A handful of new Star Trek Into Darkness photos have hit the web, and they’re nothing to write home about, but the image of space-suited Spock ( Zachary Quinto ) did catch my attention. Judging from the steam rising up off the Vulcan’s protective gear, I’m guessing that this image could serve as an “After” shot to the “Before” image below of Spock hanging out in what’s been reported as a volcano. (Or is that vulcan-o? Ba-dum-bump!) The best part? Spock’s expression remains virtually the same no matter what temperature he’s at. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
So, you think you want to see Evil Dead but you’re not sure whether you’ve got the stomach for it? Here’s one way of gauging your gore threshold. Check out this red band clip of the cheek-cutting scene from Fede Alvarez’s remake of Sam Raimi’s horror classic. Intense stuff, although not without humor: The moment where Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) slips on the flap of cheek that Mia (Jane Levy) has removed from her cheek is a great update on the classic banana-peel gag. Evil Dead : Cheeky Gore How did you do? If you couldn’t get through it without throwing up in your mouth, then you should probably check out something else at your local cineplex. How about Danny Boyle’s Trance ? Oh wait, that film features a fingernail-removal scene and a moment where Vincent Cassel gets the top of his head blown off but continues talking so that an important plot point can be established. Come to think of it, that’s kind of funny, too. Trance : Half A Head Is Better Than No Head At All Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Poor Kim keeps getting called fat when she’s only putting on a few pregnancy pounds , but could she be laughing all the way to the piggy bank when she pops the kid and gets payback? Via Page Six reports : Could Kim Kardashian, whose dubious fashion choices have made her pregnancy curves look even larger than life, be teeing herself up for a deal with Weight Watchers? Industry observers are speculating that the blossoming reality star, who’s due in July with her child with Kanye West, was making a play for a megabucks deal with a weight-loss program to help her lose the baby weight, following in the footsteps of Weight Watchers’ currently pregnant spokeswoman, Jessica Simpson. Her size has also giving the celebrity tabloids fodder to publish headlines about the starlet’s ballooning figure, including this priceless kicker from In Touch: “Kim’s 200-lb. Nightmare: I Can’t Stop Eating!” Kardashian this week tweeted about her unhealthy food cravings, posting photos of french fries and a burger from In-N-Out with a caption: “Damn!!! I spoke too soon! My 1st pregnancy craving! #InNOut #EnjoyingEveryBite.” It all furthers buzz that Kim is publicly piling on the pounds to nail a weight-loss contract where she’d lose the fat later for a large payday. But a source close to Kardashian insisted, “There is no weight-loss deal on the table,” adding that Kim “loves her outfits. They are stylish and cute.” A rep for Weight Watchers said that there was “no truth” to rumors it was looking at Kim as a possible spokeswoman. Kardashian addressed the fat jokes on Jay Leno’s show Thursday night, saying that she’s gained 25 pounds during her pregnancy. But she seemed to be happy in her skin — for now. “I’ve always been curvy and always embraced my curves, and now there’s more to love,” she said. “ I have the rest of my life to be skinny and to lose weight, and I’m not really worrying about it.” Keep your head up Kim. Even if Weight Watchers isn’t eyeing you now, you already know your pimp mom will find some weight loss company to pay you once you whittle down that waistline after the baby is born. GSI Media
The German fairytale Snow White gets a retro reinterpretation in Pablo Berge r’s enchanting Blancanieves . Set in 1920s Spain and shot as a black-and-white silent film, the ivory-skinned beauty in this update (lush-lipped Macarena García ) doesn’t just do housework for a pack of idiosyncratic little dudes. She follows her beloved father’s footsteps into the corrida to become a revered matador. There are dwarves, however, a wicked stepmother ( Maribel Verdú , from Pan’s Labyrinth ) and a poison apple, although, as you can see from the clip, Blancanieves doesn’t fall for the evil trick right off the bat. Snow White, The Matador Click here to view the embedded video. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
The teenage years can, don’t we all know, be an alienating experience, even when you don’t have an actual alien trapped inside your body. But such is the fate of the spirited young heroine of The Host , who finds that talking to boys and stuff is a whole lot harder when your soul is being sucked by one of the space invaders slowly wiping humankind from the face of the planet. This extravagantly silly but undeniably entertaining sci-fi soap opera — the latest adapted from the work of Mormon YA-lit phenom Stephenie Meyer — should prove shrewd distaff counterprogramming to G.I. Joe: Retaliation , posting solid (if less-than- Twilight -sized) numbers at home and other points throughout the galaxy. With The Walking Dead slaying ’em on the smallscreen, Warm Bodie s still haunting a few multiplexes and Oblivion just around the bend, there seem to be few surer bets in Hollywood these days than tales of an Earth imperiled by some alien/zombie/enviro apocalypse and the hardy band of survivors trying to preserve their humanity. In this latest variation, ETs that look like fuzzy, phosphorescent amoebas enter their human “hosts” through slits in the back of the neck, bonding with them like the similar-minded occupiers from Invasion of the Body Snatchers , a submissive demeanor and a telltale ring of bright blue light in the eyes signaling that the transformation is complete. By the time we pick up the story, most of the damage has been done, but the news isn’t all bad: These unfailingly well-mannered aliens have, an opening narration informs us, brought “honesty, courtesy and kindness” to our often cruel society. For unexplained reasons, they also seem to have leeched all the color from the world, dressing from head to toe in lab-tech couture and driving about in a fleet of reflective silver Lotus Elises. But humans, it turns out, aren’t so keen on this whole soul-sharing idea. So some of them have gone on the run, like Melanie ( Saoirse Ronan ), a bayou girl from the great, tax-incentive state of Louisiana, with a heart-tugging kid brother (Chandler Canterbury) and hunky rebel boyfriend ( Max Irons) in tow. In the film’s early moments, Melanie is captured by a team of “Seekers,” who implant her with one of their own kind, a millennia-old shapeshifter called Wanderer, whose job is to search Melanie’s memories for evidence of other human dissidents. Only, as Wanderer soon discovers, Melanie is still very much alive in there, too, struggling for control over her mind and body. Director Andrew Niccol (who also adapted Meyer’s novel) dramatizes this by having Melanie speak telepathically to Wanderer, who in turn responds with spoken dialogue — which, for a while, gives The Host the strange tenor of a 1950s women’s psychodrama crossed with a 1980s body-switching comedy: The Snake Pit meets All of Me . It all might have seemed even more ridiculous than it sounds were it not for the deeply resourceful Ronan, who has, ever since Atonement , has projected that slightly alien quality of children with a poise and wisdom well beyond their years. Here, trapped in what seems like an unplayable role, she not only creates two separate and distinct personalities for Melanie and Wanderer, but injects the entire film with a much-needed level of plausible reality. When Melanie proves too resistant, the Seekers’ queen bee (Diane Kruger) proposes ejecting Wanderer and taking over the job herself. At which point both alien and host — who have started to become rather fond of one another — make a break for it, heading west in search of the human underground. Figuratively speaking, this is a road Niccol has traveled many times. Dystopian neo-futures, plasticine pseudo-realities and class-war allegories are his stock-in-trade, from 1997’s Gattaca to 2011’s In Time to his original script for The Truman Show . It has been a career of generally diminishing returns, though Niccol remains a proficient technician, and The Host is never less than a muscular exercise in style, immeasurably enhanced by Roberto Schaefer’s widescreen lensing of the New Mexico desert, where Melanie/Wanderer finally finds brother, boyfriend, uncle (William Hurt, looking like a dour Pa Kettle) and the rest of the human resistance living in a series of interconnected caves. Here, The Host morphs into yet another genre hybrid, suggesting one of those old frontier Westerns in which some group of noble homesteaders steeled themselves against imminent attack from Indians or greedy cattle barons; surely this is among the least likely movies ever to include an extended crop-harvesting scene. But it’s clear that, as in the Twiligh t series, the real crisis here is a young woman’s sexual awakening — make that a young woman and a very old alien’s respective sexual awakenings. “You can touch me. I don’t want you to stop,” Melanie instructs Irons’ Jared in one heavy-petting flashback, but all subsequent efforts to make it past first base are curtailed by Melanie’s fury at seeing Wanderer (now known simply as “Wanda”) making out with her boyfriend, to say nothing of Wanda’s own blossoming affection for the equally strapping Ian (Jake Abel). Meyer is undeniably canny at using genre to address the age-old struggles of adolescence, but at just over two hours, even The Host ’s air of guilty pleasure eventually subsides. In the final stretch, the movie devolves into a protracted series of mini-climaxes before finally creaking across the finish line. All of which will mean little to the core audience of Twihards jonesing for a Meyer fix, now that Edward and Bella have ridden off into the celluloid sunset. Can there be room in this crazy, mixed-up world for man, woman and alien? The Host might have been more effective if we had to tune in next week to find out. Follow Movieline on Twitter . More on The Host : ”The Host’ Premiere In NYC: VIPs Reveal Their Favorite Celeb Parasites (Brad! Angelina! Tony Danza?) ‘The Host’ Contest: Channel Your Inner Parasite & Win A Nifty Prize Pack
Alright okay we see you Snoop Lion and Suelyn gettin’ that Hollyweird gwap! The photo you’re looking at is one of a few that BOSSIP is exclusively premiering today for the upcoming Scary Movie V. Check out the synopis and more shots below: The latest installment of the SCARY MOVIE franchise includes send ups of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, MAMA, SINISTER, THE EVIL DEAD, INCEPTION, BLACK SWAN and pop culture featuring Ashley Tisdale, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Snoop Dogg, Katt Williams, Molly Shannon, Terry Crews, Simon Rex, Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Hyland, Katrina Bowden, Tyler Posey, Shad Moss aka Bow Wow, Kate Walsh, Heather Locklear, Mac Miller and Mike Tyson. SCARY MOVIE V is directed by Malcolm Lee who teamed up and worked side by side with legendary comedy director David Zucker (AIRPLANE, THE NAKED GUN franchises). Zucker wrote and directed SCARY MOVIE 3 and 4 and also co-wrote and produced SCARY MOVIE V. The SCARY MOVIE franchise, which lampoons the greatest in horror and genre fare, has grossed over $800 million worldwide (cotdayuuum that’s a lotta gwap!!!)
After a six-second ‘Tweaser’ anda 20-second preview of The Wolverine , Marvel unleashed almost four-and-a-half minutes of adamantium goodness in the form of two trailers on Wednesday, and it sets up at least part of the storyline for Hugh Jackman’s latest outing as the cigar-smoking mutant. It looks like a scientist whom Wolvie saved from what looks like a nuclear explosion wants to repay the favor: The mutant gave him life, so Mr. Big Brain wants to give Wolverine the ability to die by taking away his regenerative powers. Or is it all a diabolical trick? That beautiful blond assistant in the lab coat is Svetlana Khodchenkova , who plays the villain Viper in the movie. Below are both the domestic and international trailer. The latter does a much better job of telling the story. You might want to watch that one first. In this context, The Wolverine reminds me of one of the themes that Anne Rice grappled with in her Interview with the Vampire novels: Is immortality as alluring as it seems? ‘The Wolverine’ Trailer (Domestic) : A Life Saved The International Trailer Reveals More Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
What the hell?? Mother Leaves Infant In Car Unattended With Note To Shop The mother of this infant child in New Zealand must really be vying for the aint-isht parent award after people passing by he parked car noticed an unattended baby sleeping in a car seat with a note left by the mother her self……who had gone shopping. Brisbanetimes A photo of a baby inside a locked car outside a New Zealand supermarket has sparked outrage online. The photo was taken outside Porirua Pak ‘n Save on Saturday morning, the New Zealand Herald reported. The picture shows a newborn baby wrapped in a blanket in a car seat, with a note on the blanket saying to call if there are any issues and mobile phone number on the note. A man who spoke to the Herald said he saw the baby and the note after he and his family parked next to it. “It was written from the baby’s perspective, and it said, ‘My mum’s in doing the shopping, call her if I need anything’, and it had the cellphone number. “We waited there for a little bit, wondering if the mum was just going to be two seconds and come back. And my wife said, ‘I’m not going in without someone being here with the baby’,” the man told the Herald. The photo was posted on radio personality Polly Gillespie’s Facebook page and triggered many heated responses. What in the WORLD are people thinking these days??
We can’t wait to see this film! For the folks who have been waiting for a theatrical film about Jackie Robinson’s historical move into Major League Baseball, ’42′ hits theaters on April 12 via Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures. The film was directed by Brian Helgeland and stars Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Andre Holland, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Ryan Merriman and T.R. Knight. Here’s more info: Drama. Hero is a word we hear often in sports, but heroism is not always about achievements on the field of play. “42” tells the story of two men—the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey—whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) put himself at the forefront of history when he signed Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to the team, breaking Major League Baseball’s infamous color line. But the deal also put both Robinson and Rickey in the firing line of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and restraint by not reacting in kind, knowing that any incident could destroy his and Rickey’s hopes. Instead, Number 42 let his talent on the field do the talking—ultimately winning over fans and his teammates, silencing his critics, and paving the way for others to follow. This film has been rated PG-13 for thematic elements including language. BOSSIP is also doing a ’42′ giveaway. Stay tuned for details on how to enter.
