Rookie on rich people in the 1980s.

The trailer for the Total Recall trailer that comes out this Sunday just came out. (Get all that?) If you, like me, were worried about ANYTHING having to do with this remake, just watch it. Ahhh!!! This 30 seconds looks so good you almost forget about the original, but then you're like "HOW DARE YOU, ME?" and you remember Sharon Stone. Kate, you have your work cut out for you.

“I can’t believe the MPAA is blocking American teenagers from seeing a movie that literally could save thousands of lives,” she said in a statement. “I’m speaking out for all those students who suffer everyday because of bullying. The MPAA needs to give Bully a PG-13 rating so the students being bullied, and the bullies themselves, can see the this film and schools can show it as well.”

The Motion Picture Association of America — the folks who issues movie ratings and subjects of a documentary themselves – gave the new doc Bully and R rating despite tons of harmless nice people begging them not to. Feisty Michigan high [...]

My heart is aflutter about this movie that premiered at Sundance last night. (Breathlessly, she speaks): Basically it's about a super rich timeshare empire -owning couple — he's in his 70s, she's in her 40s and look at her boobs and I don't understand why she's not on The Real Housewives, and they have eight kids! — who were trying to build the biggest, fanciest house in America when the housing bubble burst. Apparently, according to this LA Weekly review, she is a quote machine:

Talking about the bailouts, she says, "I thought that rescue money was supposed to be given to the common people. Or, you know, us."

– Ask something!

– No don’t. Please, please don’t.

– Ask something! ASK SOMETHING! I could just be the funny person who gets the microphone and says "BILL PULLMAN YOU LOOK GREAT!" I could even add a bit about Spaceballs. “Big Spaceballs fan!” Like that.

– Do not be the funny person who says that. Don’t be the funny person. You do not have a question.

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– But I do! I must, somewhere. I… could ask how important it was to the director that Lola’s character is single at the end of the film, apropos of the media’s current obsession with strong women choosing to be single! [...]

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Just saw it last night and thank goodness the theater was having sound problems to blame immediate discomfort on. (Got a two-fer that needs to be redeemed by May — who's down?) Admittedly, every single actor and writer involved in it is the best. The premise is so-so. It did not have enough non-white people in it. But mostly: What were they trying to say? That we eventually figure out some of our friends are jerks after they decide to start families? Convinced! Or that all relationships are initiated with AND doomed by "hot" sex?

The "hot" stage — a sketchy concept to begin with — isn't [...]

Angelina Jolie's leg! Jennifer Lopez's nipple! Christopher Plummer's wrist!* Jean Dujardin's glass eye!** It was a night of body parts and pretty dresses at the Oscars last night (see also: the Fug Girls on Vulture). Did you watch? Life also has a nice gallery of classic Oscar photography, for a quick reminder that everything eventually ends.

* Maybe! ** No.

"It costs about $1,500 to print one copy of a movie on 35 mm film and ship it to theaters in its heavy metal canister. Multiply that by 4,000 copies — one for each movie on each screen in each multiplex around the country — and the numbers start to get ugly. By comparison, putting out a digital copy costs a mere $150." —LA Weekly – who else? — foretells the death of 35mm film and everything it'll take to the grave with it including your local art-house theater. Oh, and all the prettiest moving images imaginable. 

"Seeking Asian Female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy — an aging white man with 'yellow fever' who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates with skepticism and humor."

The documentary is screening today (i.e. right now!) and tomorrow at SXSW — tomorrow's screening (Wednesday, March 14) is at 6:45 p.m., if you're in Austin. If you're not, Seeking Asian Female (official site) is reportedly "coming soon to a festival near you." (And Jeff Yang has lots more information on the Wall Street Journal's arts and entertainment blog.)

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