Take advantage of a golden opportunity at the Macon Film Guild this weekend

In a world in which screen-to-DVD windows keep getting tighter and tighter, it can be hard for a community group as great as the Macon Film Guild to stay alive, but luckily for anyone like me who lives here, it's actually thriving.

And this month they've scored a real coup with "The Last Station." If you've never come out to see what the group puts together the second Sunday of each month at downtown Macon's Douglass Theatre, this is certainly a golden opportunity to finally do so.

The movie itself, about the last years of Leo Tolstoy, is, from everything I've read, a whole lot more fun than that might sound on its surface. Starring Dame Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti, it's apparently a lively arena of personalities and ideas, and if you turn out for the 2 p.m. showing, you'll see me there, probably up in the balcony.

I was hoping to mention what the next offering will be, but I've managed to lose the bright yellow postcard they send me each month. I do know, however, though that I had to miss it because I had to work, the guild showed Pedro Almodovar's fabulous "Broken Embraces" last month, so it is really on a little winning streak.

Showings of "The Last Station" are at 2, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. this Sunday at the Douglass, with a discussion following the 4:30 event, so if you live in Macon, please turn out for this fun offering.

And that's all I really have to say today. I will, of course, also be going to see "Iron Man 2" this weekend, most likely on Saturday afternoon, so feel free to check back for my thoughts about that, mostly likely on Monday morning, and have a great weekend. Peace out.

Sam Raimi to enter the "World of Warcraft"

You know, I probably shouldn't admit it, but just about my entire knowledge of "World of Warcraft" comes from that fantastic "South Park" episode. It's certainly not that I think I'm too old or above it to play video games, it's simply that I've never, ever been terribly good at them.

With Sam Raimi attached to this, however, I can still deliver it as only insanely good news. One of the real mysteries of this summer is why more people didn't turn out for Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell," which was a really solid return to form. Granted, a woman vomiting up a dead kitten is one of the movie's milder scenes, but it was still the most fun I've have had watching a movie this summer.

And now, Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures have handed him the reins for what should be a boffo budget to make a movie from the epicly popular game, and I can guarantee this will be the first (I really can't think of any others I've seen) movie based on a video game I'll definitely see in a theater.

And if you're a fan of Bruce Lee (and really, who the heck isn't?), there's even better news out there this morning. I had heard there was going to be a biopic on the kung fu master, but had no idea it was going to be on the scale of this.

Apparently, a Chinese company called J.A. Media is making a three-part biopic on Lee, with the first chapter to begin shooting in October. The part of Bruce Lee has yet to be cast, but his father will be played by Tony Leung Ka-fai, and though no director has been picked yet either, Zhang Yimou has apparently expressed interest. Nothing but awesome there.

And finally, to close an admittedly short post, here's the best video I could find today, which is a four-and-a-half-minute clip from the upcoming flick "9," for which I've seen the trailer what seems like 500 times. Each time I do, I can't help but laugh every time I hear the phrase "visionary director Shane Acker," since I can't for the life of me name one thing he's ever directed. It does, however, feature the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover and even Martin Landau, and the animation (which I assume will have to, by force, be 3-D) does look really cool, so enjoy the clip, and have a perfectly passable Wednesday. Peace out.