Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd Trailer Hits

The trailer for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd film has hit over at Yahoo and it's right in line with Burton's signature style. I personally can't wait. As much as I hated his Planet of the Apes, I have hope that they'll pull this one together well. It'll at least be fun to watch.

Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen and more.

Click here to visit the movie's offical site.

See the trailer in HD and Standard versions here!

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Kristen Dunst Pictures from Lula Magazine

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Movie Review: The Kingdom

The Kingdom
CS Rating: Too Pro-American for it's own good
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431197/

Impressively executed, The Kingdom might suck you in but something just isn't right and it took a few post-movie discussions of the film for me to finally figure out what it was. More on that later.

The movie sets out to shock. We live with real violence thanks to the Television shows that lack the class NOT to show the effects of just how bad it can get when one human being does their worst on another. But after the initial terrorist attack the shock wears off quickly as a group of FBI agents (Jamie Fox, Jenifer Garner, Chris Cooper, etc) show up to turn the movie into CSI: Saudi Arabia.

The FBI investigates and jokes it's way through the 'crime scene', putting the clues together in typical convienient fashion and putting the Saudi's to shame as the movie is set on showing that they just can't investigate a terrorist attack.

The 'America is Awesome' feel gets tiring as the movie is stubborn in it's mission to prove that it's us poor American's that keep getting crapped on by these damn backwards third world civilizations.

The movie starts off with a catch up animation piece showing the timeline of the region and oil conflicts that have led our world to where it is today. This to me meant there would be a message to the film. My friend thought that message was incredibly anti-muslim. I felt that the message wasn't so much anti-muslim as it was just typically pro-american. The overall message was lost on both of us - because I think it had something to do with 'violence begets violence' and the film ended with a both American's and Muslims alike swearing to continue the revenge killing.


The actors could have been cardboard cutouts and as much as Jennifer Garner is beautiful to watch, she had very little to do in most of the film. It was disappointing seeing so many quality actors just phone in their performaces.

Jeremy Piven shows up out of nowhere and whoever casted him should be banned from casting for the rest of time. He comes in like his character from Entourage and completely derails the scenes he's in because he sticks out like a sore thumb. He just has no place in this film.

Despite the flaws, I still had a good time watching it - particularly in the final action sequence which in retrospect feels very tacked-on. Someone somewhere obviously thought the movie needed less message and more terrorist ass kicking.

So onto what really just didn't sit well with me and you may not want to read this as it may be spoilerific: The American's had no sacrifices. Everyone on the team got out alive. No one made any mistakes, no one fucked up in anyway shape or form and yes all the characters live. Not one American died and certainly Piven's character should have been blown up. The movie seems to confidently say "Americans get will get in, kill all the baddies, get the main terrorist and get out within a few days and well, Americans' just rule." Did the writers forget that this country has been incapable of finding any well known terrorist in the past 7 years? Bin Laden anyone?!

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Justice League Movie Greenlit: No Wonder Woman for Jessica Biel

A Justice League movie is under way at Warner Brothers. Helmed by Happy Feet's George Miller this could be a huge film. You've got Batman, Superman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and more all on one screen. Too bad it seems to already be off to a bad start.

Jessica Biel has turned down the part of Wonder Woman and the studio has arrogantly claimed that this film can co-exist with their other franchises The Dark Knight and Superman: Man of Steel without tying into them with any continuity. Meaning, Christian Bale won't be playing Batman and Routh likely won't be playing Superman (although he expressed interest). The Flash feature has been put on hold and the Wonder Woman flick seems dead in the water. The movie is also being rushed for a 2009 release according to Entertainment Weekly.

What this all says to me is that we'll end up seeing some over-produced, no-name cast, mess of a film hacked together by focus group results and glossed over with shitty special effects.

I wonder if they'll just make this Smallville: the Movie.

I do have some faith in Miller (he did make Mad Max afterall) but I'm getting the impression that this is going to be out of his control as it careens wildly into the Warner Bros brick wall.

I feel like we've just seen it so many times before - budgets will balloon, the script will change under the studio's insecurity to make a decent special effects heavy ensemble film, and there will never be enough screen time for any of the superheroes.

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Feist Video for 1 2 3 4 (iPod Nano Commercial)

Damn you Apple. You make awesome toys and use maddeningly catchy tunes in commercials for said awesome toys.

It came out of nowhere as the iPod Nano commercial has made this video famous and the song has been stuck in millions of heads for the past week or so... If you haven't seen the whole video - here's your chance thanks to YouTube. You can also download the video for iPod on iTunes.

The name of the song is "1 2 3 4" and it's by Feist. Enjoy!


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Jennifer Garner Pictures from Marie Claire (Oct 2007)

Jennifer Garner is looking really good, even after marrying Ben Affleck and becoming a mother. These pics of Jennifer are from the October 2007 issue of Marie Claire. If anyone knows of some better scans, please let me know.

Jennifer's new flick The Kingdom comes out this weekend - I'll be seeing it and reviewing it as soon as I can.

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Movie Review: Resident Evil 3 - Extinction

Resident Evil 3 - Extinction
CS Rating: A Must if you liked RE1 and RE2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432021/

This series has always come in a bit shy of where it should be in my opinion. While it's fun to watch and for me, Milla killing zombies is always gonna be fun to watch -the Resident Evil movies always kinda fell flat. My guess is that they just lack the budget to really make these movies epic but as translations of a video game these really are some of the best.

Despite the western-style overhaul this 3rd installment fits right in with the other two. This time we find Alice out on her own, dodging the Umbrella Corporation riding through what has become a deserted wasteland of America. Umbrella is up to no good as they try to domesticate the infected and a travelling band of survivors travels the desert in a badass caravan led by Ali Larter (Heroes). The surreal tone of the first two is very present in this one as well.

The action is entertaining and the special effects are good enough. If you enjoyed the other two you'll certainly enjoy this one. It ties the storyline together and Milla Jovavich looks hot as ever. I think it's a great twist of fate that Milla has become an action movie star.

Ali Larter does a decent job and I recently read a rumor that she would headline the fourth Resident Evil installment. Resident Evil without Milla wouldn't work for me - Ali's character just isn't strong enough to carry a movie so I hope they ditch that idea. Leave it at a trilogy if Milla won't come back.




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