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Finally! The film adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel is due in theaters this November. Kudos to Wes Anderson for using stop motion animation.

Wow; excited hardly describes my anticipation for this film.

All of this Apollo 11 talk reminds me of a very funny short film created by Andy Bobrow, The Old Negro Space Program. Shown at the Aspen Comedy Festival, now the HBO Comedy Festival, it helped Gardner land his first television writing job with Malcolm in the Middle.

Adam is a new movie portraying a lead character, Adam, who falls in love with his new neighbor Beth. The catch - Adam has Asperger's Syndrome.

IFC, one of my favorite channels, has come up with a list of the 50 best movie trailers of all time, and then breaks them down, one by one.

I'd love to see a list of 50 great movie trailers that were better than the actual movie. I know Cloverfield (#3 on this the IFC list) would be on it.

Comedian Patton Oswalt is taking a turn in a more serious role, staring in the indie film Big Fan, currently debuting at Sundance and by the looks of the trailer, he turns in a hell of a performance in what might become a breakout flick which is scheduled for release just in time for the start of the NFL season. The story of a self described "world's biggest New York Giants fan" who runs into some very serious trouble with the G-Men's star player. And by the looks of it in the trailer, potentially commits Sports Bigamy as described by Bill Simmons.

I saw Walk Hard:The Dewey Cox Story for the first time last night.

1. It's damn funny.

2. I never quite understood the fascination with Jenna Fischer of The Office until now. She is really, really hot.

3. I don't smoke reefer, but if there was ever an argument convince me, this would be it.

The zombie feature film "Colin," directed by Great Britain's Marc Price, is wowing crowds at the Cannes Film Festival. Through the help of friends and volunteers, the film was created with a budget was $70.

The third voice of Mickey Mouse (voiced 1977 to 2009), Wayne Allwine has passed away at the age of 62. I came across a great three part interview with him and Russi Taylor who has voiced Minnie since 1986 covering the history of how they came to be the current voices. Fascinatingly, upon meeting while doing voice work, Wayne and Russi fell in love and got married. The real life Mickey and Minnie. Wild! Part 1 of the interview is below. And in case you are interested here are part 2 and part 3.

Over on kottke.org, Jason routinely links to great new trailers. From blockbusters and indies alike to documentaries you would be well served to browse his 'trailers' archive. The gems of course are the small indie and documentary trailers for films you may not have previously heard about.

Recently highlighted:

Herb and Dorothy.
Transcendent Man.
Guest of Cindy Sherman.
Carts of Darkess.

Oh, and I figure this is as good excuse as any to share (reshare) two of my favorite recent trailers.

Moon

Where the Wild Things Are