MOVIES
Review | Brüno (R) ***
It's funny how some people just never learn
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What's coming out this week
So you think you're a natural-born filmmaker who was put on this earth to direct movies? Join the club, pal. With the advent of cheap cameras, the Internet and online video-sharing sites like YouTube and BitTorrent, practically everybody is an aspiring Spielberg or Fellini these days.
Speaking on a commentary track for his film Knowing (Summit Entertainment, $27 DVD, $35 Blu-ray), director Alex Proyas (Dark City; I, Robot) says his favorite commentary track is one featuring a conversation between Martin Scorsese and the late Michael Powell. (The DVD, which he never names, is Criterion Collection's Black Narcissus.)
BIG SCREEN I Love You, Beth Cooper (PG-13) -- Chris (Home Alone) Columbus returns to the director's chair for the first time since 2005's Rent for this John Hughes-ian comedy about a gigantic nerd (Paul Rust) who declares his love for the school hottie (Hayden Panettiere) during his graduation speech.
It was months between Jessie Cave's first open-call audition and finding out that she had nabbed the part of Lavender Brown, Hermione's smitten roommate-turned-romantic competition in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Actors Hugh Jackman, Seth Rogen and Anne Hathaway and director Danny Boyle (Slugdog Millionaire) have been invited into the exclusive Hollywood club that votes on the Academy Awards.