DJ AM To Mix It Up In Iron Man 2

Some may remember that Blink-182 drummer and his good friend and collaborator DJ AM nearly died last year in a wild plane crash that ended up killing the rest of the passengers on their small flight. Both have since recovered and with Blink 182 reuniting, it's easy to see that Travis's career continues to flourish despite having sustained some pretty serious burns. DJ AM isn't doing too bad for himself either as, along with his many spinning gigs, he's just been ...

Ramon Rodriguez May Get Equal Screen Time With The Robots In The Next Transformers

Hollywood has a peculiar way of getting ahead of itself. It’s all about that hype train; you want to load in as many passengers as possible while it’s at top speed and then sort out the destinations later. Take last week’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and its seemingly inevitable sequel. Director Michael Bay’s robot [...]

Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 5/12

Taken
Another action fest from District 13's Pierre Morel, this time Liam Neeson gets to rescue his daughter from slave traders. These glowing words from Eric D. Snider say it all: "it is welcome as a delightfully dizzying balm to soothe the pain inflicted by recent action films that have failed to deliver. It subscribes to the less-talk-more-rock school of thought, intentionally free of nuance but overbrimming with relentless, efficient, energetic mayhem. It plays out like a season of 24, crammed into 90 minutes." Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.

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Passengers
Anne Hathaway has been making waves with her critical successes (Rachel Getting Married), and migraine-inducing romcoms (Bride Wars). But in the midst of all this, Passengers came and went without much more than a glance. A "conspiratorial supernatural thriller," Hathaway plays a grief counselor facing foul play when crash survivors begin to disappear. Skip it. Also on Blu-ray.

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S. Darko
It's such an unnecessary sequel, is there any more to be said? Even if it contains Daveigh Chase? The one surprise -- Elizabeth Berkley as a religious fanatic. Skip it, but I shouldn't need to tell you that.

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Also out: The Grudge 3

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Keanu Reeves Travels to Distant Planet in Passengers

Variety is reporting that Morgan Creek is close to greenlighting "Passengers," a new sci-fi romance movie that's set up as a starring vehicle for Keanu Reeves (The Matrix).

Keanu Reeves developing sci-fi Passengers for Morgan Creek

Rick Nicita's Morgan Creek is near a green light on Passengers, a new sci-fi romance movie starring Keanu Reeves, Variety reported.

The movie takes place in the future, as a spacecraft is transporting people to colonize a distant planet. Because of a malfunction, a single passenger (Reeves) is awakened 90 years before anyone else. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he awakens a beautiful woman.

Jon Spaihts wrote the script, which is being developed by producers Reeves and Stephen Hamel. Robinson is also producing.

Poster for The Taking Of Pelham 123

Thanks to JoBlo for the newest poster of ‘The Taking of the Pelham 123′. The remake, starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta, pretty much follows the clever original - armed men take a subway train and its passengers ...