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As the summer movie season sets off from the port, we see this year’s first test of sea legs in Fox’s actioner X-Men Origins: Wolverine. And while it does bring us some big summer action, it also falls victim to some wild inconsistency.

The new trailer for the upcoming Michael Bay actioner Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is at large on the web, assaulting anyone who comes near it with brute force and old Pointer Sisters songs.

To paraphrase my third favorite dead playwright, The Limits Of Control is a tale told by an idiot, full of pubic mound and Murray, signifying nothing.

Like LL Cool J said, “Don’t call it a comeback. The Early Edition’s been here for weeks.” Or something like that.

In the mid-90s, Kevin Smith was offered the writing gig for a reboot of the Superman franchise. Spend 20 minutes of your work day wisely and hear the full story of how it came to be and how it came to fail. In Hollywood, you fail upwards.

If you don’t know who Wolverine is by now, stop enjoying the outdoors and read a comic book – or at least this article. If you know Wolverine and want to laugh at his expense (while he’s not looking) you should also read this article.

While She Was Out The Coroner slipped into her house, ate her peanut butter, and gave her movie a thumbs down.

According to Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola, Hansel and Gretel escaped being eaten by a witch, grew bitter about it, and grew up to hunt black hats down with shotguns.

Apparently we’re buzzing again with news that Spawn 2 might actually, finally be made. Todd McFarlane sounds optimistic, but should we?

So far it’s been nothing but random bearded factory workers covered in chalk dust pretending to be Michael Myers. They wouldn’t even don a mask to complete the ruse. Now, a new image from H2 shows Mikey with half a mask and a whole lot of homeless chic.

Despite the obvious negativity conveyed in perhaps the worst headline of all time (see above), I actually don’t feel one way or the other about Miramax busting out an English-language version of Tell No One. As long as there are French subtitles.

After Liz chides Tracy for acting like a child in front of everyone, he becomes obnoxiously professional on set and pushes Liz’s view that no one deserves special treatment back in her face.

The British are coming! The British are coming! Into a hacked-off chunk of human flesh… in this not-so delightful British romp about immigrant workers, insanity, airplanes, rape, cannibalism, murder, torture, and other family values.

The publicist with a production blog strikes again on the set of The Expendables. This time she’s delivering gifts of plenty in the form of moving pictures. That means behind the scenes footage people, try to keep up.

Fan favorite College Humor has provided an excellent musical rendition of exactly how things work in the Apatow world. Turns out that that world revolves around the schlubby, slightly overweight guy getting the girl that’s way out of his league despite his quirky job and odd band of friends.

Every week we find you the Worst Movie Ever. If you’ve seen Terror Toons or think you’ve found something even worse, then my God have mercy on your soul.

For this week’s Movies We Love, we set our iTunes to Creedence’s Greatest Hits, poured ourselves a White Russian, and got set to explore the world of Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski. Come on in, but only if you’re housebroken.

Ricky Gervais is still chubby but now is animated, J.J. Abrams discusses lens flares, Elizabeth Banks hits on Zac Efron, The Goonies, Michael Bay’s penis size. This is your very special humpday Early Edition!

The first trailer for Fox Searchlight’s Sundance ‘09 acquisition Adam, from director Max Mayer has debuted online courtesy of Yahoo Movies.

Put simply, the highly anticipated second trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has made its way online via the YouTubes.

You may have heard this, but the Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) directed remake of Clash of the Titans began shooting this week. And with that start of production comes the final stage of casting…

Today marked the DVD release of Bride Wars, starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson. So how are we going to celebrate? By giving you a chance at a free theatrical poster autographed by the two Hollywood beauties in the film.

It looks like Wall Street 2 is shaping up nicely. Oliver Stone is hopping on to direct, Michael Douglas may be returning, and they’ve got Shia LeBeouf joining up as a plucky young…wait…Shia LeBeouf? Really? Ah, Hamburgers!

Pierre Morel (best known to those who still insist on calling them “freedom fries” as the director of Taken) is slated to helm an action/espionage thriller set in Tokyo.

As you know, summer movie season doesn’t officially start until we say it does. And we can’t say that it is on until we’ve run down the must see movies in one of our world famous lists. So come on in people, lets get it on.

Our own Robert Levin pairs up with the lovely Katey Rich from Cinema Blend to bring us the first of two video updates from the streets of New York. Find out what is buzzing out at Tribeca right here…

Anyone who picked up the Battlestar Galactica prequel release Caprica a few weeks back may have noticed an advertisement for what could be the coolest DVD collector’s set of the year: The Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series set.

Obsessed could have been called Bitch, That’s My Man! and it would have made just as much money, maybe even more.

That’s right friends, two weeks in a row here for the Blu-ray Report. I would like to tell you that I’ve turned over a new leaf in my duties as Blu-ray watchdog, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself. The good news is that I am here this week and ready to spread [...]

Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) faces off against Sylar (Zachary Quinto) to keep him from meeting the President (Michael Dorn). Sylar has his own plans for his new partner.