Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage from the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight (2008). It doesn’t show much, but you get to see the Batmobile in action plus a few explosions…

Alliance Films has just posted the new movie trailer for In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. Farrell plays a hit man who takes refuge in a small town, only to find that his orders to stay under the radar are more challenging than first thought when he realizes that Bruges is not exactly the most exciting town.

Watch the trailer!

I haven’t seen High School Musical 2 but I hear it’s not too bad. I have heard of Vanessa Hudgens and her nude photos however. I also say her boyfriend and costar Zac Efron on the website Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians, funny enough.

Anyway, High School Musical 2 arrives on DVD and Blu-ray December 11th, and these pictures are from the Extended DVD premiere on November 19th. Normally I don’t do premiere pics, but hey, there’s some cuties (albeit rather young cuties)…

The High School Musical 2 cast plus some dude with a dog.

A few of the cast members

Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens again

Zac Efron

Ashley Tisdale

Hey everyone, check out the new Cloverfield movie poster. The marketing campaign has kicked into full gear as we’ve seen the trailer, a ton of new revealing photos and an official title all in the last week - the only thing yet to be seen is the monster (or monsters) itself. Frankly, I hope they keep the movie under wraps until the film releases on 1-18-08.

Now, the studio has released the new Cloverfield movie poster, which is exactly like the old one only with a different aspect ratio and the official title.

Without that extra space at the top, doesn’t it look a bit squished?

OK, so Kiera Knightley may not exactly be in a bikini in the upcoming movie Atonement, but she still looks pretty damn good. Check out these new photos from my Atonement Image Gallery (click on the link to view even more photos):

If you like barely legal girls, Bratz is for you. Unfortunately, you have to sit through an hour and a half of the most unoriginal high school girl comedy ever. And it’s rated PG. And it has no suggestion of sex, nudity or much in the way of romance. Yes, Bratz is a teenage movie made for preteen girls, and it shows.

That being said, Bratz has its moments, and is not the complete and utter waste I was expecting it to be. It’s just so unoriginal, so cheesy and so counterproductive to what little girls should be watching that it’s impossible to really like it. Oh, and the lack of sex and nudity sort of kills it, too.

Read my full, less distasteful movie review here.

Skinwalkers is a werewolf movie from Lionsgate, and holding firm with the consistency of Lionsgate’s horror films, the movie is a complete disaster. It appears as though the director went out of his way to make a horror movie that lacks all suspense, horror and entertainment. The werewolves are barely in it (at least in their hairy forms), they resort to shooting guns more than biting people, and to cap things off, the plot is about two sides of werewolves (the good and the bad) duking it out over a little boy. That hasn’t been done before!

Read my full Skinwalkers movie review here.

Has it been a whole year since The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause hit theaters? The movie is just coming to DVD, wisely right in front of the holiday season. After all, it is about our favorite overweight gift giver.

Of course, no one really cares about The Santa Clause 3, because the franchise has never been that good to begin with. Number One was okay, but the sequel was stunningly bad. And by bad, I mean even my mom hated it. Thankfully, The Santa Clause 3 is a little more entertaining, though it is clear that not that much effort (or more accurately, that much budget) was put into this effort.

Read my full Santa Clause 3 movie review.

Has it really been ten years since Titanic hit theaters? Oh yeah, no one was counting. I thought Titanic was great when it came out, but now I realize just how overblown this film was. It’s still a good movie, but an Oscar powerhouse, I think not. Titanic is just a bit too mainstream for its own good, and any movie that can’t get an Oscar-worthy performance out of Leonardo DiCaprio has a few issues. That being said, no one can fault James Cameron for making one of the most critically and financially successful films of all time.

But that’s not what this article is about. Titanic: 10th Anniversary Edition is coming to DVD on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, and I have a copy of the two-disc collector’s set. For those of you who don’t own Titanic, the Best Picture winner is certainly worth owning, but what about all of you who already own it? Is it worth buying a new version, especially when the DVD format is going to be obsolete in a year?

The answer is a clear no. The movie is split across two discs, which is annoying enough, and it’s probably split across two discs because the movie has three different commentaries (one by James Cameron, another by Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, Lewis Abernathy, Jon Landau and Rae Sanchini, and a third, historical commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, whoever those people are) and behind-the-scenes featurettes built into the flow. Unfortunately, I’m not much of a commentary guy (and I would probably only listen if Leonardo DiCaprio was involved), and I am definitely not a big fan of special features that I can only access when I actually watch the movie. If I’m watching the movie, I want to watch the movie; if I want to watch special features, I want to watch special features… I don’t want to do one to do the other, and vice versa.

The historical commentary might be interesting.

The only real interesting part of the DVD set is an alternate ending that looks more at the modern day cast and wraps their stories up a bit more. Since no one cared about Bill Paxton’s character or anyone outside the scope of the narrative, it’s no surprise that a lot of this stuff got cut. In addition, the actual ending and the way the old woman (Rose) tosses the diamond over the side of the ship is a lot cheesier here, as she does so in the presence of most of the other characters. Paxton goes off his rocker in a rather goofy way, and the fat comic relief guy takes away any dramatic impact of the scene.

While I was never a fan of any of the modern day sections in Titanic, the version that actually appeared in the theatrical release is much better. Still, it’s interesting to see what might have been.

Overall, if you really like feature commentaries, Titanic: 10-Year Anniversary Edition might be for you, but otherwise, it will be a complete waste of money. In reality, the DVD doesn’t have many special features whatsoever.

How is J-Lo so popular? She has rarely done a good movie, and her music isn’t very good, either. Yet here she is in yet another role, trying to prove that she can do gritty when she clearly cannot. In El Cantante, she plays the struggling girlfriend/wife of Latino singer Hector Lavoe (played by Marc Anthony, another guy who probably shouldn’t be acting). El Cantante is okay, except it’s not, because not only is it boring, uninformative and… boring… it is the exact same story we see in just about every singer’s story from the 1970’s (read: drugs, depression, AIDS or some combination of the three).

Read my full El Cantante movie review. El Cantante is now out on DVD.