The Filles Files (October 15-21)

Each week, the Filles bring you some of our favourite films finds of the week—news, reviews,  features, interviews, tweets, new releases, etc.—just in case you missed them.

REEL GREAT READS 

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• Playing promiscuous is no easy role for Hollywood's leading ladies (The Grid TO) - Martin Morrow ponders why leading women have rarely been allowed to pull off the promiscuous role without actually being the “good girl” in the end, and how the release of Dirty Girl is challenging that.
• Jason Reitman gathers Jennifer Garner, Aaron Paul and more for star-studded reading of ‘The Breakfast Club’ (EW) - Some lucky bastards in LA got to see John Hughes’ best movie the way the coolest semi-Canadian director would have wanted to see it—with Jennifer Garner taking on Molly Ringwald’s Claire, Dawson Leery (er, James Van Der Beek) playing Andy (Emilio Estevez) and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul apparently topping Judd Nelson as the scary-sexy John Bender. We’d take detention every Saturday from now on to have seen that go down.
• Criticism as old as criticism itself (Toronto Star) - Film critic Peter Howell analyzes Pauline Kael’s 1980s assertion that “rotten pictures are making money,” in light of this week’s blockbuster-style crop (Paranormal Activity 3, a new Johnny English movie, The Three Musketeers 3D), arguing that while there are always bad just-for-the-money movies, there are plenty of good ones too.
• Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire (Vogue) - This indepth profile of the actress who has been chosen to be Lisbeth Salander in the David Fincher’s American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, discusses the double standards modern actresses have to face, explaining why Scarlett Johannson didn’t get the role (Fincher says she was too sexy) and that controversial poster.

WEEKEND WATCHES

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• Paranormal Actvity 3 - The third instalment in the home video demonic horror series couldn’t be more lame than the second (Flying babies! Doors flying open!) could it? All we know is the original literally kept us up the night we saw it, so if this has any hint of that film’s scariness, we’re bound to be pleasantly creeped to the core.
• Dirty Girl - Have you read Martin Morrow’s Grid TO piece above yet?

TRAILER OF THE WEEK: Piranha 3DD

As if we weren’t already sold on this perfectly-titled sure-to-be instant classic, here’s the first teaser trailer, complete with a ‘Hoff cameo and what looks like Ving Rhames doing his best Cherry Darling impression.