John Cameron Mitchell!!!

Really? He's doing another movie? Yes, I know this article is about Eckhart and Kidman, and I have love for them and all, but let's forget them for a second.

John Cameron Mitchell! Of "Shortbus" fame? Well, perhaps I should say of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" fame because that's his more popular movie, but I personally found "Shortbus" to be well above it. I'll be watching this movie very closely in the months to come.

Is it now once every four or five years we have to have a movie dealing with parents grief over their children getting killed. Wasn't this done in 2007 with 'Reservation Road'? Or eight years ago with In the Bedroom? Or in 1998 with 'What Dreams May Come'. These movies are as depressing as they get. But people feel the need to keep retelling horific stories of child loss. I don't know if I can stomach this movie. Maybe I'll wait until my six year old son turns Thirty.

I sympathize with Central Ohio who seems to abhor the idea of another "our child died and we're grieving" movie, especially since she is the parent of a young child. A story has to be very, very good and production first rate to uphold this young parents' nightmarish scenerio as "entertainment." But these seem to come around pretty regularly if you add the "our child is sick and we're being strong" plot line as its equivalent. Mostly, they are the stuff of TV dramas.

And may I add, a large factor in a good production is good acting. I try not to bash particular performers in these posts. But until Nichole Kidman stops the botox so that her face can once again accomplilsh more range than calm or startled, the two she seems to have left nowadays, I don't look forward to her being cast in ANY movies.