John Landis, the director of classics like An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers and Coming to America, has finally made another narrative feature after a nearly decade-long hiatus! Yay! But the trailer for Burke and Hare looks like a poor man's Sweeney Todd. Boo. Then again, Simon Pegg is in it! Awesome! But seriously, what's with all of these cheesy sound effect cuts and the broad humor? Watch the trailer and sort through your own mixed-up emotions after the jump.
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Besides Noomi Rapace's bold hairdo, the trailer for the final installment in this series about computers, sex crimes, and Swedish law doesn't offer much excitement. Really, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest trailer seems tailored for fans of the series only, with little to pique the curiosity of an outsider. But who knows, maybe there are so many fans now that it can afford to go this route.
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Despite the fact that Mark Zuckerberg doesn't really take a beating in The Social Network -- unless being portrayed as a single-minded business genius who is smarter than everyone in the room is a "beating" -- his image rehabilitation tour is currently in full-swing. After giving Oprah Winfrey and Newark schools a check for $100 million last week, the Facebook CEO made his cartoon debut on The Simpsons last night...and promptly told everyone that school was for idiots.
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David Cronenberg, eat your heart out. Richard Curtis, the writer who brought us romantic comedies like Notting Hill and Love Actually, just upped the ante for exploding human beings with a new short film made for the 10:10 environmental campaign called No Pressure. In a nutshell: those refusing to go green, including school children, football players and Gillian Anderson, are blown up by environmentalists. Yep. The movie (which really is hilarious) has been pulled from the 10:10 website and plans to distribute it in cinemas have been canceled. Check out the film and the rest of the story after the jump.
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After priming the pump with a series of "viral videos," the scaremeisters of Paranormal Activity 2 have gifted us with not only a brand spanking-new trailer but also a 30 second clip of the spooky shenanigans in store this October. I found it scary, but I'm a notorious scaredy-cat -- after watching The Blair Witch Project, I slept with the lights on for a solid week. You may be made of sterner stuff than me.
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Even if it weren't all Social Network all the time this weekend, Next Media Animation's foregone contribution to the Facebook-movie mythology would be worthy of dissemination here. With this in mind, I'll just shut up now and let you bask in the crappy CGI glow of Justin Timberlake and Mark Zuckerberg (their characterizations, not mine) frolicking on the beach at sunset -- and so much more.
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From the pseudo-Kurosawa duel at the beginning to the dude yelling "This is what it's all about!" over fast-cut swordplay and electric guitar at the end, it's pretty tempting to write off The Warrior's Way as another snooze-fest that's about as much fun as watching a friend play Ninja Gaiden. And yet, interspersed with the cliches, the trailer contains enough interesting, inspired and just bizarre aspects to make me curious about the film.
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At first, the trailer for this very buzzed-about festival hit looks like an unnecessary rehash of shaky-cam no budget horror. Three documentary filmmakers journey into the wilderness, complete with dated Michael Moore jokes, and meet up with a guy who claims to be a troll hunter. They follow him, but seem skeptical until -- wait, what's this slime on the wheel of the jeep? Yep, looks like The Blair Troll Project. But then...out come the trolls! And actually, they are something to behold.
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I actually can't tell what this stunt has to do with Steve-O's recent sobriety, though he definitely tries to relate the two. I suppose as long as his head's on fire, he's not doing drugs? Whatever. In anticipation of Jackass 3-D, Steve-O sets his head ablaze in front of a live audience and then has a friend spit even more flammable fluid on him. It is every bit as thrilling as it sounds. He also has a few NSFW words for James Cameron. Watch it all after the jump!
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Another hour, another alien trailer. Hot on the heels of I Am Number Four -- and whatever the hell Krackoon is -- here comes longer look at Skyline, the District 9 meets Independence Day film from visual effects designers, the Strause Brothers. So, does Skyline have what it takes to be the next great alien invasion film?
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"Number 1 was killed in Malaysia. Number 2 was murdered in England. Number 3 was hunted down in Kenya. Before they come for the others, they'll come for me. I am Number 4." Ominous! That's "John Smith" -- a.k.a. Number Four -- one of six remaining aliens from the planet Lorien, describing his plight at the beginning of the trailer for I Am Number Four. What's his course of action for survival?
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In a world where everything from tires to mad cows can turn fiercely homicidal in the blink of an eye, it was always kind of comforting to think that raccoons always stopped just short of murder -- that the worst we could expect from them was a nocturnal trashivore binge or some medium-grade campsite ravaging. Damn you, Krackoon, for snuffing out that comfort with your nightmare visions of crack-addled, gut-munching critters terrorizing the Bronx. Like we didn't have enough problems with steroidal bedbugs.
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What made the recent passing of French suspense master Claude Chabrol all the more tragic was the fact that the man was still in top form. And indeed, based on the stylish, often funny trailer for his final film Inspector Bellamy, it looks like Chabrol gave it his all right up to the end.
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Film editor Sally Menke's untimely death Monday at age 56 is all the more tragic for ending one of the longest, most inspired and fruitful creative collaborations in Hollywood. Over seven films and nearly 19 years working with Quentin Tarantino, Menke has refined the director's chatty, kinetic, violent and gleefully derivative impulses into visionary cinema, from the first garrulous scene of Reservoir Dogs to the last visceral shots of Inglourious Basterds. Movieline parsed their work together for a few milestones, of which were many; read on for the NSFW high points.
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Things appear to have calmed down over on Sesame Street this week. Gone are the Kewpie doll eyes and heaving breasts of Katy Perry, replaced instead with the neurotic hand gestures and brilliant comic timing of Jason Bateman. And you know what? That's not necessarily a bad thing. (If nothing else, Bateman certainly appears less desperate.) Click ahead to watch the former Arrested Development star teach Elmo the ABCs, all while keeping his clothes on.
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