In a twist on My Best Friend’s Wedding, Patrick Dempsey plays the love-lorne bachelor whose best friend (Michelle Monaghan) is getting married and wants him to be her maid of honor. Kevin McKidd, Kadeem Hardison, Chris Messina, Kathleen Quinlan, and Sydney Pollack also star. Check out the official site. The film walks down the aisle on Friday. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
Made of Honor
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We’ll start out Iron Man Week with these intros to the various cartoons ol’ Shellhead has found himself in over the years. First up here’s the intro 1966’s Invincible Iron Man. You can check out a larger version inside the Full Diagnosis along with two separate intros to the 1990’s cartoon Iron Man,
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The latest from writer/director Harmony Korine (Julien Donkey-Boy), in what is the early leader for most bizarre film of 2008, stars Diego Luna as a Michael Jackson impersonator who meets a Marilyn Monroe look-alike (Samantha Morton) and is invited to join her commune in Scotland where she lives with other others including Charlie Chaplin (Denis Lavant) and Shirley Temple. The supporting cat includes director Werner Herzog, magician David Blaine, Joseph Morgan, and Anita Pallenberg as the Queen of England. The film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
Mister Lonely
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Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) is a career businesswoman and a Vice President of a successful line of health food stores. Her life, however, is incomplete.
Informed by her doctor (John Hodgman) of her inability to conceive, and unable to wait for adoption, Kate decides to go in a different direction. She enlists the help of Chaffe Bicknell (Sigourney Weaver) who offers the service of uniting women wanting children with surrogate mothers.
Kate shells out $100,000 and finds white trash Angie (Amy Poehler) and her deadbeat common law husband Carl (Dax Shepard) on her doorstep. Angie agrees to carry Kate’s baby to term and before you can say shenanigans things get crazy.
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Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) is an accountant. Like all accountants in movies his life has no purpose outside his job, which involves auditing the books of large corporations.
At work one day Jonathan bumps into Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman) who strikes up a friendship with our guy. Through an “accident” Jonathan finds himself lost in Wyatt’s world of an underground sex club known simply as The List. He has anonymous sexual encounters with many women before falling for a one of the girls (Michelle Williams) who he once saw on the subway.
Here’s where things get dicey. Wyatt, whose name isn’t Wyatt, kidnaps the young woman and forces Jonathan to steal money from the next company he is scheduled to audit.
The movie’s plot relies on coincidence and unlikely twists. For Wyatt’s scam to work he has to be seen in the company Jonathan is auditing, talking with people, and never getting noticed as an intruder. Good thing large companies don’t have security, right?
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