Awesome Movies

Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson star in this remake of a French thriller about a man who orchestrates a plot to break his wife out of prison after she’s wrongly accused of a crime.

How could you possibly improve upon such a classic scene from a classic movie? Replace half of the actors with cats. On second thought, maybe it’s not an improvement, but it’s definitely weird.

Sneaking into YouTube sounds like an awesome plan, but messing with Stallone is never a good idea. We’ve got a couple of pics of what went down, but you really should see the video.

We’re not sure that Vacation really will look any better in HD, but it’s still one of the funniest movies of all time, and deserves a spot in your movie collection. The moose outside should have told you.

“Play” the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World i-Trailer and earn points to unlock extras like wallpapers and trivia. If you don’t dig this trailer, you’re probably not going to enjoy the movie either.

Johnny Knoxville and the rest of the Jackass crew are back, and this time they’re taking their stupid antics into a whole new dimension. This just might be the best use of 3D technology yet.

Watch out! The gators have company. Kristy Swanson and DB Sweeney make their respective comebacks in the adequately named Swamp Shark, coming to the SyFy channel next summer.

Guillermo del Toro co-wrote and produced this remake of a 1973 horror classic in which a girl moves in with her dad and his girlfriend, and finds demons in the house who want her for themselves.

Goonies never say die, that’s why until today the movie is still much-loved. The Blu-ray comes with a board game, two magazines and reproductions of the movie’s storyboard.

Artist Olly Moss created these wicked retro movie posters for the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow, a nationwide tour of famous movies in famous places. Check out the rest of ’em here.

We first got a peek at Gatchaman all the way back in 2008. Now it looks like the CGI Japanimation flick is finally nearing release. In this clip, the protagonists go up against a giant mecha-bug.

This is more of an announcement than a teaser, as it contains no scenes from the next Pirates of the Caribbean sequel. But if you listen closely, you’ll hear Jack Sparrow name one of his new co-stars.

Revealed at Comic-Con, Kenneth Branagh’s Thor stars Chris Hemsworth as the man with the hammer, along with Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman. It’s a leaked trailer, so watch it quick.

The movie will most likely suck, but this footage of Michael Bay and crew shooting Transformers 3 in Chicago is interesting enough. Plus we get a glimpse at the new leading lady. More at the link.

Any movie with vampires, guns, mutants, and fistfights on moving vehicles needs to go on our “ones to watch” list. Scott Stewart, the film’s creator, did effects for Sin City and Iron Man.

Last Exit To Nowhere has been dubbed the “movie geek’s mecca”, and rightly so. The shop sells clothes and posters inspired by popular movies, from Ferris Bueller to Blade Runner.

Directed by Zack Snyder (of 300 and Watchmen), Sucker Punch is looking awesome. The action-fantasy is described as “Alice in Wonderland with Guns.” Sounds good to us. Opens 3/2011.

35mm is a short film made by Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco and friends. It’s a fun minimalistic homage to 35 movies in 2 minutes. Try and name all of the flicks – some are not as obvious as others.

NSFW. Mixing the choral version of Radiohead’s Creep from the trailer for The Social Network with footage from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is about as perfect a combination as you can get.

A convicted arsonist (Edward Norton) asks his beautiful wife (Milla Jovovich) to help manipulate the man who holds the keys to his parole (Robert DeNiro). Opens in theaters this Fall.

Just in time for this week’s Comic-Con, Disney rolled out a new trailer for the upcoming TRON sequel, complete with digitally “de-aged” Jeff Bridges, and lots of new footage.

Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Helen Mirren and Tom Worthington star in this drama, about a secret Israeli mission to capture and kill a Nazi war criminal, and what happens 30 years later.

Out 10/26, the Blu-ray box set includes all four Alien films in HD, with 60 hours of bonus features and 12,000 still images. The limited-edition egg version might be worth the extra dough.