I'm very pleased by the news that an extended Director's Cut of Donnie Darko is scheduled to be released in theaters later this month, with twenty minutes of additional footage, improved special effects, and an expanded soundtrack, including an additional plum for fans of the Pet Shop Boys: as originally intended, a big dance number by Sparkle Motion will be choreographed to "West End Girls." (It was replaced by Duran Duran's "Notorious" in the original cut, for budgetary reasons.)

Donnie Darko, of course, already features a classic sequence choroegraphed to "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears, as well as Gary Jules's haunting cover of "Mad World." Clearly, to make a movie with a great soundtrack, you only need to set it in the late 1980s.