Unless you’re Julius Caesar, of course. In that case it’d be more like “Hey, watch your back there, dude!”

We’ve got a whole lot of really cool stuff going up on the shelves today, some of it unopened and brand new (old titles, new copies)! Titles like A Beautiful Mind, The Clearing, Cradle 2 The Grave, Michael Clayton, The Craft, A Mighty Heart, Zodiac, Titan A. E., Uncle Buck, Trading Places and a ton more. Lots of not-new stuff going out too, like The Ninth Gate, Great Expectations, The James Bond Collection Volume 1 (seven titles: Dr. No; Goldfinger; The Man With The Golden Gun; The Spy Who Loved Me; License To Kill; Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies), The Trip To Bountiful, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and lots lots more!

Over the weekend I watched a few movies and realized at the end of it that they were all docudramas, movies based on real people and events. Not a huge surprise, as it’s one of my favorite genres.  I watched Bonnie And Clyde, Amelia and Monster. The only one I hadn’t seen before was Amelia, starring Hilary Swank as Amelia Erhart, one of the world’s favorite missing persons. It’s a fascinating story and I thought the movie was well done, without attempting to explain or speculate about her disappearance. See it if you get the chance.

We’ve got a shelf on the Wall O’Cool right now dedicated to stories about real people and events:

Breach tells the story of Robert Hanssen, played to creepy perfection by Chris Cooper, who sold secrets to the Russians during his 25-year tenure with the FBI.

In Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts plays the woman who helped bring down a power company accused of polluting a small town’s water supply.

Party Monster stars Macauley Culkin and Seth Green in very different roles for both of them, as flamboyant “club kids” Michael Alig and James St. James respectively. In the late 80s and early 90s, they hosted insane parties in clubs around New York City, did lots of drugs and ultimately killed one of their roommates.

Frost/Nixon is a fascinating look at the drama around and behind the scenes of David Frost’s post-Watergate interviews with Richard Nixon.

W. is another political biopic that’s fascinating to watch, no matter what your politics are. Chronicling the rise and downward slide of George W. Bush, it’s well worth your time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is fantastic as Truman Capote in Capote. In 1959, two small-time criminals kill an entire family during a break-in. After their arrest, Truman Capote plans to write a New Yorker article about the crime, but ultimately decides to write the book In Cold Blood instead (a book I read when I was 12 or so and which fueled a life-long interest in true crime novels and movies). It’s interesting to see this movie alongside the film version of the book if you get the chance.

Shattered Glass tells the amazing story of journalist Stephen Glass, a writer for the prestigious The New Republic in the mid-90s.  By the end of his time there, it was found that 27 of the 41 articles he’d written for them were partially or completely fabricated. Hayden Christensen is whiny and annoying throughout most of the movie, but this is offset by the story and the rest of the cast, including Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Steve Zahn, Rosario Dawson and the adorable Melanie Lynskey.

Bringing up the rear (pun slightly intended) of this collection is The Notorious Bettie Page, the story the number one pin-up girl of the 1950s. Told in flashback style as Bettie waits to testify before a Senate sub-committee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles, it’s equal parts sexy, sad and funny.

Plenty of stuff to see here, folks. And if you get this coupon, it’s all 20% off for a couple more days!

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I woke up this morning thinking I really needed to just go ahead and blog about Moon, one of the best movies I’ve seen recently. I’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks now, but today the above title came to me and as a result I’ve had the Lou Reed song I borrowed it from running through my head all day.

Moon is the first feature film directed by Duncan Jones, son of David Jones (aka David Bowie), starring Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey. There are a handful of other actors listed in the credits, but these are limited to appearing in video transmissions from Earth to the facility on the moon where the story takes place.

Rockwell plays a character aptly named Sam, while Spacey is his robotic companion GERTY (the acronym stands for something, I’m sure, but in an interview I saw Duncan Jones claims he can’t remember). Sam is the seemingly-lone worker in a facility on the moon, the function of which is to extract Helium-3 from moon rocks. As he nears the end of his three-year contract, the viewer sees just how lonely and isolated Sam has become. Due to some kind of accident early in his contract, live communication with Earth is impossible, so he must rely on recorded video transmissions to interact with his wife and the daughter who was born after he left Earth.

As Sam gets closer to the end of his contract, he’s also losing his marbles just a little bit. He begins to have hallucinations and ultimately is involved in an accident in one of the vehicles he uses to make maintenance trips out to the harvesters. Yeah, nothing but moon for miles and you manage to crash? Some bad driving there, Sammy.

From here, the story takes a few interesting turns and if you haven’t seen it yet I suggest you do. And I further suggest if you haven’t been spoiled for anything in the movie, don’t do any kind of reading up on it. I knew a little bit going into it, and though it didn’t ruin it for me, it did have an effect on the impact that the story had upon me. That said, it’s a great movie, one I’ll be watching again and one I’d highly recommend to anyone.

While there is the obvious 2001: A Space Odyssey connection–GERTY is very much a nod to HAL9000–the movie I was most reminded of was Silent Running, which starred Bruce Dern as one of three men on a spaceship left in care of the Earth’s last remaining live plants.

Anyhow, see it. It’s really very good. And as I mentioned earlier, that it was completely overlooked in Sunday night’s Celebrity Fashion Show and Awards Ceremony is proof that there’s something very wrong with that show.