Even laundromats are scary to children's author-turned-crime novelist Simon Pegg in the intriguing British indie A Fantastic Fear of Everything, which is just about the most promising new trailer I've seen all week, and delightful to boot. Enjoy Pegg's litany of neuroses (and a stop-motion hedgehog!) in this first look at the film, directed by Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills.
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It took a little while to get out, but this young man's lightning-round riff on all 75 Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winners is the textbook definition of better late than never. Guess who: "I'm only in this movie for four minutes and you gave me an Oscar!"
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Maybe it's because I've been obsessing more than usual over Joel Kinnaman since rolling through all of Season 1 of AMC's The Killing in a matter of days (I know, late to the party), but I dare any other Kinnaman-lover out there to watch the new trailer for Lola Versus and not fixate on the future RoboCop's 10 seconds of trailer screen time. Phew. That said, it's quite winning on its own, thanks to Greta Gerwig's charm and the hazy-golden gleam of the New York City streets she's traipsing along as she tries to figure out what to do after fiance Kinnaman calls off their engagement.
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Why would a Berkeley grad weed dealer and his ex-Navy SEAL partner take on a Mexican cartel who wants in on their business? To get their kidnapped shared girlfriend back, of course! Since said shared girlfriend is Blake Lively, I can understand why Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch would risk life and limb to fight off Salma Hayek's gun-wielding goons. I'm not quite as sold on why Oliver Stone would make a movie like this, but after watching the trailer for Savages, hell -- I'm in.
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According to the experts at CVG, the Kinect gaming system has added a few "play-throughs" that allow users to dance along to numbers featuring Star Wars characters. It gets better (worse?): The backing tracks have been adapted from hit songs, resulting in such borderline Weird Al-style parodies as "I'm Han Solo" and "Hologram Girl." Play along, weep, etc. after the jump.
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Another celebrity news revelation, another opportunity for the crack team at NMA to bring the story to life via crudely rendered computer animation. Thus their latest: The background on how Ryan Gosling — patron saint of NYC street-fighters and journalists wandering in front of taxis — was carved from stone to take his place among the deified cultural elite. He even saves baby animals! Who knew?
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Because Bruce Wayne's sweet ride gets everyone's juices flowing (well, except for that Adam West-era number, which doesn't do much for me), here's something for the Batmobile lovers out there, taken from a Batman event Warner Bros. hosted last week for The Dark Knight Rises. Arranged for a bonus feature on the July sequel's eventual Blu-ray release, WB gathered all 5 Batmobiles from TV and film in Burbank, to be paraded down the street and ogled by adoring fans for the first time in public. Aww, yeah. Pull down the shades and start salivating to the sexy sounds of Danny Elfman's Batman score, y'all. It's a Batmobile orgy.
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Marvel and Disney have officially released a clip from The Avengers, with Scarlett Johansson kicking ass in a cocktail dress while bound to a chair. I would go on, but you've seen it all before: It is basically the same fight scene Jason Statham staged last year in Killer Elite, except with boobs. Click through to view both.
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Woody Allen continues his cinematic Eurotrip with To Rome With Love, which aims to repeat the formula of pitting navel-gazing privileged Americans against Old World locales with charming results. While it doesn't go for the transformative magic of Midnight in Paris, will Woody's Rome outing capture something special in Italy? Watch the first trailer below.
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Some guy who should probably be running the space program instead focused his efforts on producing a time-lapse video of the goings-on in Rear Window, as seen from the eponymous vantage point in Jimmy Stewart's apartment. I don't really have any words for this beyond that. Just stop what you're doing and have a look.
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David Lynch has debuted the video for the title track of his album Crazy Clown Time, a thoroughly sick, depraved, tuneless, NSFW, barely watchable/listenable seven-minute romp through the filmmaker-cum-songwriter's mental miasma. It's the most literal-minded music video I've ever seen, which, with lines about pouring beer on people and lighting one's hair aflame and running around the backyard, makes for some arresting imagery. As in, I almost can't believe Lynch made this without getting arrested.
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Here's a last bit of breezy entertainment as you head into the weekend: The first trailer for Miami-set dance sequel Step Up 4, AKA Step Up: Revolution, in which a new pair of star-crossed lovers leads their crew into syncopated battle against prejudice rival gangs foreclosure evil land developers. This series has wound a long, glossy path since the days of Channing Tatum b-boying in the parking lot, but hey: It's a new Step Up movie! As long as that Moose kid and Madd Chadd show up, I'm good to go.
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Here's a last bit of breezy entertainment as you head into the weekend: The first trailer for Miami-set dance sequel Step Up 4, AKA Step Up: Revolution, in which a new pair of star-crossed lovers leads their crew into syncopated battle against prejudice rival gangs foreclosure evil land developers. This series has wound a long, glossy path since the days of Channing Tatum b-boying in the parking lot, but hey: It's a new Step Up movie! As long as that Moose kid and Madd Chadd show up, I'm good to go.
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Everyone's got their thing for getting through a rough week. (Read: Every week.) Some people do yoga, others meditate, more still pray, drink, cower tearfully in the office bathroom for 30 minutes at a time, or indulge any number of other palliatives. Myself, I increasingly find myself turning to "Firecracker," quite possibly the greatest unofficial music video ever created.
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I can picture the lightbulb that went off the day someone in marketing came up with the idea of a viral goof on a medical ad for April 13's The Three Stooges: 'It's like a disease, only moviegoers won't want the cure!' Actually, I'd kill for an anti-"Stoogation" remedy that'd make the Farrelly Bros.' upcoming re-imagining seem remotely palatable. I'm hoping the entire campaign has simply misrepresented what will turn out to be the comic discovery of the year after this painfully nonsensical ad for "Stoogesta."
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