This is a pretty cool video that explains how copyright laws have morphed from protecting writers into protecting corporations and hurting the public’s consumption of entertainment. Come on though. Star Wars go rereleased 17 times?! Thats just out of control. Darth was cool, but seriously, lets get a grip.

This is the new trailer for Kevin Smith’s Red State. This really diminished my hopes of seeking out horny cougars from the Internet for a fun filled Friday night.

For those of you who have seen Old Boy, your probably shaking with anger at the idea that Spike Lee is going to try and top Park Chan-Wook’s classic, but it looks like its pretty close to being a lock. Since it’s part of the Vengeance Trilogy, it’s sequel-ready — that’s three chances to butcher this amazing film. I guess we can all just cross our fingers and hope for the best.

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Here is a pretty bad ass poster, no punn intended, of 50 bad guys by Robert ball. If you are lazy today you can see the cheat sheet below for the answers.
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On Saturday, a leaked trailer for the David Fincher-directed remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was posted to YouTube and quickly started bouncing around the Internet. The hyperkinetic minute-and-a-half clip—set to a propulsive, industrial cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” by Trent Reznor and Karen O—was enough to get this Millennium trilogy fan stoked for the film’s release in December. The YouTube video appears to have been shot surreptitiously in a movie theater, and when it was first released viewers figured it had been shot in Europe, where the red-band trailer started screening last week.

Top Gun was released May 16th 1986 and turns 25 today. Here’s a classic Quentin Tarantino monologue giving his take on the homo erotic undertones of it from the never heard of 1994 romcom “Sleep With Me”.

Bullying has been a hot button issue for more than a year now.   Bullying is as old as us being monkeys and everyone seems to have a different view on it.  Whether you don’t care and think it builds character for those being bullied or it’s a behavioral problem with the bullies and our society.  Whatever your take, everyone can benefit from watching  ”The Bully Project” and getting some real insight into what goes on.  Especially since most of us ZP readers are 20 somethings with no kids and are no longer connected to the vicious high school popularity scene.  The Bully Project is a documentary thats making some noise at the Tribeca Film Festival and is poised to be a driver behind tackling the issue of bullying.

Six degrees of Kevin Bacon anyone? We live in a world trying to understand connections in everything so why not movies? Trying to connect actors to movies is a favorite past time of the seasoned movie buff friends but this new app, “Movies Mobile” by New England Complex Systems Institute takes it a bit further. Using IMDB’s database the network allows users to more deeply explore movie connections. NECS is best known for studying network structure influences for economic conditions, but told wired.com that it could also be done with social groups, disease spread and gene networks. A free version of the app is available for iphones.

I really dont think Im alone when I say that I have a hard time taking Ryan Reynolds seriously. Do I think hes funny, yeah, sure, a super hero, ummm, Im not really too sure. This trailer is pretty bad ass though, so I will give this movie a try, if based on nothing more than that one green lanter with a duck head. That guy just looks like hes going to be an awesome character.