Check out the trailer for the Green Zone, from Bourne director Paul Greengrass, starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson.  So get this, bros: Matt Damon plays some sort of rogue government agent, and he’s trying to do right, but he’s on the run from some malevolent bureaucrat.  Slow down, Matt Damon, I don’t think the world is ready for you to play this kind of character.  Oh hello there, dismissive wanking motion, I didn’t even hear you come in.

Essentially true fact: Paul Greengrass calls his trailer “The Green Zone” and his favorite joke is to sock people in the stomach and then yell “Shoulda been wearin’ your body armor!”  It makes him laugh and laugh.

(Though Bourne’s brother considered himself a pacifist, they shared an affinity for scarves.)

Based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, is the trailer for The Last Song, starring Miley Cyrus as a rebellious teenager who has to spend the summer with her estranged father, a concert pianist played by Greg Kinnear.  Or as I like to call it, A Wank to Remember.

(“Hello, Zack Morris?  I thought I told you not to call me here.”)

Green Zone seems like an odd choice for Paul Greengrass, since it looks a lot like The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, in which he also directed Matt Damon.  This one’s based on Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, an award-winning 2006 non-fiction book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, about the events between the end of the war and the surge and transfer of power to the Iraqis.  In the movie version:

Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region.

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Paramount just released the poster for Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear. He sees dead people, they annoy him – doesn’t get much more straightforward than that. Is it just me, or does this movie feel like it should’ve come out in the 40s?

Flash of Genius stars Greg Kinnear in the heartwarming true story of Robert Kearns, the man who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.  Kearns tried to interest big automakers in his invention only to have his idea rejected by all of them.  When they later installed intermittent wipers on their cars without crediting him, Kearns filed a patent lawsuit and eventually won $30 million, only to die tragically the next day in a freak glass-bottom boating accident.  Just kidding about that last part, but you have to admit it would’ve been pretty ironic.