I went and saw Juno last night. Go watch it. It's chock full of music references, a soundtrack that blows fucking Zack Braff's dumb ass out of the water, and a very cute and wonderful little love story that will have couples cuddling on the way out, and the single folks slitting their wrists. The main characters, Juno MacGuff and Paulie Bleeker, are played by Ellen Page and Michael Cera, respectively. Ellen Page (Juno) is absolutely adorable in this (She played Shadowcat in the third X-Men movie, and in some crappy looking street justice To Catch a Predator movie called Hard Candy). She plays a (perhaps unrealistically) charistmatic whip-smart high school junior with razor sharp sense of sarcasm and wit. She gets knocked up after first time sex with sort of boyfriend, played by Michael Cera (the timid kid from Superbad and Arrested Development). He plays the same kind of character in each of his roles, but he plays it well. This is a first for writer Diablo Cody, and I hope it's not the last. The movie ends with the characters performing "Anyone Else But You" originally by the Modly Peaches, which is pretty amazing. "Up Up, Down Down, left right left right, B A, start. Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart." Genius!
I also saw a trailer for a black and white animated movie called Persepolis based on autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi about growing up during the Islamic revolution that looked really good.
If it works out I think they should totally make the graphic novel series, Maus, into movie.
