The Duke's News From The World Of Film

Hi Friends

Michael Moore, what a character. You may have heard about he's a communist insurrectionary what wants to kill your way of life or whatever, but did you know he also makes the films, and some of them are very good indeed?

Bowling For Columbine suffered from absence of point, but it was hugely enjoyable, and really, the folks behind Touching The Void, Spellbound, Capturing The Friedmans and all those other documentary-flicks what went ahead and made shitloads, they all have Moore to thank in some small way.

I would suggest a nice email, maybe one that says "Thank you Michael Moore. Really, you shouldn't have."

His latest bout of finger-pointing and comedy antics, Fahrenheit 9/11 went ahead and received standing ovaries or whatever at Cannes Film Festival, but also attracted plenty of the "controversy".

It's the "controversy" which serves as the focus for the new poster, which you can see HERE thanks to the folks at Chud. It has George W Bush (spoiler - he acts as the president) and Michael Moore holding hands, with the tagline - "Controversy? What controversy?"

The TRAILER takes the blueprint from the Action Cinema, complete with voiceover man talking about "From the corridors of power…To small town America" and so on, and has wacky malarkey like Moore driving an ice-cream truck around Washington reading out from The Patriots Act.

I'm guessing it'll do quite well, since folks who love Moore will go see it, and folks who hate him will go see it twice, so as they can get all the bits they need for to write an online critique about Michael Moore Is A Lying Motherfucker and so on.

The other trailer what pricked The Duke's attention, is over at MTV.com in the form of The Trailer For Exorcist : The Beginning.

After throwing Paul Schrader off the job, along with his complete film, the producers went ahead and brought in Renny Harlin for to basically remake the whole affair.

Schrader's version is, however, going to be released on DVD, so we can see why those studio cats hated the hell out of it. The general consensus seems to be that Schrader's film was too light on the gore and / or scares, and concentrated more on being a "character" piece.

From the looks of the trailer, Harlin's gone ahead and thrown in a load of the "jump" moments, like when a woman screams and then a mirror breaks. I'm guessing Schrader should have broke some mirrors, maybe he would still have his job.

Ironic, I guess, that it's the guy who breaks the mirrors that gets the good luck for a change.