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.

The only thing more annoying than double-dipping DVDs is refraining from buying the first release of a film you really love, and then waiting, waiting, waiting, and more waiting for a better version to come out. Of course, as soon as you finally cave in, eager to see the film again, that's when it will happen. I'm beginning to think that I should just go out and buy the old Kill Bill releases, just to get this whole production up and running.

Last June, it seemed like we were finally getting the Whole Bloody Affair, but November came and went without that super-tasty disc release. Almost a year later, we're getting teased again. In a talk with MTV, Uma Thurman says that Quentin Tarantino's animated stuff is really on the way, and she teased that the long-awaited and desired big DVD release could actually arrive soon.

One anime companion film has been made, and Thurman says: "It has nothing to do with me. It has to do with another character. You'll have to see." This, as MTV points out, probably means an extra helping of Bill himself. But she also says that this short could be part of a larger re-release, sort of Grindhouse style. "Right now he's putting the two films together with an intermission with an added anime sequence he had already written. So additional stories are in there, in animation."

Anime or not, just get us the damned DVD set, QT. I'm sick of waiting! I need my geysers of blood and Elle Driver.

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!!!"

It's about bloody time! If you're like me, you refrained from getting the DVD releases of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2 because it was completely inevitable and obvious that something else was coming out. And, it wasn't just the opportunity for a box set (or rather special box set, since a simple one already exists) -- the releases were ridiculously bare-bones -- especially for QT. The first had a brief featurette with some interview clips from major players, some music videos and Quentin Tarantino trailers, and the second had its own featurette and one deleted scene. As much as I wanted to see the films again, I wasn't about to fork over money just to have to spend it again in a few months. Unfortunately, months turned into years, but finally there is a big box set on the way, which Amazon lists as Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

They don't even have a picture up of the cover yet, but nevertheless, there are a number* of things worth noting. First, it will come out in less than five months -- on November 6th, so we know how long we have to wait. Secondly, it should be a hell of a lot better than the previous DVD offerings, and this isn't just the words of hope. There is no list of features or specs yet, but the set includes four discs -- which I assume means two per movie. I think it's safe to say that we should get ready for a crap ton of features. As for the last two tidbits -- it's run-time is listed at 247 minutes (4+ hours long) and that's probably why its rating is NC17. I can only imagine what this extra footage holds! Now if you'll please excuse me, I feel an incredible urge to whistle.

*Edited to add what readers below noticed.

I was fortunate enough to attend a special screening of Smokin' Aces a few months back, and after the movie ended I (and a bunch of other writers) got to sit down and shoot the breeze with writer/director Joe Carnahan. First off, say what you will about the guy, but he sure does know his movies. I've met filmmakers whose eyes got all glassy when I mentioned Walter Hill or Michael Ritchie, but Carnahan can movie-geek with the best of 'em. But when one of the journalists raised the topic of Quentin Tarantino, well, Joe had a lot to say about that.

According to this juicy article at the Sydney Morning Herald, Joe Carnahan will bite your head off if you compare his latest movie to Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction ... but I think this writer may have misrepresented Joey's tone of voice. When we sat down and discussed the exact same things that are covered in that article, Carnahan spoke quite respectfully of QT. He did, however, make it a point to say something like "Hey, Quentin didn't invent guns and hitmen and rapid-fire dialogue, you know!" -- but I never once got the impression that he was knocking Tarantino at all.

Is Smokin' Aces, in your opinion, too reminiscent of Quentin's flicks? Is it unfair to call one filmmaker a copycat of Tarantino if QT spent his entire career copycatting other filmmakers? (Don't get me wrong; I adore Tarantino's movies, but to label his subject matter as "original" is kind of a joke.) Frankly I don't think Carnahan deserves the copycat label, although I can plainly see where the comparisons are coming from. Smokin' Aces actually reminded me more of Running Scared than Pulp Fiction, but if a director wants to do a hard-R, tongue-in-cheek action flick, it seems he's bound to get painted with the Quentin brush. Kinda unfair, if you ask me.

Nobody loves announcing new projects like good ol' Quentin Tarantino, and he took yesterday's Comic Con appearance as an opportunity to announce not one but TWO new Kill Bill movies. Apparently the first one will tell Bill's backstory, and the second will be a continuation of The Bride's blood-soaked misadventures. Oh, and both flicks will be animated. Really, Q? An animated prequel and sequel? That's what you've got lined up? Nothing even remotely like Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown up your sleeve? Ah well.

As much as I generally adore the QT's work, I have to ask: Will these prequels/sequels be arriving before or after Inglorious Bastards and the half-dozen other projects the guy has on his numerous back burners?

Okay, I liked Kill Bill. A lot, actually. I know it took some critical shots from one or two corners, and even some Tarantino purists scoffed at it, but I (like many others) really enjoyed watching it. Both parts. Saw them both on opening day, as a matter of fact. But since then, I don't know that I've sat down to watch either of them again. I always intended to purchase them on DVD (I'm the type of guy who likes to own instead of rent), but I've been patiently awaiting the sure-to-be-coming special edition double feature crazy box set -- waiting almost to the point of forgetting about the films entirely.

This clip combines most of the salient moments of the two films into a nice little two minute montage which ends in an advertisement for some movie download service or something -- don't worry, you can shut it down without having to watch that part since it is tacked on at the end and not the beginning. Yes, it is mostly only Uma Thurman killing over 100 people. Yes, it lacks a good three hours or more of film. Nonetheless it reminded me of how fun the flicks were (and also reminded me of how irritated I am by the lack of a special edition Kill Bill DVD on my shelf).

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.

Quentin Tarantino – who is suddenly giving interviews to everyone lately, is he not? Maybe I should give him a call – is once again going around talking about taping the two pieces of his Kill Bill epic back together. The Movie Blog quotes Digital Spy quoting the Uma fetishist himself: "I want to cut the whole movie together like one big epic with an intermission in the middle like a 60s film," QT explained. "It'll be coming out in theatres." The plan is to slightly recut both films starting early next year, so that it works as one really long epic; he'll then release the new version on a super-padded DVD, presumably shortly after the brief, late-2006 theatrical release. The Movie Blog boys aren't so hot on the idea of spending three hours in a bucket seat with Bill, but I love it. When I saw the first Kill installment in the theaters, I was totally riled up by the end of it – I couldn't wait for Part Two. Then, a year later ... I just sort of shrugged and shuffled off to the cineplex. It would be great to be able to immediately follow through on the momentum created by that whole Lucy Liu massacre – within a theater, with all the communal energy that entails.