We’ve got three new clips from Roger Donaldson’s Seeking Justice with Nicolas Cage and Guy Pearce. Call me crazy but this is starting to grow on me. It does still remind me of Strangers on a Train meets The Star Chamber or any number of other revenge thrillers, but that doesn’t mean it can’t have its own merits. It does boast a director capable of putting together a good, action-packed story. Donaldson was responsible for, among many others, No Way Out (one of my favorite Kevin Costner flicks. One of those guilty pleasures that if I run across it playing on tv, I have to stop and watch at least for a little while) as well as The Bank Job featuring arguably Jason Statham’s most subtle performance.  That brings up another reason I’m hopeful here, despite the film’s checkered road to release. Everything I’m seeing leads me to believe that Nicolas Cage has reined it in a bit here, that he’s remembered what it’s like to not be over-the-top or hit his audience on the head. If I had to guess I’d say the presence of Guy Pearce has helped the Academy Award winning Cage bring up his game. (I do not have the same hopes for January Jones.) We’ll see.

In Seeking Justice, one fateful decision made in the throes of grief and anguish sets in motion a spiral of intrigue, manipulation, fear and paranoia. In choosing opportunistic vengeance over institutional justice, a devoted husband and teacher finds himself on the run from authorities and the self-righteous leader of a secretive vigilante group.

The film stars Nicolas Cage as Will Gerard, a happily married family man whose quiet life is turned upside-down when his wife, Laura (January Jones), is brutally attacked one night while leaving work.

At the hospital, waiting for news about his wife’s condition, Will is approached by Simon, (Guy Pearce) who proposes an intriguing offer: Simon will arrange to have a complete stranger exact vengeance on Laura’s attacker, in exchange for a favor from Will in the near future. Distraught and grief-stricken, Will consents to the deal, unwittingly pulling himself into a dangerous underground vigilante operation. While continuing to protect his wife from the truth, he quickly discovers that his quest for justice could lead to frightening and deadly consequences.

Directed by Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job, The Recruit), with a story by Robert Tannen and Todd Hickey and a screenplay by Robert Tannen, Seeking Justice also stars Harold Perrineau (Lost, upcoming Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story) and Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine).

The first clip is called “I Want a Gun”. Nic is smart though. He knows the last thing anyone wants January Jones to have is a gun:

The second, "I'm Simon" in which Guy Pearce makes Nicolas Cage an unusual offer:

and the third is called "Freeway Chase". That's probably self-explanatory.

Seeking Justice, filmed back in 2009, was released last November in the UK and will finally see the light of day in the US on March 16. 

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The last time we talked about the Nicolas Cage/January Jones revenge thriller it was called Justice for the UK release back in November  (after having started out as The Hungry Rabbit Jumps).  Now it’s called Seeking Justice. With elements of Stangers on a Train and Star Chamber, Roger Donaldson’s Seeking Justice stars Nicolas Cage as Will Gerard, a happily married family man whose quiet life is turned upside-down when his wife, Laura (January Jones), is brutally attacked one night while leaving work.

At the hospital, waiting for news about his wife’s condition, Will is approached by Simon (Guy Pearce), who proposes an intriguing offer: Simon will arrange to have a complete stranger exact vengeance on Laura’s attacker, in exchange for a favor from Will in the near future. Distraught and grief-stricken, Will consents to the deal, unwittingly pulling himself into a dangerous underground vigilante operation. While continuing to protect his wife from the truth, he quickly discovers that his quest for justice could lead to frightening and deadly consequences.

A new trailer debuted today on iTunes and thanks to Comingsoon, we have an embeddable version:

Seeking Justice, which looks a cut above the usual Nic Cage fare and miles above that Joel Schumacher opus, Trespass (I’d love to know how he convinced TIFF to give that a berth), also stars Jennifer Carpenter, Xander Berkeley and Harold Perrineau. It opens in the US on March 16.

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If you are a fan of all things Don Draper (played by the delicious Jon Hamm) and Mad Men in general you will kind of die a little at the thought of this spoiler alert. I personally hope it DOESN'T happen because it's just kind of annoying.

TV Guide's William Keck spoke with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner where they discussed the Season 5 March 25 two-hour premiere entitled 'A Little Kiss'. Remember how Don Draper was engaged to that new girl Megan? Well sometimes things aren't always meant to work out (ask Kim Kardashian). Weiner's statement may just knock your bobby socks off:

"Who says Megan's even going to be part of Don's life?" says Weiner. "He may be back with Betty. One of my favorite scenes from [last season's finale] was when Betty offered herself to him again. And let's face it — those two look really good together." 

Would you be happy if Don and Betty (played by January Jones) got back together? Please dear god NO. She is SO annoying what without having any personality and stuff. Don Draper needs his sexual equivalent to really steam the screen up.

Usually Weiner is very tight-lipped about the script so perhaps he's just teasing us with such cruelty?

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Mad Men’s John Slattery (who by the way I would drop my panties for in a heartbeat) has come to the defense of January Jones who continues to get a bad rap for being an ice queen with zero social skills.

Recently the boy that plays her son on the hit show, Jared Gilmore 11, was quoted by TV Guide as saying:

“Be careful around January. She’s not as approachable as the others. She’s really serious about what she does.”

As for the rest of the cast, Gilmore added, “Everyone else is so nice.”

Burn. This comes after Zach Galifianakis recounts a meeting January and says of the meeting:

“It was crazy. I was at a party — I’d never met her — and she was like, ‘Come sit down.’ So I sit at her table and talk for 10 minutes, and she goes, ‘I think it’s time for you to leave now.’”

“So I say, ‘January, you are an actress in a show and everybody’s going to forget about you in a few years, so f*cking be nice,’ and I got up and left. And she thinks that’s funny.’”

Um, wow, right? But her Mad Men co-star John Slattery (did I mention he is panty remover for me?) rides in on a white horse and comes to her defense and says of her character Betty Draper (who I am sickened by):

“Well, it’s an intimidating character,” he said at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Performers Peer Group 2011 Emmys cocktail reception at L.A.’s Sheraton Universal Hotel. “I mean, that’s the character. Betty Draper is an intimidating woman I suppose, if you were a 7-year-old boy [or] her son.”

He admits January is actually a sweetheart and there are no divas on the set.

Perhaps John ‘Panty Remover’ Slattery is just being the gentleman that I imagine him to be (outside of the boudoir kittens), or is this a case of ‘where there is smoke there is fire’. Who knows? Who cares? Hopefully having a baby will humble and defrost the ‘alleged’ ice-queen.

January Jones at the New York premiere of 'X-Men: First Class'

And why you ask?  Perhaps because she’s one hot momma and she’s doing it on her own… with style, class oh and did I mention, pain free?  Yeah, as if January Jones’ good looks weren’t enough to make us green.. she’s not turning green in her pregnancy!

“I feel great. I haven’t had any weird physical side effects,” Jones, 33, told PEOPLE at Wednesday’s New York press conference for her new movie X-Men: First Class.  “I feel pretty lucky so far.”

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So is she at least craving something crazy?

“Everybody is asking that. I haven’t yet,” she says. “It’s a bummer. I wish I had something weird to tell.”

Now that’s funny.  Her biggest pregnancy problem is that it’s boring.  Nothing exciting.  Ha!  Perhaps if she has a second one, she might get the opposite and she will be wishing for this boring one!

Either way, enjoy it girl…. and um, could you tell us who the daddy is!?

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X-Men: First Class had its New York Premiere last night and most of the cast managed to attend, including the incendiary hotness that is Michael Fassbender. (That’s the real reason he’s now blonde, ya know.)  Oh yeah, and James McAvoy was there, too. (I know, I know…a lot of people think he’s sexy. I’m not one of them. He’s ‘cute’. He is, however, a very talented actor.)

Can someone explain January Jones ensemble to me? Admittedly, I’m no fan. She’s as bland as tapioca pudding, in my humble opinion, but I realize a lot of people think she’s beautiful. Was she trying to tone it down? The dress itself wasn’t bad and showed off her much-talked about “bump” quite nicely. What the hell was with the hair and makeup?

Hot New Images From X-Men: First Class Released

Even Rose Byrne looked a little “off”. I’m not crazy about the ‘short skirt under a longer sheer overlay trend’ either.

Poor Zoe Kravitz. I hope a stylist gets the boot for that one. Velour doesn’t always work under the lights, and it sure as hell shows every mark or handprint. I have NO idea what happened here. Is she sweating? Did an angry Fassbender fan spit water at her? Bless her heart she’s probably unaware there’s anything wrong as she poses and tries to look sultry. She’s actually very pretty.

For 22 year old.

Who’s dating Michael Fassbender…

Pictures after the break.

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Hot New Images From X-Men: First Class Released

With just over two weeks until X-Men: First Class hits the theaters, Fox apparently stealth-released a plethora of new still images from the film.  Imdb had them up but then just as quickly pulled them down, presumably because they’re too “spoiler-y.”

Thank goodness for the fanboys (and girls) at ComicBookMovie.com who have managed to cull together over forty of these images from the far flung places on the interwebs and posted them all for us to see and drool over…I mean admire.

If you’re anything like me, and I think you are, then you’ll want to see these anyway since wild horses, let alone a couple of spoilers, couldn’t keep me from seeing this movie. Especially of interest are the fantastic shots of James McAvoy’s Prof. Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender’s Erik Lensherr.  Fassbender looks particularly happy to see January Jones…I mean me…happy to see me…in a couple of them.

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Scarlett Johannson and Jason Sudeikis, who just split from January Jones, were spotted at the Santa Monica pub Father’s Office. These two were on a double date with Will Forte and some other girl.

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“It definitely looked like a double date!” an eyewitness tells Life & Style. “Scarlett and Jason were flirting and making lots of eye contact. He reached across the table twice to grab her hand.”

So Scarlett is still on the market but she’s definitely into the dating scene already.  I don’t know how you could recover so quickly from a split with Ryan Reynolds.  I’d be devastated.  OMG.

And by the way, her rep is playing the ‘just friends’ card,

“After hosting Saturday Night Live three times, they’ve all become friends.”

I guess only time will tell with this one.  If these friendly dates start piling up… maybe it’s a lot more than that.

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