Remember Joaquin Phoenix? Or, more specifically, remember his anti-social publicity campaign to promote an apparently burgeoning hip-hop career? It was a poorly kept secret that Casey Affleck was shooting a mockumentary about Phoenix's rap foray, and today, we have an actual film trailer to scrutinize.

American auteur Darren Aronofsky returns to theatres this year with Black Swan. The film stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as a pair of ballerinas competing for the leading role in a New York production of Swan Lake. The trailer has just been released, and the film looks like ghoulish fun.

This being Friday the 13th, Google trends is currently spotlighting all kinds of spooky items, including Jason Voorhees. But we're deciding to take things in a different direction, checking out Donna Summer's new single and paying tribute to her appearance in Thank God It's Friday.

In honour of our new hero Steven Slater, we take a look at some of the best stick it to the man moments in recent movies, and ask you to choose your favourite resignation style.

Just prior to receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this past Friday, Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson discussed her impressive career in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. And while the candid nature of the discussion is nothing new, Thompson's unfiltered thoughts on the subject of revered Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn seem destined to ruffle the feathers of movie fans everywhere.

For anybody who has watched a lot of Canadian film and television, Maury Chaykin, who died Tuesday at the age of 61, was as well-known and welcome as a favourite uncle.

One of the country's best and busiest character actors, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Chaykin played substantial roles on TV -- detective Nero Wolfe on A&E;, the delightfully sketchy paterfamilias on Citytv and HBO Canada's Less Than Kind -- as well as many memorable supporting parts on film.

When images of BP CEO Tony Hayward first spread in the days after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I was struck by how much he resembled the great Welsh actor Michael Sheen. It then struck me that Tony Hayward is just the kind of character Sheen excels at playing.

Well, we finally have our first movie-related parlour game of the
summer: trying to figure out what the heck is going on in Christopher
Nolan's Inception. Given the lack of brain food at the mega-plex
this month - and the complexity of the film's dream architecture - I
have a feeling that this could go on for a while, as it did with Mulholland Drive and Memento. A certain breed of movie buff loves dissecting this kind of mind-bender.

Toy Story 3 is one of Hollywood's few success stories this
summer. Well-reviewed and well-attended, it is an exception to an
otherwise abysmal season at the box office.



As it turns out, the animated film is also distinguishing itself as one
of the year's most heartbreaking tales - a story so melancholic, it's
making grown men cry!

This Friday brings the release of the much-ballyhooed blockbuster Inception, British writer-director Christopher Nolan's sci-fi action thriller set largely in the subconscious. Nolan made his name a decade ago with a similarly tricky flick, Memento, a brain-teasing noir that played with the nature of memory.

But Nolan doesn't hold the patent on movies that mess with your mind.