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Week in Review: The Americanization of Uggie
2 December 2011 5:30 PM, PST
The masses have spoken, and their cry is clear: "Consider Uggie!" Yes, The Artist's unbelievably moving doggie is tearing up news outlets and Facebook with his Oscar potential, and I emit a silent woof in approval! Enjoy this first weekend in December (and Advent, if you still celebrate your repressed Catholic upbringing like I do), and check out this week's highlights. »
9 Milestones in the Evolution of Gerard Butler
2 December 2011 5:00 PM, PST
This weekend, Gerard Butler revisits the very Shakespeare play that launched his acting career: Coriolanus. This time around, Butler plays Tullus Aufidius, the rival of the title character in Ralph Fiennes's big screen adaptation. So just how did a Scottish actor who started with Shakespeare boomerang back to the very same play a decade later after achieving Hollywood stardom? »
Talkback: What Is the Greatest Penis Moment in Movie History?
2 December 2011 4:20 PM, PST
Since our friends at Next Movie totally went there, why not bat this one around Movieline HQ? It's Friday! Live a little. In honor of Michael Fassbender's infamous display of total nakedness in this week's Shame -- emotional and physical, to be fair -- Next Movie ran down the nine greatest "penis moments" in the movies. Yes, Ewan McGregor. You made the list. »
9/11 vs. the Movies
2 December 2011 3:10 PM, PST
Maybe it's more like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Too Soon: "There is also the question of whether or not certain aspects of Sept. 11 -- such as the people who leapt out the tower windows -- should even be dealt with in a fiction film. 'Should you show the jumpers or not?' wonders Angus Kress Gillespie, who teaches a course on the history of Sept. 11 at Rutgers University. 'It's very controversial. It's terrifying, it's horrible, but it needs to be shown. This is not an abstraction that it was a horrible event; it was a horrible event.'" [Lat] »
Celebrate Britney Spears' 30th Birthday With a Look Back at Crossroads
2 December 2011 2:30 PM, PST
News flash, people: Britney Spears is 30 years old today. Oh, how the years (and ruined relationships and children and countless bags of Cheetos) have flown by! In honor of the pop princess's milestone birthday, let's flash back to the year 2002, a time when Brit-Brit was not a girl, and not yet a woman. When she debuted her first starring turn, the start of a promising career as a serious dramatic actress! When Zoe Saldana was just that girl from Center Stage! Let us return to Crossroads. »
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Red Band Trailer: Sick Show, Great Job!
2 December 2011 12:50 PM, PST
Every once in a while it's nice to see a "red band trailer" that could possibly disturb somebody. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie does just that, as well as build nicely upon Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, which ran for five seasons. In the trailer for the new movie, which will premiere at Sundance, we watch as Tim and Eric don fetching khakis, sever a finger, astound Zach Galifiankis, reveal a staggering sex toy and "honor their love" for each other. Disgusting and undeniably funny. »
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo's Soundtrack Will Only Span Three Discs and Six LPs
2 December 2011 12:00 PM, PST
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has already established itself as the perfect forum for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's haunting, crunchy musical stylings, but the full breadth of its soundtrack is a bit of a disappointment: It's only three full-length CDs! Damn it. That's barely enough music to occupy me during a four-hour flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. Underachievers. Find out where you can get the soundtrack's Karen O.-led cover of "Immigrant Song," as well as a few clips from the new package, after the jump. »
Liam Neeson Is a Badass Wilderness Hero in New Trailer For The Grey
2 December 2011 11:10 AM, PST
Last time we saw Liam Neeson in a trailer for the upcoming survival drama The Grey, he was preparing to battle a few angry wolves. In the new kickass preview for Joe Carnahan's wilderness adventure, Neeson is not only preparing to wage a full-scale attack on all of the wolves that stand between him and civilization, but he heroically maintains the morale among a group of fellow stranded plane crash survivors on their long walk home. »
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters First Look: Renner and Arterton
2 December 2011 10:40 AM, PST
Fairy tales really do come true... when Hollywood is out of other ideas. EW has the first look at Tommy Wirkola's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a film starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as grown versions of the Grimm trekkers who once killed a witch during their youth. Apparently the movie takes on a gritty Pulp Fiction vibe while invoking the very real bonds between siblings who've suffered abuse and trauma. Bread crumbs and broken lives, y'all. Click through for a first glimpse. »
Starship Troopers Is Being Rebooted
2 December 2011 10:00 AM, PST
After devolving into a series of direct-to-video sequels (with a 2012 anime film on the way), Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi action satire Starship Troopers, based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, is reportedly getting rebooted at Sony under producer Neal Moritz. Onboard for scripting duties are writing partners Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz, who most recently earned credits on Thor, X-Men: First Class, Fringe, and Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles. (They also wrote Agent Cody Banks. Yep.) There's just one question: Who could possibly fill Casper van Dien's bug-stomping boots? [Vulture] »
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never vs. Harry Potter: Which Soundtracks Deserve a Grammy This Year?
2 December 2011 7:50 AM, PST
Ahh, the Grammy's -- the one award show that allows films like Black Swan to be nominated in the same category as The King's Speech and Tron Legacy. Late yesterday, the nominees for the 54th Grammys were announced and now that we've had nearly a day to absorb the fact that Zooey Deschanel, Seth MacFarlane and Cher are going head-to-head for a golden statuette, we can decide which artists deserve awards for their soundtrack contributions. »
Video: The Karate Kid's Rough Draft Feels Like Swedeing With the Stars
2 December 2011 7:20 AM, PST
In a video that hit the Web over a year and a half ago but appears to have only really surfaced this week, find Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and other principals from The Karate Kid rehearsing the entire 1984 classic on handheld camera for the film's director, John G. Avildsen. It's like something out of Be Kind Rewind -- except, you know, featuring the actual cast working with no budget and the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the VHS (?) camera announcing sound cues ("Wind chimes!") and other pertinent atmospherics as the story rolls along. »
Stop What You're Doing and Reacquaint Yourself with Rita Hayworth
2 December 2011 6:50 AM, PST
Starting with the magic of Gilda: "I Die. I die a thousand Classic Hollywood beautiful deaths. There's a pantheon of perfect moments in cinema, and this moment resides there, right between the moment when Paul Heinreid lights Bette Davis' cigarette in Now, Voyager and Claudette Colbert hikes up her skirt on the side of the road in It Happened One Night. (Feel free to add your own classic moments [...], but realize that this one wins by default.) The film doesn't need anything else but that moment, but it one-ups itself with Hayworth singing 'Put the Blame on Mame.' Twice." It all ends tragically, but still! Go read this. [The Hairpin] »
Review: Dane Cook Is the Most Sympathetic Presence in Answers to Nothing, Which Tells You a Lot
1 December 2011 5:00 PM, PST
Movies with multiple intersecting storylines aren't exclusive to Los Angeles, but it's a city for which they seem ideally suited, perhaps because it's one in which incidental contact with the lives of strangers is less common and therefore more weighted with meaning. (Or maybe it's just that L.A. has such an abundance of screenwriters sitting in coffee shops projecting potential narratives on passers-by.) Out of disparate threads we're meant to draw common themes or emotional resonances, from Crash's "everyone's a little bit racist" to Magnolia's ideas about loneliness and coming to terms with the past. Answers to Nothing, written and directed by Matthew Leutwyler (Dead & Breakfast), follows a group of linked lost souls navigating personal obstacles against the backdrop of a missing neighborhood girl, as they all come to discover that it's Ok to be an awful person, as long as you don't tell anyone about it. »
Fox Searchlight Oscar-Fetes Win Win, Shame, Descendants, and More
1 December 2011 4:30 PM, PST
Spirits were bright Wednesday night in West Hollywood when Fox Searchlight celebrated the season with their annual holiday party -- really, just an excuse to fete Oscar candidates Win Win, Tree of Life, Shame, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and The Descendants like debs at a coming out ball. Movieline caught up with Fox Searchlight's hopefuls at the early awards-season shindig. »
Review: Strange, Hypnotic Sleeping Beauty Sends No Clear Message -- Thank God
1 December 2011 3:40 PM, PST
When Australian writer-director Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty made its debut at Cannes last May, the responses among critics I talked to veered from bland outrage to vexed boredom. That doesn't leave a lot of middle ground, and I had to see Sleeping Beauty a second time before I was reasonably sure what I thought about it. I'm still not reasonably sure what I think about it: The picture is clinical in its approach and its technique, yet it leaves so many questions unanswered -- it's straightforward in a vague, maddening way. It's also strangely, obliquely compelling. »
Sundance Reveals Films in Four Out-of-Competition Sections, Including Tim and Eric and the Insanely Violent The Raid
1 December 2011 3:00 PM, PST
We're all gagging on Oscar bait at the moment, so free yourself (and your esophagus) with a glimpse at the film's playing in four Sundance out-of-competition sections, including Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, Next <=> and New Frontier. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, the tantalizing, all black UK version of Wuthering Heights, and that amazingly harsh Indonesian film The Raid are all set up for their Utah debuts. Check out the full roster after the jump. »
Watch: Avatar Meets Attack of the Clones in the New John Carter Trailer
1 December 2011 1:30 PM, PST
Edgar Rice Burroughs created the planet-hopping hero John Carter of Mars way back in 1912 in his serialized novels about a Southern gent transported to an alien world. So why does the new trailer for John Carter, directed by Pixar vet Andrew Stanton, feel so familiar? Shades of Avatar and Attack of the Clones distract from what should be nonstop ooh-ing and aah-ing over giant CG creature effects and Taylor Kitsch in a loincloth. Then again, Taylor Kitsch in a loincloth... thank you for that, Mr. Stanton. »
Hugo, Descendants Win Big With National Board of Review
1 December 2011 12:30 PM, PST
If you thought perhaps the National Board of Review's 2011 award winners might bring even the slightest bit of clarity to this season's Oscar log jam, guess again: The New York-based organization honored Hugo and Martin Scorsese as its Best Picture and Director of the year, with George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Christopher Plummer, Shailene Woodley and -- sort of -- Michael Fassbender making strong showings as well. Read on for the complete list of winners. »
Review: Fassbender, Focused Yet Unselfconscious, Makes Shame Compelling
1 December 2011 11:40 AM, PST
Steve McQueen's Shame is perhaps mistitled: It's the story of a man who has sex more often than he probably wants it, though still not as often as he needs it, which is a pretty fine distinction to make. And the word "shame" by itself is too loaded, too inherently judgmental. The idea isn't that this character -- his name is Brandon and he's played, superbly, by Michael Fassbender -- is doing anything he ought to be ashamed of. It's simply that the shame he feels is nearly unbearable. Shame could have gone all wrong with the wrong actor. Luckily, McQueen has the right one in Fassbender, and that makes all the difference. »
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