Action-packed "Public Enemies" clip

As long as the camera work isn't TOO shaky (ie: Quantum of Solace/The Bourne Ultimatum), I think everything should be fine. The sound quality is amazing, by the way. Could this be Michael Mann's next "Heat"? I definately hope so....

Two new TV spots for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

First pictures from "Le dernier vol de Lancaster"(2009) starring Marion Cotillard

IMDb gives the following premise: A woman goes on a journey to find her missing husband after his plane disappears in the Sahara.

New poster for "Inglourious Basterds"

"Summer Hours" - REVIEW

It's hard to pigeonhole "Summer Hours", my first foreign language viewing of the year. It isn't exactly good, but I can't find the energy to rip it apart either. In some ways, it just....is. The premise can basically be summed up in one sentence: three siblings decide what to do with their mother's home and belonging's after her death. Not exactly room for lots of "dramatic moments", but as other such films have shown, this doesn't have to be a problem. Nothing overtly important 'happened' in Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise", but that film succeeded on its revealing and engaging dialogue. And that's exactly what "Summer Hours" is missing. Most of the conversation is constrained to discussions of 'are we selling the house? do we donate this to the museum that was interested?' and there's never much revealed about the three siblings. The opening sequence (a family reunion) doesn't suffer from this because the selling process isn't even in the works, and it's the most commanding part of the film. But after this opener, it's all downhill into nothingness. Sure, Adrienne (Juliette Binoche) is attached to a silver serving trey, and Frederic (Charles Berling) is the only one in defense of keeping the house, but it's never explored in any way. We learn next to nothing about these people in the past; only details about their current situations. All this does is inform us as to why two of the siblings want to sell the house, but we never get their feelings from the past. Not helping matters is the mystifying ending, which seems like a weak attempt to provide the 'aha!' moment that perhaps the house shouldn't have been sold. Are these people that detached from their childhoods? Or maybe they're secretly androids (I have to take issue with any movie that makes Juliette Binoche seem boring). That would certainly be a better explanation than anything that the movie offers us.

Grade: C

FIrst review of "Bruno"

Source: The UK Sun

SACHA BARON COHEN managed to put Kazakhstan on the map with Borat.

He even made Staines a surprise tourist destination thanks to Ali G.

Now Austria is about to suffer the dubious pleasure of the comic’s latest colourful movie creation — gay TV presenter Brüno.

As if the country didn’t have enough to worry about thanks to their last infamous export, Hitler.

Unhappy eyeful ... this isn't what Bruno wants to see

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And Brüno is far from shy of a Führer reference himself.

In fact, the Nazi leader gets a mention every five minutes.

All a big joke ... camp Bruno in a wacky outfit

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To say Brüno makes uncomfortable viewing is an understatement of Battle of Britain proportions.

When I wasn’t giggling like a 14-year-old, I was cowering behind my hands. And I wasn’t just hiding from the acres of kugelsack, Brüno’s word for the lunchbox, shown during the 90 minutes.

The term will become the new “Booyakasha” or “Jagshemash”.

I also saw enough “arshenhaller” bleaching to last a lifetime.

The film follows the camp presenter’s bid for fame in LA after he is sacked from his beloved fashion show on Austrian TV for bringing a Milan catwalk show to a standstill with his all-in-one Velcro outfit.

The scene is utterly brilliant and wipes the smiles from the faces of the snooty fashion world.

Brüno has only been in love twice. Once for just seven minutes with Eighties pop act MILLI VANILLI and the second time with his pygmy boyfriend who dumps him when he loses his TV show.

And here lies a warning — the pygmy sex scene is one of the most horrific incidents ever committed to celluloid.

Amazing scene ... Bruno's 'adopted baby' is confiscated

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I’m talking fire extinguishers, champagne bottles and mechanically adapted fitness equipment. Teenage boys should under no circumstances watch this with their parents.

Just like with Ali G and Borat, Sacha as Brüno tricks famous faces into doing ridiculous interviews.

This includes singers PAULA ABDULand LATOYA JACKSON, who both leave within minutes after being served sushi on a naked Mexican.

Brüno decides to become heterosexual — “like TOM CRUISE, JOHN TRAVOLTA and KEVIN SPACEY”. And an interview with a pastor, who specialises in turning gay men straight, is priceless.

A JERRY SPRINGER-style talk show scene in Dallas, when Brüno has his “adopted” African baby confiscated, will go down in Baron Cohen’s top three best scenes.

The character does lose a bit of steam towards the end but the musical climax, with cameos from CHRIS MARTIN, BONO, SIR ELTON JOHN and SNOOP DOGG is a fitting finale.

Natalie Portman signs on for Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan"

Source: Slashfilm.com

Aronofsky became attached to Black Swan in early 2007, but the film was put into turnaround by Universal. The project is apparently making the rounds to studios and specialty divisions, with Portman as part of the CAA package. Mark Heyman, co-producer of The Wrestler, has done a rewrite of the original script by John McLaughlin.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Portman would play a veteran ballerina who finds herself “locked in to a competitive showdown with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance.” But it isn’t as simple as that — the big twist is that Portman’s character is not sure whether her rival is a supernatural apparition or if she is having delusions. Sounds like a genre-thriller with award potential.

I’m not immediately sold on the short logline, but with exceptional talent like Portman and Aronofsky involved, I’m sure it will be great. Aronofsky could make a film about an empty white room, and I’d be in line opening day to pay $15. And hey, I’m sure a lot of people had no interest in seeing a film about an aging professional wrestler…

I find it hard to imagine that a studio won’t jump immediately at this project, especially with Aronofsky coming hot off a critically acclaimed and award nominated film, complete with Portman locked in as part of the package. If a sale happens soon, Swan could be in production by year’s end.

Aronofsky was also developing a reboot of Robocop for MGM, which the studio originally hoped to have in theaters for 2010. MGM recently moved expectations to 2011. And maybe one of the reasons I’m not so-sold on the project is because I’ve been waiting to see what Aronofsky could do with a big high concept project likeRobocop, or one of his more original stories. I very much hope he gets the chance to make Noah’s Ark one of these days.