Thanks guys. I probably could go with the 14yo, but the 11yo I think is too young. After reading a zillion reviews I'm scared off now. I think I'll watch it with Brendon and see what we think about letting the boys see it. He was very much opposed when I suggested it earlier.

It sounds like it is way more than a sprinkling of language. I'd be uncomfortable, B.Jr. would love it, Bobby would be reporting back word for word the raunchiest parts to his little friends (and then I'd hear from their parents), and Dad would never let me hear the end of it for taking them.

I'm still conflicted because I personally find Chappelle's humor brilliant even with my language discomfort. I know that my older son would understand and appreciate the humor in the racial bits, he'd probably roll his eyes at the sex content, but I think Bobby is still too young to understand. The humor would go over his head and it would just be Woo Hoo dirty words!

Wimping out for now.

I remember my parents taking me to see the play "Hair" when I was 12.

Hmmm. I went to see that with my mother. I'm 52 now, so I was probably a little bit older than that at the time. I have to try and remember just how much I comprehended in my youth.

I saw the movie Hair when I was 13, and didn't get the song "Sodomy" at all, but loved the music (and repeated the dirty-words lyrics with glee, I'll admit it--hey, I was 13!) and dancing.

Laura, DH says he doesn't remember there being an overwhelming amount of profanity in the film, but it's not something he's sensitive to, so take it with a grain of salt.

Also, I just noticed that iTunes has all 5 Academy-nominated live action shorts for $1.99 each (which makes it cheaper to download all 5 than to go see them at Cinema Village). But if you don't want to spend money seeing all of them, I was rooting for The Last Farm to win -- it's got the tightest storytelling and biggest emotional punch of the lot.

I hope they put up the animated shorts.

I saw Night Watch today. It was pretty cool, though I wasn't as impressed as I'd hoped to be. It's fairly predictable, since the plot is a mishmash of all your standard fantasy/horror tropes. The nice thing about the story, though, is that it builds on itself. There's no clear trajectory at the beginning, but each plot point leads to the next plot point, and so on. So even though things in the first half don't seem to be that relevant, they turn out to be important later on.

Really, though, the movie is so worth going to see just for the subtitles. They're the best fucking subtitles I've ever seen. Some are in blood. Sometimes the action on the screen obscures them. If a character's coughing out his words, the text flickers to mimic his speech. If a character's reading from a computer screen, they appear typed out letter by letter. They're very creative.

I saw 16 Blocks and, although it was rather formulaic in the last 30 minutes, the rest of it was surprisingly good, I thought. Bruce Willis and Mos Def work well together and the film does a really great job of capturing what New York streets actually feel like.

Writer/director Joss Whedon told SCI FI Wire that he's probably going to turn in his script for the feature-film version of Wonder Woman sometime this coming week, and added that it will feature all of the expected gadgets and costume gimmicks from the DC Comics franchise. Whedon spoke in an interview at the star-studded Los Angeles premiere of Slither, which stars Whedon's Serenity star Nathan Fillion.

"I'm probably going to turn it in in a few days," Whedon said of his Wonder Woman script. "It's coming along. ... There will be all of the expected stuff. Of course there will be the bracelets; there will be the invisible jet, the lasso, all of that."

Whedon likened the character to another one of his creations, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, adding: "It's about girls maturing, a rite of passage, that kind of thing."

Whedon said it's too early to speculate on casting for the project. He will be turning the script in to Warner Brothers and hopes to begin production later this year.

Asked about further installments of Serenity, Whedon shrugged his shoulders. —Mike Szymanski

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Watched Wallace & Grommit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit last night. SO funny. Uneven, and basically a reworking of A Close Shave, but we had to pause and rewind a couple of times because we were laughing so hard.

The animation was amazing, too. I'm guessing they used a lot more CGI cleanup than in the past, but the set detail and character modelling was tremendous.

And why do I still say "rewind" even though it's a DVD?

Skipped 143 posts in order to have my ha'penn'orth wrt the casting of Wuthering Heights:

Who is your ideal casting for it? Feel free to roam back in time since you don't think it's been done definitively.

Sean Bean as Heathcliff. Granted he's fair rather than dark, but he's a real Yorkshireman, and he can do violent and passionate and tight lipped and working class and all that pretty damned well and he's strapping and sexay. And he can act (which I only realised with "They have a cave troll".) Can't think of anyone else who would give him a run for his money.

Although...aternatively, I could be sold on a mixed race actor - there's plenty of canonical basis for having Heathcliff be mixed race, and that would open up the field rather nicely.

Cathy, however, I'll have to ponder. But she should be sturdy, and not china-doll pretty, or model-looking. Sexy, yes, but not in anything approaching a conscious-of-it or fragile way.

Hmm.

Meanwhile, JohnSweden is me wrt Bond.

New Cars trailer: [link]