Yesterday, Pixar offered up a first glimpse of its majestic new movie Brave -- about an unruly princess in the Scottish Highlands -- and it left Movieline HQ itching for a Pixar fix. Fortunately, the computer animated god above (or Youtube user NkMcdonalds) anticipated this and pieced together a glorious tribute to Pixar Animation spanning its 25-year career which included 12 feature films, 20 shorts and many beloved characters. Enjoy!
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Yes, yes. TNT's Falling Skies is some kind of film event even though it's a television show, thanks to the involvement of co-creator/big time movie producer Steven Spielberg. But that's not the only semi-related pop cultural reference that comes to mind during the frenetic two and a half minute trailer for the "powerful new original series," a trailer that dares your mind not to wander to just about a dozen other sci-fi properties that are not Falling Skies. Focus, class!
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Now that ballerina Sarah Lane has jeopardized the legacy of Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning flaps and caws in Black Swan, everyone on Team Portman seems hellbent on making this controversy go away -- even Mila Kunis! New video of the digital facial replacement technology that made Natalie's difficult swanning possible has surfaced, however, meaning that may be harder than anticipated.
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Tara Reid accidentally claimed that she'd be starring in The Big Lebowski 2 this year, prompting Joel and Ethan Coen to reply, "You have fun with that!" And guess what, guys? She did. In this new Funny or Die clip, Tara Reid plays all of the parts in The Big Lebowski and updates their stories for us. It's sweeter and nastier than the first sequel to American Pie.
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While the red-band trailers for Your Highness have offered more nudity and penis jokes than any 13-year-old could hope for, it has been a bit more difficult to tell whether the movie will actually be funny. It seems like it should be at least a little funny, with David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman and James Franco combining forces to fight dragons and whatnot, but the trailers aren't really coming through with the big laughs. After watching these five minutes of the film, the funny jury is still out, but one thing is clear: Your Highness will be a little different than the trailers let on.
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Miss Representation may sound like a lost Kelly Clarkson single (and a pal to Little Miss Apprehension), but it's a Sundance selection and the eleventh documentary acquired by Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network. The subject? The skewed and often misogynistic representation of women in news and popular media. The commentators? Everyone from Condoleezza Rice and Gloria Steinem to Jane Fonda and Rosario Dawson. In the trailer, we explore questionable punditry about women in the media and glimpse at the larger issue at hand: Is the wrong message about women still the main one?
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It's a bit of a stretch on this trailer's part to bill True Legend as coming from "the creators of The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill, but it's certainly true that director Yuen Woo Ping was likely a driving force in your favorite scenes from these films. The legendary fight choreographer has also orchestrated amazing action sequences in Kung Fu Hustle, Fist of Legend, Once Upon a Time in China and more than thirty other kung fu movies. And now, he's finally stepped up to directing.
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Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's latest film, will open the Cannes Film Festival in May, but only one question should be on your mind before clicking ahead to watch the new trailer: Does the infamous Carla Bruni-held baguette make an appearance here? The answer may surprise you.
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When you watched The Social Network and witnessed little Jesse Eisenberg skipping and quipping his way through Harvard's hallways, were you immediately suspicious of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's ability to do the same? "Is he just torturing his actors with difficult stroll gymnastics?" you said to definitely no one. Well, by the looks of the rehearsal footage for his phenomenal guest stint on 30 Rock, Sorkin is a born walker and talker. Click through for the backstage clip.
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Given that previous films from Japanese shock cinema master Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) have featured title screens written in semen, explicit homages to the conclusion of The Grapes of Wrath and uh, the entire earth exploding, the trailer for 13 Assassins actually looks kind of tame. But that's like saying David Lynch's Blue Velvet looks "normal" compared to Inland Empire.
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Oh, Daniel Radcliffe -- how you melt the icy chambers of my frozen heart. As the world gears up to watch Harry Potter finally triumph over evil noselessness, lucky Broadway audiences get to watch him finesse the cutthroat boardrooms of Mad Men-era New York in the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Now, I will admit that as both a big fan of Daniel and How to Succeed, there's was almost no chance that I wouldn't love it, but I dare you not to impressed by the former boy wizard's musical stylings. Check out the Broadway magic below! [Broadway]
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How effective is horror, a genre defined by tricky edits and Neve Campbell's harried grimace, when its thrills are conveyed in one continuous shot? Gustavo Hernández's 2010 Cannes selection The Silent House -- which comes out in the UK this April -- wants to answer that. In the new trailer (which, counterintuitively, is a patchwork of quick cuts) young actress Florencia Colucci tries to flee an ominous house in rural Uruguay, but some dark-ass force has her number.
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When it was announced that Paul W.S. Anderson -- the auteur behind Resident Evil and AVP: Alien vs. Predator -- planned to direct a big screen reboot of The Three Musketeers in gloriously overused 3-D, you would have been forgiven for suffering a slight stroke. How does this seemingly terrible idea look now that a trailer for the October action film has been released?
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When Aaron Sorkin decided to adapt The Accidental Billionaires into The Social Network, he signed up for a Facebook account to research the social networking behemoth. Turns out that maybe things aren't going too well on that front, at least if Sorkin's incredibly meta appearance on 30 Rock is any indication. Dude just wants a poke! Ew, not like that -- on Facebook. Fine. Just click ahead to watch.
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The UK's Technology Studio kicked around some ideas to terrorize everyday citizens, and they came up with a doozy: making JRR Tolkien's menacing Eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings a reality. Using Xbox Kinect technology, Cartesian coordinates and other voodoo, the company has created a glowing eye that follows you around the room and gently traumatizes you as you head to the copier. Watch and cry.
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