The Gangster Squad - Trailer

Sean Penn. Josh Brolin. Ryan Gosling. Emma Stone. 1940s Los Angeles Gangsters.
Should add up to pretty awesome.

From Zombieland director, Ruben Fleischer, this seems possibly a touch over-stylised, so perhaps adjust expectations from "great" to "entertaining". More sharp suits, though. And guns.

Wish they had cut back on Sean Penn's make up. It's all I notice in any of his scenes.

The Help -Trailer

Based on Kathryn Stockett's Best Seller about racism in 1950s suburban America, The Help follows in the footsteps of last year's Made in Dagenham - serious subject matter, light tone.

It's a pity that you have to go through 6 cast members before you find a black name on IMDB.com, but at least they no longer have to use separate toilets... 

Starring the lovely & hilarious Emma Stone as Skeeter, a young white suburbanite (you can tell she's smart because she has glasses & unkempt hair) who teams up with local maids Aibileen (Oscar-nominee Viola Davis) & Minny (Octavia Spencer) to write an exposé on how 'the help' really feel about their snooty madams & the class systems that rule their Southern town.

Also starring Bryce Dallas Howard as the town bitch who writes a law forcing all homes to have a separate toilet for 'the help', Alison Janney as Skeeter's mother, and the ever-reliable Sissy Spacek.

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