Tonight, the screens will be full of James McAvoy and his Wanted co-stars bending bullet paths and pulling off funky tricks usually relegated to superheroes. The storyline sounds a lot like The Matrix, but luckily that also means keeping one of the previous flick's best features: a tough-arse female mentor. Tonight, Angelina Jolie will put aside her drama and revel in toughness and assassin death, but she's not the only one to do so.

Before Jolie took on the role of Fox, Uma Thurman rocked as The Bride. Above is my favorite scene from the first volume of Kill Bill -- the insidious whistling hospital scene. Considering all the NSFW elements of the two films, I figured this whistling teaser would be best. (But if you want more violence, watch them fight here.) It's Daryl Hannah at her finest, and Uma Thurman getting a nice bout of shut-eye.

Of course, there are a million different films that somehow tie into Wanted. If you're looking for more mainstream, successful action, you might want to check out Christopher Campbell's list of top critically acclaimed action flicks over at Spout.

The Last Rewind Answer: Believe it or not, while consensus has picked Marlon Brando as the man who wasn't considered for Fear and Loathing, it was actually Dustin Hoffman.

Mermaids don't need cars, which must be the reason that Daryl Hannah is auctioning off her 1983 Chevrolet El Camino. And you can bid for it on eBay! Sure, it's not the same as having a car that appeared in a movie, but you'd still be buying a car that you can say was driven by Pris from Blade Runner. Plus, you can make a copy of that photo of her and the car and tape it to the dashboard. But why else might you want the thing? Well, it runs on biodiesel, which means it's better for the environment than whatever you're driving. Don't know anything about biodiesel? Don't worry: Hannah is throwing in a resource guide and a fueling station that's said to be about the size of a garbage can.

Apparently Hannah has been trying to sell the car for a couple months now, but this is its first time on eBay. According to Ecorazzi.com, it wasn't a matter of not being able to sell the car; rather, she had too many inquiries and couldn't figure out a better way to make a deal than to auction the car off fair and square. You have until Friday evening to attempt to reach the actress' reserve, which must be more than $9,700.00, since that's the current bid as of this writing. So, what do you think? Interested? Then do as Roxanne, I mean Elle Driver, I mean Daryl Hannah says: "woo hoo! kick oil! no war required... 2 see more about bio-diesel + the el camino - ... go 2 dhlovelife.com ... so get up and get off the fossil fuels!!!"

I was in high school the first time I saw the 1984 movie Splash, and I hadn't seen it again until I rented the DVD the other night. I remember liking it a lot when I saw it back in the 1980s, thinking it was a sweet film and about as close to a screwball comedy as you might get at that time. It's been more than 20 years, and I was interested to see if I still enjoyed the film and if it held up well. Splash is still entertaining, but I'm not as delighted with the film as I was back in my teen years. Admittedly, I feel this way about a lot of 1980s comedies, with a few notable exceptions (The Blues Brothers). The style of humor doesn't seem to work quite as well, either because I'm too old or because American comedy has changed in certain ways.

I probably don't have to recount the plot, but in case you forgot, Splash is about an unlucky-in-love average guy from New York (Tom Hanks) who encounters a wonderful woman new to NYC who turns out to be a mermaid (Daryl Hannah). Like most romantic-comedy heroines with secrets, she doesn't tell him about the mermaid thing until it's too late, and while he's madly in love, he's a little confused by her amazing speed in learning English, her odd dining habits, and so forth. Meanwhile, a nerdy scientist (Eugene Levy) has figured out that "Madison" (yes, this movie probably started the trend of naming babies after streets and other geographical locations) is a mermaid, and is determined to find concrete proof. The movie was directed by Ron Howard, and was the breakout film for himself as well as Hanks and Hannah.

It's funny; I'm not not a big fan of blood and gore in the movies, and occasionally I get a little squeamish at the Hostel variety of horror, but show me a guy cleft in two with a broadsword and I don't even bat an eye. Sometimes, I even get a sick little giggle out of it. I've always enjoyed historical epics; why else would I have I sat through all of the classic "sword and sandal" flicks and their various incarnations of the last few years?

Variety announced that John Malkovich has joined an international cast that includes Michael Madsen, Peter O'Toole, and Virginie Ledoyen for Raoul Ruiz's Love and Virtue. The film centers on the crusading battles and romantic intrigue during Charlemagne's empire. The film was written by Mia Sperber and Stefano Prates, who used the epic poems The Song of Roland and Orlando Innamorato as inspiration for the story. The poems are full of all those things that are usually in medieval poems, like treacherous nobles, love-smitten knights, and Saracen armies -- which in the end guarantees at least a few large-scale battle scenes. No word yet on who Malkovich will play, but I'm sure it will involve one of his bizarre accents. Love and Virtue will begin production this March on location in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Over the years, Toronto has become the faux façade for many films. So many, in fact, that I'm surprised there isn't a cheesy guided tour of the filmed locales, a la L.A.'s death tours, star homes and the like. Nevertheless, many Torontonians play the "Spot the neighborhoods of Toronto " game. Some are obvious. The Dan forth became the windy city for My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Patrick Bateman ran around the financial district in American Psycho. Roy Thomson Hall hosted a political conference in X-Men.

But The Poet is going to do all of them one better. The film, which just began shooting, is a period piece set in occupied Poland during World War II. Damien Lee is directing the feature, which is adapted from a story by Jack Crystal. You might be familiar with Lee's work on such cinematic powerhouses as Baby on Board or Ski School, or maybe Corey Haim's Watchers, which Lee co-wrote with Bill Freed.

The Poet is a bit different. It's a romance about a German officer who falls in love with the Polish daughter of a rabbi, who is set to wed a doting, Orthodox Jewish man. Ah, the classic story of the lure between bad passion and boring sweetness. The theme might be over-done, but the cast looks promising. The leads are less well-known -- prolific bit-part actor Jonathan Scarfe is the German officer, and Nina Dobrev of Sarah Polley's Away From Her is the young woman. However, the supporting cast makes things a touch more intriguing – Daryl Hannah, Colm Feore and Roy Scheider.

Brad Pitt is officially Dad of the Year (well, at least according to Life & Style magazine). The Fight Club star beat out fellow Hollywood fathers Ryan Phillipe, Heath Ledger and Ben Affleck to win the coveted number one spot. The ruling was based on Pitt's decision to choose family over the Cannes Film Festival. Naturally, Tom Cruise's whirlwind promotional tour just days after Suri's birth precluded him from the list. However, Cruise's couch-jumping antics did secure him the honor of being one half of In Touch magazine's Most Affectionate Couple in Hollywood. So it seems that the Interview with the Vampire stars are in a dead heat. Both have two adopted children, both have biological baby girls and both have meaningless tabloid titles. Personally, I'd like to see "Oldest Make-out" as the tie-breaking category. Tommy's marriage to Mimi Rogers gives him a bit of a head-start, but if Brad can get Barbara Hershey's digits, it'll be game-over.   

David Lynch's personal life might be odder than his on-screen plot lines. The director of such cult favorites as Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Dr. is separating from his wife after only one month of marriage. Obviously Hollywood is no stranger to short-lived marriages (Britney, Zsa Zsa, Ernest Borgnine ... ), but Lynch and his wife already have a teenage son together, thus suggesting that they've known each other for quite some time. I guess this just proves that little pieces of paper do change people.   

Daryl Hannah's tree-sitting days are over! As reported earlier, Hannah and a bunch of other eco-celebs such as Joan Baez and Leonardo DiCaprio have been protesting the bulldozing of a subsistence farm in L.A.'s inner city for the past 23 days. The star of Splash went out with a bang yesterday when she was hauled off to prison with the rest of her fellow protesters. From her jail cell, Hannah told People, "I'm not thrilled about it, but I felt it was important to sustain my commitment." Hear that, Joan Baez and Leonardo DiCaprio? It's important to SUSTAIN your commitment. The fair-weather, tree-hugging celebs were nowhere to be seen during yesterday's police raid.  

 

I know Daryl Hannah was in Kill Bill, but other than that I thought she'd spend the last couple of decades under a pretty rock somewhere, dreaming of the glory days of Reckless and Summer Lovers. Apparently, however, that was just me, because according the IMDb, she's been working her tail off  - and, by the looks of the things, 2006 and 2007 will be equally busy. Hot on the heels of last week's announcement of her role in Dark Honeymoon comes the news that she will also star in Vice, an indie thriller from writer-director Raul Sanchez Inglis. The film "revolves around a group of conflicted police officers who become suspects when drugs go missing" and, in addition to Hannah, will feature her Kill Bill co-star Michael Madsen (both will also produce), as well as Mykelti Williamson and Mark Boone Junior.

Vice is due to begin shooting in Vancouver in a couple of weeks.

Check out this cast: Roy Scheider, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, and Sean Young. In an indie flick, for which each is probably earning about $30/day, plus meal money. How crazy is that? I mean, if it was, say 1987, this would be a huge studio picture, complete with lots of posh trailers and personal assistants, glamorous magazine layouts for the ladies and talk show appearances for everyone except, possibly, nutso Sean. Ah, memories.

Anyway. This new, cheapie-flick is a thriller called Dark Honeymoon, and sounds like it could easily be either over-the-top terrible, or subtle and creepy. The story is about a man who marries a hot woman he barely knows, only to "[uncover] the terrible truth about her as those around them begin to die mysterious and violent deaths." Me, I'm worried mainly about the men here: despite the fact that Scheider played a nearly impossible part perfectly in All That Jazz and was wonderful in Jaws, the horror of his performance in Romeo Is Bleeding has never left me - and you never know what the hell Eric Roberts is going to get up. Do you see what I'm saying here? The chances for a lot of screaming and yelling are dangerously high. That said, I'm intrigued in spite of myself.

Shooting is due to being in May.