cute, other movies besides Wall E think they have a chance. Fly Me to the Moon, are you f-ing kidding me?  [ComingSoon]

Star Trek trailer coming Monday. Yup, it’s come to this, a countdown to the trailer. Oh boy, I can’t wait to wait for this some more! [Official Site]

New Terminator Salvation concept art.  Ooh, a “hydrobot“.  Watch out, Ripley! The Sentinels are after you!  Oh crap, I’m mixing movies again.  Silly me, I don’t know how I ever could’ve made that mistake. [Filmonic / Io9]

The gun barrel sequence from Quantum of Solace.  I know, I know, it’s a poor substitute for the naked lady silhouette scene. [after the jump]

Those movies you keep ignoring on Netflix fight back. [College Humor]

Barack Obama ends racism forever, so Klan takes up birdwatching. Cute video, but I’m pretty they’re actually producers on Maury now. [Atom]
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