Let this be a lesson to those nervy few of you who would stake out Megan Fox, buy her a rose, breach her security detail and still get blown off by the besieged starlet: You may fail in your mission, but there's quite the explanation -- and a fairly heartfelt apology -- awaiting you once she arrives at her next press junket.
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Your monthly burst of Inglourious Basterds hype is here for June, with the Weinsteins following its Cannes premiere with a shiny, more-linear-than-ever new trailer for the film. There's also more Brad Pitt than you've likely yet seen, and virtually none of the fest's Best Actor prize-winner Christoph Waltz, so let there be no mistaking who is in charge here. And if you wanted a better idea of what Mike Myers is up to in the film, you've got a hint of that as well. Just add a title card exclaiming, "Now with 30 minutes fewer Basterds than Cannes," and this might actually get people excited yet!
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It's time for another attraction, as Francis Ford Coppola would say, and this too was a modestly budgeted angsty-white-male tragicomedy (caution: may contain trace amounts of metaphysics, but not enough to sustain serious brain damage) that debuted at Sundance, entitled World's Greatest Dad. As this comes from the darkly askew mind of Bobcat Goldthwait -- whose Sleeping Dog is considered the Citizen Kane of dog-blowing movies -- a healthy dose of sickie humor is to be expected. And that's established out of the gate, with the greatest abortion haiku we've ever heard. Star Robin Williams seems re-energized here, finding the inner life of his high school poetry teacher and dad to a perverse 16-year-old.
Verdict: Abortion Haiku -- c'mon. Who can resist that?
What nicer way to pull to the end of a taxing work week than by sitting back to a full-on reality show meltdown? This one comes to us courtesy of TV Land's She's Got the Look -- "A Model Competition for Women over 35" -- and features contestant Laurie, clearly cracking under the pressure of being put under the MILF microscope.
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The Sundance guide, where Cold Souls made its world premiere, describes the Paul Giamatti film as a "metaphysical tragicomedy." That in itself might be enough to send you running for the doors, and the added fact that Giamatti plays himself in the film might not help bring you back. Still, some people like metaphysical tragicomedies about famous actors playing themselves, and for them, something from anyone besides Charlie Kaufman -- in this case, writer/director Sophie Barthes -- might be a refreshing glass of mindfuckade.
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Let it not be said that Sacha Baron Cohen doesn't earn his $42 million paycheck -- minus whatever it costs to turn a camera on him and whichever JV wrestling team he ambushes by attempting to varshnikst their poopenshüten.
The first full trailer for the Roland Emmerich disaster epic 2012 is online, introduced by the filmmaker himself in a decidedly downmarket, casual-day-at-Sony greeting. And as you yell at the monitor to simply get to the apocalypse, just take a moment to know how good you've got it before the main attraction begins. It's all downhill -- blazingly, floodingly so -- from there.
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On today's Two-Minute Verdict we steal a glimpse at HBO's new comedy series, Bored to Death. Choosing the hipster-infested Brooklyn brownstones of Flight of the Conchords over the Spanish Colonial bungalows of Entourage's Hollywood Hills, the Jonathan Ames-penned series stars Jason Schwartzman as a "moonlighting private detective."
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It turns out the rumors that Katie Holmes will perform on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance are true -- though she won't be getting her stank face on and wearing a rainbow afro for some cutthroat competitive krumping. Us reports that Mrs. Tom Cruise will be performing an homage to Judy Garland's iconic performance of "Get Happy" in 1950's Summer Stock -- nylons, fedora, and all:
Holmes ... dons an all-black ensemble similar to Garland's: black velvet fedora, patent leather heels, nylon stockings, body-hugging skirt and micro-mini skirt.
You know how sometimes there's a comedy trailer that's so aggressively formulaic and awful that you can pretty much guarantee you're going to see it shown before every single movie until the film in question finally comes out? (And even then, two weeks after, you'll probably go to some weird theater you've never been to before and they'll start playing this trailer and you'll shout, "What? No! This is out already!")
I'm pretty sure Old Dogs is going to be that movie for us.
I took another hit from the reality show crack-pipe that is Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List last night. And there was Kathy, tending her wounds after being mistaken for Melissa Rivers outside the Staples center just moments after learning she'd been nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album. It seemed as good a time as any to get out of the country, so the comedian jetted off to Richmond, B.C., where she was given the Royal Canadian Beaver Queen treatment by hotel staff.
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Michael Bay and his Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen gang hit Berlin on Sunday, where their film enjoyed its latest international premiere. And just in case you thought that Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox were the franchise's official fan magnets, Bay's official site today passed along a video that could very well upset the complex Transformers power balance as we know it. It's after the jump.
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In a bid to illustrate...something...Michael Moore sent a whole bunch of out-of-work actors to the Loews theater in Manhattan to record the reaction to the trailer for his new film, which takes on the government bailout. The volunteers had the message "Save Our CEOs" emblazoned on their T-shirts and on tin cans that innocent, trapped moviegoers could donate money into, if they wanted.
This footage...we need to talk about it.
First things first: Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese's first dramatic feature since winning an Oscar for The Departed, looks like a creepy enough, well-pedigreed Hitchcockian thriller. Look -- it's Ben Kingsley! Max Von Sydow! Michelle Willilams! Mark Ruffalo! Patricia Clarkson! And listen -- it's Leonard DiCaprio, crossbreeding his Revolutionary Road style and a Chowderhead accent that's almost as scary as the sprawling asylum that traps him. The video is after the jump.
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It Might Get Loud is the latest doc from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim, but make no mistake -- there will be no Bill Clinton in Wayfarers giving a 90-minute, sax-assisted PowerPoint presentation on the dire state of The Blues. Instead, Guggenheim invites three of the greatest rock gods of their generations to discuss a shared love of the electric guitar. The members of this summit: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, whose creamy, Far Eastern-inflected melodies provided a magic carpet atop which Robert Plant's vocals could truly soar; U2's The Edge, whose rapid-fire licks had an aura of timelessness and portent to them, as if calling a lost generation to battle; and The White Stripes' Jack White, who, like the upholsterer he once was, is skilled at stripping down the best techniques from both these virtuosos, adding a spring of Detroit dance-punk, and in doing so creating a whole new suite of rock n' roll furniture, each piece as comfortable and familiar as your favorite chair.
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