As you can see in the full version below, the new poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds features Brad Pitt as Aldo Raine standing atop a pile of dead Nazis.  Clint Eastwood reportedly saw the poster and issued Brad Pitt a challenge: he’d to stand on his pile of dead gooks, and they’d measure who was taller.  When Pitt refused, Eastwood hit him with a dead gook.

[via Yahoo]

(Brit’s interpretation of the Battle of Thermopylae)

So the source for this story is the National Ledger, and I’m not familiar enough with them to know if they’re reliable, but the story was too good not to report.  They say Britney Spears has been offered a role in The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton.  Yes, that kind of yellow star.

If she accepts the role, Britney will reportedly play the main role of Sophia LaMont, who creates a time machine and travels back to World War II where she meets a Jewish man called Eton at a concentration camp. They then fall in love and travel back to the present day with the intention of getting married but they are both killed by Nazis. [NL]

Jeez, guys, tell us the ending why don’t you.  So basically, it’s like Where the Red Fern Grows but with Jews instead of coon hounds, and with time traveling Nazis*.  But otherwise exactly the same.   Britney was reportedly intrigued by the idea of a “concentration camp,” but she’ll probably be really sad when she finds out what it is.

*Dear Hollywood: If you made half as many time traveling Nazi movies as you did zombie movies, the world would be a better place.

This is the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, which premiered on Spike TV the other night.  Watching it, I realize I can’t help myself.  Even though Brad Pitt’s character seems like the love child of Cary Grant and Foghorn Leghorn; even though Mike Myers gets to do an accent again; even though Eli Roth should sue the little girl who taught him to punch and swing a baseball bat; I still know I’m going to see this, probably on opening night.  In the end I’m just a sucker for people getting bludgeoned to death.

[via CHUD, LatinoReview]

Død Snø, aka Dead Snow, a Norwegian film about Nazi zombies and the møøse who bit their sister, has been picked up by IFC Films. They plan a theatrical release later this year.  I know I like to complain about zombies as a tired concept a lot, but that’s mainly because George Romero keeps trying to pitch them as a timely metaphor.  The makers of Dead Snow clearly realize that zombies are much more effective as a metaphor for a guy getting blood puked on his face, or cutting off his own arm with a chainsaw.  That kind of symbolism is as old as time.  Older, even.

On the left we have Dead Snow, featuring chainsaw-decapitated Nazi zombies, while on the right we have Crank 2, with metal fingers, track marks and high voltage.  I’m gonna have to give a slight edge to Crank 2, if only because it has Jason Statham’s name on it.  The name alone is worth at least three Cannibal Corpse albums.  Plus, the Stath wouldn’t need a chainsaw, he decapitates Nazis with his dick.

[via Rush Print and IMPA]