After three summers in a row of Pixar movies that moved more than half of the audience to tears, the new trailer for Cars 2 seems to more or less guarantee that we'll be able to leave the tissues at home this time. The plot setup seems even more convoluted in this trailer (something to do with international espionage and...racing), but that doesn't mean you can't kick back, relax and enjoy the pretty colors, wink-nudge one-liners and wacky antics of Larry the Cable Guy.
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"We're equals -- aren't we, 007?" asks the disembodied voice of Dame Judi Dench, lecturing her on-screen employee Daniel Craig in a new PSA created for International Women's Day (Tuesday, March 8). "Yet it is 2011 and a man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job." And what imagery has the power to combat the litany of socioeconomic inequalities that remain between men and women in today's day and age? James Bond in drag! Because of course.
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Welcome to Monday, March 7, 2011 -- or as it's unofficially known at Movieline HQ, "The Day the Stars of The Switch Tried to Make Commercials Go Viral." Earlier we pointed you toward the Jason Bateman interview-cum-Denny's commercial with David Koechner called "Always Open," and now comes Jennifer Aniston's Smart Water campaign. Expect Jeff Goldblum, Juliette Lewis and Patrick Wilson to be shilling for something by the end of the day.
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It was just a matter of time before the erstwhile barometer of A-list Hollywood nutjobbery collided head-on with its reigning ambassador. The only real question was how that would work -- how or even if Tom Cruise's legendary come-to-Xenu moment would interface with Charlie Sheen's morning-show free-fall into notoriety. But as Sheen himself attests here, "'Can't' is the cancer of 'happen,'" so we've got to start somewhere, right?
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Remember that time before Charlie Sheen, when the Palin Family was the only circus in town? Ah, memories. In an effort to regain some of that cultural edge, Sarah Palin visited Fox News on Sunday to discuss everything that's wrong with the country right now -- and the fact that Kathy Griffin is playing a "Sarah Palin-type" on an upcoming episode of Glee. Priorities, people!
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In 2001, after Paz Vega's sexy and moving performance in Sex and Lucia, I was poised for her to break out in America, or at least become a staple of quality indie films. I tried to keep hope alive after her false-start in Spanglish and a number of appearances in even more mediocre films, but I'm disappointed to report that her latest starring role in the Thriller/Comedy Cat Run isn't doing my optimism any favors. At least this overstuffed, almost incoherent trailer sure isn't.
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Here's some (ahem) uplifting news to start the week: Real life just got a little bit closer to Pixar movies! Or at least closer to Up. A group of scientists have found that you actually can make a house float simply by tying hundreds of helium balloons to it. 300 balloons, to be exact. If this feat into isn't cause for universal celebration, I'm not sure what is. Surely, an even larger group of scientists is working to take this research to its natural conclusion and find a way for humans to actually live inside the Pixar movies we love so dearly. Check out the video of the floating house after the jump.
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As promised, here's that new trailer for Puss in Boots. Here's all you need to know about the first teaser trailer the Shrek spin-off: It starts with an Inception-like montage of words and dissonant horns that ends in a "nine lives" joke. Har! Higher level here, folks! Let's take a look at this warlock.
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Ha! [Cue honking gag horn] It'll all make sense after a look at the trailer for Super, James Gunn's outrageous (and outrageously violent) comedy featuring Rainn Wilson as a schmo-turned-crime-fighter working to reclaim his estranged wife (Liv Tyler) from an evil drug lord (Kevin Bacon). Along the way he enlists a young sidekick (Ellen Page) whose expertise in comics (and enthusiasm for head-busting) comes in handy on his quest.
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It's a good week to be an animation fan, what with Rango garnering rave reviews and a new trailer for the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots hitting the web. (Unless, like me, you caught the Puss in Boots teaser in theaters at midnight in front of the aptly-named Beastly. Not a smart life choice, in retrospect.) But what mystical, family-friendly, Eastern-influenced laughs await us in the new trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2?
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The Internet is popping with loving reviews for Gore Verbinski's Rango, but might Water for Elephants be the first great, no-caveats-like-it's-animated film of the year? If the second trailer for the Reese Witherspoon-Robert Pattinson three-hanky weeper is any indication, quite possibly.
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Every now and then a trailer comes along and offers a glimpse of a movie you had no idea you wanted to see, if only because you wouldn't have thought it could exist in a million years. Case in point: the trailer for this Australian thriller In Her Skin. Until now, I had no idea that there was any hope of getting a Lifetime movie starring Guy Pearce and Sam Neill. But here we are!
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Are there two more adorable television stars than John Krasinski and Ginnifer Goodwin? The answer you're looking for is, "No." Which makes the second trailer for Something Borrowed all the more disconcerting. After all, how could something that features two should-be-wildly-more-famous-than-they-are stars look so... tepid?
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Slooooooooow clap for Jon Cryer, everyone! The now-kinda-unemployed Two and a Half Men star has kept quiet about Charlie Sheen's hourly media vomit sessions, but he's broken that silence for an obvious-but-hilarious bit of parody with Ellen DeGeneres. Click ahead to see Cryer working hard at his new day job with Ellen, then imagine how he had to listen to Sheen's ramblings for eight seasons. Guy deserves a medal. Or some tiger blood.
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Forget Drive Angry and please, please forget Bad Teacher; if any movie was ever justified in jumping on this red-band trailer trend, its Rubber. I mean, points for effort, but how are you supposed to sell a high concept movie about a tire that can explode people's heads without actually showing some exploding heads? Or at least an exploding bunny. Thus, I present the just-released red-band trailer for Rubber which features all sorts of creatures exploding. Only, why does this suddenly look like an art film?
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