My favorite actor has released his new film, War, Inc. The synopsis?
Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by the former US Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah, an outrageous Central Asian pop star and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter in check.
Here's a trailer:
Naturally, the PR blitz continues leading up to this film's Memorial Day weekend release. (It's releasing wide, but not in my city, so I must wait...damnit!) This likely will be one of my favorite flicks this year. C'mon, it has Dan Ackroyd playing the VP and Sir Ben Kingsley sporting a lovely southern lilt, plus it lampoons our current administration for their legendary Iraqi debacle? Oh, yeah.
I like the John Cusack Q&A piece in the June issue of Vanity Fair, but his celebrity endorsement on 3Trillion.org - the site where you can virtually spend the equivalent of the Iraq war costs - is even better. Kudos to the team at Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films for this:
John's shopping spree includes a time machine that would stop Bush. Bravo! He would also raise American teachers' salaries ($2 billion), prosecute Bush and Cheney for war crimes ($50 million), buy the FauxNews parent organization ($56.5 billion) and provide universal health care to all, etc etc etc. Sometimes you can't just be an altruistic philanthropist dedicated to curing all of society's ills. No, sometimes you need to buy a lil' somethin' for yourself:
garden gnome ($14.95)
What would you buy?
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