Apparently I’m on a Michael Mann movie kick lately. Out of the last 5 Netflix movies I’ve received, 3 have been Mann films: Heat, The Insider, and Collateral. Each of them I enjoyed thoroughly. In order of quality from best to worst — Insider, Heat, Collateral.

I just read that Mann’s next project is called Public Enemies, another crime film about the feds trying to take down John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during the 1930s. Johnny Depp will play John Dillinger. Sounds like I’m in.

Several videos have sprouted up of a documentary called Inside: Dr Strangelove detailing the making of the film, one of my all-time favorites. It’s a 5-part series behind-the-scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s classic, the blackest of black comedies. Strangelove has always been mysterious to me. Everything from the odd sense of humor and satire to the multiple roles played by Peter Sellers (I think half the parts in this film are Sellers’) struck me as, well, strange. Kubrick did some genius work, as well as some that was not-so-genius.

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IGN just put up the teaser poster for the upcoming Watchmen movie unveiled at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. On the poster is the release date: 03-06-09. Damn that’s a long way off. If Zack Snyder can do with this what he did with 300, I’ll go out on a limb and say this might be the film of 2009. The key is really going to be story adaptation into screenplay and script. Watchmen reads a hell of a lot like a movie, but just like any novel it’ll need some distilling down to brass tacks to get it on the screen in something under 6 hours. After seeing Snyder’s live-action imagining of the art in 300, it leaves me hungry for more material to check out where he’s going with the design in this film. The fact that the poster is an image straight from the novel and in true Watchmen style really makes me excited to see how true he stays to the aesthetic of the book. The teaser photo of Rorshach that was stitched into the 300 trailer shows off some real direct-from-the-book production design, but it remains to be seen if they’ve stuck with this considering that Snyder stated that it was an “experiment to establish the mood and look” of the Watchmen project. Anyways, The Comedian getting punched in the face is a great way to kick off the film version of the best comic ever made.