CELEBRITY BUZZ: Rourke’s getting Oscar buzz for his performance in “The Wrestler.” After awards in Venice and a distribution deal with Fox, “The Wrestler” is being hailed as Rourke’s return and a big Oscar contender.

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

A trailer for the much-anticipated film . The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary about the San Francisco city supervisor who was the first openly gay man to hold public office, won an Academy Award in 1984 — this film seems primed for awards season, too.

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The Best Links:

1. Picturing Harvey Milk
2. Harvey Milk Biopic - Featured on BuzzFeed

MOVIE BUZZ: M. Night Shyamalan’s newest movie is being mercilessly made fun of in reviews and on internet boards. Christopher Orr instant-classic tear-down review in The New Republic isn’t even a review — it’s a long spoiler meant to ensure a reader won’t go see the film and thereby waste time and money. The blog reaction is just as dire.

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The Best Links:

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

CELEBRITY BUZZ: The Jewish-French-Moroccan actress is getting ever higher-profile roles. She just appeared in Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess With The Zohan , and is currently filming Cadillac Records with Adrien Brody, Beyoncé and Mos Def. Also worth noting: Very hot.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: A rom-com/slasher film, set in the woods, is the world’s first mumblecore horror movie. This looks suitably endearing to be unsettling, in the sense that a person with a paper bag over their head is both scary and laughable.

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

A trailer for the new Coen Brothers’ movie hits the web. It doesn’t have a release date yet, but a Coen Bros. outing with George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt kind of sells itself. And Pitt’s highlighted hair almost gives Javier Bardem’s bowl-cut a run for its ugly, ugly money.

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1. Burn After Reading Plot Summary
2. Hi-Def Burn After Reading Trailer (Annoying iTunes Link)

MOVIE BUZZ: Panned by the Times and New Yorker, with tepid reviews elsewhere, the movie’s opening weekend will still probably be huge. No one ever compared Sex and the City to The Wire — Dickensian it ain’t — but most people don’t care, they just want to see Carrie buy expensive clothes and talk about love.

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The Best Links:

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

MOVIE BUZZ: A peek inside the varied world of people who love making balloons into something more. Sort of like a Wordplay for the ballon-twister set, the documentary takes you to “Twist and Shout,” a balloon twisting convention, and the lives of eight twisters. It’ll be playing at select theaters across the country this summer.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: Starring Zach Galifianakis in the strangest trailer of the year. I have no idea what this movie is really about, but it’s worth noting for two reasons. 1) Zach Galifianakis. 2) It outdoes those bizarre homemade Mike Gravel ads in terms of surreality.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: Nick Broomfield’s movie about one corner of the Iraq War finally comes to the U.S. The Haditha killings were one of the worst civilian casualty incidents of the war — 24 men, women and children were killed by a group of Marines after a roadside bombing, though all charges against the soldiers involved were dropped after an investigation. The movie looks at what happened from several different angles.

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The Best Links:

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

MOVIE BUZZ: Tony Stark’s Girl Friday is getting love as a superhero assistant/sex symbol. Gwyneth Paltrow may have undone the badness of Sliding Doors and Shallow Hal with her turn in Iron Man .

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

MOVIE BUZZ: The new, Heath Ledger-inspired version of the Joker doll has been selling out in New York. Collectors are making it hard for the kiddies to get a hold of one of these — apparently to drive up the prices of the dolls online.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: Expedia has created tours inspired by the Indiana Jones movies. Destinations include India, Egypt, Italy, China, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, and the Southwestern United States. There is no mention in the PR materials of whether travelers need supply their own young Asian boy to act as Short Round.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: Another day, another sumer blockbuster now shrouded in a cloud of crappiness. With reports of a bloated running time (140 minutes) and rumors that “the movie may not have turned out to be what people in the industry call ‘good’,” Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull looks like it may not be the summer savior Hollywood had been hoping for.

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

CELEBRITY BUZZ: The Aussie actress appears to be having her moment. After smaller parts in movies like Elizabeth: The Golden Age and One Good Year and a starring role in Candy , Cornish gets a big debut with Friday’s Stop Loss , also starring Ryan Phillippe - oh yes, and there’s that nasty rumor that she’s the cause of his breakup with Reese Witherspoon and that maybe they’re having a baby.

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The Best Links:

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

MOVIE BUZZ: The good news of a teaser trailer is offset by rumors of Ed Norton feuding with Marvel over the cut of the film. The teaser makes the film look like a very different beast than the Ang Lee version of a few years ago. But Ed Norton’s reportedly none too happy with the way the final cut is headed and he and Marvel have been sparring over it.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: Comedian Doug Benson’s stoner doc goes over big at SXSW. Benson has taken Morgan Spurlock’s idea for Super Size Me , swapped McDonald’s for pot, and filmed the results.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: A new documentary that explores the world of MMO games - and the people who play them - debuts this week at SXSW. Gamer addicts, online love, goldfarming and more! Second Skin bills itself as “an intimate look at people whose lives have become transformed by the virtual worlds in online games such as World of Warcraft, Everquest and Second Life.”

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

MOVIE BUZZ: The highly anticipated sequel to Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle will be released April 25, 2008. Our favorite stoners are back, and this time a confusion between the word ‘bong’ and ‘bomb’ on the plane to Amsterdam lands them in Guantanamo on charges of terrorism. We’re looking forward to seeing more anthropomorphic bags of pot and Neil Patrick Harris riding a unicorn.

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

MOVIE BUZZ: Inspiredby Be Kind, Rewind , we bring you remade classics from around the web. Besides being a standard genre on YouTube, the site Filmmaking Frenzy has sponsored a contest for the best homemade remakes.

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