You may recall a posting on this in last year's blog (still there!) about the seeming impossibility of creating anything original in our postmodern world, leaving us to simply endlessly reshuffle components of multiple genres in hybrid genre film narratives.
Interesting article from the motormouth Joe Queenan (highly recommend his books on cinema - there may be one in the library?) on the Film Guardian site about Hollywood's increasing lack of originality, with interesting references to horror/slashers, spoof/satire/parody and other genres in there.
You may have seen trailers for The Man Who Stares at Goats, based on Jon Ronson's book (an account of his own typically oddball experiences). The very same JR (not Ewing...) is guest editing the Film Guardian site all week, worth a look...not forgetting the free Starsucks c*ffee that has come with the Friday Guardian the last few weeks. One day everyone will drop this fad and return to tea...
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