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Feb 20 05: double-wide!
Okay, time for some movie trailers. For instance, you’ve found the decent versions of the Hitchhhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trailer by now, right? Ah. Here you go then.
Meanwhile, Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory looks fun, kinda Kubrickian and surreal and c’mon, Johnny Depp as Wonka, how can you go wrong? Burton also has another animated feature coming out: The Corpse Bride due out at Hallowe’en, and that looks like a good time, too. The big comic-book movies are shaping up to be the usual mixed bag: the trailer for Batman Begins suggests that the franchise can still be salvaged after the ignominies perpetrated by Joel Shumacher. And Sin City may actually pull off Frank Miller’s noir-o-rama fabulosity. On the other hand, there’s Fantastic Four. After seeing the international version of its trailer, my fears that it would turn out to be, well, sucktastic were eased a bit. But then I saw the American trailer and now I’m not so convinced. You can judge for yourself. (There was a fifth astronaut? And it was Doom? And he got electrical powers? Excuse me?)
And just to prove that I’m not all about escapist frivolity, how about a documentary about Klaus Nomi? No, I hadn’t heard of him, either, but it does seem interesting. Adventures in avante-garde clubland! Ann Magnuson’s in it! And probably less likely to shock your parents than something about Leigh Bowery, although whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing I’ll leave to you.