True Blood Season 3 Clip Preview

HBO has a new trailer up with clips from season 3 which starts June 16th, I think. I can't wait! You might have to sign in/register to watch this, but if you are a True Blood fan, just do it.

Let me break down the goings-on in the preview:

- Bill appears to be stumbling out of the darkness. What are you up to, Bill?

- My sexy Swede is telling Sookeh that she is blinded by her obsession with Bill and she'll get herself killed. Oh someone comes inside what appears to be Bill's house.

- James Frain, who isn't the most pretty to look at but has a kick-ass voice, comes into Merlotte's and asks Tara for a True Blood. Then they are having sex...but this is True Blood, so not a surprise!

- A hillbilly sticks a gun in Sam's face! Hey, hillbilly? Don't mess with that mans glorious mug!

- Sam tells a lady (his mom?) that they met 34 years ago. Oh and hillbilly says: Who is he, mamma?

- There's Jessica dragging a dead body into Bill's house. Guess she killed that trucker? Then she's asking Pam what to do with a dead body if she were to have killed someone.

- The Swede's back! He looks frightened and tells Sookeh to invite him in. Werewolves are looking for Sookeh! They have red eyes...always a good sign!

- Jason is still stupid and asks Sookeh if Big Foot is real too and also Santa.

- Bill wakes up with scratches all over his face and says to someone that you can't love humans without bringing suffering upon them. Then he's with whats-her-face from last season. The crazy one that he played pianoman with. Yeah, her!

- Franklin Mott (James Frain. I looked up who he was playing. Nice casting!) licks Tara and asks to know everything about Bill and Sookeh. Of course! This show is like watching porn, only you feel dirty and also strangely satisfied at how fun it is. At least that's how I feel. Plus, the Skarsgård. But, I digress!

- Jason and Andy are still skulking around looking guilty and burning papers at the stove.

- Sookeh tells Eric that they need to go to Jackson (Mississippi, I assume), but he says he can't and she shouldn't go alone. Then Alcide (NICE casting indeed!) comes along to help her. Seriously! MUCH better choice to play him then I imagined from the description in the books. I pictured not this! YUM!

- Alcide takes Sookeh to the werebar where people grab at her and some dude asks if his pack can do nothing right! Then it cuts to some dude on a horse pointing a gun at someone, who I now see on second glance is Alcide with no shirt on (look to the lower right).

- Then a wolf growls/snarls!

- Sam tells hillbilly that he doesn't appreciate him trying to get him killed as we see DogSam run in front of a truck.

- Flash of cuts where Sookeh says they took someone from her while there are shirtless dudes howling in a bar, Sookeh running, loading of guns. There's a flaming, screaming person, people with no clothes, no clothes, FANTASTIC. Sex, moaning, sex, moaning and then more sex/moaning. YAY!

- Last, but not least, is Bill telling Sookeh not to come find him. He doesn't want to be found. She cries.

I can't wait. I live for this to fill my summer! Also, the Swede.

Season 3 Clip Preview

Movie You Should See: Generation Kill

This is all I should have to show you to get you to watch:
The final scene:


But, if you need more convincing.

The 7-part mini-series is stark, quiet, loud, funny, sad, moving, and paints a picture of the first phase of the the war in Iraq in 2003. Based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright, a reporter for The Rolling Stone, the mini-series follows U.S. Marine Corps' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion as they carry out the mission's as they are told to, no matter what their personal feelings are toward those missions.

As one who is not a big fan of "war" movies, I mostly rented this because Alexander Skarsgard was in it, he plays Sgt. Brad "Iceman" Colbert. But I am glad that I did because it's not the typical "war" movie. It is not all explosions and blood and guts and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. It's more somber, more quiet and more reserved. There is no music save the songs the Marine's sing, until the very last episode 'Bomb in the Garden' when the company sits down to watch a video one of them made and a Johnny Cash song, 'When the Man Comes Around', starts to play. I liked it this way, it made the show more personal and made it feel like you were there with them, instead of watching a mini-series full of actors who were in Africa.

Here are a few clips:
If you are squeamish about language, skip through most of this, though I hope you watch because it shows some of the great humor used to break up what they were going through.

One of the many stupid speeches given to the Marines:




And a best of the action parts:

True Blood "Shake and Fingerpop" Clips!

Here are three delicious, wonderful clips to tide you over until Sunday's episode of True Blood, "Shake and Fingerpop" courtesy of HBO.

UPDATE: OK...I wanted to embed the damn videos, but they won't work on here. So...here are the links and a little photo of the clip.

Eric and Bill talk



Maryann torments Sam at a party



Lafayette and Tara



Click the link and watch...because it's a good show!

New True Blood Promo Pics*

Here is a new batch of True Blood promo pics that True-Blood.net rounded up.

I added some commentary for them! You're welcome!


*Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) in a tank-top? I don't even care what is going on in this scene...he's frakkin' hot!




*Eric (Skarsgard) seems to be offering his wrist/blood to someone. Yes, please!




*Eric (Skarsgard) and Bill (Stephen Moyer) are looking into a room. What'sa goin' on?




*Awww...I am so happy this seems to be playing out this way! Terry (Todd Lowe) and Arlene (Carrie Preston) are getting cozy. So cute! And in the second shot they look surprised. Might be when Eric is flying around for her kids?




*Fancy-Bill at piano and fancy ladies in a room with Bill in background, must be part of a flashback. Moyer's lookin' fancy here and I love those dresses!




*Yay! Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis)! But is it non-fucked-up Lafayette? Or back-to-normal Lafayette? I don't care, it's Lafayette!




*Let's see: She is wearing lingerie and he has his shirt open in a bedroom. Come on Jason! Don't fail me now! I know the tiger can't hide it's stripes...Oh! He's probably going to get in trouble with her husband too.

**For more promo pics, visit the link above**

Never Be Mine short

This is a really good little short movie by Maria Tornberg. In the movie, she plays Liv, an actress from Sweden who is living in America (Los Angeles, to be exact) trying to make her name. It's her birthday and it sounds like she is waiting for her father to call. She hasn't seen him in 15 years, and he apparently doesn't give a shit.

After some auditions where some casting guy was a complete ass, she goes to a coffee house to meet her boyfriend (or just a guy she's dating) who is a complete ass who only cares about himself. Kind of the typical L.A. "actor" type. A women he knows shows up and they start talking about pilots and shit right over her, completely ignoring her, and she gets up and leaves. On her way out she is approached by the lovely Alexander Skarsgard who she has a little crush on (who the hell doesn't?) and he gives her a birthday present and tells her she has makeup on her face and cleans it off (and she imagines a very nice little snog). She gives him her headshot with her photo and he tells her she is prettier in person, in Swedish. On her way past she sees him talking to some other girl and figures that's over.

She also goes to Ikea and some bitch takes her spot. Her day is shit. And her father still hasn't called. At the very end her answering mached says, "You have one message" and you just hear someone start to talk.

It's a great little movie that Tornberg wrote, directed, starred in and edited and I think she has potential out there. She certainly isn't bad to look at and I really felt how bad she felt throughout all the shitty things happening to her. I can relate to a bad day in Los Angeles as portrayed here.

Never Be Mine

True Blood "Shake and Fingerpop" Promo **SPOILERS??**

It's that time again. Time for me to run down the next episode of True Blood via its promo! And what's this nonsense about having to wait until July 12th?



A person has needs! And my need is more of that sexy Alexander Skarsgard (Eric) and more of that pearl-clutchin' Lafayette (he better get his ass back to pearl-clutchin', I'm just sayin').

I really like how every episode of True Blood has a title that gives a little hint at something that will go down. Like last week, for instance, it was called "Scratches" and Sookie was attacked by something and scratched and Daphne had some kind of weird scratch (like Sookie's) that has healed down her back. And then the end song kind of plays on something that went on in the episode too. Last week it was 'Scratches' by Debbie Davies, which came on right after they showed Daphne's back. I just love it. So I am a little perplexed at this next episode's title...

On to the promo:

• Lafayette seems to be dozing, still wrapped in that afghan, all cried out, when *POOF*, Eric appears at his window.
• Lafayette tells him he can't come in unless he's invited and he tells Lafayette that he has to come out eventually. Oh hell! I'd let him in STAT! Come on Lafayette! I know he tortured and fed off you and tied you back up in the basement, but you have eyes, right? Let.Him.In. I would.
• Ut oh! Look's like Jason is being summoned out to Reverend Newlin. What did he go and do now (Not the Reverend's wife...yet. Come on Stackhouse, my bet was by episode 3...I lost)?
• And Newlin has a gun...great. And they are taking a trip together, wonderful!
• Sookie gives the photo of her, Tara and Gran to Tara as a birthday present and they'll celebrate properly when she gets back from Dallas.
• Tara tells Maryanne that she's moving in with Sookie. Maryanne's reaction? Chuckle-chuckle-chuckle in that "Oh hell NO, you aren't" kind of way.
• Bill asks why this is personal to Eric. Eric says that "if one such as he can be taken, then none of us are safe". Hmmm...Damn, you are pretty!
• And Jason seems to be attacked (by himself, 'cause that's how he "attacked" Dawn in season 1) by someone. Someone can "smell that hot blood".
• Bill tells Eric that "open agression against humans is insane", while Sookie gets grabbed and screams; someone gets punched on a lawn; someone on a bed; Sam; Jason points a gun in a Jeep; Maryanne vibrates; Jason punches someone; Tara screams; and Daphne whispers in someone's (Sam's?) ear, "I know what you are".

Beyond the Pole Trailer

A simple story about two men, friends, trying to reach the Pole (don't know which...I assume North) in record time (to get in the Guiness Book of World Records) or to save the Planet...The guy yelling at the person in the Land Rover about it being too big, is just hilarious. Hell, the whole thing looks hilarious!

I don't know when it comes out, but it looks great! I mean, Stephen Mangan's character is named Mark Bark Jones!