In spite of not being able to direct the best of the Blade movies (he only managed second best unfortunately), Guillermo Del Toro is basically one of the best directors around. That said, where the only thing David Goyer could bring to the Blade franchise was vampire dogs and Linc “the sink” Burrows, Del Toro managed to further immortalise one of the coolest people on the planet: Ron Perlman, by putting him in a Blade movie, and also having him spend pretty much every minute of his screen time with an explosive device attached to the back of his head.

Anyway, the trailer for Pan’s Labirynth is giving nothing away but it looks fucking spectacular. I also can’t wait for the second Hellboy movie which is going to be absolutely incredible if they don’t toss around with the script thats currently in place.

I haven’t said anything about Pan’s Labirynth. The trailer will say it for me, check it out on Youtube.

I might be the only person on the planet who doesn’t rate Martin Scorsese as a director. That said he can do organised crime and that’s what this is all about. Leo DiCaprio is one of the best actors of our time and Matt Damon gets to speak in a Boston accent again. Throw into the mix Jack Nicholson (awesome) and Marky Mark and you my friends have got yourself a movie.

The trailer looks absolutely nothing like Infernal Affairs (the original), because it actually looks really good.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has somehow managed to redeem himself in my books with two words: twenty-one grams. Ammores Peros was, I thought, FUCKING AWFUL. That film is so overrated. It’s like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or Million Dollar Baby. The movie fucking blows. Now though, I would gladly trade a member of my family for a ticket to an advance screening of one of his movies. Especially when it stars the greatest movie star of all time, Brad Pitt (stop saying he can’t act).

Cate Blanchett might also be the best female actor working today. I’m not sure. Anyway Inarritu is with his usual writing partner and the film looks magnificent. This is I think Pitt’s first step into the zone i like to call ‘desperate for an oscar’. If I’m not mistaken, Penn got a nomination for 21 grams, and Naomi Watts won for best actress. So you know, should this get him no love, you know he’s in the next two or three years gonna play someone a) dying, b) gay, c) dying and gay.

It occurred to me today when I thought about this that the only real reason I might be interested in seeing this movie is because I hold on to the idea that this film might in some way maybe be even a little bit as good as 12 Monkeys. I can’t think of a single movie that I can flat out say is superior to 12 Monkeys. As much as I love Adaptation and Magnolia and Eternal Sunshine I just cannot say they are better than 12 Monkeys.

And the posters for Children of Men look strikingly reminescent of the campaign for 12 Monkeys like ten years ago. Taglines like “If you’re the last one to die, please turn out the lights” are so familiar. The movie is about the post-apocalyptic future where woman are no longer able to get pregnant. And then Clive Owen is told about a young woman who magically is pregnant and is charged with protecting her and transporting her safely some place oh who care it sounds awesome at that. And I HATE Clive Owen but I still think this is gonna be awesome.

If you know absolutely anything about film you will be soiling your pants at the prospect of seeing this movie. I have absolutely no apprehension in saying that this film is going to kick all new levels of ass. I mean levels of ass that have never before been kicked. It’s unfortunate that Brad Pitt canned this film a couple of years ago because I don’t really like Hugh Jackman, but I’m not gonna let a little mis-casting of Wolverine ruin the genius of Darren Aronofsky.

It’s amazing, the dichotomy of Hugh Jackman’s time-travel movie career. Roughly five years ago he made a movie where he is in love with a woman and he transcends time and space to be with her. It was called Kate and Leopold and it was absolutely one hundred percent fucking bullshit. Now it’s 2006 and he’s making a movie where he transcends time and space to save the woman he loves and it’s the most anticipated movie of the decade on my part. Shocking how things turn out.

I also want to note that he’s also in THe Prestige which comes out later this year I believe. That movie looks awesome too. I think Chris Nolan is overrated by Christian Bale is quite possibly the finest actor of his generation.

>> Special note goes out to 300, which I think could possibly be the greatest film I ever see. I don’t know, I don’t want to get to excited about it.