Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, a documentary covering the time between the end of Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show run and his show on TBS hits the Loft Cinema on June 24th.

I still cringe a little when the Disney logo comes up, considering what they've generally done with the rights to the classic Muppet characters, but at least this first teaser trailer for the reboot of the franchise, simply called The Muppets, has a certain amount of charm. The script was co-written by Jason Segel of Forgetting Sarah Marshall fame, the director co-created Flight of the Conchords, and Bret from the Conchords wrote the songs, so I think there's room for a reasonable amount of optimism, right?

Also, yes, I'm aware that I'm a thirty five year old man excited for a new Muppet movie.

In our review of The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, (May 12 issue, here) we indicate the film will open on Friday, May 20, at Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18. It will no longer open at Harkins. Instead, it will open Friday, May 20, at Century El Con 20, 3601 E. Broadway Blvd.

In general, motion captured film making is still a little strange - I suppose we have Robert Zemeckis, what's called the Uncanny Valley, and movies like A Christmas Carol to blame for that - but for me, that Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are making a 3-D Tintin movie is probably enough to get me to buy a ticket. However, it seems like this teaser was deliberately put together to avoid showing the characters looking at the screen and talking, so this might still be just as disconcerting as this style of film making has been so far.

There's a great deal of disagreement around my house over the influence of the Disney line of Princesses and Fairies. My wife feels that the characterizations are harmful to my daughter's emotional development and self-esteem, and I mostly agree, but am too much of a easy mark to tell her a crying three year old that she can't have a Sleeping Beauty coloring book. These illustrations, from a series by artist Chris Hill, are probably evidence in favor of my wife's take on the matter:

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I almost didn't post this due to my outrage over the omission of the pixie stick sandwich from The Breakfast Club, but my love of movies and sandwiches won out.

As part of their May series featuring films of the Atomic Age, the Loft is showing Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb tonight, although with a selection of "bomb scare" short films. There really isn't anything I could say about Dr. Strangelove and Peter Sellers' masterful performance that hasn't been said better somewhere else, but if you haven't seen it yet, you've been missing out on one of the greatest movies of all time.

Dr. Strangelove shows tonight at 7 pm. Regular Loft ticket prices apply.

While Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope have been known to cry "like grown women" during films like The Notebook, they weren't huge fans of Water for Elephants. They are, however, big fans of James Woods and free candy.

Writer and producer Dan Davies presents the Arizona premiere of his film Ed Gein, The Musical at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, at the Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St.

Davis will offer an introduction, meet-and-greet and a Q&A session. The film's director, Steve Russell, will be in attendance. Davies' friend Michael Blake, author of Dances With Wolves, will be his special guest.

Interesting note: The film was made with a budget of $9,000. Visit www.edgeinthemusical.com for info.

From a press release:

"Ed Gein, The Musical" is a 92-minute musical/comedy/horror movie filmed in Wisconsin and is based on the notorious killer and grave robber from Plainfield, WI. Gein was arrested in 1957 and the horror of his crimes and the macabre uses of the dead prompted national and international coverage and outrage. He has been the subject of numerous books and films including, "Psycho, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Silence of The Lambs", "Deranged" etc.

The producers at DaviesRussell Studios of Appleton, WI felt that their variation of this often told tale would be singularly unique and very watchable. Steve Russell who directed and co-produced felt that, "...our story does not glorify Ed or his actions or demean his victims...but we use the music and dark comedy as a vehicle to tell the story with truth and a fair amount of accuracy."

Dan Davies who wrote the film and stars as Ed feels he has an inside track on the story, "I grew up about 20 miles from Plainfield, WI. My grandpa and the arresting sheriff were, at one time, best friends. He was actually very close to all of the Waushara County deputies. My grandma knew and bought school supplies from Bernice Worden, the lady he murdered just before his arrest. I'm not some outsider from LA or New York doing an exploitative film on this horrible man." Davies added "the movie has been getting some really great laughs and people really enjoy the original and parodied music but our film is really a psychological treatise on how this man became a monster."

Steve Russell added, "we know the subject matter is very controversial as evidenced by all of our national TV, radio and print coverage but people really have to see the movie first and then decide for themselves."

Today's xkcd comic makes me want to grab a blanket and cry myself to sleep under my desk. Terminator 2 was twenty years ago? Just super.