When I first heard about this I was pretty excited because I thought they were going to make a movie about PE'Z, the Japanese jazz band. Unfortunately this movie is actually about PEZ, the brick shaped sweets along with their wierd head-on-a-stick dispensers..

They're disembodied heads on sticks people, and you snap their necks backwards to get the candy out of them. It's unnatural and it's wrong. No child should have to see Mickey Mouse's severed head perched on a stick like some sort of traitor to the king. The whole thing is straight from the dark ages.

PEZ heads, the movie Pez Avenger graphic from Yeti Arts

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Brick DVD Review
Movie Power: *** 1/2
DVD Purchasing Power: ***

I like archetypes. Rian Johnson’s “Brick” has this in spades. A hero’s journey for truth through the underworld. Along the way, he is tempted by several beautiful fem fatales, guided only by his passion for his long-time (and recently deceased) ex-lover.

In high school.

Brendan Fry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a high school snitch turned lonesome intellectual. His over-protective nature has put him on the outs with his girlfriend Emily (Emilie de Ravin), until one day he receives a frantic call from Emily, and several days later, she turns up dead. Luckily, by then Brendan has already begun an investigation that shatters the secrets of upper crust high school students.

Brendan’s only ally in this is the school scholar Brain, as well as the may-or-may-not-be-innocent Laura, who’s always there at the right time and right place. By contrast, the list of usual suspects includes an urban legend drug dealer called the Pin (Lukas Haas), his brawny muscle Tugger (Noah Fleiss), a pie-house stoner named Dode (Noah Segan) and one of his own ex’s, Kara, (Meagan Good).

“Brick” triumphs because relative directorial newcomer Rian Johnson endows a strangely effective sensibility into every scene. He borrows some from the plot of Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep”, some from the dialogue of Dashiell Hammett “Maltese Falcon”, but he doesn’t completely ape the mocking humor of the traditional private eyes. True, its there, but the real humor comes from the awkward imposition of savvy, brutal characters in the middle of home room and suburbia.

Continue reading "Brick DVD Review" »

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Tired of the heavy guy-on-guy glamour of Entourage? Ready for a look at the Hollywood life YOU might actually lead? Then go ahead and check out THE MINOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF JACKIE WOODMAN, a new single-camera sitcom on IFC.

From the IFC website: The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman is a herky-jerky romp through Hollywood, courtesy of Jackie Woodman (Kightlinger) and her best friend, Tara Wentzel (Nicholle Tom, The Nanny, The Book of Ruth): two single women trying to carve a niche in Tinsel Town (and on a few bedposts along the way).

Jackie, a writer for a second rate indie film rag, and Tara, a low-level employee at a film production company, are determined to succeed in this fast paced LA scene. Armed only with willful ignorance, fleeting confidence and poor judgment, this lovable, and barely functional duo continually screw up, yet, somehow manage to persevere and stay best friends.

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This is somewhat old news already - "The Covenant" trailer has surfaced ever since the Comic-Con ended several weeks ago. But for everything the teaser has shown, be it considerable or incoherent, there's been very little discussion anywhere about the film thus far.

"The Covenant" is directed by Renny Harlin. That's Renny Harlin of "Deep Blue Sea" fame (if you can call that fame) and Renny Harlin of "Exorcist: The Beginning" infamy.

"The Covenant" earned a place in Comic-Con because its based upon a comic - in a round about way, that is. The truth of the matter is Top Cow launched a graphic novel tie-in during the pre-production stages of the movie to hook an audience, but for the most part, "The Covenant" seems to be a product of the silver screen.

For those who haven't yet viewed the trailer, five families find "power" (magic) during the Salem Witch Trials. One family gets greedy and then gets banished (sounds like Slytherin if you ask me). Skip ahead to modern times and four descendant teenagers have powers.

So what? Its just "Craft" for guys, as one IMDB user pointed out.

But here's thing: from the trailer, it seems these guys have extreme powers. Aside from the occassional skirt-blowing, the Covenant boys indulge in cliff diving, teleporting and even reconstructing their cars in mid-air crashes.

These guys border on omnipotence.

Which brings up one overlooked by crucial tenant of magical powers: its got a price.

Continue reading "Holding the Covenant" »

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It’s true that computers can suck you in and consume your life. This one guy in college seemed normal enough. He had muscle tone, an easy way with the ladies, and a pleasant enough personality. Had a hell of a poster collection, you would have liked him. But then, he suddenly disappeared. The last time I saw him he was a pale gaunt shadow of his former self, surviving on a strict diet of Surge and Sun Chips, the only sign of his former self, a fiery look of determination in his eyes. What happened to cause such a change in an otherwise healthy contributing member of society? Everquest happened.

That game was the downfall of many a college student. Instead of having unprotected sex and stuffing each other into phone booths, young men everywhere were hunched over keyboards collecting gold and leveling up their Midget Ogre Wrestler (or whatever.)

Continue reading "PULSE Movie Review" »

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The website for The Grudge 2 is up. That's the sequel to the American remake of the original Ju-on: The Grudge. In fact Ju-on: The Grudge is actually the third film in the series (the first two being direct to video) so really what we're looking at here is the sequel to the remake to the third film in the original series.

Your art school friends will say that the Japanese version is better because it's got subtitles, but who needs that? In fact who needs to see this film at all when you can watch the extra super duper long trailer at the site. From what I gather there will be creepy children and odd cat noises.

So watching this movie is the equivalent of and hour and a half spent in a petting zoo.

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A truly wonderful indie film was just released onto DVD. BRICK, written and directed by Rian Johnson, starring Joseph Gordon Leavitt, is an updated take on classic film noir, with a special tip of the hat to The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon. Reportedly shot for only $500,000 this is one to bring home and savor.

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Unflinching Triumph: The Philip Rockhammer Story is a documentary centering on the efforts of one Philip Rockhammer to ascend the ranks of the National Association of Staredown Professionals.

"Staredown is a sport that requires focus, concentration, and endurance. Through the course of history, from the caves of the Neanderthal Man to the playgrounds of suburban America, Staredown has been practiced by commoners and merchants, peasants and royalty alike. But only recently has this sport achieved the official recognition it deserves."

So sayeth Ernie Armstrong, Commissioner of the NASP... and he was glaring right at us through the camera when he said it, so we're not going to goof on it. In fact we sort of want to curl up into a ball. Anyway, J.R. McCord's Unflinching Triumph is available for viewing in its entirety on the web, and it is pretty interesting.

Unflinching Triumph: The Philip Rockhammer Story
Via J-Walk blog

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Screenhead favorites Culturepulp truck on down to an interview with Richard Linklater and discuss the ins and outs of his animated Philip K Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly, as well as Dick himself, one of the more interesting sci-fi authors to exist not just for his fabulous writing but his schizophrenia-induced paranoia.

MIKE RUSSELL: So this interview is actually for a comic strip.
RICHARD LINKLATER: Okay. Should I answer in a comic way?

The Culturepulp Q&A: Richard Linklater

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Check out this trailer for Steve Anderson's pretty great looking exploration of the big naughty F word and those who wield it well, such as the not large in America but large everywhere else comedian/storyteller Billy Connolly, well-known for putting the word to great use in his act over the years. Also features toons by the mighty Bill Plympton.

Fuck trailer [four letter films]

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The recent trailer for Da Vinci Code movie gets a little nip and tuck for some extra Zazz in its britches.

Da Vinci Code Trailer WOW! Bam!! Boom!! Chunk! OMG Da Vinci Code Trailer WOW!!

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Trailer for the Pixies documentary film loudQUIETloud, which followed the band around on their 2004 tour, and sees the band members arrive as normal people at the start of the tour, and rapidly break down into nearly every roommate we've ever had by the middle of it. loudQUIETloud had its debut recently at the SXSW festival.

loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies

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Here's the new-ish trailer for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9, evidently shot on board the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru. The film features what looks like some amazing output by Bj�rk, which can be explored a bit here.

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Actually looks good. We say it with italics not because we didn't like the other two, but because rumors of new-to-the-series director Brett (Rush Hour) Ratner driving this thing like Kelsey Grammer dives a Viper were rampant. .. of course, now that we think about it, they were largely rampant over at Ain't It Cool News, which we suspect isn't so much a movie news site as a goof on people who like movie news sites.

X-Men: The Last Stand [apple]

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They're remaking Fight Club, and by "they" we mean "Bollywood" and by "remaking" we mean "as a musical." This is fantastic. We would pay 200, possibly 300 cents to see this... that princely sum likely being roughly %100 more than Rising Star paid anyone for the rights to this title (we're guessing). We almost pity Hollywood having to compete with this sort of thing-- what would you part with a buck to watch, the most recent shitty CG wankfest with overpaid whoever in it, or a fairly recent western cultural semi-homo touchstone re-interpreted into a swarthy musical? No wonder Hollywood tries so hard to region code things.

Anyway, watch two trailers and four music video promos for this thing at Twitch film.

Bollywood's Riding the Remake Train Again ... This Time It's Fight Club [twitchfilm]
The (Rising Star) Fight Club site

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Mike Russell's "journalism comic strip" CulturePulp goes to the Slamdance film festival, Slamdance being the other film festival in Park City Utah, one in which bitty shoestring movies most people will never see get their Warhol 15 ... sort of like the Sex Pistols to Sundance's Journey. It's where Napoleon Dynamite became Napoleon Dynamite, and where The Call of Cthulhu has ended up. We wondered about that.

CulturePulp 046: Postcards from Park City

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There will be a Dark Crystal 2. Samurai Jack's Genndy Tartakovsky will likely drive the bus. That is all.
Genndy Tartakovsky To Helm Sequel To The Dark Crystal! [twitch film]

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This looks nuts: a Michel Gondry directed film with is a shot on location live show with Dave headlining a bunch of musicians and locals in block party in Brooklyn last year. Watch the trailer, check out the thumbnails.

The official site, with not much on it yet

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Do they still make these for movies? Can you get, say, Brokeback Mountain trading cards? "Brokeback Mountain trading cards... slip up and get caught with these and you're dead."

Back to the Future 2 trading cards [fusion-industries9]

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The trailer for the 80s David Bowie/Muppet headscratcher Labyrinth. A very rock star children's movie: David Bowie with Bon Jovi hair playing The Goblin King, David's playful nickname for Mick Jagger. Har.

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Suposedly leaked ILM test footage from a teaser for the new Transformers movie. Looks off to us.

Transformers footage [badongo]

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Metafilter has an thread up which follows up on what happened to the cast of Manos: The Hands of Fate, the burrito-priced grade Z flick made popular by Mystery Science Theater 3000. First a pair of interviews from Richard Brandt, the first with two guys who worked on the film, and the second with Jackey Jones, who was the seven year-old girl who winds up as one of the Devil's concubines. Life's rough all over, kid. Also, Who knew there was a Torgo fan page?
Finally the Metafilter thread itself, which his full of links to other horrible movies.

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Pretty great run down of a short but very impressive effects shot in Serenity with Bill Taylor of Illusion Arts, the effects team that handled the sequence.

By the way, if you haven't seen it, there's a crash scene. Also, Murphy dies, but heroically. Smitty goes down inflames. Bill loses an eye, but it's not important to the plot.

Illusion Arts' Bill Taylor on 'Serenity' [vfxblog]

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Okay, here's an ad for that Grandma's Boy movie. Kinda looks like the on-life support joke from the Adam Sandler golf movie from 10 years ago that it is, but who cares, because waaaaay funnier than the ad or the movie it promotes is the severely lubed up Willy Loman firehose in the email from which it comes, which we will paste here for your pleasure. No edits have been made:

"Hey, geeky Hollywood screenwriter John Rogers here. Got something that may interest you. A cut and paste from my blog should cover it: All right. It's my job to know these things. Much like Hollywood saw the South Park video Christmas Card a year before everybody else, this very, very funny and very disturbing viral video dropped onto my laptop about a month ago as it first made the rounds a video in which two young rappers extol the virtues of GILF. Yeah, that's right. They're rollin' Vintage Honey Style. What's weird is, it's now on the web running parallel to the publicity for this weekend's Fox release Grandma's Boy."

"So either the lads who made it hijacked the parallel name, and are therefore not just funny film-makers but more clever than I am by half, or Fox grabbed the video and then instead of making it an Easter Egg at the movie's site, buried it at a url which no one actually has any reason to type. Which is both insanely hip and smart and not particularly bright all at the same time. I'm going to contact the people who made it and find out which, and will report back. In the meantime, it makes an excellent one-two punch with Chronic of Narnia to help prove that a couple funny guys who know how to write and shoot will out-funny the big studios every time. "

Seriously, you have to be impressed. This is the email equivalent of that carefully ironed Greatful Dead tee shirt the 40 year old guy with the mustache and the pecs wore at your high school when he asked if you could help him "score some drugs, dudes."

So, here's the cutting edge scrappy little fighter of an underground clip all of that vowel movement was squeezed out for, a clip which just like South Park and the Chronic of Narnia rap before it requires a video screen to be viewed: Grandmazboy

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Looking forward to Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, for which this fresh new trailer inspires all kinds of nipple hardness. Del Toro is the director of Hellboy, Cronos, whichever Blade sequel that was where the monsters have giant vagina faces, and seems to have a flair for making cool-looking genre movies that seem somehow better than they in fact are. Pan's Labyrinth feels like it'll be fully live up to the potential of the low budget but well-told Cronos. The embedded Flash is a pain, but it will load after a sufficient amount of swearing.

Pan's Labyrinth Trailer [dvdrama]

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The best we can say for this is that it's somehow got Jesus playing Satan.

The American Dreamz trailer [apple]

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"Made in 1966, the story of Queen Of Blood takes place in 1990, a time when space has been conquered, quilted clothing is at the cutting edge of fashion, and macho astronauts call each other 'baby' (or at least, they do if they�re played by Dennis Hopper)."

One of the "Corman Cut-Ups", so called because producer Roger would pirate special effects bits from unseen foreign movies and incorporate bits of his own more spicy footage to make a film for about the price of one of Harry Potter's jockstraps.

Read about it here, watch the trailer here.
Via bedazzled

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In which an awful but very popular book is made into what looks like an awful movie by people who get to keep making movies despite the fact that their last movie, A Beautiful Mind, was awful but popular. If we were filmmakers or had any ambition in that direction we'd have killed ourselves with a dull-pronged spork by now. The best we can say for this is that it seems to irritate The Pope.

The Da Vinci Code film trailer [apple]

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Watch a couple minutes of Eli Roth's much anticipated horror flick Hostel in this new trailer.

Trailer [bloody-disgusting]
Hostel site

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Watch "cult classic" Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy online. WE DARE YOU.
"As you might guess, the film involves women who wrestle, an Aztec Mummy, and a 1957 Lincoln."

Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy [Count Gore]

Read a review here if for some reason you don't like to feel good and are not into actually watching Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy right now. An excerpt: "-
The biggest problem with Las Luchadoras Contra la Momia is the overall lack of mummy."
Interesting. We watch movies differently.

via PCL LD

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Interesting trailer for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette biopic. Evidently the film will feature Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Jason Schwartzman as cat-munching alien Alf, and what we think is pretty great casting: Marianne Faithfull as Marie Antoinette's mother Empress Maria Theresa.

Marie Antoinette Trailer [moviefone]

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The first official trailer for the third X-Men movie. Looks a lot better than the various early script rumblings have led us to believe. Not sure if the Kelsey Grammar character is the one they should have driving all fast like that.

X-Men3 trailer [Apple]

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Fritz Lang's M is available at the Internet Archive, the 1931 tale of a child-murderer (loosely based on Peter Kurten, himself more interesting than any movie we can think of for the sheer number of crimes he got away with before turning himself in.) This is Peter Lorre's first major role, Fritz Lang's first talkie, and still one of the richest films of its kind, plotwise. If you've never seen it, you should probably rent it, if you have seen it, you'll enjoy a refresher from the Internet Archive.

Fritz Lang's M [Internet Archive]
via We Make Money not Art

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Star Trek fan film/parody Star Wreck has been floating around p2p sites for a while in its various short film infant stages, it has now become a feature length and fairly well polished CGI-enhanced affair called In the Pirkinning. Star Wreck may be a fan film, but it could well be the Citizen Kane of fan films... well, if Orson Wells was funny, and from Finland. Perhaps Star Wreck is the Mallrats of fan films. Either way it is a free download, and pretty impressive. Check out the trailer for convincing.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning

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We've gone off of linking to film trailers, they rarely entertain all that much, but we're willing to make an exception for this very special movie: The Special Dead, which synopsifies* itself thusly:

"When a zombie plague infects Camp Special Dude, a dude ranch for the mentally handicapped, a ragtag band of campers and counselors struggles to survive the night."

The campfire song really sells us on this one, for we would also be willing to take it from behind from sweet Maggie Seaver.

The Special Dead trailer
The movie blog
Thanks to Carl

*We've decided we're just going to make shit up now- words, facts, whatever.

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Watch trailers and other paraphernalia for Hellbent, the gay slasher movie with the villian who looks like the devil guy from those Viagra ads.

Hellbent
Thanks to gerf

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So, we're watching Revenge Of The Sith, and we're a little confused by the scene in which one character seems to turn into Don Imus for no reason sufficiently explained by the movie, conventional biology or physics, and so we hop online for the orignal shooting script and find this far better acount of events:

NATALIE PORTMAN
(yawning)
Hayden, I'm pregnant.

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
(furrowing his brow)
How can you be sure?

NATALIE PORTMAN
Because in a minute or two I'll
actually be showing. Really.

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
You know, I love you with all the
love one can love a lover with.

NATALIE PORTMAN
Wow, that almost tops your 'wish'
line from the last movie. Tell me
again on the balcony while I brush
my hair and look vaguely hideous.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith: The Abridged Script By Rod Hilton [The Editing Room]

See also: Episode III Lost Hope

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Don't know how the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is, but the opening title credits are an animated tribute to the amazing Saul Bass.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang opening sequence [sixteentwenty]
Check out captures from famous Saul Bass movie openings here.
Via Grow A Brain

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continuing their Halloween tradition of listing their favorites from the the horror film world, retroCRUSH this year teams up with Trash Film Orgy to give a nod to the greatest horror movie performances. A good actor having fun with the roll is the difference between a turd and a jem in all movies, but most of all in horror films since everything else on the screen from the zipper on the back of the monster to the crayon red blood to the written while high dialogue basically begs you to reject it. They get it pretty right in our opinion, and they link to trailers when available

The 100 greatest horror movie performances [ retroCRUSH ]

while, check out their wrap up of CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL.
Notably not on the The 100 greatest list, but it looks pretty funny.

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Ever wonder what thoughts circulate in a suicide bomber's head a few hours before they do the deed? Here's your chance to hear first hand from Khaled and Said, two young men from the Gaza strip, 48 hours away from the event - a clip from the film Paradise Now, a fictional film in which two childhood mates are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. We wish we could tell you that something profound is said here, but it's frankly just the same old myopic drivel common to those who embraces hopelessness. Reminds us of Halle Berry trying to promote that Catwoman movie.

Finding a Suicide Bomber's Motivation (Paradise Now) [ifilm]

Part of this series of promo clips

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Upcoming film Zzyzx, a ghost story of sorts taking place out in the Nevada desert, features a promotional site which teases with an involved plot and flash segments.

Zzyzx

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The peter Jackson production website for his version of King Kong brings us this commercial for "Feh Tissues" featuring the old monkey with new allergies.

Kong Stars in Tissue Ad [kongisking]

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Never take a gift vampire bat from a Mongoloid. Is that a saying? That should be a saying. "Hey, okay man - don't take any wooden nickels." "Right on man, never take a gift vampire bat from a Mongoloid."

Anyway, "never take a gift Vampire Bat from a Mongoloid", and "Fay Ray was hot and in another movie besides King Kong" are the essential messages in this classic 1933 horror film, which you can watch at the Internet Archive.

The Vampire Bat [internet archive]

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Here's the completed trailer for Patrick Read Johnson's upcoming shoestring budgeted homebrew indie flick 5-25-77, in which the universe throws a poor kid who just wants to see the 1977 premiere of Star Wars every possible curve ball. Features none other than Reverend Jim Ignatowski himself, which is usually enough to get us to go to a movie.

5-25-77 trailer
5-25-77 site
With thanks to duul

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A fan of Joss Whedon's Firefly tries his sub-legal best to get potential viewers of the so far under-performing at the box office Serenity movie up to speed with a 30 minute video Cliff's Notes of the series, and a link to the first nine minutes of the movie, in order to help entice lagards to the sticky floors and stadium seating. Godspeed, you likely soon-to-be-cease-and-desist'd-by-a-less-than-bright-movie-studio Browncoat.

Firefly < Serenity [centripetalnotion.com]

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The big relevant-to-us news yesterday (we had a half-day off, which is sort of like a full day off, except you can't actually relax during it) is that the excellent 1963 movie Charade is bumping around in its entirety on the Internet Archive. We're really fond of this movie; Charade features a cool story idea that has been borrowed from in one way or another by dozens of "romantic thrillers", clever, snappy, and occasional hilarious dialogue, Audrey Hepburn was never more appealing, and it's got one o' them ever-cool Maurice Binder opening title sequences (Binder being the architect of the James Bond opening titles). All of this is complimented with a Henri Mancni score that drives it all like a team of horses. A copyright goof has this film out in the netherworld of rights freedom endured by a classic of nearly equal footing Night Of the Living Dead, which is why you can find these movies on the Internet Archive for the low low price of nothing, and on DVD in many dollar stores for, Haliburtonly, about $1.25.

Charade [Internet Archive]

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So, here is what is probably a genius bit of viral marketing by way of "gossip" - check out the blog of Waiting director Rob McKittrick (the movie opens today), in which he offers up some video of character actor Luis Guzman not taking direction too well :

"Okay, here's a little preface: We were fortunate enough to have a guy, Jason Vowell, constantly filming behind-the-scenes footage, so it became commonplace. As a result, the actors let their guard down and often didn't notice the camera... And further as a result, I have this clip of Luis Guzman and I getting into a really bad argument, with him becoming a real asshole."

For the record, we don't know either of these men personally, but Luis looks like he could kick our asses pretty hard, so we're going to adivse Rob McKittrick that he should apologize to Mr. Guzman for "telling him how to act."

Rob McKittrick - Today is the Big Day

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"In order to avoid attending school physically, Iwamoto Satoru began operating a robot remotely from home to go to school in his place. Hinokio could be controlled from his bedroom. The story is about how the robot tries to communicate with the people around him."

Ganked from the always forward-looking We Make Money not Art, which wonders how long such films will reside in the "fiction" isle. Watch the trailer at the rather slick Flash site.

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The non-Dakota Fanning 1953 version of The War of the Worlds gets the bunnies treatment from Angry Alien.The story still doesn't make much sense, but now that fact only upsets us for about as long as it takes our president to pick a new supreme court justice.

The War of the Worlds in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies [Angry Alien]

More bunnies:
· Highlander
· The Big Chill
· Pulp Fiction
· It's a Wonderful Life
· Bad hare days

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The Clerks2 production has a vlog of sorts going, with short produced video teasers going up frequently. Smart move on View Askew's part, as we had basically no interest in this until we saw these short bits. A little Rosario Dawson goes a long way towards peaking our interest.

Clerks 2: The Passion of the Clerks - News and Updates

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Jenny's Midnight Screamatorium presents Noodles With Teeth, a 30s style megaphone croon for the upcoming Sam Jackson modern movie classic Snakes On A Plane. This, friends and neighbors, is why we have the internet.

Jenny's Midnight Screamatorium - Noodles With Teeth [putfile]

Jenny's Midnight Screamatorium [MySpace]

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80s film Highlander, a movie notable for being printed not on celluloid film but on a 13 year old boy's pituitary gland, is the latest to get the "re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds" treatment from Angry Alien.

You know... when you see it all at once like this without the nuances... we dare say Highlander almost, almost, seems like kind of a silly film.

Highlander, re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds [Angry Alien]

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The Shining, made into something truly horrifying: a Nora Ephron-esque chick flick.
"A post-production house organized a competition where assistant editors �re-cut� trailers for famous movies to try and make them seem like different movies . . . this is the one that won."

The Shining, Redux
Via Waxy, via Tattered Coat
(A mirror if the first link fails you)

Posted by Dong Resin at 5:12 AM | Permalink

Cartoonist/ cultural probot M.E. Russell gets a good long chinwag with Joss Whedon as the two hash over all things Firefly for the Serenity opening on Friday. If you're a fan of Firefly and/or Joss Whedon this is a great read.

The CulturePulp Q&A: Joss Whedon

See also:
· Serenity wow
· Session 416

Posted by Dong Resin at 8:12 AM | Permalink

Daniel Baxter's animated shorts suggest some better endings to popular movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix Revolutions.

How It Should Have Ended

Posted by Dong Resin at 10:09 AM | Permalink

Korean pop star Park Ji-Young's theme song for Lee Myung-Se's first film in 6 years, The Duelist, serves as a teaser for the film, which opens at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

Park Ji-Young - Duelist theme [Twitch]

Posted by Dong Resin at 4:24 PM | Permalink

A watch a sneak peek clip of Tim Burton's upcomming stop motion animation movie The Corpse Bride. The bukkake scene will surprise you. Well, not now. Well, there isn't one.

Corpse Bride clip [Moviefone]
Via Drawn

See also:
Ask the Dead

Posted by Dong Resin at 4:33 PM | Permalink

The title says it all: a fan-crafted teaser for the upcoming Superman Returns. Includes footage you might not have seen, and it flicks past fast enough to nearly pass for legitimate.

The Fake Superman Teaser [supermanimagery.com]

Also, contest at Plasticbag.org to redesign the Superman Logo.

Posted by Dong Resin at 8:06 AM | Permalink

A Flash animated Ouja board promo for Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride. Ask the nice dead lady a few questions. If the nine year-old in you likes this sort of thing, this is a nicely done Ouja board with a suitably Halloween sort of tone.

Ask the Dead

Also: The trailer for The Corpse Bride [apple]

Posted by Dong Resin at 9:57 AM | Permalink

Cult filmmaker/comics artist/mystical mumbo jumbo enthusiast Alejandro Jodorowsky on his unfortently unmade Dune film. How cool would his film have been compared to the David Lynch one? Well, rather than involving the interesting choices of people like Sting and Toto, Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune would have involved Orson Welles, Salvador Dal�, Pink Floyd, H.R. Giger, and French comics one man zeitgeist Mobius, among others. The film didn't happen of course, however it came close enough that the aborted set design work turned up in the original Alien and as rumors have it, Star Wars. Read all about it, and see a few concept sketches at the link.

The Film You Will Never See [Aurthermag]

Alejandro Jodorowsky [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky

Seen @ WFMU's Beware Of The blog

Posted by Dong Resin at 9:42 AM | Permalink

Session 416 is a fansite dedicated to keeping track of all of the known mirrors for the "River Tam Sessions" viral for the upcoming Serenity movie. Serenity feels like the last movie which would benefit from a word of mouth thing like this, seeing as the only people who get what is going on in these shorts are already completely rabid for the movie, but we bow to the superior marketing ability of teh Whedon.

Session416

Previous mention and description of the Session 416 viral here.

See also:
· The international Serenity trailer
·Serenity wow

Posted by Dong Resin at 12:31 PM | Permalink

The spankin' new trailer for Guy Ritchie's Revolver is out. We still haven't seen Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, so we think it's pretty considerate of Guy to keep giving us fresh opportunities like this. Ha-ha! That's not fair, we're sure this is a completely different movie with the same cast and premise.

Revolver

Posted by Dong Resin at 8:56 AM | Permalink

Interesting thing floating around the web which appears to be a viral for the upcoming Firefly movie Serenity. Looks like it's meant to be a leaked video of River Tam's abilities being tested while she was still held captive by the men with blue hands. If that's gibberish to you, go back to your fancy "having sex" and "leaving the house" and "bathing" and so forth and leave us to our nerdery.

Session 416 [ifilm]
See here

Posted by Dong Resin at 8:44 PM | Permalink

A trailer for an upcoming film about the great American story, really: a couple of wild guys on some slim machines with two wheels each want to freely see the heart of the country and feel the wind, well slight breeze, whipping at their hair.

The 10mph trailer

Posted by Dong Resin at 8:21 PM | Permalink

iFilm features a three minute clip from Garrett Scott & Ian Olds' documentary film Occupation: Dreamland, "an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraqi city of Falluja during the winter of 2004."

NSFW due to the sort of language people use when they're shoe store clerks one minute and the next they're getting shot at with sand stuck in their urethras.

Occupation: Dreamland - Night Vision [ifilm]

Posted by Dong Resin at 12:23 PM | Permalink

Camp Blood.org, "horror for Homos": the horror movie culture from the Queer eye. Stylish with snappy prose, complete with their own media mash-ups such as Friday the 13th Part III vs. The Beverly Hillbillies. We dig the entry flash that references the 1978 Faye Dunaway thiller / enema "Eyes of Laura Mars". You simply don't run into that on every website.

Camp Blood.org

Posted by Dong Resin at 9:50 AM | Permalink

The trailer for the Man In Black biopic staring Jojoba Phoenix is up at Yahoo. Staring Reese Witherspoon and Jabba Phoenix. Staring Jibba Jabba Phoenix... Jiblober Phoenix - fuck it- staring, John Smith, okay? Quit being so fucking clever with your names, Hollywood, no one is impressed. Now we're so irritated with his foofy name we've lost our train of thought.

Right, the trailer: advance word on John Smith's performance is abuzz with Oscar talk. Hope the academy has a few spare little gold naked men statues kicking around to get John Smith Phoenix's name engraved properly.

Walk The Line Trailer [Yahoo]

Posted by Dong Resin at 5:21 PM | Permalink

Voltron, Transformers, and now some 2007 movie news for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a franchise which has seen the screen before, but not with CGI, which was of course the major thing wrong with the last three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies-- the effects. The effects, and not, say, the writing, acting, directing, dialogue, basic concept, lack of comprehension of high school-level physics, and Vanilla Ice. The new technology is going to free this version up be the modern Iliad that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was intended to be, by God.

We look forward to when the Hollywood nostalgia machine catches up to 90s cartoon Mummies Alive. That thing will kick ass.

2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie poster [IMDB]

Posted by Dong Resin at 4:40 PM | Permalink

The trailer for the upcoming major movie version of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel from the 80s, in which a Guy Fawkes mask wearing-anarchist fights the crushing hand of whatever, blah blah blah- the draw here is how Natalie Portman manages to look somehow even cuter with a shaven head.

V For Vendetta

Posted by Dong Resin at 9:07 AM | Permalink

Okay, the first 70% of this video clip is shot on camcorder and is all hype up stuff clipped from conventions in which pasty 30-somethings recount how Optimus Prime was their first homosexual urge or something, then the last 30% is the actual money shot: second generation camcorder footage of a movie screen showing what looks like modern Georgia Lucas style digital animatics dep