^{Watch the trailer for Synecdoche, New York after the jump}

Synecdoche, New York sounds pretty kooky. First of all, the title. I had to look synecdoche up in the dictionary:

n. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).

I still don’t really get it, but at least now if you asked me I could give a more intelligent answer than pointing out that it kinda looks like ‘douche’. Anyway, despite the funky name and mixed reviews, Synecdoche is the directing debut of Charlie Kaufman, arguably the best living screenwriter, and it stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who’s a pretty good actor once you get over the fact that he’s kinda weird lookin. Oh, and that weird guy from Last Action Hero is in it too. Long story short, I hope this movie is good so I don’t have to cut myself.

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My first thought when I opened this video was, "Aw, man, 8 minutes??"  But then I couldn’t stop watching it. It’s freakin’ mesmerizing. Sadly I don’t have much info on it other than the credits at the end and the description from iheartchaos:

You may be of the age when you remember classrooms filled with old reading primers from the 50s and 60s and the weirdly quasi-realistic drawings that were in them. In this insane animation, they take those Dick and Jane illustrations and transform them into something that would give Dali nightmares.

Dali must be a pussy because it gave me a boner.  I know someone out there thinks directing music videos of Miley Cyrus singing to the camera in her bedroom makes you capable of directing studio movies, but in a perfect world, this is the kind of short that lands someone a big project.

UPDATE: Director’s official site.  The film is called "Rabbit". How delightfully logical.  

The only description I have of this sorta NWS Calvin Klein ad featuring Eva Mendes (video after the jump) is:

This recent commercial for Calvin Klein’s Secret Obsession has been banned by all TV network stations because they feel Eva Mendes is too sexy in the ad.

Hmm, the ad showed a nipple, so I’m not sure Eva Mendes’ sexiness was the issue.  A commercial that showed Barbara Walter’s nipple would probably get banned too.  I’m not sure what the real story is because if you were planning for your commercial to get on TV, I’m guessing you wouldn’t leave a nipple in it.  Because what channel could they show that on?  Oh yeah, the boner channel.

I’ve always said that Anne Hathaway could be the next big thing if she ever got a role that was more in line with her talents.  In Rachel Getting Married, the requisite omg-isn’t-this-family-quirky? indie flick from director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia), Hathaway plays the broody and complex free spirit with the acid tongue and heart of gold (not to mention a super cute bob! >:-D). Still, I was thinking her breakout role would be more along the lines of a pert, voluptuous young bartender in a low-cut shirt who ponders the meaning of life while bending over to vigorously scrub beer glasses for a couple hours.

-Thanks to RoboPanda for the tip 

This is the trailer for Japanese director Takashi Miike’s English-language Samurai western, Sukiyaki Western Django. The cast is all Japanese except for Quentin Tarantino, and it’s set in the 1400s, though you’d never know it with all the gatling guns and Union Jack chaps. But time-period discrepancies and Quentin Tarantino not being able to act are small considerations in a Miike movie. Who cares about that stuff when people are giving birth to animals and getting strangled with their own intestines and stuff? I have a graphic violence boner already.