Be--Excited! Be! Be! Excited!

Just take a few minutes to marvel at this head spinning lineup of trailers: The Science of Sleep, Renaissance, The Children of Men, The Fountain, and The Prestige. Is that not intense? Can you not feel your brain warping and expanding and melting down and reforming only to explode, Scanners-style, with untold lattices of newly-formed neural pathways? Well get ready for more than just the trailers: All of these movies are coming out between now and the end of October. Between these flicks and A Scanner Darkly, this may well prove to be the year for complicated, mature science-fiction/genre movies. As per usual, it looks like theater screens will be dead for the last half of August and the first part of September, filled with dreck like this and this. But the back to school season always provides the doldrums of the cinematic calendar, and as fansof Alien 3 (all 5 of them) know, with every death comes renewal and rebirth.