Direct Download Link For New And Knifey Saw IV Trailer

IGN have posted a new Saw IV trailer, their badge in the corner and all. Download it now for a look at Jigsaw in action.

Direct Download Link For New UK Saw IV TV Spot

Download the new Saw IV TV spot. Apparently a UK exclusive.

Direct Download Link For Saw IV Autopsy Teaser

The new Saw IV teaser, called Autopsy, gives a very good idea of how the next episode is going to work. There were at least two big, big laughs in this clip - I'm not sure if it audacious, ridiculous or both.

Enjoy.

Direct Download Link For Japanese Saw IV Teaser

You can download and enjoy the Saw IV trailer in small, medium and large WMV formats.

Direct Download Links For The First Saw IV Trailer

You can have a WMV of the Saw IV trailer, or hi-def Quicktime in 480p, 720p and 1080p. Right click and rename the file something like stopitnowplease.mov (or .wmv) to make sure it works.

I'm told that the plotting of this film is a work of genius. But then, you see, I was told that about the first one too.

Directish Download Link For Saw IV Scene

A scene from Saw IV has turned up on Sendspace for you to download and enjoy. It's VERY gory.

Thanks to SilverGA for the tip.

Movie Minesweeper - The Little Bits Of Movie News Edition

Women in Animation, Chinatown, The Two Jakes, Southland Tales, Charlie Bartlett, Saw IV, Joel Schumacher, Johnnie To, Iron Man, Bertrand Tavernier, Avatar, Machete.

- The Women in Animation events were recorded and are now downloadable as MP3s. Feed your iPod well for a day or two. I saw the link at Cartoon Brew.

- Special edition DVDs of Chinatown and The Two Jakes are imminent.

- Southland Tales is to be released to North American cinemas on November 9th.

- Meanwhile, Charlie Bartlett has had its release date snatched back.

- As much as I don't like the Saw IV poster, it is easily the most intriguing one in the whole series. Infact, it asks some real questions and makes the plot seem a lot more interesting that I bet it actually turns out to be.

- Joel Schumacher is to remake Johnnie To's Breaking News. As it was with The Departed, this will probably make me appreciate the overrated original a whole lot more.

- Empire have a new Iron Man picture on their new cover.

- Bertrand Tavernier is writing a DVD blog. About French DVDs. In French. A must read for me, really, because it has so little competition that I'm aware of.

- Will Machete ever see the light of day? I sincerely doubt it, but the Babysitter Twins have been talking it up all the same.

- Ubisoft will be behind the Avatar videogame.

Trick'r Treat Out Of Season?

This Halloween's great white hope wasn't the Halloween rehash, if you ask me, but Mike Dougherty's Trick'r Treat. According to Box Office Mojo, however, the film may have had it's release bumped into next year.

And that very possibly means October next year - it is called Trick'r Treat after all. Would any studio squander that potential be pushing it out in February, say? Or May?

There's a chance that Box Office Mojo have made a mistake, but in my experience, they're pretty bang on with these things. I suspect Warner Bros. are fearing that Halloween is only big enough for one Halloween picture and that will be... er... Halloween.

I'm feeling a little deflated by this news, I have to admit. I don't want to be left with only 'the rehash' and Saw IV this all hallow's eve.

The film ick Flashback: Part One

The year is half over, so I thought run a retrospective feature. A number of posts, each one reminding you of some of the bigger, better of more amusing film ick stories of the last six months - in chronogical order. Like Movie Minesweeper with short term memory problems.

This takes us up to January 17th:

- Terry Gilliam mentioned a new Brazil special edition DVD. I'm still waiting for another mention of this one anywhere.

- Some details turned up of Alejandro Jodorowsky's next, King Shot.

- Marc Forster was linked to a US remake of 36 Quai des Orfevres, then expected to star George Clooney and Robert De Niro.

- The Saw IV scribes were named, and rumours circulated about the director of the film. Incorrect rumours, as it happens.

- We found out about De Palma's Redacted.

- Michel Gondry was outed as the director developing the Debbie Harry biopic.

- Ken Russell spent some time in the Big Brother house. Crackers.

- The first No Country For Old Men still turned up here.

- I interviewed David Hewlett about A Dog's Breakfast. That film sounds brilliant and I can't wait to see it.

- Shyamalan signed to make a series of Avatar: The Last Airbender films.

- The MySpace page for Tracy unveiled the film's trailer, and very funny it was too.

- Dr. House played with his Nintendo DS.

- Paul McGuigan's Equalizer film was still moving forward.

- Drive Away Dykes popped up on the radar.

- I snuck a few plugs for this site into a Radio 2 show.

- A series of Spider-Man 3 spoilers were run. Most of them turned out to be true.

- I tipped Son of Rambow as the film to watch at Sundance this year. It went on to be the biggest sale of the festival which made me very happy.

- Jenna Jameson tried to hype a film of her 'life' by suggesting Scarlett Johansson would take the lead role.

- I reviewed the script for Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness.

- The Golden Globes happened.

- John Carter of Mars ended up in the hands of Pixar.