I'm coming a little late to Katie Holmes's performance last night on So You Think You Can Dance, her much-anticipated homage to Judy Garland's "Get Happy" number from Summer Stock. And while I wouldn't say Holmes embarrassed herself to the extent this morning's haters seem to believe, no one can really argue that it's a good thing the show isn't called So You Think You Can Lip Sync.
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We've been handed down a mandate to share every crumb we stumble upon in regards to a certain upcoming CGI feature about a race of blue people who live in an enchanted forest filled with giant inhabitable flora and predatory feline creatures, and who share only one female among them.
No -- not The Smurfs Movie, silly! Avatar!
Well, I survived the New Moon panel, and I'm happy to report there were no deaths, and only one mauling -- of a tall, chubby male photographer who stood in front of the stage and blocked an entire section's view of stars Ashley Greene (yay!), Kristen Stewart (YAYYYY!!), Taylor Lautner (AHHHHHHHHHGHHAHAHAHAH!!!!) and Robert Pattinson (*SOUND OF UNIVERSE FORMING*). Director Chris Weitz was on hand too, and asked to describe how Pattinson reminds him of his vampiric role, replied, "He has almost translucent skin, like Edward Cullen, and when the light shines just right he sparkles like diamonds." It seems not even The Golden Compass director is immune to Pattinson's charms.
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Sadly, Guadalupe Zambrano and his Houston-area real-estate-sales endeavors have been forced out of their rightful domain by NBC's legal goons, with http://thejaylenoshow.com/ now the realm of their 10 p.m. disaster in the making hacky-comedy cavalcade, The Jay Leno Show. Which basically means the only hilarious thing you'd have ever found on that website -- ie. a stubborn realtor's refusal to budge in the face of increasingly desperate corporate pressure -- is now history, replaced by content reminiscent of a health insurance website.
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Now that Comic-Con is getting underway, it's time for studios to begin releasing all the goodies that Con attendees will have to stand in line to see on a bigger screen. First up, we have the trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland semi-sequel, and unlike the Freddy Krueger tease from earlier, this clip's got a lot to show off.
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Today's Two-Minute Verdict examines Creation, the Charles Darwin biopic which has the dubious honor of being the first non-Canadian film in quite some time to open the Toronto International Film Festival. Let's have a look at its trailer, then, and predict what might evolve.
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So maybe you've seen the new promotional video making the rounds for Danny DeVito's Blood Factory, a no-budget mill for splattery grindhouse shorts and other horror miscellany. It's embedded after the jump just in case, particularly now that he's enlightened us with a glimpse into what it all means. NSFW is the least of it.
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You gotta love Japanese TV. If an American show were to set about introducing Daniel Radcliffe to a Potter fanatic, they'd probably pass it along as an hour-long commercial for Half-Blood Prince, its 48-minutes' worth of scenes and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage interspersed with first-person testimonials from the little girl with leukemia whose family home was foreclosed upon just months before and whose dying wish it was to meet the boy wizard in the flesh. Which she would, two minutes before the show cut to its closing credit sweep, as 45,000 balloons dropped and Miley Cyrus sang something uplifting about magic being real if you just believe in the background.
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I've said pretty much all I can say about the genius of Tyler Perry, which doesn't leave me a lot of room for processing the formula at work in the new trailer for his upcoming I Can Do Bad All by Myself. You know the melodrama drill: Black woman adrift, wayward kids, moustache-twirling bad guys, chaste hunks, spiritual rebirth, and Perry's own muumuu-ed Madea to provide a nucleus for it all. Ho-hum, just another masterpiece -- except wait! Is that Gladys Knight?
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Today the 2-Minute Verdict turns its judgmental eye towards Mystery Team, the Sundance Film Festival "comedy sensation" about a Bloodhound Gang-type trio of neighborhood crime-solvers who refuse to grow up. Cinematical described it as "Encyclopedia Brown meets Napoleon Dynamite with a pinch of Ace Ventura." CinemaBlend called it "the Rocky Horror Picture Show of mystery movies." And Slashfilm called it "funnier and more original than 99% of the comedies Hollywood releases now-a-days." Now that we've seen the trailer, we can finally throw in our two cents: "Really terrible-looking!"
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Once upon a time, the vampire genre was a hip, gayish place, saved from falling into disrepair by stylish stories like The Hunger and Interview with the Vampire. Now, though, the lusty heterosexuals of Twilight and True Blood have moved in and indulged in a bit of genre gentrification, and it's time for homoeroticism-tinged fantasy to find a new niche. Fortunately, with her new film The Vintner's Luck, Whale Rider director Niki Caro has seen fit to inaugurate what may be the newest fantasy frontier: French dudes having sex with hot, male angels.
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At first listen, the voice recording greeting callers to the Diamond Cinema in the Irish town of Navan sounds like it could be work of Sacha Baron Cohen himself -- with its accompanying YouTube presentation providing a viral boost for Brüno's second week in theaters. But it's much more fun to picture a real, beleaguered theater owner on the other end of the line, nursing a beer in one hand and a phone in the other, handing out refunds while advising callers to please, please avoid the "vile" and "offensive" comedy playing just down the hall. Hear it after the jump.
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Cast interviews are nice and all, but when you really want to make an impression about Eyes Wide Shut's 10th anniversary, let's face it: It takes an orgy. A British estate owner learned that the hard way this week when 350 guests descended on his property for a masked ball modeled after the scandalous centerpiece of Stanley Kubrick's film. Maybe the party promoter's £65 ticket price and Web site warning "COUPLES & FEMALES ONLY! No Single men!" should have given away what would happen next, but for the story's sake, I'm quite happy it didn't. Details after the jump.
The trailer for Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It has been released, and if I told you the logline, you could pretty much create this trailer in your head. So why am I actually kind of heartened and hopeful for the movie?
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Are you bereft about the imminent cinematic end of Harry Potter, yet Twilight's chastity-belted vampires hold no appeal? You might be interested, then, in a teaser trailer that's been attached to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; from Christopher Columbus, director of the first two Potter movies, it's a film entitled, Waitwaitwait Don't Go Anywhere, We Have, Like, An American Harry Potter Coming Out Soon. My bad, that was the working title. Apparently, it's now named Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Almost as long!
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