April 19, 2006
The Omen Poster
The new poster for The Omen reminds us how to tell if our children are anti-christs. If you suspect your kid is a Satan, try to get him to walk into a sunset or towards headlights (maybe just drive at him) and pay careful attention to his shadow. If it's child shaped, you've got a kid; if it's cross-shaped, you have a Satan. Either that, or the kid might just have his arms out like a cross, so make sure his arms are down before trying to kill him for being a Satan. There's also another possibility, which is that the "child" you've been raising has just been a wooden cross.
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More Stills From Marie-Antoinette
As any respectable Sofia Coppola fan is, I'm really excited about the auteur's stylized look at the life of the young French queen, Marie-Antoinette. So, in anticipation of the film, here's a shot of Kirsten Dunst doing an impression of Garden State. Come back next week and I'll have a video clip of her driving away with a gas pump to indie music.
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Silent Hill Video Clip
If you can't wait until Friday to see video game adaptation Silent Hill, here's a minute long clip to tide you over. In it, the main character, Rose, is pursued by some creepy miners until their special bird alerts them that the walls will turn to flesh and begin decaying. The clip is bound to cause some debate on whether or not staying in a room that's turning into flesh and decaying until a specially trained bird is alerted is the only way to avoid mutant miners, or if there are other methods that might not involve birds or walls made of flesh. I'm afraid that's a question I can't answer in this forum. Some questions can only be answered in your own heart.
Clerks 2 Official Trailer
After a teaser and Internet exclusive, the official trailer for Clerks 2 has finally been released. It's filled with the kind of jokes Kevin Smith is known for, so if you liked or hated the earlier trailers, you'll probably feel the same about this one, except cumulative. The part I like is how it transitions from black & white, then to de-saturated color, before going into full color, because I've heard that at the two-thirds point of the movie, it becomes super-saturated color, then ultraviolet, until it ends with pure energy shooting out of the screen and everyone in the theatre is screaming, and the entire audience wakes up an hour later on a small raft with no memory of any of it. Also, the color thing in the trailer is cute because it reminds me the first one was shot in black & white. But mostly the first reason.
The Omen International Trailer
The international trailer for The Omen remake has hit the Internet. Though half of it is stock footage, there's a lot of neat stuff, including rabid apes, an old pope spilling wine, a baby mutant skeleton, Julie Stiles in a tub of blood, and the deformed freak above. After watching, I was reminded why I don't have kids. Who's to say I wouldn't have the anti-christ, here to fulfill a prophecy to end the world? With my genes, I'd say there's a pretty good chance I would. Or worse yet, what if he were retarded?
First Look at Bond Villain Le Chiffre
A Danish newspaper has printed the first picture of the villain of the new Bond film, Le Chiffre. Wisely, the filmmakers have gone with the deadly look of nerdy haircut meets steak knife accident. Isn't the whole villain with a facial scar thing kind of played out at this point? If they want to be both original and scary, they should do something new with his face, like hang a testicle off a cheek. That way, when he's interrogating Bond, he can say, "Surrender, Mr. Bond, or I'll make you touch my facial testicle, which is exactly what it sounds like," to which Bond would reply, "I'd been wondering what was in that miniature velvet sack on your cheek."
