The sight of Taylor Lautner's bare chest in Twilight may have the power to break world squealing records or turn Harry Knowles momentarily bi-curious, but doesn't it all feel a little...obligatory? Even Eclipse had to acknowledge that Lautner's shirtlessness was starting to reach the heights of self-parody, and now, here comes flat-out parody Vampires Suck to finish the job.
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Impressed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's aerial acrobatics while floating through the zero-gravity hallways of Inception? You ain't seen nothing yet: PopEater alerts us to Gordon-Levitt's older brother (and dreadlocked doppleganger) Dan, who's a fire-spinning flow artist. Head over there for an interview, and hit the jump for a clip of Dan in action:
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If you needed any further proof that Marvel's Hulk franchise is irrevocably cursed, then have a look at the stirring trailer for HALKa -- the downmarket Bangladeshi adaptation that will have everyone from Edward Norton to Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige quivering with inferiority. Is it too late to replace Mark Ruffalo?
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After the initial trailer for Burlesque threw glitter up all over the Internet last week, it's somewhat surprising to see that the first clip from the film is so benign in nature. The musical's biggest selling points -- Cher and Stanley Tucci's eyeglasses -- are nowhere to be found here, replaced instead by Christina Aguilera's booming vocals on "Something's Got a Hold on Me" and a dance routine that feels like Flashdance minus the water. Click ahead to watch, but be prepared to tap your foot in unison.
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Part of District 9's novelty came from its setting: While films like Independence Day and the upcoming Battle: Los Angeles posit that invading aliens will choose Los Angeles as their point of first contact, District 9 set its extraterrestrials in South Africa, an immediately refreshing and offbeat choice. Now we've got the trailer for the Comic-Con sci-fi vehicle Skyline, and it seems like the aliens are back to their old tricks again.
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After watching a Will Ferrell comedy like The Other Guys, you might be expecting an outtake reel or a bizarre epilogue to play underneath the closing credits. Instead, director Adam McKay (whose political essays often appear at the Huffington Post) took the opportunity to illustrate the rampant financial corruption of America in a Rage Against the Machine-scored animated interlude.
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You've seen the epilepsy-inducing credit sequences from Gaspar Noe's surrealist Enter the Void, but now that IFC has put out a trailer in advance of the film's September 24 bow stateside, you can get a closer look at the whole hallucinogenic experience. Can you handle a film that simultaneously invokes elements of a first-person shooter, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the Rainbow Road stage from Super Mario Kart?
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Do you want to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum battle it out in an effects-driven extravaganza? You may not have wanted to when it was called G.I. Joe, but now that it's a charming, old-timey short film called Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeeth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo, maybe your mind can be changed.
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark might have been scared of featuring Katie Holmes in its marketing materials, but The Romantics certainly isn't -- Mrs. Tom Cruise appears in almost every shot of the newly released trailer. Though since the film looks like a warmed-over version of Rachel Getting Married recast with television actors, perhaps Holmes should be the one worrying.
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Here's a fortune cookie-type question for a lazy August Monday: Will Matthew Wilder's Inferno actually exist as a movie or is his Lindsay Lohan-as-Linda Lovelace exploitation-cum-biopic -- ahem -- only a collection of Tyler Shields photographs? Thankfully, some newly released footage helps shed some light on this.
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The geniuses at NMA Media have followed their exquisite CGI recounting of the Lindsay Lohan saga with an animated introduction to the gang at Jersey Shore. Or maybe "introduction" is the wrong word; how about, "no-budget portrait of a vomit-doused, president-assaulting phenomenon"?
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Filmmaker Johnnie To is back by popular demand -- or at least on demand. And according to Movieline's chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek, the Hong Kong genius's latest thriller, Vengeance, is well worth staying in for this weekend. Her video review (featuring a few clips from the film as well) follows the jump.
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Despite the Shyamalanian birthday festivities that have no doubt hijacked your day, here's hoping I can rope you out of celebratory mode for a few minutes to hear what Movieline's chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek has to say about The Other Guys -- a summer comedy that, Stephanie's estimation, could use some celebration of its own. Click ahead and have a look.
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What's there to say about the trailer for Jackass 3D, other than the fact that the trailer is not in 3D? Well, not much. But, if you like watching grown men do increasingly ridiculous stunts with reckless abandon to their body and their surroundings, then this is the movie for you!
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Sometimes, you're locked into a relationship with someone you really care for, yet all you do is fight all the time. Eminem knows. Rihanna knows. You know who else knows? Megan Fox, whose tempestuous working relationship with her Transformers director Michael Bay involved Hitler metaphors and abrupt firings.
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