There’s a new movie opening in the UK this week titled Donkey Punch. Yes, the plot has to do with an actual donkey punch and from the trailer it looks like it kills the girl. Fox news is outraged by the donkey punch. Watch this trailer. Who would’ve thought you could make a mainstream film about this “act”?

Going into the first (new) Batman movie, I wasn’t too excited.  I figured that they were going to murder a classic film like so many others had done before (see Superman).  From the moment it started, it had me on the edge of my seat, and to this day remains one of my favorite action movies.

With the surrounding buzz around The Dark Knight, it’s hard not to try to pass judgement… I mean they have to live up to a great first film, the classic series and the fact it was Heath Ledger’s last role.  Well, somehow Dominoes Pizza has an exclusive trailer thats circulating around the web, and with it comes new footage.  I’ll let you be the judge of it, but for what it’s worth I’m dragging my girlfriend to it on opening day.

The early reviews of The Dark Knight are trickling in, and word is that Heath Ledger’s final performance is one to remember him by. Los Angeles-area critics got an early press screening Thursday night (luckies), and the best-supporting-actor campaign has already begun.

David Germain of The Associated Press writes: “With his final full film role, Ledger delivers what may be remembered as the finest performance of his career. … At times sounding like a cross between tough guy James Cagney in a gangster flick and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s fastidious Truman Capote, Ledger elevates Batman’s No. 1 nemesis to a place even Jack Nicholson did not take him in 1989’s Batman.” The Dark Knight comes out July 18.

“Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…”
“Doesn’t sound too bad. I’ll try to stay awake.”

Admittedly, I too am a bit skeptical of the upcoming Princess Bride Game, which will launch as a downloadable animated game this summer. The following trailer isn’t necessarily assuaging my distrust. There are a million and one ways to fuck up a legacy, and until I see otherwise, looks like Worldwide Biggies is tampering with greatness. But please, judge for yourself.

The Princess Bride Downloadable Game Trailer from PrincessBrideGame on Vimeo.

Right now, AcidPlanet.com is hosting a contest where fans have the opportunity to remix the title track of the Princess Bride Game. Woopie.

From the Press Release:

NEW YORK, NY — April 16, 2008 — ACIDplanet.com one of the Internet’s premier sites for user-generated music, video content, computer-based recording and remixing tools, today launched a contest to develop a new version of the film’s title theme song timed with a new downloadable video game based on the classic 1987 film, The Princess Bride. Contestants can download the components from the Sony Creative Software ACIDplanet.com website and remix their own title track from The Princess Bride Game (available at www.princessbridegame.com) created by Worldwide Biggies and debuting in June 2008.

Contestants may download the components to The Princess Bride Game theme song starting today and must submit their remix entry by midnight May 22, 2008. ACIDplanet remix contestants may use Sony Creative Software ACID XPress loop-based music production software that users can download for free or they may also use their software of choice.

The winning entry will be selected by the producers of the game and will be featured on http://www.PrincessBrideGame.com as an exclusive world premiere this summer. Other prizes for The Princess Bride Game ACIDplanet.com remix contest include a Debutante Butterfly guitar from Daisy Rock, Sony Creative Software Vegas Pro 8, ACID Pro 6, Cinescore Theme Packs, Sony Creative Software Loop Libraries and a Sony Portable DVD player.

For more information and complete contest rules, please visit:
http://www.acidplanet.com

I’ll be happy to change my tune once I see the actual game, but right now all I’m thinking is Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Don’t mess with greatness. Don’t gild the lily.

“Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?”

“If there are, we all be dead.”

DEATH FIRST!

The trailer for the new Judd Apatow / Seth Rogen flick Pineapple Express. This movie will definitely be lulz.

Brian De Palma’s Redacted(Magnolia Pictures) opens 11/16, and so far the right wing media is really STOKED on it:

“Brian DePalma ..should be ASHAMED. (Redacted) will incite young Muslim men, already steeped in hatred toward America and the West, to act on their hatred. If just one of those men straps on a bomb vest and murders people, that is on Brian DePalma.” Bill O’Reilly

“A case for TREASON” patdollard.com

Okay, I’m interested.

The film’s tagline:
“Truth is the first casualty of war”

Okay, really interested.

The Trailer:

Okay…wtf? That’s a pretty lackluster trailer. I know, negative space, disembodied voices…possibly intriguing to some, but it really doesn’t do anything for me. But judge not a movie by its trailer I suppose.

Redactedis a fictional story based on the true events that led up to America’s invasion of Iraq, and focuses on the trifecta of fucked: the media, the soldiers and the Iraqi people.

Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq, REDACTED alternates points of view, balancing the experiences of these young men under duress and members of the media with those of the local Iraqi people, illuminating how each have been deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other.

Paris Hilton had this storage unit that she never paid the bill on so it was auctioned off. Some dudes bought it up and are now offering virtual tours of all its contents for a creepy $39.95 a month. Watch this enticing trailer as a sneak peek into what was inside the storage unit. Highlights include her and her friends taking runs of a kilo of blow off some dude’s chest (see video below).