Comedy troupe Upright Citizen's Brigade take their sketch and improv hijinks to the feature film format in Freak Dance, a movie that purports to spoof "every dance movie ever made." Featuring cheesy '80s fashion and bad '80s movie attitudes to match, it certainly covers a lot of ground in the dance movie genre. But every dance movie there is? We'll see about that. Upside: It does have Amy Poehler spitting lines like, 'That music sounds like murder!' Check it out after the jump.
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Some people feel strongly about Taylor Lautner, torture porn and humanitarianism. Others, like Jennifer Garner in Jim Field Smith's upcoming comedy Butter, feel strongly about lard-like substances. Watch as the former Alias action star is moved to tears while discussing her local butter-sculpting competition to an audience that includes Ty Burrell (as her champion dairy-sculpting husband), Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone, Kristen Schaal, Rob Corddry and Ashley Greene.
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"There's nothing to worry about," a mental health professional explains in the latest trailer for The Human Centipede II as he attempts to comfort the mother of Martin, Tom Six's latest deranged medical mastermind. Of course, there is always something to worry about when your protagonist is a squat sexual deviant who fantasizes about stitching 12 people together in the most nauseating fashion imaginable, and even more so when you know that audience members at last week's premiere were so disgusted by the vile images before them that some vomited in the theater while others just passed out. So yes, you should worry, and if your stomach is strong enough, you should cautiously click through to watch the grossest movie trailer of all time.
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Years before Guillermo del Toro made a name for himself with dark box office hits like Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, Miramax gave the director a $30 million budget to film the insect horror film Mimic. At the time of its 1997 release, del Toro distanced himself from the studio-manipulated sci-fi flick -- about a killer strain of bugs created by a well-meaning entomologist (Mira Sorvino) -- but on September 27, Lionsgate releases a director's cut Blu-ray of which del Toro finally approves. Ahead, find an exclusive clip from one of the Blu-ray's new features in which the director discusses how he made Mimic an 'A-Movie.'
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It's probably not a good sign when your movie's release date is rescheduled twice and eventually kicked back to January, the doom-iest movie month. Unfortunately, that's the case with the new Katherine Heigl joint One for the Money, which is based on Janet Evanovich's 1994 novel of the same name. Here are some clues: Heigl drives around with a naked old guy, Sherri Shepherd plays a prostitute who snaps, "I'm hungry," and Debbie Reynolds accidentally shoots a turkey. Prestige!
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I've said it before, I'll say it again: I enjoyed the Statham/De Niro/Owen assassin intrigue Killer Elite -- more than most, it appears. But hoo boy, this new red-band opening-day trailer is misguided. At least two scenes here aren't even in the movie, and the gratuitous female nudity is like... what? Anyway, I'm only posting it as a public service advisory letting you know this movie is better than this puerile, hard-rawkin', NSFW garbage. Desperate marketing gone wrong -- and your complete Friday Buzz Break -- after the jump.
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We know what the critics think of the new family film Dolphin Tale, featuring the real-life amputee dolphin Winter in the story of a marine mammal outfitted with a revolutionary prosthetic after a crab-trap accident cost her her tail fins. But while the movie may prove inspiring to human viewers, Movieline dares to ask the question that all too commonly eludes our species: What about the dolphins?
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We've gone back and forth on the marketing for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, from parsing its initial, pseudo-bootlegged trailer to trawling its mysterious Tumblr to breaking down both NSFW and maybe too-SFW images to spending eight early minutes with David Fincher's adaptation of the international bestseller. In a nutshell, it looks good! And today's new, extended trailer looks even better.
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After disappointing most critics earlier this year in Unknown, an ironically familiar amnesia thriller, Liam Neeson returns to the box office this winter with The Grey. As a plane crash survivor who is forced to fend for himself in the Alaskan wilderness, Neeson stars alongside Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo and a pack of angry wolves in the action thriller from Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan. Take a look at the first trailer below.
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Whether he is playing a cultural icon, a pajama bottomed-stoner or a soap opera performance artist "whose canvas is murder," James Franco oftentimes relies on a gravely stage whisper to deliver his lines. From anyone else's mouth, it would sound creepy, but coming from Franco, it is acceptable and even worthy of Academy Award recognition.* In celebration of his patented delivery, New York Magazine has assembled sixty seconds worth of the actor's most inspired dramatic whisper work over the past decade. Click through for take-off.
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The Web experienced one of those slow-news-week stirrings last weekend when a seller on eBay put up incontrovertible photographic evidence (ahem) of Nicolas Cage chilling for a portrait back around the time of the Civil War. Cage is undead, the argument (AHEM) went, and so what better way to capitalize on this bracing phenomenological development than to unload the 19th-century artifact to the highest bidder? Anyway, that auction came and went, but not without the definitive, deeply necessary 60-second animated recap you were praying for.
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Here's a treat for all of you out there who squealed in your seats when Ron and Hermione engaged in their passionate first kiss in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. After the jump, watch as director David Yates explains how adorably nervous Emma Watson and Rupert Grint were when their big smooching scene came up, then behold, the sight of two young actors -- "they're like brother and sister," says Yates -- jumping into action, face-first.
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Do you know what WWE fans love? Like, really feel passionately about? Australian Tony Award winners. Just ask any of the 15,000 adrenaline junkies who showed up to see pro wrestlers like The Miz and R-Truth throw down at last night's WWE Monday Night Raw and instead got... guest host Hugh Jackman shilling his upcoming robot boxing movie Real Steel! Summon your steeliest nerves and click through to watch the awkward scripted WWE drama unfold below. Warning: You may be tempted to revoke Jackman's Emmy.
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Movieline can't help but root for 50 Cent and his acting career, football cancer movies and all. In an exclusive behind the scenes clip from his upcoming DVD release Set Up -- a diamond heist thriller co-starring Bruce Willis and Ryan Phillippe -- the rapper-thespian opens up and gets personal talking about the impact he hope his latest acting endeavor makes on his career and dating life.
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Thelma and Louise. Seven. Fight Club. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The Tree of Life. To say nothing of this week's superb Moneyball. With a few arguable exceptions, these are among the Brad Pitt films you'll find generally accepted as canonical. So which, if he had to choose one, do you think he would hand down as his legacy? Hint: None of them.
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