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In theaters Friday: Casino Royale, Fast Food Nation, Happy Feet, Let’s Go To Prison.

New on DVD: The Da Vinci Code, Who Killed The Electric Car?

Even though Quentin Tarantino should have directed Casino Royale, like he said he wanted too—bringing back Ian Fleming’s debut Bond novel was his idea, anyway—I’m still looking forward to the new James Bond flick, out this Friday. I liked Daniel Craig in Munich and loved him in Layer Cake, and so what if he’s the first Bond that’s kind of fugly? Bond movies are one of the few franchises that still make me feel like a kid. To get ready for 007, here is MSNBC’s list of best Bond Girls. And here’s Entertainment Weekly’s list of the worst. For my money, Famke Janssen’s femme fatale Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye, and Diana Rigg’s depressive mafia heiress Tracy di Vicenzo from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service are pretty hard to top. And EW, where do you get off dissing Maryam d'Abo?

The fictionalized film version of Fast Food Nation should be intriguing. After reading Eric Schlosser’s best-selling investigation into the burgers-and-fries industry, I wrote this article on the health, the taste and the economics of “Buying Fresh, Buying Local” foods in Baton Rouge. It’s an important issue. Everyone should take a little more time to consider exactly what is going into their bodies and how it was produced.

Happy Feet should be harmless fun for the March of the Penguins set, but the Let’s Go To Prison trailer makes it look like the worst episode of Arrested Development ever made.

So get this: Two of the frat guys featured in Borat now want to sue the pants off of the film’s studio, 20th Century Fox. If you haven’t seen the movie, the young men appear to have knocked back a few rounds and share their misogynistic opinions of women that at the very least match Mel Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic ramblings. Oh, and then there was that little comment about wishing the U.S. still had slaves. Whoops! Dude, you guys were filming that!?!

Here’s a link to the much-touted Spiderman 3 trailer. Check it out, even though it is Venom-free. The leaked version with Venom has been taken down by your friends at Sony.

Here’s a trailer for Dame Judy Dench’s now obligatory Oscar nominated performance, Notes on a Scandal. Nobody does cold, shrill and backstabbing like the Dame.

If you’re not clued in yet to Christopher Guest and his improv crew that was forged out of This Is Spinal Tap, and has produced Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, and A Mighty Wind of late, then, you may not be excited about their next effort For Your Consideration. But I know I am. Here’s the trailer. It’s somewhat underwhelming, but I’m hoping they’ve saved the funny for the actual movie. I do like the Hollywood satire, though, and Fred Willard and Eugene Levy are comedy geniuses in my book, and the addition of The Office creator Ricky Gervais to the cast can’t be a bad thing. For Your Consideration will see wide release next Friday, Nov. 22.