About a year ago, everyone (including me) was gushing over some preview footage of a Star Wars video game in development that had some pretty sweet displays of force powers. Well, that game is about to be released.

Here’s the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, where you have all the powers of the force at your disposal and where you get to play as - get this - Darth Vader’s apprentice. Now how cool does that sound? The game will be released next spring on the Xbox 360 and PlayStations 2 and 3.

This entry in the Star Wars saga casts players as Darth Vader’s “Secret Apprentice”, unveiling new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. The expansive story, created under direction from George Lucas, is set during the largely unexplored era between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.

In it, players will assist the iconic villain in his quest to rid the universe of Jedi - and face decisions that could change the course of their destiny. As its name implies, The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force by taking full advantage of newly developed technologies that will be seen and experienced for the first time anywhere in videogaming.

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Get ready for a ton of movie trailers and previews the next few days, thanks to the San Diego Comic Con. First up is Beowulf, which is a CG/motion-captured film (similar to The Polar Expres). The film’s cast includes Ray Winstone as Beowulf, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, and Angelina Jolie. I actually did a double take while watching the trailer; I couldn’t believe it wasn’t live actors.

This will be the future of video games over the next few years, too. The animation is absolutely stunning!

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As part of their ongoing “Real Men Love” movie series, DoubleViking.com put together a pretty funny little article about the classic sci-fi film, The Fifth Element. The movie celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year, and they thought they would list all the various reasons why real men love The Fifth Element.

Inexplicably, a half naked Milla Jovovich is not among them. An inexcusable oversight to be sure, but it’s still a pretty good article nonetheless:

Real Men Love the Fifth Element

Since hearing about the Frank Darabont fiasco and the f’tarded meddling of George Lucas (a man who should be kept far away from film-making altogether by now), I’ve been nervous about the Indy movie. Count me among those who felt Harrison Ford hadn’t aged well enought to pull this off.

But, whether it’s lighting or makeup, this snapshot changes my mind.

Now if only I can get past the other abomination of this film, the boyband-like inclusion of Shia LaBeouf, which could rival the infamous Short Round in grating-kiddie-crap from Lucas/Spielberg.

Oh, and by the way, the first teaser trailer should be just the original theme by John Williams playing on 4000 dark screens next Spring. Make it so.

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USA Today offered the world the first real-world glimpse of the car most of us could only imagine from our childhood cartoons. Speed Racer is the first film directed by the Wachowski brothers since the Matrix trilogy.

The film is a live-action adventure starring Emil Hirsch (Alpha Dog). It promises to have a “retro future” look and will center on Speed (Hirsch) trying to make a name for himself in the racing world despite the efforts of corporate giants to foil his career.

The film also stars Christina Ricci (Black Snake Moan) as girlfriend Trixie and Matthew Fox (TVs Lost) as Speed’s older brother, Racer X.

Get a load of this first image (click to enlarge):

The final chapter of the Rambo saga is currently being filmed with Sylvester Stallone. It centers around the mythical characters’ quiet retirement in the wilds of Thailand - which is disrupted when a group of missionaries are kidnapped.

The film also stars the gorgeous Julie Benz who played the memorable Darla in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Angel series. She currently is also costarring in the best show on television right now, Dexter on Showtime.

The first images come courtesy of AICN and an Italian newspaper:

I was impressed with the first trailer for the sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer. But I’m even more impressed with this new trailer. The action scenes look great, and the Silver Surfer looks kick ass (and will probably steal the movie). Oh ya, a blonde, blue eyed Jessica Alba is also pretty impressive.

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FoW is one of the greatest pop bands of the last decade and I have always been a big fan. Welcome Interstate Managers was a masterpiece, outdone in my mind only by their prior record, Utopia Parkway.

Sometime I should put up some Wayne tracks here. In the meantime, I’m going to check out their new album, Traffic and Weather. The advanced word is excellent and I have faith the boys will do it again.

Here’s what’s been said so far:

• Rolling Stone gives Traffic and Weather four stars
• Entertainment Weekly calls Traffic and Weather “a simply wonderful CD of songs about love, lust and loneliness.”
• The Los Angeles Times calls first single “Someone To Love” an “opening volley” in FoW’s “continuing quest for pop perfection.”

Just saw the first released image from the set of the upcoming Iron Man movie. It stars Robert Downey, Jr as the titular character and advanced word is that director Jon Favreau (Swingers, Elf, Zathura) is getting it right.

Below is the first shot we have of one of the suits in the movie. Apparently, this is the first armor suit Tony Stark builds - during his captivity early on in the story.

What do you think? Pretty cool, huh?

We’re goin’ crazy with the movie trailers this week. You can really tell summer is on it’s way. The first batch of badass movies is almost here (Grindhouse!).

I loved the first two Bourne films, so this is another on my must-see list. So strap in for another cool feature with this trailer for The Bourne Ultimatum: