In today’s movie news: a look at every character in big budget Watchmen. Did I say big budget? 2012 shows its first moving images with an even bigger budget. Followed by next month’s disaster movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Brad Pitt gets younger in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Another week, another movie for Steve Carell. And the latest on Michael Moore’s movie as well.

How’s Australia ending and what’s up with Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness. And lastly, a new remake is coming no one wanted except Fam. Smith.

All in here!

Is it a compliment when Michael Moore likes your movie? Kind of, I guess. The documentary maker praised Madonna’s ‘I Am Because We Are’ for its passionate and personal story. “She’s sort of entered my realm. When I saw it, I thought, wow, it’s like she’s been making these films for years,” Moore said. “She takes the viewer through a very personal journey and tries to connect us, living here in the U.S., giving us a window into the way it is for other people in the world. You’re extremely moved when you watch it. You understand very clearly why she’s devoted so much of her life to the people of Malawi.“

Madonna’s movie will be shown at the Traverse City Film Festival, co-founded by Michael Moore. “The film is a labor of love and I am happy that I can bring it home to my roots with the help of Michael,” Madonna said. “I am also honored that the film will be screening at this particular festival arranged by Michael as he is a genius and I am a huge fan.“

The Traverse City Film Festival will be held from July 29 until August 3.

Was there even a critic that did like ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’? Words as ‘propaganda,’ ‘insulting,’ ‘brainwashing’ and ‘hysterical’ were used to describe this documentary. Jokes about its subtitle and just plain ridiculing made this a movie nobody in their right mind would watch. Right? Wrong!

While it does have a metacritic.com score of 2.0, it still managed to make $6.6 million including last weekend. This makes it the 13th highest grossing documentary in the US. “It’s done exceptionally well when you look at it as a documentary film,” producer Mark Mathis said.

He blames the media for not getting more people to see his movie. “Michael Moore comes out with a film and Michael Moore gets large amounts of time on morning shows –- NBC, ABC, CBS, cable networks. He gets tens of millions of dollars of free publicity because Big Media see the world in general the way he does.“

Can you really blame the media for not picking up on what most describe as the worst movie of the year? He should be happy the little controversy made him the $6.6 million. I didn’t see the movie, but as I understand it, it wasn’t worth a penny of that $6.6 million. At least you can accuse Michael Moore of some objectivity.