The first trailer for Zach Snyder’s (300, Watchmen) newest film, Sucker Punch, was launched on the web today, following a successful, buzz-building reveal at Comic Con over the weekend. The story remains something of a mystery, but the early visuals — a heady mash-up of photo realistic anime, video game CGI, and tracking shots rendered in gorgeous slow-mo — are dazzling, to say the least. Snyder’s films have always displayed a certain flair, but the eye-candy here, cribbed from an eclectic assortment of historical epochs and taking the form of mobsters, dragons, Nazis, and hot chicks with automatic rifles (among other conceits), is elevated to a whole new level entirely. Let’s hope the narrative can follow suit, or at least come close.

No doubt, we’ll be tracking this title closely are we inch closer to next year (anticipated street date: March, 25, 2011)…

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And we’re baaaaaack. With an inspired choice for Tee of the Week, to boot.

The shirt in question isn’t brand-spanking new (it made the front page of Digg in March if I’m not mistaken) but I thought it was worthy of our attention nonetheless. Created by noted graphic artist and tee designer Olly Moss for Threadless, it features a gallery of iconic villains drawn from popular movies, cartoons and video games, neatly aligned for target practice. I really like the concept, so much so that I broke down and bought one for myself last week (that, for the record, generally constitutes enough right there to merit Tee of the Week status).

Peep it, yo:

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Love Obama? Love The Big Lebowski? Then we have a loving parody for you that marries both.

Ben Swift, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based artist, has created the following print (embedded below), a spoof inspired by the ubiquitous Hope posters that were all the rage during last year’s election. (On a mostly unrelated side note, Shepard Fairey, the architect of said sensation and no stranger to controversy or public scrutiny, was arrested in Boston last Friday on charges of defacement of public property and vandalism.)

A little internet sleuthing — kudos slashfilm.com for the initial tip — reveals that Swift created this piece specifically for an upcoming show of Lebowski-related prints (take a gander at some of the other entries here). The first batch, 80 in total, sold out in a Obama heartbeat (at $20 a pop, they were quite affordable). In response to overwhelming demand, the artist has commissioned a second run that will soon be available for purchase through his website.

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By now, most of you have heard about the release of downloaded “Chinese Democracy,” Guns N’ Roses’ (err, Axl Rose’s) long-awaited, much-delayed magnum opus, an event 13 million dollars, 14 studios, 17 years and 30-some backing musicians in the making. Take that, Kevin Shields!

The cool kid critics haven’t been particularly impressed, but John Pareles’ hit-piece-cum-review in the NYT was a funny and amusing cut-up of an admittedly easy and bloated target: 

“[This album] is the Titanic of rock albums: the ship, not the movie, although like the film it’s a monumental studio production. It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era. It’s also a shipwreck, capsized by pretensions and top-heavy production. In its 14 songs there are glimpses of heartfelt ferocity and despair, along with bursts of remarkable musicianship. But they are overwhelmed by countless layers of studio diddling and a tone of curdled self-pity…”

The CD has been selling well, apparently, but not at an astronomical clip. What actually surprises me the most is the lack of any related merch. The GN’R site is almost completely bare in this regard; the webstore is still listed as “coming soon.” What, like 2025? I figured a tentpole release such as this one would be accompanied by a crush of ancillary products, but one of the few images of a “Chinese Democracy” tee I could find online is embedded below.

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