We've Moved! New Address!

Okay, so the address of the new site is:

www.popcornbytes.wordpress.com


No dash this time around! I have all the comments and posts and things moved over to the new site, so I'm not sure if I'll delete this one. Don't be surprised, however, if you look and find that this one's gone; just head on over to the new one.

Important Update: We're Moving! (Sorry, Blogger.)

Yep, it's official--I'm moving this blog to a new domain: WordPress. They've got a better blogging interface, comment system, and awesome themes. I may actually be able to blog there instead of just going to Windows Live Writer. Blogger is kinda minimalist and seems "behind" somehow.

The new blog will be up and running in a few minutes, or maybe tomorrow (Wednesday). I'll update this blog with the new address.

I'll see if I can transfer everything from here to WordPress, but it might not be likely. In that case, I'll keep the archived posts here, and you can go to WP for the new updates.

I don't think I'll go WordPress on The Petunia Stories (www.the-petunia-stories.blogspot.com), but if I do, I will update that site accordingly.

Bear with me--it might take a while because I'm kinda lazy on the whole importing thing. :)

Thanks, Blogger. It's been fun.

“Unknown” Trailer Proves That, Even When He’s Dying, Liam Neeson Still Has That Super-Calm Liam Neeson Face

See?

Here’s a trailer for Unknown, which stars (as you might already have read) Liam Neeson as Dr. Martin Harris, who awakens from a coma to find that someone else has stolen his identity, and strange murders are stalking him. But I guess that’s all in a day’s work for a psychiatrist.

(awkward pause) I’m still not sure if that last line was supposed to be funny or not.

On that note…! Unknown will hit theaters in February.

www.UnknownMovie.com

Here’s A New Trailer for “The Dilemma”, Which, Luckily, Doesn’t Contain The Token “Painful Urination” Scene.

Aaack! (covers face) There it is!

This is an unusually long (clocking in at around 3 minutes) new trailer for Ron Howard’s The Dilemma. The story: Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Connelly are married, and Vaughn’s best friend (Kevin James) has a girlfriend (Wynona Ryder). Everything’s just peachy between the two couples until Vaughn finds out that Ryder has been having an affair, and is forced to answer the $64,000 question: Should he tell his buddy?

It still looks the same as it did in the original *shudder* trailer (which GLAAD got Universal to stop running over the use of the word “gay"): Just “meh”. Just okay.

Anyway, enjoy this new trailer, which features three recognizable songs. (But for most people, probably only two.)

 

(Also, just on a side note to Universal: The movie comes out in 2011. There are, like, three more months until the release date. The first trailer came out two weeks before this one. How are you going to advertise the movie, for three months, until then?)

“True Grit”: Trailer for the Coen Brothers Remake

Here’s a trailer for the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit, the story of Mattie Ross, a young girl who plans to avenge the death of her father. She enlists help from Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to find the killer. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin also star.

Now, I know that this is based off the 1969 version of the film starring John Wayne as Cogburn, and that it was his only Oscar-winning performance. It’s just that the trailer for that edition looks just so silly compared to this one:

Maybe the trailer for that version just doesn’t do it any justice, and I haven’t seen the film yet, but so far I’m still more excited for the Coen version. Sorry, John Wayne.

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“The Fighter” Trailer

Here’s a trailer for the new sports drama The Fighter, which tells the story of Mickey Ward and his journey to the world lightweight championship with the help from his half-brother, Dicky Eklund. It looks like a good sports movie. Some of you might know that I don’t really care for sports movies, but this one looks like it has a, erm, fighting chance.

(Except that’s what I thought about The Blind Side. I was probably the only person in the world who didn’t like that film.)

The Fighter comes out in December.

New Movies for Friday, October 1st, 2010

• Case 39. Renee Zellweger takes in a young girl after her parents threatened to kill her, but the evil that follows doesn’t have any desire to leave. R for violence and terror, including disturbing images.
• Let Me In. A lonely boy becomes friends with a young girl named Abby, but soon discovers that she has a very dark secret. (Not to be confused with the young girl with the very dark secret from Case 39.) From the director of “Cloverfield”. R for strong bloody horror violence, language and a brief sexual situation.
• The Social Network. The story of Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of the world’s biggest social networking community, Facebook. It’s so big, in fact, that MySpace this week ran an ad for the film. Sad trombone. PG-13 for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language.

The Dilemma (Trailer)

Here’s a new trailer for the Vince Vaughn/Kevin James comedy “The Dilemma”. It’s about a man (Vaughn) who finds out that his best friend’s (James) wife (Wynona Rider) is having an affair.

Oh, and did I mention it’s directed by Ron Howard? Yeah! I didn’t believe it either! I watched some trailers for the other movies he made, like “Angels and Demons”, “A Beautiful Mind” (good movie) and “Frost/Nixon”, and I guess this is his first comedy. (Unless you don’t count “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”.)

So far, the movie looks okay. It’s got that obligatory “guy-falls-into-a-poisonous-bush-and-it-just-so-happens-that-one-of-the-dangers-is-pain-urinating” scene, though. I might wait for the next trailer. (But at least they used an awesome Maroon 5 song. And “Barracuda”.)

Op! There’s part of that scene, right in the thumbnail!

New Movies for Friday, September 24th, 2010

• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. A young owl goes on an adventure to find the Guardians, the secret beings who protect the Owl Kingdom. From the director of “300”, and the studio that gave us “Happy Feet”. Based on the series of children’s books. PG for some sequences of scary action.
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko, who emerges from his jail time to form an alliance with his daughter’s fiancee (Shia LaBeouf). PG-13 for brief strong language and thematic elements.
• You Again. Kirsten Bell plays a young woman who realizes that her high-school arch-nemesis is about to marry her brother in this girly comedy. Plus, her mother is rivals with Kirsten’s rival too! Like, OMG! PG for brief mild language and rude behavior.

The Town (Trailer)

In The Town, a bank robber (Ben Affleck, who also directs) falls in love with the woman he’s taken hostage, but she doesn’t know that he was an accomplice to the crime. It’s received rave reviews, check them out over at Rotten Tomatoes.

The Town is now playing in theaters. Get tickets here.