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Maybe it's because I love war movies. Maybe it's because I love George Clooney. But The Men Who Stare at Goats, based on a book by Jon Ronson and directed by Grant Heslov (a distant relative-of-a-relative by marriage, but that's not really pertinent), was definitely on my list of most-anticipated movies of 2009. The film, which is based on more truth than you'd like to believe (a paraphrase of the opening title card), follows a reporter's quest to learn more about an elite group of psychic soldiers, nicknamed "Jedi warriors," also features (as Allison so eloquently put it in today's CinePhillyist) "Obi-Won, Kaiser Soze, and The Dude"—a cast list that at once made me giddy with anticipation and totally nervous that the movie wouldn't do its cast justice.

After enormous amounts of hype, and a painful development process that lasted years and years, and seemed to involve the hiring and firing of pretty much everybody in Hollywood, the new Superman film is finally here. The creative team who ended up working on it are Bryan Singer as director (who's got the comic-book-to-movie props in his resume - albeit for the other comic company - having directed the first two X-Men movies), "unknown" Brandon Routh as Superman, practically unknown Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, well-known Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, and a bunch of famous folks rounding out the cast, including Parker Posey, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint, and even a computer-resurrected Marlon Brando. I was also pleased to note La Femme Nikita herself, Peta Wilson, in a small role. And hey, is that Cyclops as Lois Lane's boyfriend?! It is! It's James Marsden! That's just wrong. Marvel and DC shouldn't mix like that. It could cause some kind of...crisis.

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