Rourke’s getting Oscar buzz for his performance in “The Wrestler.”

The Best Links:

1. ‘The Wrestler’ Has A Great Viewing In Toronto
2. Mickey Rourke + The Wrestler = A Nice Comeback Story, Aw
3. Venice Agrees: Mickey Rourke Has Returned
4. Rave Variety Review of “The Wrestler”
5. Could Mickey Rourke Win an Oscar for “The Wrestler”?
6. Even The Film Poster For “The Wrestler” Looks Awesome
7. Fox Searchlight Picks Up ‘Wrestler’ After A Bidding War

A trailer for the much-anticipated film .

M. Night Shyamalan’s newest movie is being mercilessly made fun of in reviews and on internet boards.

The Best Links:

1. “M. Night Shyamalan Breaks Wind”
2. We Hate Shyamalan!
3. Is “The Happening” Actually One Long Creationist Screed?
4. Bad, Bad Ratings on Rotten Tomatoes
5. “A better title for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening would be Nonsense”
6. M. NIGHT-MARE: Another Stupid Flick From Shyamalan
7. Don’t See “The Happening,” Just Read This Instead

The Jewish-French-Moroccan actress is getting ever higher-profile roles.

The Best Links:

1. Emmanuelle Chriqui’s Career
2. Emmanuelle Chriqui on Jimmy Kimmel for “Don’t Mess with the Zohan”
3. Emmanuelle Chriqui, Pretty in Pink
4. Emmanuelle Chriqui Talks About Her Favorite Designers

A rom-com/slasher film, set in the woods, is the world’s first mumblecore horror movie.

The Best Links:

1. Sundace Review: The Horror Isn’t Harrowing, But Provides Actual Characters
2. Funny, and Yet Also Scary
3. “Baghead” Trailer
4. “Baghead” Has an Unusual Distribution Scheme

A trailer for the new Coen Brothers’ movie hits the web.

Panned by the Times and New Yorker, with tepid reviews elsewhere, the movie’s opening weekend will still probably be huge.

The Best Links:

1. 5 Ways to Dismiss The Sex and the City Movie
2. “No one here is more disappointing, or more frustrating, than Parker.”
3. “Sex and the City is singlehandedly responsible for a measurable uptick in the number of materialistic twits in New York City and perhaps the world”
4. “A little Botox goes a long way in “Sex and the City,” but a little decent writing would have gone even further.”
5. “All the Film Lacks is a Subtitle: ‘The Lying, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe.’ “
6. “The finale the show should’ve had”

A peek inside the varied world of people who love making balloons into something more.

The Best Links:

1. The Balloonamentary Blog
2. Official TWISTED: A Balloonamentary Trailer
3. Twisted - A Balloonamentary
4. A New Twist on Balloon Sculpture

Starring Zach Galifianakis in the strangest trailer of the year.

The Best Links:

1. V I S I O N E E R S — Official Site
2. “In a just world, Zach Galifianakis would be a movie star.”
3. Visioneers (2008)
4. Is This Embracing or Mocking Quirk? It’s Hard to Tell
5. “This might actually be everything you’ve ever wanted.”
6. Visioneers Trailer

Nick Broomfield’s movie about one corner of the Iraq War finally comes to the U.S.

The Best Links:

1. The Film Doesn’t Blame, But Shows Both Sides
2. Background On the Haditha Killings
3. “Haditha Killings Recall Vietnam’s My Lai”
4. The Times: “Will this be Iraq’s Apocalypse Now?”
5. Filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s Homepage
6. Battle for Haditha on IMDB (2007)
7. “Battle For Haditha” Trailer
8. Salon.com: “The Iraq movie we’ve been waiting for”

Tony Stark’s Girl Friday is getting love as a superhero assistant/sex symbol.

The Best Links:

1. Let’s Call Her “Iron Ankles”
2. The Background on Pepper Potts
3. Not Everyone Hearts Gywenth as Potts
4. Gwynnie’s Pepper Potts High Heels Spark Trend
5. Which Pepper Potts Do You Prefer?
6. Gwyneth Paltrow Plays Pepper Potts, Answers Questions
7. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts: Surprisingly Super

The new, Heath Ledger-inspired version of the Joker doll has been selling out in New York.

The Best Links:

1. Still Profiting From Ledger’s Untimely Death
2. “Brush Your Teeth, or Dead Heath Ledger Joker Doll Will Get You!”
3. Heath Ledger Joker Dolls On eBay
4. New Doll Looks A Lot Like Ledger
5. Classy Opening: “Toy peddlers are laughing all the way to the bank…”

Expedia has created tours inspired by the Indiana Jones movies.

The Best Links:

1. How (And Where) to Live Out Your Indiana Jones Fantasies
2. YTMND - Short Round FTW!
3. “Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied.”
4. Indiana Jones Travel Experiences with Expedia
5. Win My Indy PR Swag
6. Indiana Jones Experiences Official Site
7. Don’t Forget Your Fedora

Another day, another sumer blockbuster now shrouded in a cloud of crappiness.

The Best Links:

1. Well, Robert Ebert Loved It
2. “Indiana Jones and the Long Knives of the Internet”
3. Indiana Jones and the Mean Internet Critics
4. Stills May Give You Pause
5. Blogger Told to “Keep Expectations Low”
6. “Indiana Jones and the Numb Butt Cheeks”
7. Indy Time Locked in at 140 Minutes Plus
8. Ny Mag Wonders: Is Shia LaBeouf the Next Jar Jar Binks?

The Aussie actress appears to be having her moment.

The Best Links:

1. So Apparently She Looks Pretty Hot in “Stop Loss”
2. Cornish Hangs Out With Phillippe and His Daughter Ava
3. Australian Paper Calls Her “The New Nicole Kidman”
4. Are Ryan Phillippe And Abbie Cornish Expecting A Child?
5. Abbie Cornish Bio
6. Abbie Cornish’s Movie Career

The good news of a teaser trailer is offset by rumors of Ed Norton feuding with Marvel over the cut of the film.

The Best Links:

1. Watch “The Incredible Hulk” Trailer in HD
2. Norton Says He Wrote ‘Incredible Hulk’ Screenplay All By His Own Self
3. Ed Norton Smash Marvel! Ed Norton Mad!
4. The Incredible Hulk Movie Trailer
5. The Trailer Makes Me Not Want to See This

Comedian Doug Benson’s stoner doc goes over big at SXSW.

The Best Links:

1. Doug Benson On Fair Game, Discussing the Movie
2. 30 Days of Weed
3. Interview With Doug Benson
4. Catch the “Super High Me” Teaser
5. Loved by Stoners Everywhere, Or at Least at One Theater at SXSW

A new documentary that explores the world of MMO games - and the people who play them - debuts this week at SXSW.

The Best Links:

1. Producer Victor Pineiro Talks to Wired
2. An Interview With the Director and Producers
3. This Will Have to Walk the Thin Line Between Sympathy and Criticism to Really Work
4. Official Site
5. Gamers May Recognize Themselves in This
6. The Filmmaker’s Blog, Check Back for Updates!
7. Watch The “Second Skin” Trailer

The highly anticipated sequel to Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle will be released April 25, 2008.

The Best Links:

1. Harold And Kumar Build Online Buzz Through Preview Clips
2. Harold & Kumar on a Film Panel at SXSW
3. Harold & Kumar Premieres at SXSW in Austin, TX on Saturday, March 8th
4. Race-baiting in Harold and Kumar 2
5. Neil Patrick Harris Rides a Unicorn in Harold and Kumar 2
6. Guantanamo, the image and the reality. Seriously, dude
7. ‘More Nudity’ in Harold and Kumar 2
8. Harold and Kumar Prison Activity Fun Book
9. Harold and Kumar 2 Escape from Guantanamo Extended Trailer
10. “Harold & Kumar Get Bongwaterboarded!”
11. Official Harold and Kumar 2 Escape from Guantanamo Bay Site

Inspiredby Be Kind, Rewind , we bring you remade classics from around the web.

The Best Links:

1. Contest: Rewind Kindly
2. Back To Future, With Plenty of Mic Noise
3. A Ginger Does “Star Wars”
4. Taxi Driver: “Too many McGriddles have rotted my brain”
5. The Matrix, Sans Bullet-Time
6. What “Rewind” Inspiration Hath Wrought
7. Remake of the Eye-Plucking Scene in “Kill Bill”
8. Othello (Gangster Remake)
9. Some 12-Year-Old Brazillian Kid’s Remake of “The Shining,” Inexplicably Set to the Music of “Psycho”
10. Awesome Low-Tech Lego Scene of Yoda vs Count Dooku