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If you're someone who likes to delight in the perks and romance of Valentine's Day, you've got to plan it. When you don't, you might see a good time fall in your lap, or you might find yourself fighting hordes of couples and end up eating at McDonalds. I remember one year when I went out on an impromptu evening with a guy on that dreaded day. Since we didn't plan it first, we ran around trying to find a place to eat that wasn't booked, and then headed off for the movies, where the only flick that was wasn't sold out Blues Brothers 2000. Even my huge love for Joe Morton couldn't make me love that movie. Ugh.

So, if you plan to make cinema a part of your night, you're going to want to plan it. Maybe, instead of a saccharine romcom, you'd like some horror to snuggle up with. If that's the case, you might want to check out The Caretaker, when it gets released this February 14. It's just a little indie film, but it looks quirky; it has some funny bits; and what could be better to watch while eating conversation hearts than a horny Jennifer Tilly hitting on students and serial killers alike, or Judd Nelson being the protective dad?

The Caretaker focuses on a group of teens who want to scare their girlfriends during Homecoming, which just happens to fall on Halloween. To up the chills, they go to an abandoned house in a grapefruit orchard -- yes, grapefruits -- and are stalked/butchered by a real-life urban legend. If this sounds like it might be up your alley, and you aren't in Toronto to get a healthy splatter of blood at the reappearance of Evil Dead: The Musical, The Caretaker might be all you need.

Just when you think you've seen it all -- and just when you were sick of all these damn lists -- comes Film Threat's four-parter on the fifty best breasts (aka boobs, aka ta-tas) in movie history. Now they don't seem to target specific films and characters within those films; this is more of a fifty best breasts in Hollywood history, as the list centers more on the actresses -- the women -- than the roles they've taken on. My favorite part of this list has to do with the fact that they included YouTube clips featuring all of the actresses in their best, well, attire (my personal favorite has to be the clip for Chesty Morgan). Some of the clips are from films, others are these weird stalker-ish montages -- nevertheless, it's all worth a look.

By now you're probably wondering who made their list. Well, noticeably absent is Angelina Jolie (who I would've thrown on there, if only for that ultra-sexy Tomb Raider outfit). Earlier ladies include Mae West, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, Elizabeth Taylor, Jayne Mansfield and the lovely Sophia Loren. We also have a little of Raquel Welch, Tura Santana and Pam Grier. Some more recent ladies include Jennifer Connelly (and yes, they include video of the scene with her riding the horse in Career Opportunities), Monica Bellucci, Jennifer Tilly, Scarlett Johansson and Rosario Dawson (video from her Clerks II dance -- gotta love it!). And of course, how could they leave off those busty animated characters; Jessica Rabbit rounds out the list of fifty.

I should also note that this list was created to help raise awareness for the American Cancer Society, considering it's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So it's all for fun and a good cause; hopefully no one will be offended. That said, I've included the Chesty Morgan video after the jump because, quite frankly, it's all kinds of awesome. Do you agree with their list, or are there breasts women they left out? (Um, I'd like to be first in asking where Salma Hayek, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Carla Gugino, Eva Mendes and -- heck -- Lindsay Lohan are, just to name a few ...)

[via Hollywood Elsewhere]

While we've been getting a lot of horror flicks lately, they've taken themselves pretty seriously. If there is anything that I've loved about the horror genre it's the tacky moments in between the jumps and geysers of blood. It's been a while since I've been to some camp-fueled gore. (This is probably why I'm heading to the theater tonight to sit in the splatter zone for a performance of Evil Dead, The Musical, but that's besides the point.) Riffing on Grease, Jackie Linder Olson is saying that "camp is the word" for her upcoming film, The Caretaker, which she wrote and produced while her husband, Bryce Olson directed.

Hopefully they wouldn't tease a girl. The movie is about a group of teen boys who want to scare their girlfriends on Halloween. They go out to an abandoned house in a grapefruit orchard and are stalked by an urban legend called The Caretaker. The movie, however, is more than just a night at the creepy house, because Jennifer Tilly and Judd Nelson have notable roles. Nelson is "disarmingly creepy" as an overprotective dad, and Tilly is a teacher who wants to get famous by sleeping with a student. According to the director: "We took a current trend that we found both tragic and disturbing and put it in the forefront of our film. No one could do a better job at this character than the sexy and talented Jennifer Tilly." Is that a compliment? Honey, no one knows deranged, sexually-confused women like you do! Other cast members include: Jonathan Breck, Jennifer Freeman, Diego Torres, Andrew St. John, James Immekus and Kira Verrastro. Hopefully it can live up to the Olson hype.

What happened to Andie MacDowell? While she was never the absolute IT girl, she used to have a pretty solid, in-the-spotlight career -- after the success of Sex, Lies, and Videotape she nabbed big, starring roles in movies like Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral. However, with the end of the 90's came the end of news about Andie. Many of her top co-stars continue to have solid careers, but Ms. MacDowell has floated under the spotlight. In fact, most of her roles these days are in made-for-television movies. Artistically, things are starting to look up, so maybe this will springboard her back into the mainstream, like Secretary did for her Videotape co-star, James Spader.

Variety has brought word that she's signed on, along with Jennifer Tilly, for the third in Irish filmmaker Mary McGuckian's series of improvised, "amorality" satires on popular culture. Both actresses also starred in the director's recently-finished Intervention, which is about a celebrity rehab clinic in New Mexico. Now they're both stepping to the plate for Art in Las Vegas. Before you form an assumption on the content -- the film is not about gambling or art, but about the test-tube baby industry. How that merges with the sparkling city of lights and art, I have no idea. I've found some BBC links where McGuckian has talked about her series, and she describes the third as being "set in the film industry." Either the scope has changed since that 2005 interview, or there's a lot more to the movie then they're letting on.

Variety is reporting that production has begun on director Guy Louthan's pic The Independent -- which should not be confused with the 2000 film starring Janeane Garofalo. This new film, a comedy set in the world of indie film production, stars Jennifer Tilly and Joey Slotnick, was co-written by the director and Neil Monaghan, is being exec. produced by Drew Katz and has nothing to do with Garofalo. The story concerns a producer, who after many years of struggle, finally gets a chance to make his dream project -- an adaptation of an obscure Victorian Novel called The Tides of Reason. Unfortunately, in his desperation to get the film made, he's forced to agree to the demands of his dubious financing sources and make the entire film in Romania to take advantage of some very suspicious and potentially illegal tax credits.

The film also features several respectable but relatively unknown British actors including Steve Nicholson, Joe Shaw and Jason Flemyng. When I toiled away in the indie film production world, I can't tell you how many times I heard about someone who was going to finance a film using tax credits or insurance funds from some country like Romania. Actually, I'm sure some of the films I worked on were probably financed that way -- at least partially. Maybe that's why news of the project appealed to me -- because I've lived it. But will it be funny? When you're in the middle of it it doesn't seem very funny -- more a giant pain in the ass. Hopefully, this film will find the funny.