Holy Schnikey I’m good. I asked for a new trailer earlier in the week and we got some new tv spots and now we have this! It’s eight minutes of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Basically it’s all of the other trailers and clips we’ve already seen all quilted together and the connecting thread is new material that puts what we’ve gotten into a little more context. It also gives us a good sample of the score that we talked about the other day as well. This is very cool! Enjoy!

I’m still not ready to say David Fincher’s remake will be better than the original Swedish version, but there is no longer any doubt in my mind that it will be an out-of-the-ordinary film. Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara star as Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander while Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright, Julian Sands, Goren Visnjic, Geraldine James, Steven Berkoff and Stellan Skarsgard round out the rest of the cast. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens December 21 in the US and December 26 in the UK.

“The greatest journey is the one that leads you home.”

War Horse, directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Steven Zaillian and starring Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Peter Mullan and Jeremy Irvine, has Oscar bait stamped all over it in neon. It’s also, according to most reports, worth the hype, if not for the humans, then certainly for the performances of the equine actors.  I’m definitely predicting an Oscar nod for John Williams’ score. Even from the clips and trailers I can tell it’s another of his trademark moving and evocative efforts. The lush cinematography by longtime Spielberg collaborator Janusz Kaminski looks spectacular, as usual.

War Horse follows a young man named Albert (Irvine) and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

We have two new clips to share:

‘Family Actors’ is an extended TV spot for War Horse in which the cast discuss the significance of the film.

Family Actors

‘Miraculous Kind’ acts like a mini-trailer for the film, showing a compilation of segments that were shown before.

The Miraculous Kind

War Horse opens Christmas Day in the US and Canada, but not until 13^th January in the UK.

Once upon a time, Joss Whedon (of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" "Angel","Firefly", Serenity and Thor fame) and his friend and collaborator Drew Goddard, wrote a little horror movie called The Cabin in the Woods, said to be a "twisted and unusual take on the familiar cabin in the woods formula." Then they actually got it made, with Goddard directing and Whedon producing.  They assembled an eclectic cast including a pre-“Grey's Anatomy” Jesse Williams and a pre-Thor (and therefore pre-ripped and shredded) Chris Hemsworth.

Well, since then the finished product has languished on someone's shelf or maybe in Whedon's garage, since 2009 when MGM got into trouble, and looking for a distributor. Enter Lionsgate. They've purchased the film and originally announced (back in April 2010) it had plans to release it in the fall of 2011. The first official poster, which came out in July 2011, has "October 2011" on it in big bold letters. So what happened? Who knows at this point. Lionsgate claimed its fall slate was so packed it had to hand off Machine Gun Preacher’s domestic distribution to Relativity. We all know how that turned out, but was Cabin in the Woods supposedly part of that packed slate? Curiouser and curiouser.

The synopsis: Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin in the Woods, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out.

The film stars Kristen Connolly, Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.

It's been quite some time since I purposefully saw a teen slasher flick. I think this one has a leg up simply by virtue of the fact that they're acknowledging  the formula, both with the official "synopsis" and the poster itself. You go a long way to diffusing the critical snark if you're the one labeling the stereotypical characters. Given the film's pedigree, The Cabin in the Woods might be worth a look. I think the "Whedies" who've been clamoring for its release for close to three years would agree. The film (probably) will finally be released April 13, 2012.

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Based on the play by William Shakespeare, Coriolanus is Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut. He and screenwriter John Logan have updated the setting to the 21st century, yet maintained the language and style of Shakespeare. The play's themes of class conflict, pride, betrayal and revenge are all still very relevant and the film has already gotten a lot of attention for Fiennes‘ performances both in front of (as Coriolanus) and behind the camera.

The synopsis: The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a revered and feared General and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus' anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.

Intense. Violent. Passionate…Sexy. Yeah… Check out the new stills we have courtesy of THR

Vanessa Redgrave has been generating Oscar buzz for her role as the title character’s mother Volumnia since Coriolanus had its world premiere at the Berlinale back in February and it has grown throughout festival season including turns at TIFF, London and New York. Fiennes himself is racking up the recognition on the back of this film. He was honored with a fellowship from the British Film Institute and will be given the annual Richard Harris Award at the British Independent Film Awards on December 4 as well as a medal from The Shakespeare Society on December 9.

Coriolanus, with Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Gerard Butler (Oh how I love, love, love typing those names together!), Jessica Chastain (in her sixth film of 2011), Brian Cox and James Nesbitt, will have an awards qualifying run in New York and LA starting today, December 2,  then open wide January 13.  

Lady GaGa has outdone herself again in this 14 minute video that starts with her being wheeled into the crazy house and later sees her covered in Cheerios. It starts out like a little movie and then it breaks into the music portion. She's topless and nude in a lot of it with black bars strategically placed. 

The video is supposed to replicate the worst day in her life when she was dropped by her record label (she's getting the last laugh now, isn't she?) and tells E!:

"It was one of the worst days of my life and it happened quite quickly, but in my mind, when I think back on that period of my life, it all happened very slow."

"That's probably the most honest moment in that video of everything I've ever done. My directorial decision was for them to just f***ing roll the cameras, because I couldn't go in and out of the moment."
She added: "It is my personal way of seeing things. If you give up after something like that, you were never destined to be an entertainer."

This video only further clarifies that I know nothing about art and I'm perfectly content with that. More importantly I dreamt about George Clooney last night. In a hotel room. 

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It's a pretty sad day when a post is done on someone's haircut but it's a slow news day and my fellow ladies will agree that when your hair is rockin' you feel on top of the world, am I right?

Taylor Swift tweeted a picture of her new hair cut and I have to say PERFECTION. This cut makes her look very sexy and hot and just frames her face perfectly!

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