The beautiful Rebecca Brooke (a.k.a. Mary Mendum) plays Priscilla, a bored housewife who must face the return of her arch-nemesis Abigail Leslie, a woman whose sexual escapades have shaken up small-town Baypoint and disrupted Priscilla’s marriage.

Man-slut Beau really knows the moves and Priscilla can't resist. He's a real predator (nudge, wink).

I review movies based on only two criteria: entertainment value and enlightenment value.

• Candy (entertainment value) – Some movies are guilty pleasures and need no justification for enjoyment. However, there are good fun movies and bad fun movies.
• Lightbulb (enlightenment value) – If you want to be part of the avant-garde, look for the films stamped with a lightbulb. After a viewing, you’ll be smarter (or at least, you can claim to be smart).

Any combination of these two criteria out of five  each (5 + 5 = 10 max.) determines my opinion of how you might perceive the movie.

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS ALL RUMOR/SPECULATION. NO FACTUAL INFO UNTIL THE MOVIE STARTS ROLLING FILM. ALL POSTED INFORMATION IS TO FEED THE CESSPOOL, PROGRAM THE GHOST IN THE SHELL.

What we know:

• 99.99% odds that Chris Nolan’s brother Jonathan will direct it. I think because J will have a better sense of how to depict an American icon. New frontrunners to direct, including Darren Aronofsky, Zack Snyder, Matt Reeves, etc. CONFIRMED: Zack Snyder is directing. Now people want to know who’s playing Superman.
• Set for theatrical premiere Christmas 2012, a few months after premiere of Batman Begins 3.
• Likelihood of Lex Luthor and/or Braniac as the main villain(s). Confirmed: Villain is General Zod.
• No Brandon Routh or any returning cast members from Superman Returns. UPDATE: I’m thinking Routh might get a second chance now. Doesn’t make sense marketing-wise not to re-hire him. Warner Bros. always plays things close to the vest. If you’ve already conditioned all the fans into thinking Routh is Superman, it’ll be too much effort to re-market a new guy. Odds are, Routh is returning as Superman.
• Henry Cavill is the new Superman – Who is this guy? Doesn’t look like an epic hero type. Alas, must wait and see if Snyder can deliver.
• Diane Lane is confirmed to be playing Ma Kent.
• Kevin Costner is confirmed to be playing Pa Kent
• Snyder hints that the new title will be simply “Man of Steel”, taking the Nolan approach similar to naming “The Dark Knight”. He also says there will be no references to any of the previous Superman films before. Confirmed: the official title is “Man of Steel”.
• Amy Adams is confirmed to be playing Lois Lane
• Michael Shannon has been cast as General Zod
• Connie Nielson has been offered the role of Lara El; Russell Crowe has been offered the role of Jor El;
• Rumor Neil Patrick Harris is Jimmy Olsen

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