April 29, 2012 - May 5, 2012 Archives
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Equally inspired by the found-footage horror trend and the way semen stains haunt a skin mag like spectral intruders in a double-penetration scene, Harmless is both the extremist Christian right's answer to Paranormal Activity and one man's rant against the existence of porn--o... / Continue →
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Reaching out to those who have a deeper understanding of TARDIS mechanics than the combustion engine, Fast Five director Justin Lin is reportedly in talks for former Doctor Who star David Tennant to join the next big film about Vin Diesel driving cool cars. The news comes from ... / Continue →
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In accordance with Fox's innovative new marketing strategy of distancing itself from accusations of racially-motivated homicide, the studio's upcoming comedy Neighborhood Watch is now apparently titled simply The Watch. Similarly, this latest, red-band trailer for the film make... / Continue →
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Back in 1995, long before we knew Steve Jobs' premature death would lead to Ashton Kutcher's best shot at an Oscar, Robert X. Cringely sat down with the Apple co-founder for an hour-long interview for the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires. The... / Continue →
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In a rare instance of simian-esque casting that does not involve covering Andy Serkis in balls, Twilight's Kellan Lutz and Resident Evil's Spencer Locke have been chosen to provide the lead motion-capture performances for Constantin Films' Tarzan movie.... / Continue →
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Eager to run free of the weight of a piggy-backed Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson will follow up his Twilight career with roles in which he will chase both Saddam Hussein and whoever who stole his car, assuming those are different people.... / Continue →
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Now that the nerd fervor has calmed somewhat over the latest Dark Knight Rises trailer, Sony wants to remind you they, too, have a costumed fellow who is quite sad about mommy and daddy going away. In this latest trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, our new Peter Parker does not... / Continue →
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Hollywood demands more remake blood, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is going to help provide some with a re-imagining of Little Shop of Horrors that will give the actor something to sing and dance in until Inception: Live Your Dreams! hits stages.... / Continue →
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Boasting "the writer of Training Day and The Fast and the Furious," the trailer for End of Watch is here, and it has all the rookie cop drama and car chases that being from the writer of Training Day and The Fast and the Furious implies. Shot as sort of a found-footage thing--p... / Continue →
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Chinese filmmaker Pang Ho-cheung's recent sequel to Love in a Puff overtook Hunger Games at the Hong Kong box office and has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics that describe it as a charming, modern romantic-comedy. Today I'm posting the trailer solely because ... / Continue →
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Disney has reportedly attached Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol director Brad Bird is to direct 1952, a script from Prometheus writer Damon Lindelof. And that is pretty much all you get to know about that, because Lindelof and Abrams and all their Lost boys just love whispe... / Continue →
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As foretold by Terry Crews screaming at us, the first trailer for The Expendables 2 has arrived to rip the door off your skull and fill it with as much weaponry and garbled, indiscernible pith as can be squeezed into three minutes. It has a lot of explosions, Jean-Claude Van Da... / Continue →
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Gary Ross may have left Summit without a director for Catching Fire, and he may look the archetype of Guy Mom Is Dating Who Wants To Be Your Pal, but the studio doesn't seem to be holding it against the guy. According to THR, Summit has already in talks with the Seabiscuit dire... / Continue →
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Eastbound & Down co-creator Jody Hill is reportedly working on a Sam Peckinpah-like action film based around an outlaw duo in the 1970s South. Also, if there is any way at all it would make sense for the outlaw duo to drive a bright orange Dodge Charger over a really cool jump,... / Continue →
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It's a little late for new Lizard images--we all already rendered our final judgements based on the Pez dispensers--but Sony has released some additional official photos of their Amazing Spider-Man villain over at Apple. Above, you can see Lizard will indeed, at some point, don... / Continue →
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This is like the ultimate instance of someone coming up with a funny idea while having some drunken, nostalgic conversation at a bar, and then shocking everyone by actually following through with said idea. In this case, the drunken conversation clearly involved singing along t... / Continue →
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Beasts of the Southern Wild took home the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance, where it was lauded by critics who often compared the film's contemplative naturalism to the work of Terrence Malick, which is pretty high praise, because people love that guy. As per t... / Continue →
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If you want the full experience of avenging this weekend, make sure to loiter around the theater until all of The Avengers' credits have rolled. Though the film's mid-credits bonus scene will suggest that the movie is over, and mom will start gathering your things so she can ma... / Continue →
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He sure does! Hear and see that inevitability in the first clip from Men in Black 3 below. (You also get to Smith ride the futuristic bike thing that so mildly delighted him on the poster.)... / Continue →
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Here are the posters for A Fantastic Fear of Everything and Lovelace, two seemingly-disparate films--one is a dark, neurotic British comedy that stars Simon Pegg, the other casts Amanda Seyfried as a porn star known for Deep Throat--united in the theme of picturing their curly-... / Continue →
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With Jason Statham refusing to play bald, tough UK counterpart to Fast Six's bald, tough American guys, Luke Evans will instead be filling that role with less gruffness but more hair.... / Continue →
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Remember how Spike Lee is making a new version of Oldboy that will have more Josh Brolin? Now District 9 star Shalto Copley will be in that, too, to give Brolin someone to talk to about CGI aliens.... / Continue →
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Half-mocking the "trailers for trailers" trend and half yielding to it, this first sort-of-teaser for Expendables 2 only reveals a few explosions before promising a longer preview arriving on Thursday. As implied by the above title and still, this promise is made via Terry Crew... / Continue →
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I'm not sure if this is an observation of a keenly-noticed trend or if it's just the product of an extremely particular fetish community. Either way, bravo, and enjoy as you will.... / Continue →
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Concert pianist Elijah Wood and his wife are going to die! Unless Elijah Wood plays HIS BEST CONCERT EVER, that is. We're going to make that a movie now, okay, everyone?... / Continue →
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Hollywood's large-scale plan to eliminate all evidence that director Stephen Sommers ever existed is finally making some ground over at Universal, where prolific blockbuster creators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have been hired to overwrite all the supernatural bullshit Somme... / Continue →
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Responding to UsWeekly's hard-hitting question about what leading lady he'd like as a comedic co-star, Jason Segel last month responded with an unexpected answer: Hillary Clinton. "I just feel like she would be good at comedy," Segel explained, not doubt thinking of all the hil... / Continue →
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With audiences responding well to The Avengers' more smashy, less Norton-y take on the Hulk, Marvel is starting to re-think the future of the character--as in, now Hulk might get another film of his own. He also might get the chance to become for workplace difficulties what Sno... / Continue →
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The characters of the Street Fighter series are at last reaching U.S. screens in a context free of the vexing lilts of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chris Klein. ... / Continue →
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Curious how the Rock of Ages movie soundtrack will improve your collection of Tom Cruise ballads? It will improve it greatly! If that's something you're looking to do. According to EW, the jukebox musical's official soundtrack will feature Cruise's thetan meat body attempting c... / Continue →
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With the viral event completed and Christopher Nolan appeased of his demand for new episodes of Murphy Brown, the final trailer for The Dark Knight Rises has been released. It has a surprisingly serene tone for a film stuffed with explosions and fist fights. It also has a lot m... / Continue →
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Though off the air since 1998 and now mostly mentioned just before someone says, "Oh, yeah, and remember Evening Shade?", the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown may be returning to its former network for a few episodes this fall.... / Continue →
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Bringing in a ringer to make their bad idea seem just slightly more acceptable, MGM has agreed to pay undead nuisance veteran Sam Raimi to produce their remake of the 1982 horror classic, Poltergeist.... / Continue →
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I'LL DROP WHAT THEY'RE BASSING. Sorry, that didn't work at any level, but anyway, here's a video that takes some famous and not-that-famous movie orgasms and works them into a dubstep tune appropriately titled "Orgstep Dubgasm." Be forewarned: due to constant erotic moaning, th... / Continue →
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Dropping the stern, emotionless façade that has long been the hallmark of Men in Black posters, Will Smith appears on a new international one-sheet for MiB3 wearing the half-hearted grin he usually reserves for when he finds out Jada's "surprise present" is a new pack of unders... / Continue →
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Here's the newest preview for HBO's upcoming The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin-created series in which anodyne news anchor Jeff Daniels has a public meltdown and reinvents himself as an impassioned Aaron Sorkin character. The first trailer highlighted the aforementioned meltdown, ... / Continue →
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Not to be outdone by the competitions' recent outpourings of trailers for trailers, The Dark Knight Rises is now offering up a preview of individual frames from its final trailer, which debuts this Friday on prints of The Avengers. It's all the action of the trailer, none of th... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Think Like a Man - $18 million. If a film version of Family Feud host Steve Harvey's relationship book can do so well, what are we waiting for on adapting John O'Hurley's musings on dogs? 2. The Pirates! Band of Misfits - $11.4 million, the weakest... / Continue →
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There have been a lot of Prometheus trailers. Enough that the hysterical screams to "CUT IT OFF" and "GET IT OFF" have now taken on the comforting familiarity of a panicked, screamed lullaby. Still, there is yet another trailer, and for better or worse, this one reveals the mos... / Continue →
