Stop looking at me swan...

The new Darren Aronofsky film, Black Swan, looks amazing.

Of course I'm always intrigued by whatever project Aronofsky is involved in, but I had no idea what to expect when I heard he was working on a ballet film. Also, to be honest, I wasn't very into The Wrestler, so I guess my Aronofksy fascination had waned.

Well this trailer has officially caught my interest, and my faith is restored. /Film brings up a great point that there is definitely a Rosemary's Baby vibe going on, which i love. I love the way that the trailer almost plays into the skepticism one may have of Aronofsky doing a ballet project, where it starts off slow and shows a little of Portman's dance background. It's as if he is almost boring you in the beginning, and then you see that mysterious wound. After the wound it is all confusion and intensity and surrealism. Great pacing and of course great music choice. Leave it to Aronofsky to pick just the right music to intensify your emotion. I just love a good trailer that leaves everything a mystery. I still have no idea what this movie is about and I am very ok with that.

come out to plaaaaay.

So everyone needs to vote for my design on Threadless for a contest. It's for their Threadless Loves Comics contest.

Mine is basically the best. It's Batman infused with a Baseball fury. Who could ask for more???

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You'll be saying wow everytime.

So here's the trailer for what may be one of the most awful looking messes I've witnessed. Click above to see Lindsay Lohan have no shame. It's Vince the Shamwow guy's Underground Comedy Movie 2010.

Words really cannot describe how much I dislike Lindsay Lohan. Really, though, it actually makes me somewhat happy to see this. If this is what she means when she says she is constantly "working", then her film career may really be ending soon. Which is great news. I just can't stand to see her continue to get jobs after all of the times she has refused to take responsibility for her actions. People like her do not deserve all of these second chances. So seeing her in a role like this is excellent. Even if she owed the Shamwow guy her LIFE there is no reason to do this "film". I actually think being in jail might work out better for her than having her name attached to this project.

But Bobby Lee? Why is he in this mess? He seems better than this. I mean, he was in a Judd Apatow movie. I love watching him on the Chelsea Lately roundtable and I loved him on MadTV. Why, Bobby Lee, why?

AND WHY IS JOHN COFFEY INVOLVED. Leave him out of this. Please.

I really am just baffled that someone let the Shamwow guy do a comedy. It was probably the same people that thought Yogi Bear was a good idea. But really, even that looks Oscar-worthy compared to this.

You know I hear the camera adds ten pounds, looks like you've eaten five cameras.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Steve Carell from Between Two Ferns

SO. GOOD.

Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I always find myself checking on Funny or Die to see if new ones pop up.

I love both of these guys and this is definitely one of the best episodes yet.

Hey there, Boo Boo.

I dislike everything about this trailer.

And really Dan Aykroyd? That's the BEST Yogi Bear voice they could find?

A Comedian died last night, and nobody cares. Nobody cares but me.

Holy crap. The trailer for Sucker Punch was released online today and it looks...AWESOME.

It doesn't come out until March 2011, but I will for sure be there opening weekend. Zack Snyder makes me so happy. He really is a great director. People give him a lot of crap about Watchmen not being accurate to the graphic novel (which I could go on forever on how I disagree but I will spare that argument), but that is still one of the greatest hero movies ever. It gives me chills just thinking about the opening scene with the Comedian's murder.

Click the photo for a mind-boggling trailer!

You're jokin, you're jokin', I can't believe my eyes.

Finally got around to watching The Princess and the Frog.

I just want to start out that I really was looking forward to watching a 2D Disney movie again. I would have seen it in the theaters, but there was just something holding me back from this one. It didn't have that "wow" factor in the trailers. Well the movie didn't have much of a "wow" factor either. But the plus side is that I didn't have too high of expectations for this film, so I wasn't entirely disappointed with the results.

However, I was very excited to see all of The Princess and the Frog billboards splattered across LA when I was there this past winter. I was drawn to the villain, Facilier. He definitely looked the coolest in the advertisements and turned out to be the coolest part of the film.

There were just some big issues I had with this film. At first I was happy that there were elements to The Princess and the Frog that were familiar. When the alligator character appeared I thought, "hey, that reminds me of Rescuers Down Under or The Jungle Book". And I thought that was pretty cool because it reminded me that this was a brand new 2D Disney movie, and they were still making movies like the ones I watched when I was a kid. But then those familiarities got pretty irritating. I felt like so much of the film was just rehashing old Disney ideas. When Tiana and the prince, as frogs, start to have feelings for one another, the whole scene felt like a bad rip off of "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid. In fact, Mama Odie, the old voodoo woman, reminded me of a sweeter Ursula mixed with the Red Queen from the live action Disney show, Adventures in Wonderland. I mean, she even had long legged birds surrounding her, much like the Red Queen's ostriches.

While I'm talking about villains, I may as well talk about Facilier. He was a great villain, but was a complete and obvious mix of Jafar from Aladdin and Oogie Boogie of A Nightmare Before Christmas. And he lacked the epicness of a Disney villain. He was't evil enough. He was just a little sneak who sent his minion shadow people to do all of his dirty work. Now, I will switch gears here and say that all of the scenes that featured Facilier were my favorites, and definitely the most interesting parts of the film. His musical number towards the beginning was a display of some of the coolest 2D animation I have seen in awhile. I just loved the colors and the style, but it reminded me entirely too much of Oogie Boogie's musical number in A Nightmare Before Christmas! And I must admit that I am now a little more creeped out by Facilier after finding out he was voiced by Keith David, a.k.a Little John from Requiem for a Dream, a character who thoroughly gives me the creeps.

I really could go on forever about what I thought was a blatant rip off of other Disney movies (like wishing on a star for one), but it doesn't really matter. The movie included elements that make a great Disney movie, but all the elements felt like something I had seen done before, but done much better. One of the other main issues with the film was its musical numbers. When I look back at all the Disney movies I adore, they all have really spectacular, memorable and catchy musical numbers. I just finished this movie a couple of hours ago and I couldn't even sing you a single line from any of the songs. They were that forgettable. Yet there were so many of them. Too many. I guess they should have focused more on catchier tunes than trying to pack them all into the film.

Oh, and just a quick gripe, did Oprah really have to be in this film? Can't she just stay out of this? Why not just make it all the more ridiculous and throw Tyler Perry in the mix while you're at it?

I would like to defend The Princess in the Frog by saying that I am older now and seeing a Disney movie for the first time is different now than it was when I was a kid, but I have one thing to say to that idea: Toy Story 3. That was a movie that was amazing from beginning to end and I enjoy it as much as an adult as I would as a kid, if not more. So Disney has definitely not lost its luster, which is quite a relief. I still have complete faith in Disney movies and hope for 2D animated Disney movies. It's just great to see that 2D animation is not gone forever, and perhaps The Princess and the Frog is just a bump in the road on the way to getting close to where 2D Disney movies were in the 90s.

And on a side note, watching this movie really makes me wish that the freaking Disney vault was open so that I could purchase The Lion King and Aladdin.

Choose your weapon.

August 13. As the tagline for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World says...

An epic of epic epicness.

Both The Expendables and Scott Pilgrim debut on the same weekend. I have been keeping up with Scott Pilgrim for awhile now, and definitely plan on seeing it opening weekend. However, the more I read about and see footage for The Expendables, the more likely it is that I will be seeing this in theaters as well. It's just too much of a ridiculous, epic action film to pass up.

But this is all I have to see about either movie until I actually go and see them. I keep getting into a bad habit of talking movies up too much and then becoming disappointed after I leave the theater, and I really don't want to ruin Scott Pilgrim for myself.

Oh, and I just had to post that photo of Mickey Rourke and Sylvester Stallone...have you seen two people more ridiculous looking? I mean, really. So good.

J'ai pas l'humour de Charlie Chaplin.

Stumbled across this super great music video last night. It's so beautifully done and the tune is quite catchy. Enjoy!

BEN L'ONCLE SOUL -SOULMAN- (Official Music Video) from // Videodrome on Vimeo.

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize.

So I'm really excited to hear that Guillermo del Toro is going to be taking on the Haunted Mansion for the big screen. Now, I've only been on the ride once, when I was ten, in Orlando. To this day I can't believe I went on it since pretty much everything frightens me and I am still terrified of haunted houses. But I will say that I can't wait to ride it again, and I can't wait to see how this new project turns out. I never saw the 2003 version with Eddie Murphy, but I think watching the trailer was quite enough. This seems like the perfect project for del Torro, and it's nice to hear that he will be making the film scary, rather than going the comedic route.

From /Film, here's what del Toro had to say about the project at Comic Con:

Guillermo del Toro: I went to Disneyland the first time when I was three years old, and I was a lump of fat about this big. And I fortunately was there the year the mansion opened, and I’ve been there every year at least once for the rest of my life. It’s one of those places that I go to… Literally, that’s how freaky I am, unfortunately.

This is a place where I go to when I need to think, when I need to relax and unwind. When we were going through the worst process of Mimic in 1997, we were doing post in Los Angeles and I would go on the weekend and ride it over and over again.

And to me, my man cave, my little house that I have… I have my own Haunted Mansion room with the gargoyles, the wallpaper, original art by Marc Davis, and so on and so forth. And I always felt that the Haunted Mansion told such stories without having to be done solely as a horror film. I thought that the clash or the poignancy of Claude Coates, Rolly, and Marc Davis created a unique flavor for the Mansion.

I would love to say we are doing the movie, it’s live-action. It is going to be in 3D. And we’re making the Haunted Mansion the most haunted place on Earth. And we are doing it by being true to the spirit and the art and the aesthetic of the original Imagineers that created the mansion.

We are not returning Eddie Murphy’s calls.

[laughter]

And we are not making it a comedy. We are making it into an e-ticket ride. We are going to make it scary and fun at the same time. But the scary will be scary. And to me, the mansion has to become the haunted house movie that a generation remembers and loves after being created by us. We are doing this by reintroducing… the mythology in the mansion will be done, and this is really for the hardcore fans, it is going to be created around the character we are reintroducing into the tale. And it is my biggest hope that we can reintroduce it right. And that is the Hatbox Ghost.

I always loved his image. I think he is one of the scariest creations, but he is also incredibly whimsical. What I decided was, in the talks with Disney, that this would be the pivotal character to reintroduce the mythology. And I said, please, this is going to be scary. If you take the children, they will scream. But we hope that happens.

And it’s a litmus test of character. This, to me, is a dream come true, and I hope to steal as many props as possible.

Read more: Guillermo del Toro talks The Haunted Mansion, Logo and More Info Revealed | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/23/guillermo-del-toro-talks-the-haunted-mansion-logo-and-more-info-revealed/#ixzz0uWmRQDdO

The Beast from Beauty and the Beast. Beast won Beauty's love and he wasn't rich or a recording artist. Though, he did have an amazing voice.

She's Out of My League is actually a hilarious movie.

I really had zero expectations for it, since it looked like just another American Pie type comedy, but Jay Baruchel is such a likable dude. I love him in everything he's in, and he was great in this. His two friends in the film, Stainer and Devon, played by T.J. Miller and Nate Torrence, were hilarious counterparts to Baruchel's hopeless Kirk.

Don't get me wrong, there were some seriously cheesy and misplaced dramatic falling in love scenes, complete with out of place lame 90s songs, but the funny parts out-weighed the lame ones. Also, the girl was just far too fabricated. Like I said, the scenes with Kirk, Stainer, and Devon make the whole film.

And the scene with the Hall and Oates cover band is still making me laugh just thinking about it.

If you passed this up thinking it would be totally average like I did, go out and rent it and prove yourself wrong. This was just another case of horrible advertising that kept this little comedy hidden.

Christian had a thing for Tony Curtis so he brought over "Some Like it Hot" and "Sporadicus".

Clueless was released fifteen years ago yesterday.

I remember seeing the big cardboard cutout of Di, Cher and Tai at the local movie theater and wanting to see the film so badly. It was 1995, which meant I was only eight at the time, but I knew this movie was IT. To my despair, I had to wait two years to see it since the tagline, "Sex. Drugs. Popularity. Whatever." was deemed a little too mature for me. I finally got to watch this film on VHS afterschool in my friend's room and thought it was the coolest film I had ever seen. Granted the copy that I owned and watched over and over was one I had recorded from TV, complete with '90s commercials, so much of the film was censored. It wasn't until I actually bought the DVD about four years ago that I realized they were smoking ganj at the Valley party. Really, everything went completely over my head since my little fourth grade self knew nothing about weed, sex, drinking, or that Christian was obviously gay, but none of that matter. I felt so cool and mature watching Clueless over and over again, and as I fell in love with Cher's world, I started using the lingo, writing with feather pens, and dreaming about having a rotating closet.

That was 1997, but nothing has changed my opinion of Clueless. In fact, I love it even more. It's practically a whole new movie to me now that I can understand the humor in parts like Cher saying, "That's Ren and Stimpy. They're way existential". But even though it's 2010 and I have a different understanding of the film, some things never change.

It's still in my top ten favorite films of all time.

I still have a crush on Paul Rudd.

I still listen to I'm Just A Girl, especially when driving.

And I'm still holding out for that rotating closet.