By Jason Adams, MyNewPlaidPants

Every time I’ve seen a commercial for Life As We Know It I’ve thought two things. First I sit there thinking, “Oh here comes the shot with Josh Duhamel in his underwear, here it comes, here it comes, oh there it was. Yes.” And secondly I think, didn’t this movie come out weeks ago? I could’ve sworn this was on DVD already. Isn’t this a sitcom? Okay those are a couple of thoughts but they’re all generally the same. Any movie that graces us with Christina Hendricks only to murder her and replace her with Katherine Heigl should not be rewarded with money. It should be led into town-square and pelted with rotten heads of lettuce.

There’s another pair of October-flavored scary movies out this weekend. The first is from the director of Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mr. Wes Craven. It’s called My Soul To Take and the trailers make it look like an incredibly generic slasher but since it started screening last night whispers abound that it’s kind of insane. Curious…

The other scary movie is a remake of the seminal grind-house exploitation film I Spit On Your Grave, about a woman that’s graphically raped and then graphically gets graphic revenge upon her graphic rapists. A good time for the whole family, no doubt.

Secretariat tells the inspiring true story of that horse that ran around in circles a bunch and won some rich white lady a bunch more money.

Nowhere Boy has Kick Ass star Aaron Johnson playing a young, much more attractive John Lennon. I wish they’d cast Chloe Moretz as a young Yoko Ono and cross-cut between the two of them growing up, perhaps having them sing “Somewhere Out There” at some point. Tell me you wouldn’t see that movie.

The terrific Keir Gilchrist will always be gay teen Marshall from The United States of Tara to me, but that might just be because I have to look up how to properly spell his real name every time I try to write it and Marshall is much simpler. Still it makes me feel weird seeing him hitting on Julia Roberts’ niece in the previews for It’s Kind of a Funny Story, where he voluntarily puts himself into a psych ward and learns Life Lessons from Crazy People. Main Crazy Person is played by Possibly Real Crazy Person Zach Galifianakis, whose name also needs some spell-check.

David Fincher’s great Facebook movie The Social Network topped the box office with a little over 22 million bucks last weekend, while That Cartoon Owl Movie came in second with a little under 11 million. Let Me In, the little vampire girl movie that couldn’t, came in at 8^th with just 5 million dollars.

The big movie news this week was that Zach Snyder, the director of That Cartoon Owl Movie as well as 300 and Watchmen, was handed the reins for the next Superman flick. Expect a lot – and I mean a lot – of slow-mo shots of Supes in action. He also might wear a leather diaper at some point. Meanwhile Darren Aronofsky is maybe going to direct Wolverine 2. Fingers crossed that he gets Hugh Jackman into a leather diaper.  

What will you see this weekend?

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