The trailer is finally here for the controversial Michael Winterbottom thriller The Killer Inside Me, which was a festival sensation both for its pulpy nature and for the pulpy nature of Jessica Alba's face, once the psychopathic Casey Affleck gets done with it in the film. How brutal is the trailer?
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Talk about prescient: Robert Rodriguez's Machete was filmed over a year ago, but its plot is decidedly ripped from the headlines. In Arizona, a nasty senator is rounding up all the illegal immigrants and sending them back across the border. Only in this scenario, there's a bad-ass former Federale killing people at will to stop the injustice and clear his name. Bring your ID, because this could get ugly...
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If there's anything I've learned from reading Jezebel, it's that women love paparazzi pictures of celebrities but hate the assumption that they can't get along with each other. How to explain, then, the preponderance of movies like Mean Girls, Bride Wars, and the new Kristen Bell comedy You Again, which suggest women are never more entertaining then when they're taking each other down?
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Need a palate cleanser from the horror of viral Piranha marketing? I have just the thing for you, and from a pretty unlikely source as well: Sean Young has quietly issued a collection of Super-8 movies she filmed on the set of David Lynch's megabudget 1984 fiasco Dune. If you happen to be a fan of Lynch, Young, Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Patrick Stewart, Max Von Sydow, Linda Hunt, Francesca Annis, or, like, vintage anything, you'll probably want to see this.
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Summer movie season has got me down, son. Down, like Hollywood pushed me in a shallow grave onto which every studio in town quickly shoveled whatever hype they'd manufactured to date. Suffocating, I was reincarnated as a Johnny Cash song. Stifling! Until this morning, when the French stepped up their game with 37 seconds that took the summer back -- at least until Iron Man 2 opens. But you know what? Even Tony Stark is probably no match for a psychopathic tire on a murder spree.
I've been looking forward to the Anton Corbijn-directed, George Clooney-starring thriller The American for a while, and the new trailer doesn't disappoint. Not only is it beautiful, spare, and visually striking, but it appears to be a big-budget feature version of "The Economist," one of my favorite episodes of Lost.
What kind of movie is Piranha 3D (besides awesome)? It's the kind where the lead characters -- in this case Elisabeth Shue as a town sheriff and Adam Scott (yes!) as some kind of scientist with a predilection towards flannel -- are barely even glimpsed in the full-length trailer. Because there's no time for them when you've got Doc Brown, Matt Hooper and a bunch of badly animated CGI piranhas...
Michael Musto's back with a new installment of The Hollywood Kid for Movieline, and he investigates tinseltown matters both naughty (Ridley Scott's tweaking of James Cameron) and nice (reformed press shunners Bill Murray and Annette Bening). Meanwhile, Musto's trying to get to the bottom of the big May Gay Day reveal, too. Will the People cover in question go to an uncloseted actress? Personally, I'm pulling for Sandra Bullock's new secret baby to make it a People magazine two-fer. They come out so young these days!
Despite being more than five months away from release, Disney unfurled the new trailer for Secretariat today with the hopes of capitalizing on America's Kentucky Derby fever. Wait, you didn't realize the Kentucky Derby was this Saturday either? Nevertheless, cue up some inspirational music and John Malkovich over-acting...
Have we learned nothing from Sandra Bullock? Like the embattled actress, Jonah Hex has spent the last few months in seclusion, fighting off rumors of trouble only to emerge this week in the public eye. Alas, the new Jonah Hex trailer forgot to bring a secret adopted baby as narrative cover.
Kids, you're never too young to learn what a "viral ad campaign" is! (Hint: It's something that Susie got because her hippie parents never wash her hair, and now Class Picture Day has been canceled.) Hot on the heels of Pixar's retro-cool ad for a Toy Story 3 stuffed animal that never existed until now, a tipster tells us that Pixar has also posted a Japanese version of that sideways-universe marketing campaign. It's no Mr. Sparkle, but it'll do:
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How do you feel about sideways universes? For a nation still struggling to piece together whether Sideways Jack is maybe married to Sideways Juliet, and what happened to Sideways Sayid's accent, and what did Sideways Ilana do to get her hair so shiny and lustrous, the new Pixar viral campaign for Toy Story 3 may be too much to handle.
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Who knows what WB is doing with Jonah Hex? From the very beginning, this summer movie has had so many strikes against it (it's a Western, it has an unproven box office draw in Josh Brolin, the lead character is unattractively scarred, the director has never made a live-action film before, another director was hired for reshoots) that it's a miracle it got made at all, let alone with a sizable budget. Still, for a movie coming out June 18, it's more than a little bizarre that the studio waited this long to release anything related to it, be it a trailer or even stills from the production.
When it comes to show titles, few rival Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! for both pure absurdity and shocking bravado. Great job, indeed. The Adult Swim staple airs a new episode tonight -- well, technically, tomorrow morning at 12:30 a.m. -- and you should probably set your DVR. Sometime collaborator Zack Galifianakis will appear, along with Peter Cetera (yep, that Peter Cetera), for a skit entitled "Little Dancing Man." And to answer your question: Of course you should watch the promo.
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After the nearly career-killing disaster that was The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan could have tried yet again to recapture the faux-Hitchcock weirdness of The Sixth Sense, or he could have blown things up to start over. Well, it looks like someone went out and got himself a large quantity of dynamite. And a bunch of DVDs. Say hello to M. Night Shyamalan v.2 in the trailer for The Last Airbender...
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