Awesome Movies

Which part? Well, almost all of it. In his action sequence primer In the Cut, Jim Emerson exposes Christopher Nolan’s Achilles’ heel and explains why the chase scene in TDK makes no real world sense.

Ian Palmer’s Knuckle is an epic 12-year journey into the brutal and secretive world of Irish Traveler bare-knuckle fighting; the gritty film follows a history of violent feuding between rival clans.

(NSFW: Nudity) Jeff Yorkes offers inspired musical pairings with classic moments from the cinema. In this clip we get the perfect juxtaposition of Lennon’s Instant Karma with Kubrick’s The Shining.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this thriller about a New York bike messenger who gets caught up in a web of intrigue during what starts as a routine package delivery. In theaters 1/13/2012.

Writer and director Nacho Vigalondo, who made the headache-inducing Timecrimes, is back with another sci-fi thriller with Extraterrestrial. One night stands just got a whole lot creepier.

After proposing a more probable conclusion to Harry Potter, HiSHE turns its gaze to The First Avenger and the gaping plot hole that is its ending. We’re not sure what the last joke is about though.

Sean William Scott plays Doug Glatt, a bouncer who is signed by a cellar dweller hockey team solely for his skill in beating people up. Also stars Liev Schrieber, Jay Baruchel and Alison Pill.

If you missed Yuen Woo-Ping’s epic martial arts flick in its limited US release earlier this year, now’s your chance to enjoy this mindblowing feast for the eyes in the comfort of your living room.

This visceral Indonesian film follows the story of a SWAT team trapped in a gritty tenement run by a vicious mobster and his army of thugs. The US release adds music by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.

(NSFW Language) (Spoilers) Michael Hobson made a massive (about five mouse wheel scrolls!) timeline showing what’s in store in the coming years, if movies and TV shows are to be believed.

From Lucasfilm Studio, Warner Bros. and Star Wars parody specialist OneMinuteGalactica comes a heartwarming story about a Sith Lord named Carl, who discovers the power of saying, “Yes!”

Richard Gere stars as a retired CIA operative paired with a FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator’s murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin, in Michael Brandt’s The Double.

A young Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) finds himself at odds with his mentor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), when both men fall in love with one of Jung’s patients (Kiera Knightley).

Filmmaker Kim Pimmel’s short piece combines dish soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid, a macro lens and time lapse techniques to create something quite astounding. Can you believe it’s not digital?

YouTuber honsco offers up another collection of characters actually mentioning the title of the movie they’re in. Some of them were already in this other montage, but we doubt you’d care.

Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games tells the tale of teenage pawns who must fight with one another until one survivor remains, relying on raw instinct and making impossible choices. (Thanks Simon!)

Antonio Banderas plays a brilliant plastic surgeon who creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage and uses a volatile woman as his guinea pig in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In.

Johnny Depp plays an itinerant Eisenhower-era journalist who travels to Puerto Rico, where he becomes obsessed with the drink of pirates and a woman in Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary.

(Spoilers) The upcoming X-Men: First Class Blu-ray includes a few deleted scenes, including this one released by Entertainment Weekly. Yet another reason why Magneto hates Professor X.

While other artists have a distinctive style, Adam Rabalais impressed us for the opposite reason. His alternate movie posters demonstrate his versatility and faithfulness to the films he references.

Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star as a bayou homicide detective and a NYC cop who team up to investigate a grisly series of unsolved murders in Ami Canaan Mann’s Texas Killing Fields.

Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze and as the Brimstone Biker, trying to to prevent the Devil from assuming human form. Wouldn’t he be easier to kill that way though?

(NSFW: Language) One of two new clips from inspirational comedy 50/50, featuring the head shaving scene we saw in the trailer. Seth Rogen can make even the most obvious punchlines funny.