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See The Chillingly Creepy New Muppets Poster

There are a few unassailable essential guidelines to film: the villain is always bad, the girl is always pretty, and you should never EVER see the Muppets’ feet when they walk. But in the new poster for Jason Segel’s The Muppets we’re treated to the unearthly spectacle of the Muppet gang perambulating on their own. Segel has sworn up and down his movie would have traditional, CGI -free puppetry, but this makes them look like they’re hanging out with the crappy CGI singer from Jabba’s palace . Click ahead to gawk at the horrific spectacle.

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On DVD: Catching Up With Tilda Swinton, the Queen of Weird

New to DVD : Sally Potter’s 1993 metamovie Orlando , from which sprang (for most of us, anyway) the unearthly miracle of Tilda Swinton. Adapting an unadaptable Virginia Woolf novel — a “biography” of a young nobleman who lives for hundreds of years and switches his sex somewhere in the middle — Potter exploits Swinton’s uniquely beautiful oddness. At first in drag, Swinton is less a convincing boy than an undeniably charming androgyne, all moonish eyes and alabaster skin, but after the hero changes to heroine (“Same person, no difference at all — just a different sex,” she says, turning naked toward a full-length mirror), we still haven’t seen anything quite like her before. Orlando is a wry, feminist anthem-movie, but it’s far from the only DVD -rentable freak on Swinton’s pre-Oscar resume…

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On DVD: Catching Up With Tilda Swinton, the Queen of Weird