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.

The trailer for Doubt, based on the Pulitzer-prize winning play, has hit the web.  It may have just edged out The Soloist as the most Oscar-y looking movie of the year.  The rundown:

Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays the headmaster at a Catholic school, who gets accused of kiddie-diddling by a bitchy old nun played by Meryl Streep.  Did he do it, or is the old nun just being her bitchy self and settling personal grievances? NILF Amy Adams isn’t sure who to believe.

I haven’t seen the play so I don’t know what the answer is.  I’ll tell you this though, a guy who doesn’t rape little boys doesn’t call his house a “rectory”.

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