Awesome Movies

Make your day with the Dirty Harry Collection (Blu-ray/DVD), due out 2/16/2010; it’s cheaper than the Ultimate Collection by leaving out extras, but still includes all five films.

NSFW: The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time is loaded with sappy one-liners and come-backs; not surprisingly, it’s weighted heavily towards Arnold, Stallone, and Keanu.

Brad Pitt blitzkriegs into stores 2Q 2010 with this 1:6 Lt. Aldo Raine figure; incredibly lifelike down to the wrinkles and facial hair, it includes a stand with Inglourious Basterds logo.

European audiences watched it in 2008, but The Red Baron finally makes it over the pond to US theaters in 2010; the film dramatizes the life of WWI ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen.

It didn’t do well in theaters, but we’re still rootin’ for Astro Boy as a robot-tastic flick; it arrives on Blu-ray/DVD 3/16/2010 with deleted scenes, featurettes, and two new animated scenes.

Avoid it if you haven’t seen Avatar yet, but Creating the World of Pandora is an excellent look behind the scenes; it covers visual effects, sound effects and actor training.

NSFW: it may have more bad one-liners than a back-to-back marathon of the original SNL sketches, but we’ll be donning our mullets when MacGruber arrives in theaters 4/23/2010.

NSFW: art both imitates and is imitated by life in The Wild Hunt; this suspense/thriller dives into the world of LARP (live action role-playing) with actual LARPers as background actors.

Film the Blanks is an ongoing project to create abstract, minimalist versions of movie posters by blanking out text and reducing shapes and colors; see how many you can guess here.

We can’t forgive him for Jar Jar, but George Lucas does know how to make a buck or two at the box office; Blockbusting is his take on the 300 most successful movies of all time.

Mix Terry Gilliam with skateboarding and you’ve got Machotaildrop: it sounds awful, but the trailer for this FUEL TV-funded flick is surprisingly fresh and quirky in all the right ways.

Penney Design is the latest to get in on the retro book cover fad, but they do a triple mashup mixing modern movies, old books, and cartridge games; one copy of 2D Avatar, please.

Available on Amazon VOD in February: The Dungeon Masters documents the lives of three D&D players who each get a chance to play heroes in the real world–sans the dice, of course.

Still unofficial but cleaner than other trailers we’ve seen, above is the first look at the A-Team reboot due out 6/11/2010; reactions may be mixed, but we pity the fool who doesn’t like this.

The Hit Girl trailer still rocks our purple socks, but this second trailer for Kick Ass gives the other superheroes some screen time while introducing the movie’s decidedly un-super villains.

We’re not exactly romantic comedy types, but She’s Out Of My League is something most guys (even non-moodles) can relate to: it pairs up geeky Jay Baruchel with a smokin’ Alice Eve.

Moon lands on Blu-ray 1/12/2010; the mind-bending, character-driven sci-fi film is a mix of 2001 and Solaris and stars Sam Rockwell on a solitary three-year lunar mining mission.

Bill Owen’s District 9 case mod is Wikus-worthy: hand-weathered and distressed with rust surfacing and bullet holes, it includes the Prawn-DNA canister, alien lettering, and MNU logo.

From Paris With Love has John Travolta looking his sharpest (and shiniest) since Face Off; he stars alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers in this action/thriller, due in theaters 2/5/2010.

Dark undead comedy Zombieland arrives on Blu-ray 2/2/10 with a behind the scenes PiP track, deleted and effects progressions scenes, and actor, writer, and director commentary.

Despite exposition courtesy Dicaprio, this trailer for Inception does little to help us understand its plot; still, we’re liking the mind games aspect of this sci-fi thriller, due out summer 2010.

Kees van Dijkhuizen’s Cinema 2009 is a blockbuster end to the year, with 342 movies compressed into seven glorious cinematic minutes; see the full list here or watch it in 1080p here.

Robin Hood gets a second, far more sweeping trailer than the first; Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett score face time, but this video belongs to his merry (and many, many, many) men.