Operation: Endgame is about an office filled with 2 teams of spies, Alpha & Omega, known as The Factory.  It’s a typical office, just top secret.  On Fool’s (Joe Anderson; Across The Universe) first day the boss (Jeffrey Tambor; Arrested Development) is murdered and Operation Endgame is started which leaves the agents with 2 hours till the entire office explodes and no escape.  It’s then that they start battling each other.  Oh and it doesn’t help that Fool’s ex-girlfriend (Odette Yustman; The Unborn) is a spy on the other team.  The movie can best be described as a sort of Office Space on crack.  It’s directed by Fouad Mikati from a script by Sam Levinson based on a script by Brian Wantanabe.

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Piranha 3D is the 3rd installment in the long dormant 70/80′s Jaws ripoff Piranha series.  The original movie and its sequel actually have some impressive pedigrees (the original was directed by Joe Dante and the sequel was where James Cameron got his start), but if you’ve ever been lucky enough to catch them then you know they’re pretty much nothing more than trying to cash in on the Jaws success.  Anyway following along the lines of Jaws this 3rd one (which has nothing to do with the other 2) is in glorious 3D.  Some say this is a re-make, but I think of it more as a sequel.  It doesn’t really fall into either category though so choose your word.  Anyway the plot is about a group of ancient Piranhas that had been trapped in a lake under a lake (just stay with me here) and are let out after an earthquake.  This coincides with spring break and the lake being full of spring breakers and a “Wild Wild Girls” crew.  The movie is directed by Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension) and written by Pete Goldfinger & Josh Stolberg (Sorority Row).

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Control Alt Delete is about a computer geek (Tyler Labine, Reaper) working for a company that fixes systems for Y2K. He’s got problems at work with a jerky co-worker, and he doesn’t have sex with his girlfriend anymore, just gets off to Internet porn. When she discovers this she leaves him and the porn stops being enough. That’s when he discovers he’s actually turned on by the computer itself. Yep he starts actually fucking his computer. It is written and directed by Tyler’s brother, Cameron Labine.

Although he’s responsible for holding the movie together, this isn’t Labine’s finest work. It’s kinda unfortunate, but it doesn’t bring down the film much, just doesn’t elevate it like it could. The other actors are all alright and so the movie doesn’t fail there.

As far as story goes this really is mostly a character piece and the computer fucking is more a gimmick than anything. The movie is basic indie fare and isn’t really anything special, but it’s not bad. Basically a so-so film. All of the tech lingo is comedically wrong though, so if that kind of thing bothers you I’d stay away from this.

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Scott Pilgrim vs The World is about a young Canadian slacker (Michael Cera; Arrested Development, Superbad) who falls for the mysterious American Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Death Proof, Live Free or Die Hard) but in order to date her he’ll have to fight and defeat her 7 evil exes.  This movie is directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) who also co-wrote with Michael Bacall.  The movie is based on the series of 6 graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley.  The comics rely heavily on video game influences along with combining real locations and situations in with crazy sci-fi and action sequences.

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Killers is the story of a woman (Heigl) who meets a man (Kutcher) on vacation in Nice and they fall in love.  But the man is really a CIA assassin.  Cut to several years later and the pair are happily married and living a suburban life.  Until Kutcher’s old boss contacts him and the neighbors start trying to kill them.  It was written by Bob DeRosa (The Air I Breathe) & Ted Griffin (Rumor Has It) and directed by Robert Luketic (The Ugly Truth, 21).

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Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens To Good People is a compilation of short essays from a wide variety of actors and comedians, and just some regular people about some hilariously bad sexual experiences.  It’s based on a show at the Upright Citizens Brigade started by Alexandra Lydon and Laura Kindred.

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Although they’ve been around for a while I’ve only recently started listening to podcasts.  So I thought like everything else on this site I’d recommend some of the ones I enjoy.  This post is all about my absolute favorite podcast Doug Loves Movies.  DLM is taped live weekly at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles before their Comedy Death Ray show (also a very good podcast that we’ll cover another time).  It’s hosted by comedian Doug Benson, best known for his appearance in the excellent documentary Super High Me(also On Demand), and each week features a panel of various actors or comedians.  Some of the guests are big stars such as Sarah Silverman or Jon Hamm, and others are lesser known people who are equally as entertaining.  The show does boast a pretty impressive guest list though.

Doug keeps the show pretty light and talks about movies he’s seen recently as well as what his guests have seen or been in.  The format is pretty loose and it’s mainly some fun joking.  The highlight of the show however is the Leonard Maltin Game.  This is a super fun and easy to play, but tough to actually be good at game that you can play at home.  It’s really funny listening to some of the guests play though.  Doug uses the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide iPhone app (also available in bookform for those of you less tech savvy) to give a clue to a movie.  First a guest must select a category Doug comes up with and then choose a year.  After that Doug reads some of Leonard Maltin’s writing about the movie (being careful to not give it away) and then the guests have to wager amongst themselves for who can name the movie in the least amount of names starting from the bottom of the list.  Now the names on the bottom of the list are usually people you’ve never heard of and the top of the list are the stars.  Eventually someone bids low enough that another guest doesn’t think they’ll get it and tells them to “name that movie”.  Then Doug reads the names and they have one guess at what the movie is given the names, the year, and Doug’s category.  If they get it right they get bragging rights and a point, if they get it wrong the person who told them to name the movie gets the point.  The guests play for audience members who receive prizes such as Doug Benson t-shirts and merchandise related to the guests (this is a more recent phenomenon).  The losing audience members get to name who is a shithead, a long standing tradition on the show is signing off by saying “_____ is a shithead”, usually someone who you’d never hear that said about, thus the joke.

Anyway Doug Loves Movies is a great fun listen that’ll easily get you through an hour of your day.  And it’s free.  You can check it out at www.douglovesmovies.com or subscribe (still free) through iTunes.  I also recommend following Doug on Twitter @DougBenson.

Splinterheads is an independent comedy/drama written and directed by Brant Sersen (Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story).  It’s about a loser named Justin (Thomas Middleditch) who’s lived at home since his father died taking care of his mom (Lea Thompson) and his grandfather (Edmund Lyndeck) who officially becomes the world’s oldest man in the opening minutes of the movie.  He’s tormented by the local cop who his mother recently broke up with (Christopher McDonald).  One day on the way to work he stops at a gas station and a beautiful con woman named Galaxy (Rachael Taylor) rips him off.  That night he and his friend visit the carnival that has just set up in town and he encounters her working there.  The next day he comes upon her again walking along the road and joins her on a geocaching trip, until it’s interrupted by her fellow Splinterhead (the term refers to the carnival workers that don’t run the rides or sell concessions but who have to con people into playing games, etc.) abusive boyfriend (Dean Winters).

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Wake is the story of Carys (Bijou Phillips) a girl who enjoys crashing funerals in order to feel emotion (think Fight Club support groups, but funnier). At one of these funerals she meets the fiancée of the deceased (Ian Somerhalder) and the two wind up hanging out. He’s under the belief she was a friend of his dead fiancée and she just can’t seem to get him to listen to the truth. Also she accidently stole the fiancée’s ring which is being blamed on the funeral parlor where her friend (Danny Masterson) works and she can’t figure out how to return that. Anyway the two wind up falling for each other but the untruths between them are in the way and might get our lead into more trouble than she could have ever imagined.  It was written by Lennox Wisely and directed by Ellie Kanner.  Trailer below.

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Dirty Deeds (aka Dirtier Deeds) is a 2005 movie written by Jon Land & Jonathan Thies and directed by David Kendall (Boy Meets World).  The plot is fairly simple.  The night before homecoming at their high school there is a tradition of “Dirty Deeds”.  These are 10 dares/tasks that must be completed in 12 hours and have been passed down from generation to generation.  No one has attempted them in many years and everyone to ever attempt has failed, except for one person who has since disappeared.  So a kid who is sick of being bullied by the football team volunteers to try the deeds.  His sister Meg (Lacey Chabert) is very against this though so she asks her friend Zach(Milo Ventimiglia) if he can do anything to save him.  Zach has a crush on Meg so he volunteers for the deeds instead and since he’s a senior and the other boy only a freshman he gets preference. Trailer below.

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