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So, while purchasing my copy of Born To Fight yesterday I stumbled across this listing at EthaiCD. Check it out. C'mon. Go. Yes folks, The Adventure of Iron Pussy: an all singing, all dancing musical extravaganza following the adventures of The Iron Pussy who is, of course, a balding middle aged transvestite who works at a 7-11 by day and fights crime on behalf of the Thai government by night. As if that's not strange enough the film is directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a major critical favorite whose films Tropical Malady and Blissfully Yours have both won major awards at Cannes. I haven't been able to turn up a trailer on this one yet but the good people at Ethai tell me the DVD should be out in a week or so and that it is supposed to include English subtitles ... Thai stuff is so cheap that I'll be buying this based on the synopsis alone.

But here's one that DOES include a trailer. Yes, folks, it's everybody's favorite respiratory disease. It's SARS Wars, a fairly big budget action comedy. Funny thing: I was in Toronto for the entire SARS outbreak and I don't remember it turning anybody into zombies. And I really don't remember hot chicks running around with swords, axes and guns. I wish I did, though. The trailer is painfully small and grainy, but there's some great stuff in the gallery page ...