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Watch This: Beaker is Just "Dust in the Wind"
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Fandom, Trailers and Clips
For the love of God please make that new Muppet movie a rock opera!!!! Arrrrrrgh!
Okay, now that that's out of my system, it's time to explain why I just had that little outburst. See, MuppetsStudio has released another classic rock song with a Muppets edge. Oh, yes! First it was the brilliance of "Bohemian Rhapsody," and now -- "Beaker's Ballad." No, it's not some random original song, but rather the ol' meeemer sharing his rendition of "Dust in the Wind" -- Kansas' 1977 hit. Unfortunately, Beaker's memeing is no match for Lynn Meredith's vocals, and the harsh, cruel internet world is ready to pounce. It seems that they only like silent (pun alert!) memes.
If we can't get Jason Segel to switch his upcoming movie to a Muppet rock opera, maybe we can at least get a faux concert documentary from the MuppetsStudio? It could be the fan event to challenge Rocky Horror! I imagine I'm not the only one who would stand in line to hear these guys go through all the classic greats.
Meanwhile, in related news, The Playlist managed to nab a description of the new Muppet movie based on a script that's dated October 2009 that their source calls a "solid attempt at recapturing what made "The Muppet Show" and the first two Muppet movies so great" Check out the film description from The Playlist and the hilarious video after the jump.
Scenes (Songs) We Love: "Lunatic Fringe" from 'Vision Quest'
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Sports, Fandom, Trailers and Clips, Scenes We Love
We've had some time to get used to the truly terrible idea of a 3D Stretch Armstrong flick with Taylor (Team Jacob) Lautner as the flexible hero in question. But on the upside, at least now I can hold out hope that maybe if Lautner's busy getting all bendy, he won't have time to ruin the memory of Louden Swain in a remake of the sports/teen drama Vision Quest -- which brings me to today's Scenes (Songs) We Love, and while most people focus on Madonna's Crazy for You as the musical highlight of the flick, I thought I would offer up a pretty viable alternative: Lunatic Fringe from Red Rider.
Vision Quest was based on the novel by Terry Davis and centered on a high-school wrestler (played by Matthew Modine) who decides to take on the top dog in a fight to do something meaningful with his life -- which I guess means rolling around on the floor with other guys. But, in the pursuit of his dream, he sacrifices his health and his love life with an older woman (played by Linda Fiorentino).
The song was written by the Tom Cochrane (and I'm sure my fellow Canadians know that name), and was originally released in 1981 before making its way onto the soundtrack, and even though the song is actually about the rise of anti-Semitism in the 1970's, when I hear this tune I just think of Matthew Modine in a spot-lit gym.
After the jump: a slice of Canadiana...
Watch This: Brilliant Oscar-Nominated Short 'Logorama'
Filed under: Animation, Shorts, Trailers and Clips
I was glad I opted to watch the opening night shorts program at this year's Sundance Film Festival because it was packed with four fantastic short films. One of those (arguably the favorite of the bunch) was an animated film called Logorama, written and directed by the French duo of François Alaux and Herve de Crecy. Now nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar, Logorama takes place in a world full of corporate and brand logos (in which roughly 2,500 appear), and it follows a few different stories that all intertwine with one another. Honestly, it's bloody brilliant, and I guarantee it'll be the best thing you watch all week.
At Sundance, a bunch of us wondered how these guys could get away with making something like this without facing hundreds of lawsuits, and then we wondered whether legal matters would ever stop it from existing in some form online. Perhaps someone with a law background could chime in here, but in the meantime you simply must head after the jump to watch this film. My favorite part is the Joker-esque Ronald McDonald, but it's also the tiniest details that truly make this film a work of art. You may normally not pay attention to the short film categories at the Oscars (partly because they're not as widely distributed as the feature films), but after watching Logorama I think you'll be rooting for it come March 7th.
Check it out after the jump and let us know what you think.
Happy Belated Birthday, James Spader
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While all thoughts were swarming towards Superbowl showdowns and commercials, the lovely and venerable James Spader celebrated his 50th birthday. I'll let that sink in for a moment. 50 years... Half a century. To the younger folks that might not seem like such a shocker, Spader being nothing more than that overly talky, whisky-drinking dude from Boston Legal, who got particularly kinky with Maggie Gyllenhaal not too long ago. But to those whose first forays into cinema included the likes of Pretty in Pink, Mannequin, Less Than Zero, Wall Street, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape, it's a pretty big thing to wrap your head around. What might be most impressive or surprising, more so than Spader's age, is that he is such an absolute and quintessential part of '80s Hollywood for only a very small handful of films. There are many men and women who graced the screen over and over during that decade, but it took exactly one role to make him famous: Steff in Pretty in Pink -- rich, suit-wearing, and holding enough charming sleaze to fill a football stadium. He ruled the high-school-jerk legions, and even if you weren't a fan of John Hughes' Molly Ringwald world, you knew about Spader's sleazy slick nature.
SXSW Exclusive: 'Red, White & Blue' Teaser Trailer
Filed under: Drama, Thrillers, SXSW, Mystery & Suspense, Trailers and Clips
"In Austin Texas, the lives of three young people "Erica, Franki and Nate" intertwine in a fateful, tragic way and head down a rocky and violent road to heart-rending oblivion."Going off the above description from the official SXSW program guide, Red, White & Blue reads like it could be a number of different films, but two names attached to the production hint at what kind of "heart-rending oblivion" it'll be. First off, this is the latest film from The Living and the Dead director Simon Rumley, so we can begin to rule RW&B out as, say, a Havoc-type melodrama about teenagers dipping their toes into life on the other side of the tracks and winding up in over their heads. Second, its roster of producers includes Tim League, which should give anyone familiar with the cinematic tastes of both Fantastic Fest and the Alamo Drafthouse (League is a co-founder of both) an idea of what kind of genre brew will be coming to SXSW in a few weeks time.
But even with those two nuggets, nothing gives as good an idea of what's in store than seeing the beast in motion. And with that, Cinematical is proud to offer you the premiere of Red, White & Blue's first teaser trailer, starring Noah Tyler, Amanda Fuller and Marc Senter.
Be warned, the below teaser is most definitely Not Safe For Work. Nudity and sexual explicitness abound, so keep that in mind before you click on.
Superbowl 2010: All The Movie Trailers In One Spot
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The Superbowl brings together millions of fans, two extremely talented teams, billions of cans of beer, zillions of potato chips, and an audience hungry for one thing: the best commercials you'll see all year. Which is a real shame. Why save them up for only one day? And I don't know about everyone else, but that Snickers commercial with Betty White and Abe Vigoda was pretty damn good. Hopefully this will quell the rumors that Vigoda is dead for some time to come, and get White that well-deserved spot hosting Saturday Night Live.
On the flipside, did anyone catch the painful, poorly written HomeAway commercial "Hotel Hell Vacation" where Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo reprised their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold? If you didn't, make sure you catch the entire fourteen minute long version for extra torture. To say the writing was horrible would be a compliment -- did they cast a Joe Pesci as David Ferrie in JFK lookalike contest loser as Rusty? Good grief. However, it did give me faith that another Vacation movie could work with a kick-ass script. Just watch Chevy Chase singing in the shower. That's the Clark Griswold we grew up loving. Someone write us a new Vacation, and make it good.
So, everything else aside, some of those commercials were new movie spots for upcoming films. Sadly, none of them star Betty White, Abe Vigoda, or Chevy Chase, but here are new looks at Alice in Wonderland, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Robin Hood, Shutter Island, The Crazies and The Wolfman. Watch all of the video spots after the break, and tell us which one was your favorite. After seeing these, I think The Last Airbender just jumped way up my charts.
Stars in Rewind: You Take 'The A-Team,' I'll Take 'The Dead Pool'
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When Friday night activities were waylaid by a friend's ill-timed back problem, I decided to get a little Dirty Harry in the system with the final film in the franchise, 1988's The Dead Pool. If you're familiar with it, it should come as no surprise that by about 20 minutes in, I decided that rather than watch the new A-Team movie when it comes out, I think I'll be slipping The Dead Pool into my Blu-ray player. The last of the series, Harry Callahan is pulled into the messy world of cinema as a strange film director (Liam Neeson) seems to be at the center of a death pool-inspired killing spree. While Neeson doesn't chew on a cigar and get in on the action, all the thrills are left to Clint Eastwood, who throws "Welcome to the Jungle" on in order to film a music video that stars one Jim Carrey. Or make that James Carrey as he was known back then, just a few years before he slipped onto In Living Color, and a good handful of years before he found fame for those zany ways.
The clip after the jump isn't the best quality, but it's Carrey getting his lip-synch on to G'n'R, which is just about the most dead-on summation of the time I can think of. "Welcome to the Jungle" was released as a single in October of 1987, and by '88, it headlined every lip synching competition out there, every dance, and well, everything.
Action, nostalgia, and a good helping of ridiculousness ... you can take The A-Team, but I'm sticking with The Dead Pool.
First Footage from Christina Aguilera's 'Burlesque'
Filed under: Drama, Trailers and Clips
It all started last May when Christina Aguilera found a big-screen, starring role that would actually pay her to play out her burlesque interests. Soon, a whole slew of surprising names signed on -- Cher, Stanley Tucci, and even Kristen Bell. (It also features Julianne Hough, Cam Gigandet, Eric Dane, Alan Cumming, and Peter Gallager.) Now, Entertainment Tonight has shared a behind-the-scenes look at Burlesque, which you can check out after the jump.The movie bits -- they're as you'd imagine, a sort of smaller-scale Moulin Rouge set on a stage. Aguilera's got on the small-town-girl wig to play Ali, Hough goes wigged redhead for Georgia, and Bell's a brunette. But Cher takes center stage for this behind-the-scenes look, and it really seems like she's in her own little world, especially once she's sitting down for an interview alongside Stanley Tucci. He takes her quirk with ease, even when she giggles and describes him as a lecherous old man ogling all the young butts that walk by. But it seems more yearning to be in the spotlight, as she talks about being surrounded by girls 1/3 her age.
The film comes out this Thanksgiving. It seems like an interesting time to go burlesque ... unless they're subtly warning us that Burlesque will be a turkey?
Watch This: What If Famous Filmmakers Directed the Superbowl?
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Let's face it: The only reason most of us are actually watching the Superbowl this Sunday is because of the commercials. Unless you live in Indianapolis or New Orleans, and/or you're a die hard fan of one of those teams, you could honestly care less about the outcome of the actual football game. Instead, we're more interested in who is spending millions of dollars in an effort to sell us on their product in under a minute.
Good news is at least Fox doesn't have the Superbowl this year, so we won't have to spend four hours staring at that stupid robot football player dancing on the left side of the screen. But we still need to deal with the same old game coverage, and wouldn't it be nice if for just this one day (and game), some of Hollywood's most prolific filmmakers could get behind the camera? The folks over at SlateV imagined just that -- and they've put together a pretty hilarious video showing us what the Superbowl would look like if Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard and Werner Herzog directed it. The only thing that's missing is a nod to Michael Bay, though something tells me they couldn't find enough Superbowl video with helicopters, explosions and half naked drugged-up dancers.
Check out the video after the jump, then let us know which famous directors you'd like to see helm the Superbowl.
'Last Airbender' and 'Robin Hood' Superbowl Spots Already Online
Filed under: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paramount, Family Films, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Trailers and Clips
Hey, kids and Avatar: The Last Airbender fans! If you want to see the tv spot for The Last Airbender, but you don't want to sit through the Superbowl due to a dislike of the teams, football, or the obnoxious people in your household, you're in luck! UGO has been lucky enough to obtain the top secret, ultra-exclusive television spot. They were kind enough to let us embed it here so that you can watch it again and again.
You'll definitely have to do that, because it's over in a flash. (Ponder how much they spend to air this during Superbowl Sunday, then giggle at getting to see it for free.) Those of you familiar with the Nickelodeon series will be able to spot lots of references to the show. According to UGO (I'm quoting them because I only have a Wikipedia based knowledge of this series), you get scenes of "achieving Avatar State, waterbending, earthbending and firebending, and of the Fire Nation Navy in battle. Sharp eyes might even catch a glimpse of Gran Gran!" One of their really eagle-eyed readers says that Appa the Sky Bison is in there, too, but I must need my eyes checked because I don't see anything that looks like a bison in that scene.
To a newbie, it looks like quite the fantasy film, and I'm reminded for the millionth time that I should watch the series one of these days. I've got until July 2, 2010 so maybe I will. In the meantime, what do you fans think of this first real teaser? Did M. Night Shyamalan get it right?
Additionally, we've also added the Robin Hood Superbowl spot after the jump. Which summer film looks more appetizing to you?
Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams Reunite for 'Mission Impossible 4'
'Big Top Pee-Wee': The Original Benicio Del Toro Wolfman
Spin-ematical: New on DVD and Blu-ray for 2/9
Watch This: Brilliant Oscar-Nominated Short 'Logorama'
Chris Nolan to Lead 'Superman' Reboot!?
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