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Red Band Trailer for ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Released (VIDEO)

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Red Band Trailer
President By Day, Bad-Ass By Night!

Be prepared to throw everything you learned about the sixteenth president of the United States of America out the window because you're about to learn something surprising and extremely out of character about Abraham Lincoln.

Not only was Abe a badass in the American Civil War, but he was also apparently a hunter–a vampire hunter, that is. Adapted from Seth Grahame-Smith's novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a supernatural thriller that pits Abe against hoards of blood-thirsty vampires.

Check out the red band trailer for the movie that features new scenes from the movie filled with gore and horror action like you've never seen before.

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Second Clip from Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ Lands (VIDEO)

Prometheus Second Clip
What Charlize Wants, Charlize Gets

Sci-fi geeks and fans of Alien have been patiently waiting for its prequel, Prometheus, for months on end. If you've been following the updates from Prometheus, then you already know that the clip of the space craft reaching its destination has already landed (watch the clip here.)

Now get ready for more android and alien action with this new clip from the movie, which debuted on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In the clip, Charlize Theron's Meredith Vickers confronts David and roughs him up as she presses for information that he's not willing to give.

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‘Killing Them Softly’ Teaser Poster Released

In 2007 one of the greatest cinematic adventures of the millenium was released in the shape of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Not only did it possess one of the greatest titles ever devised but it was a gut-wrenching portrayal of America's most celebrated outlaw and the demise that ultimately met him.

Of course not many people ended up watching it, but have no fear because the great cinematic team behind this celluloid behemoth are back together again. The film's director Andrew Dominik and titular star Brad Pitt have reconvened to make Killing Them Softly with footage for the piece premiering at the Cannes film festival over the last few days.

And now it's also time for a first teaser poster which you can devour below.

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One Word Movie Reviews: MEN IN BLACK 3

Adequate.

‘Django Unchained’ Footage Revealed

Cannes film festival is currently the hottest place to be if you're a cinephile. Unfortunately it's in the south of France so most people are avoiding it like the French evade a war. Political humour, high five! Anyway, alongside the usual art house festival fodder there was also a real treat in store for mainstream cinema fans.

A sneak peak of Quentin Tarantino's newest opus, Django Unchained.

And apparently the footage disclosed quite a lot about Tarantino's 'Southern' with Total Film magazine providing a long list of it's detailed revelations. The best of which I shall surmise below.

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Lifeforce: In the Running For Worst Movie Ever Made?

The generous portion of 1985 big-screen fecal matter that is Lifeforce is a painful experience. Director Tobe Hooper presumably decided he hated the world and all of its inhabitants one morning, in a fragrant overreaction to some minor misdemeanour. (“You ate the last biscuit! You know I needed that, the sugary goodness keeps up my energy for the creation of hideously shit films! These terrible cinematic ballaches don’t direct themselves! My work on Poltergeist was rather stellar, I’ll concede. Wait until you see this next piece of pure terrible, though. You’ll shit.”) As such, he saw fit to unleash this hideous lumpen monstrosity on an unsuspecting human race. As far as crimes against humanity go, Lifeforce is right up there with the notorious shenanigans of Saddam Hussein. It would have been less offensive for Hooper to have entered the screening of another movie; taken a dump on the floor in front of the screen, and proceeded to smear it across the faces of the moviegoers, than unleash this on them. I’m not one to make an outlandish claim like ‘worst film ever’ lightly, so here are some definitive reasons why Lifeforce (part horror, part science fiction, all utterly and virulently shit) is the cinematic equivalent of a particularly prolific outbreak of the Black Death. Which, if memory of history class serves, caused you to contract giant purple ball-boils. Just so we’re clear on the level of uncool being dealt with here.

Lifeforce Movie PosterFirstly, there’s the plot. This lunacy was inspired by Colin Wilson’s novel The Space Vampires. I’ve never partaken in this particular tome, but judging by how closely it must resemble Lifeforce it’s safe to assume there are more enjoyable things to do. Like horse sex, in this case. We first meet the crew of the HMS Churchill, a spacecraft with the alleged mission of intercepting and studying Halley’s Comet. (How one intercepts a comet remains unclear. “Yeeha! Look ma, there’s that darn varmint comet! Let’s lasso the bastard and bring it on home!” Come to think of it, what the hell would studying it involve? “After a few months of intense analysis, I’ve concluded that it is, in fact, a huge-ass comet.”) After a brief moment of bullshit about the craft’s newly developed ‘Nerva engine’ (a tenuous ruse which actually translates to there’s no practical way of demonstrating anti-gravity with special effects, so nuts to it), we arrive at the comet, to discover a odd umbrella-spacecraft concealed, immobile, within. Have the crew all gone off for a crap? Fortunately not, as that implies a giant communal pig’s trough-esque toilet, and isn’t the most endearing of images. Instead, they all decided to transform into monstrous bat-giants. And die. Of the tediousness and mortal shame that comes from featuring in this two-hour-long-ball-itch of a movie, I’d wager. In the next chamber, the crew finds three cryogenically frozen humanoid bodies, which they intend to take with them back to Earth. The female of the species, who is rather attractive and remarkably uninhibited when it comes to clothing (the only possible selling point for this shite, as is made plain by this poster image from zombiereportingcenter), escapes the confinement of London’s space centre. The soul-sucking rampage that follows is the driving force for the farce that unfolds. In the brief span of Lifeforce, we travel from outer space, to an insane asylum, to the zombie-infested streets of London. It’s monstrously convoluted, as though Hooper had a vague idea for three different films and attempted to combine them all together. The resultant disastrous mess, resembling the aftermath of an attack of explosive diarrhoea, is the ballache you see before you.

The premise is ludicrous, but the acting on display here is a fellow candidate for worst thing in the world ever. The performances and the script seem to vie for notoriety, usually with hilarious results. In the first thirty seconds, you’ll witness such delights as the remarkably English, “have you chaps run an equipment check?” and acting so wooden it’s like the Churchill is inhabited by a crew of midget Ents. From here, it’s a relentless parade of farcical scenarios. One of my personal highlights is the guard in the space complex, attempting to quell the rage of the sans-clothing vampiress by luring her over with a tasty biscuit. That he’s half-eaten. (“Hey, lady! Over here! Look! Custard creams, your favourite. Stop sucking people’s soul-juice out through their mouths, and have a Hob Nob.” That’s not far off the actual dialogue, alas.) Some fools deserve a hideous death. Meanwhile, Patrick Stewart displays his best attempt at a look how sexy I am facial expression, while shapeshifting between his own form and the girl’s. Shortly before exploding in a shower of blood and squelchy viscera aboard a helicopter. These kinds of shenanigans, you don’t see every day.

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Six New Character Posters from ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Revealed

Don't expect fireworks in Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman movie. Instead, expect fire–and lots of it in The Dark Knight Rises.

Tom Hardy is fierce as Bane, who's a mighty force to be reckoned with. Then there's Anne Hathaway, who plays a mean Catwoman in that crazy skintight suit. In the midst of all this is Batman, played by Christian Bale, who's every bit the brooding hero that Bruce Wayne is supposed to be.

If you're ready to be teased some more, then hit the jump to check out the newest poster for The Dark Knight Rises, along with six new character posters featuring Batman, Catwoman, and Bane!

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