The Hutch

‘Team America: World Police’ Sneaks Into Theaters Saturday, Oct. 9/2004 The guys are contractually obligated to produce a R-rated film, despite all the hoopla about the puppet sex scene. I’d love to catch it this weekend, though I imagine the theaters in Minneapolis will be jam-packed. (I’ll be at FallCon this weekend.)

Robots could be a really, really good movie. It has a stellar cast, terrific art design and production values, and it’s from the makers of the super-funny “Ice Age” …but this is a terrible trailer for it. And you know why? Robin Williams. Yes, I once found Mork from Ork funny, and his snappy banter…

The Weekly Standard is a political magazine which I only link to from here if it’s to a column by Larry Miller or Jonathan Last. This week, both Last and Matthew Continetti weigh in on the changes to the new Star Wars DVD set. “. . . So Be It, Jedi” is interesting enough, but…

The Biggest Loser (which doesn’t appear to have a show web site yet) has been announced as a new reality show in which overweight people compete to lose the most pounds, all the while being counseled by fitness instructors and dietitians. The person who loses the most gets to walk away with a quarter million…

The trailer for Flight of the Phoenix is up. Unfortunately, while one of my favorite actors (Hugh Laurie) is supposedly in the movie, he doesn’t appear to be in the trailer. Giovanni Ribisi looks to steal the show; he sure has come a long way from being Phoebe’s weird brother on “Friends”.

The new trailer for Blade Trinity uses music from the Matrix while showing scenes containing wire stunts, bullet time effects and invulnerable superhumans fighting with swords. Despite all the copycatting done by the trailer’s producers, this third installment in the trilogy actually seems to have more original elements than you would expect in a sequel.