Things are quiet here in the heart of the District today, with many of the city's myriad workers having already taken off for the Christmas holiday. If you're still at your computer, however, staring idly into space or perhaps even working, let me reccomend a bit of distraction.

First up is the trailer for new film from Haute Tension director Alexandre Aja, The Hills Have Eyes, which seems to be aiming for the lofty designiation of Best Ever Movie About Mutant Hillbilly Psychos. It's strange to think that there's a market for that genre, although I think the better money would have gone toward The Brokeback Mountains Have Eyes, in which gentle gay cowboys are the target of said Mutant Hillybilly Psychos. Talk about sexual repression; as villians, crotchety white men in business suits just don't compare. For any Hollywood agents reading this, I'm free this afternoon.

And while K Street might be largely devoid of its bespoke clad power players today, there's a well-edited taste of their cinematic counterparts over at Apple. I'm always leery of anti-corporate satire, but this trailer for Thank You For Smoking looks really sharp. Plus, the movie is based on a Chris Buckley novel (which Amazon claims is out of print, but I don't believe that for a minute), so there's always the possibility that it's not deflated by smug moralizing. I'm told by sources in the know that book rails against the greens and health nuts, but I'm suspicious of Hollywood's willingness to include much beyond their usual nannying self-righteous views. The trailer's last line, however, is pretty much the funniest movie dialog I've seen in months. The world can always use more Rob Lowe.