Doco Short: From One Second to the Next

If you're one of those people who have been guilty on occasion of texting while driving, please take some time to watch this short 34-minute documentary by Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams) commissioned by AT&T for an anti-texting-and-driving campaign. Through four sets of moving stories interviewing both victims/families of victims and driving texters, it delivers a loud and clear message, highlighting how a split second decision to attend to something so trivial can irrevocably and tragically alter lives forever. Time to put away that phone while you're on the road folks!

Trailer: Jack Reacher

Morning! Head over to Yahoo to check out the new full-length trailer for the forthcoming Tom Cruise vehicle Jack Reacher. We get a better picture of who this Reacher dude is (ex-army cop sniffing out a conspiracy!), and most excitingly, the first glimpse of Werner Herzog as a bung-eyed villain who doesn't seem to like Reacher noseying around. The film is based on the Lee Child novel One Shot, and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, maybe still best known for writing The Usual Suspects and not The Way of the Gun, the only other movie he directed - 12 years ago. Nice to see Robert Duvall alive and kicking!

Herzog on Chickens

Thanks to our resident Herzog buff Joel for the heads-up on this great vid of the German auteur talking about chickens... some choice quotes you can drop at parties: "Try to look a chicken in the eye with great intensity, and the intensity of stupidity that is looking back at you is just amazing".