Palmdale is a new band made up of Kay Hanley (Letters To Cleo) and Linus Dotson (aka Linus of Hollywood).  They just released a 5 song EP entitled Get Wasted.  After hearing this album I just had to write about it.

It’s an incredible mix of pop and rock with 4 original songs and a cover of Local H’s Bound for the Floor (you’ve heard it, you just might not recognize the name).  Anyway this EP is bound to be your spring/summer ’10 jam.  It’s bright and sunny and just makes you feel good and you want to sing along.  Every single song is great but if I had to pick one highlight it’d be Here Comes The Summer, but really there is no bad song here.  Don’t believe me?  You can listen to the entire EP right here:

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She’s Out of My League is a new comedy from director Jim Field Smith and writers Sean Anders and John Morris (Sex Drive).  It stars Jay Baruchel as Kirk, TSA agent working a dead end airport job pining for his ex-girlfriend.  One day he helps the beautiful Molly (Alice Eve) recover her phone and the two end up dating.  Of course there comes the title, she’s supposedly out of his league.

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The Slammin’ Salmon is the latest film from comedy troupe Broken Lizard (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest) starring them along with Michael Clarke Duncan, April Bowlby, and How I Met Your Mother‘s Cobie Smulders.  It’s about a Miami seafood restaurant owned by an eccentric champion boxer (Duncan).  One night he needs to earn $20,000 to pay off a bet or lose the restaurant so a challenge is given to the waiters to see who can earn the most money in a single night.

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Shutter Island is master director Martin Scorsese’s latest film, written by Laeta Kalogridis based on the novel of the same nameby author Dennis Lehane(Gone, Baby, Gone, Mystic River, several episodes of The Wire).  The story is about a federal marshall (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) who travel to the isolated Shutter Island off the coast of Boston to investigate the disappearance of a patient from the mental hospital that takes up the island.  While investigating things seem very off and more and more weird things keep happening, all the while the marshall keeps dreaming of his deceased wife (Michelle Williams).

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Cop Out is the new Kevin Smith movie starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as a couple of detectives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  It was written by Robb & Mark Cullen and originally titled A Couple of Dicks (the name was changed so they could better advertise it).  It’s noteworthy as Smith’s first film that he has directed but not written (he did direct the pilot episode of Reaper which he did not write previously).

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The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second installment in author Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy.  It continues following the story of odd computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and reporter Mikael Blomkvist.  This time Salander is the story and she will have to face her past.

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Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a new film from director Chris Columbus (first 2 Harry Potter movies, RENT, Adventures In Babysitting) and writer Craig Titley (Cheaper by the Dozen) based on the bookby Rick Riordan. It is the first part of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

The film is about a teenager who discovers he is the son of the Greek god Poseidon and that he himself is half-god.  His entire life is changed by this discovery, also Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen and Zeus thinks Percy is to blame.  If the bolt is not recovered in a few days the gods will all go to war and it will change everyone’s life as they know it.  He’s brought to a camp for demi-gods and sets out to find his mother, who has been taken by Hades, and clear his name.  He’s joined by his protector (Brandon T. Jackson) and Athena’s daughter Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario).  Along the way to the underworld they run into some other Greek figures like Medusa.

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The Messenger is about a soldier (Ben Foster) who was badly wounded in Iraq and with 3 months of service left is assigned to the Casualty Notification Office.  It becomes his job, along with his mentor/partner (Woody Harrelson) to inform soldiers next of kin as soon as possible after they are killed.  It’s directed by Oren Moverman and written by Moverman and Alessandro Camon.  Both are troubled men and while Harrelson’s character deals with alcoholism, Foster’s deals with the loss of his girlfriend (Jena Malone) and his feelings for a wife they notified about her husband’s death (Samantha Morton).

So first off most people searching for this movie are just looking for naked pictures of Jena Malone.  I do not blame you.  Besides being a terrific actress, she’s also very attractive.  So click the censored image to get a bigger uncensored version.

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Sorority Row is a horror/slasher film that was released last year.  It’s plot is pretty simple.  A bunch of sorority girls are throwing a party and decide to get back at a guy who cheated on one of them by playing a prank.  So one girl gives the guy (who is incidentally another of the girls’ brother) fake roofies to give to the girl (played by Audrina Partridge of fake reality show fame).  The girls all gather and watch on a webcam from the next room while he tries to have sex with her unconscious body (doesn’t this sound wonderfully funny? Apparently it is as the girls crack jokes the whole time), then she pretends to have a seizure or something and die.  They drive him and her out to an abandoned mine (you know cause there’s just abandoned mines all over the place) and pretend like they’re going to dump her body there.  When the girls split up for a second, the guy who is freaking out actually takes a tire iron and shoves it through her chest, actually killing her.  Then they have to actually dump her body in the mine.  This is all only slightly more complex then I’m making it sound.

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This movie has received a ton of press and awards already so you probably know the plot but if you don’t here’s a simple summary: The Hurt Locker is about a military bomb squad unit in Iraq.  The squad gets a new leader who’s a rogue type.  The film follows the squad’s day to day operations during their deployment.

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