The buzz circulating around Rampart at the Toronto Film Festival has it either right on the fringe of the Oscar crop (with a few judicious cuts) or simply a curio with a ferocious turn by Woody Harrelson. And now viewers at home can finally get a look at what may or may not materialize as one of the season's awards candidates -- a bundle of NSFW clips have arrived online for your viewing pleasure.
We used to consider Aladdin the gayest Disney film thanks to its gilded grandeur, decadent costuming, and, uh, Jafar. "Bring me the boy!" indeed, my good vizier! However, the Internet has proved us wrong this week with a video entitled, "Bonjour, girl!" a redubbed, bitchier take on Belle's opening musical from Beauty and the Beast. Girl needs to leave this provincial life, STAT!
What is it with hometown reunions and high school sweethearts this week? Already, we've seen Hilary Duff try to hijack Mark Polish before he can rekindle the flames with his teen crush (Winona Ryder) in Stay Cool. We've seen artwork for Diablo Cody's Young Adult, which features a teen lit novelist (Charlize Theron) who tries to reclaim her happily-married high school honey (Patrick Wilson). And now, we get a clip of Channing Tatum zeroing in on his love interest of yester-decade (Rosario Dawson) in a snippet from the star-packed Ten Year.
Hilary Duff may have seen her planned screen turn as Bonnie Parker nixed due to pregnancy, but the erstwhile Lizzie Maguire will soon appear in the Polish brothers ensemble comedy Stay Cool. The 2009 Tribeca entry concerns a thirtysomething novelist (Mark Polish) who returns to his Sacramento hometown only to be confronted with the colorful ex-flames and friends still living there and the hot-to-trot high school senior (Duff) trying to jump his bones. Get a first look at Duff's would-be teen seductress (and her failed attempt at seduction) in Movieline's exclusive clip.
We've already established this week's Bad Movie We Love, The Main Event, as a benchmark of Barbra Streisand costuming. But what of this rare video -- long-rumored and finally unearthed this week -- of Babs dropping by the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, rocking a dominatrix outfit and whipping Harrison Ford for his recent cinematic transgressions? With Ford's Empire Strikes Back collaborators Carrie Fisher and Irvin Kershner making cameos? Some are calling it a practical joke, but I call it a milestone.
Ever since deranged Dutch filmmaker Tom Six announced that Human Centipede 2 would make his original mouth-to-anus picture "look like a Disney film," we have been anxiously awaiting video evidence. After seeing this week's Australian teaser debut, IFC Films has granted us a first trailer for The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, which has already been banned in the U.K. So guys, hold on tight to your Human Centipede charm necklaces and click through -- except for you, Donnie Wahlberg.
The new Dior short film/luxury ad starring celebrity spokesmodel Charlize Theron makes a number of assumptions off the bat. First and foremost, that you'd believe screen icons Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, and Marilyn Monroe would shill for any designer even in death, but more so? That Theron, statuesque living goddess that she is, is the natural glam heir to those ladies' legacy. Then again, it was filmed inside of Versailles. Point, Charlize!
"We just need a little adventure. [...] A big year to do everything we never could," explain the trio of lead characters in the trailer for David Frankel's The Big Year. Because 365 days worth of adventure-seeking and ticking off bucket-list items will surely drive the crises right out of Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. And at the very least, that "big year" will give the comedic actors a reason to goof around on skis, forge meaningful bonds and, most likely, realize that the cure to their middle-aged woes have been in plain view the entire time. Or am I missing the plot entirely?
Last anyone heard from team Human Centipede, led by the redoubtable, utterly demented filmmaker Tom Six, the third film in the series was eyeing a U.S. setting. Those plans might go south depending on whether or not Six and Co. can even get the controversial Human Centipede Part 2: Full Sequence screened uncut and uncensored when it opens Stateside next month -- an inevitability that a new, NSFW Australian teaser wouldn't have you count on.
Spencer Susser's intense indie drama Hesher features a fair amount of extreme angst -- embodied by the charismatic Joseph Gordon-Levitt, tattooed and grimy like you've never seen him before -- but plenty of fun was had behind the scenes, if Movieline's exclusive outtake reel is any indication. After the jump, watch a sweetly dorky Natalie Portman goof of between scenes with her young co-star Devin Brochu in a special feature from the forthcoming DVD/Blu-ray release.
It's not quite Catwoman riding her bike into a camera, but the latest fan video from the set of The Dark Knight Rises does offer a relatively spoiler-free glimpse at how your Batman sausage is made. To wit: Prop walls, multi-car pile ups, and a quiet Labor Day weekend in L.A. Click ahead for a look.
Madonna's latest effort as a filmmaker, W.E., has not been the beneficiary of what you'd call especially glowing reviews out of the Venice Film Festival. Our own Stephanie Zacharek is among the more magnanimous critics to receive it there, calling it "at times comically bad. But it's also criminally watchable." At the other end of the spectrum are reviews citing its "galactic-level awfulness" and characterizing it as "inept, gauche and mendacious." So what does the pop icon do when confronted with a fan? Let's go to the videotape!
Gérard Depardieu may not have the bladder control he used to, but at least his sense of humor is as intact as ever. The French screen legend appears in a new parody video with his Asterix and Obelix: On Her Majesty's Secret Service co-star Edouard Baer, featuring the duo in character as the famous comic-book Gauls and Depardieu battling valiantly for lavatory privileges. It's all in French, but hey. Having to pee is a universal language all its own.
Imagine if Sofia Coppola's Somewhere had been about a girl who bonds with her estranged musician father while on tour instead of a girl who bonds with her estranged movie star dad at the Chateau Marmont. That alternative scenario is exactly what writer/director David M. Rosenthal explores in Janie Jones, which stars Abigail Breslin as the titular offspring and Alessandro Nivola as her struggling rocker father.
I won't speak to the quality of his songs (particularly this one), but Marcus Foster has great taste in guest cameos that will get his music videos noticed. Here he features Kristen Stewart in the new video for "I Was Broken." And by "features," I mean "plants her in front of a fan and asks her to turn around." But hey.
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