(You make me want to vote Republican)
The delightfully pretty and funny Kristen Wiig stars in this trailer for One Night Only, which is unfortunately the hipsteriest movie that ever hipstered.
It’s produced by Last Pictures, a New York-based company that usually specializes in short films, and is described as “a romantic drama about two couples shifting sexual dynamics over one night in a folk music bar.”
Ooof. Man, I want to knock this trailer off its stupid fixed gear bicycle so bad, but chances are its father is a lawyer. The entire trailer consists of two context-free throwaway conversations, followed by a credits montage that takes up three-fourths of the trailer, set to a song by Bob Dylan’s unemployed nephew.
In this latest promo clip from Mike Judge’s Extract, Judge goes back to the well for the characters that made him famous, Beavis and Butthead. I was about Beavis and Butthead’s age when Beavis and Butthead came out, so I’m probably guilty of the same kind of romantic nostalgia I make fun of sci-fi fans for all the time when I say this, but five seconds in I was thinking, “Oh man, remember Beavis and Butthead? Beavis and Butthead were awesome.” Anyway, nostalgia aside (I hope), props (or kudos, or another word that doesn’t sound as lame as props or kudos) to Mike Judge for being able to skip to the good parts of his own career. This wouldn’t have been nearly as funny or likable if he’d used King of the Hill. God that show sucked. Though I think it taught us all the valuable lesson that fat pussies don’t make good lead characters. A lot of people will try bring up Fat Pussy Hunter 7 as a counter argument, but in that case I would argue it was more the mcguffin.
…the camera. USA Today just premiered the first publicity stills from Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, Whip It, based on the book Derby Girl. She’ll also act in the film, playing Smashley Simpson, alongside Kristen Wiig as Maggie Mayhem, Death Proof’s Zoe Bell as Bloody Holly, Juliette Lewis as Iron Maven, Eve, and Ellen Page.
Page plays a 17-year-old Texas girl named Bliss Cavendar, who hates the beauty pageants her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) makes her compete in and finds a release for her secret aggressive side by joining the underground world of roller derby.
“Everything I’ve learned throughout my whole life, whether it was going to a museum or listening to a certain song, has been going into this piggy bank, and I just smashed it all over the floor for this one,” Barrymore says. [more pics available at USA Today]
Look, I’ll freely admit that 85% of the reason I hate Drew Barrymore is that her speech impediment weirds me out, but I’ll still bet most of my bank account that Drew’s idea of girl power and rebellion is gonna be a lot like an Avril Lavigne song. She’s just a sk8r gurl, she said see ya l8r gurrl….
RELATED ASYLUM POLL: What novelty sport would make the sexiest movie?
I wasn’t shy about loving Adventureland, not that anyone paid attention to me judging by its $16 million gross in eight weeks. Nonetheless, it was a moderate success given its sub-$10 million budget, and Director Greg Mottola’s follow up sounds… uh… even awesomer.
Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Jane Lynch have joined the cast of “Paul.” The road trip laffer [die in a fire. -ed.] also stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Pegg and Frost, who wrote the script, will play two science-fiction fanatics on a road trip whose conspiracy dreams come true when they trek to Area 51 and encounter the title character, an escaped alien. Rogen will provide the voice of the alien. [Variety]
Anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? That they should shoot this as an homage to Mac & Me? Hey, bros, I just flew 1500 light-years from Xylon 4, and boy am I thirsty! Now who wants to party? *air guitar* ….So just me then? Carry on.
Mike Judge previously directed the cult-classic Office Space, Idiocracy (which isn’t the best movie, but has some awesomely hilarious ideas in it), and created Beavis and Butthead (King of the Hill is something we don’t discuss in these parts). His latest is called Extract, and stars Jason Bateman, Kristin Wiig, Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons, and Ben Affleck as a stoner. The trailer looks pretty funny. But then again, so does this picture of a chihuahua standing on cheeseburgers.
