I thought brides were supposed to want a dress that didn't look like anyone else's, but then again, who doesn't dream of being just like Bella Swan?

An official replica of the Carolina Herrera-designed wedding dress that Kristen Stewart wears in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" hit stores on Tuesday. It was designed by bridal retailer Alfred Angelo and sells for $799.

The liquid satin sheath has long, lace-trimmed sleeves and a dramatic plunging cut-out illusion back detailed with a Chantilly-inspired lace applique, fabric-covered buttons and a chapel train. It's available in Alfred Angelo stores nationwide in sizes 0-30W.

If you're not quite ready to go all the way with your sparkly-skinned beau, Alfred Angelo has a line of Twilight inspired prom dresses as well. Each comes with a free ticket to watch the work of past feminists crumble to the ground.

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"A man who sees the future"—Warren Ellis—is the subject of tonight's film at the Screening Room. Ellis is a comic-book writer and proclaimed cyberpunk philosopher. The film, Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, screens at 8 p.m. at 127 E. Congress St. Admission is $5. Money will be raised for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Ticket holders will be entered into a drawing to win prizes from the film's sponsors.

Here's information from a press release:

The film features the most extensive interview Ellis has ever given, and spans his life, from his first memory watching the moon landing as a child, to his recent cross-media success with the film adaptation of Red. Along the way, Ellis’s acerbic wit and core belief in humanity comes across like never before.

Complimenting Ellis’s own words are interviews with his artistic collaborators, friends and admirers from across all media, including actress Helen Mirren, Director Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), comedian Patton Oswalt, Adult Film Star Stoya, Musician Claudio Sanchez (of Coheed and Cambria), comics writers Matt Fraction and Antony Johnston, and futurist Jamais Cascio. Ellis's comics collaborators like Marvel Comics CCO Joe Quesada, artists Darick Robertson, Ben Templesmith and Phil Jimenez also provide insight into Ellis's mind and creative workings. The film features numerous ambient interludes that spotlight Ellis’s prose and writing from both his online columns and his comics.

The film was shot over the course of 2010 and 2011 in England, San Diego and New York. It was completed in Fall 2011 and premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival in November 2011. It is currently screening around the world.

Visit www.warrenellismovie.com for more info.

Former Tucson Weekly intern Austin Counts has directed a film about immigration and the repatriation of deceased migrants to Mexico filming at the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office and Sonora, Mexico. The film is scheduled to be released in 2012, but the trailer is available now.

A description of the film from Counts:

Each year, the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office recovers hundreds of deceased migrants from Southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert.

ML-1215: Identify the Unidentified takes you on a journey into the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office, as the staff attempts to identify one migrant found in the desert and repatriate the remains back to his home.

The documentary also takes you to migrant shelters and Santa Muerte shrines along the Arizona-Sonora border; to survey the newly constructed border fence in Nogales, Ariz. with the U.S. Border Patrol; to a Northern Mexico town whose economy depends on migration; and ride along with a humanitarian aid organization that maintains water stations in desert for crossing migrants.

Experience how migrants prepare and cross the Sonoran Desert into the United States, and what happens to the ones who don't make it.

Learn more about the film at its Facebook page.

I'm just thankful for a Pixar movie with a female lead, that isn't a sequel, and that might be a better pop culture touch-point for my four year old daughter than a princess waiting for someone to rescue her. Plus, based on this, Brave just looks like fun.

Brave is scheduled to be released on June 22, 2012.

I've hit my cap on the number of words I'm allowed to write about Being Elmo (see my two previous posts here and here), but I feel like I should at least provide a reminder to all Tucsonans that what looks to be among the most delightful movies ever will show tonight at the Loft as part of their ongoing Film Fest. Plus, there will be puppets there! How much fun is that?

The Loft Film Fest continues tonight with a showcase of shorts by Arizona filmmakers and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which is described on the Loft's site as:

A group of men, including lawyers, gravediggers, police, government officials and a confessed killer, drive through the night looking for a body. The killer agreed to lead them to the corpse, which was buried near a fountain, but everything looks the same, he was drunk when he buried the body and now he can’t find it. As the unlikely entourage make their way through the Turkish steppes, in this unconventional road movie, relationships shift and nothing is what it seems. Directed by Nuri Burge Ceylan (DISTANT, THREE MONKEYS), this film, based on a true story, was co-winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2011 and is Turkey’s official submission for an Oscar.

Details on the fest here.

I don't honestly know much about The Hunger Games other than that my wife and all of her friends read the series, that Entertainment Weekly seems to find a reason to write about the forthcoming movies every week, and that it seems to suck less than Twilight. So, here's the trailer.

The Loft Film Fest continues this weekend, with some of the year's best—and most overlooked—films getting a chance on the big screen here in Tucson. We're intrigued by We Need To Talk About Kevin, which look particularly harrowing. And we don't see any reason to miss director Kirby Dick showing a few of his short films this afternoon. Check out the whole line-up here.

If it wasn't bad enough that Adam Sandler was part of the production team that forced Bucky Larson on the world earlier this year, he's back today with Jack and Jill, which heads to the Eddie Murphy's un-funny years school of comedy that if you like an actor, you'll love that guy dressed up in women's clothes being extra-obnoxious.

I had a whole bit ready to go for this post where I asked if a critic would be brave enough to give Jack and Jill a good review, believing that the movie was doomed to the same universal panning that Bucky Larson received - after all, the trailer features a kid punching a woman in the face (well, Sandler in unconvincing drag) played for laughs - thinking that it would be impossible that any critic regarded competent enough to merit inclusion on the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes wouldn't possibly think the movie is worth seeing, but then there's Michael A. Smith of website Media Mikes.

What's mystifying is that Smith gives the film 3 out of 5 stars, but doesn't actually seem to like it, which makes the whole rating movies on a scale sort of useless, but maybe he's thinking 3 out of 5 means 60%, which is a D at most schools. Otherwise, I have no idea why he would seemingly endorse a movie that he describes using this paragraph:

A one note joke that runs an hour and a half, “Jack and Jill” gives Sandler the chance to use the same “funny lady” voice that he used on his early comedy CDs. With his high pitched whine you almost expect to hear Jill proclaim, “they’re all gonna laugh at you,” or perhaps implore you to “play with your cock and balls for mama.” Along the way we meet many of the Sandler comedy troupe, including Allen Covert, who appears to be channeling the homeless man turned caddie he played in “Happy Gilmore.” Along with the regulars are some fun bits from such well known people as Jared from Subway and Vince, the Shamwow! Guy. We are also joined by his two young children: a young boy adopted from India when less than two weeks old and a little girl who is always curiously dressed exactly as her doll. The boy has discovered scotch tape and it’s fun to see what household item he’ll apply to his body next.

According to Smith, the movie is seemingly worth seeing for Al Pacino's performance in which he gets a chance to make fun of the Academy Awards and sing a selection from Man of La Mancha. Can you imagine the hilarity? I can't, but I'm not going to go see the movie to illuminate the mystery.

So, for now, Jack and Jill manages a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It's not the worst movie of the year, but it's very, very close.

The Loft Film Fest kicks off tonight with a party on the Loft Patio at 6 p.m. followed by a screening of Lars von Trier's Melancholia at 7:30. I'm thinking Tyrannosaur, showing tomorrow night, looks pretty tasty, although it would mean missing Donny Darko on that awesome big screen downstairs, with an appearance by director Richard Kelly. I'm pretty sure that Gibson has his heart set on seeing Being Elmo on Tuesday night.

And that's just a tiny bit of the offerings you get to choose from over the next week as Peggy and the gang bring in some of the year's best movies that you won't see anywhere else. If you don't go see something this weekend, there's probably something wrong with you.

Read more in this week's TW. A full line-up here.