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Here's the official synopsis from the BBC, which will be airing the two-day special December 28th and 29th:

The world is struck blind by a solar storm, and millions of man-eating mobile plants are released to roam Britain.

As an expert on the Triffids, Bill Masen knows that salvation rests in the hands of the father he hates, who mutated the Triffids in the first place to produce a green source of oil that the world craves.

What? Woody over Buzz? But — Buzz has wings and a voice box! Bad choice, Andy. But no doubt this isn't the final word on everyone's favorite playthings. Toy Story 3 comes out June 18 2010.

[via Coming Soon]

Here's the latest clip from "The End Of Time Part 1". As some of the trailers have shown recently, the Master has new lightning hand powers, which seem to gain strength from rubbing his palms together. And the Doctor is forced to his knees!

[Buzzcocks clip via Oh No They Didn't , thanks to CJ for "End Of Time" clip]

Just in case you are unfamiliar with the Uncanny Valley, we've added the 30 Rock Clip which expertly illustrates this phenomenon.

Additional reporting by Julia Carusillo.

Now let's take bets, how much screen time do we think Michelle Rodriguez will get until she is killed off in a flurry of shouting and gunfire?

Plus here are two new featurettes one about the story and another about the planet in particular. The first is actually quite brilliant because it has Sigourney Weaver narrating like she would for The Planet Earth documentaries.

[via IGN]

The English-dubbed version of Indonesia's Lady Terminator contains the only English phrases you'll need to get through your day: "Is there any man who can satisfy me?" "I'll come back in a hundred years and have revenge on your great-grandaughter." Oh also, "I'm not a lady, I'm an anthropologist." And: "Hey listen, Jack and I have seen more dead bodies than you've eaten hot dogs. So just shut up and eat."

"It says here all three of these guys died with their cocks bitten off. Could be a small animal." "An eel?" "I've heard of the ultimate blow job, but this is too much."

Lady Terminator, made in Indonesia in the late 1980s, is that rare rip-off of a U.S. movie that forges off in a new direction, and approaches its own levels of sublimeness. The slogan, "First she mates, then she terminates," pretty much says it all. I love the flickering blue lightning coming out of her eyes and trashing the room — not to mention the "if the car is rocking" scene. Oh, and the guy scratching his head with a submachine gun.

Grad Student Madness explains what the hell this movie is about:

Here's the story: Years ago, the South Seas Queen, a figure from Javanese folklore, was perfectly happy killing men by letting the snake in her vagina bite off their dingly-danglies during intercourse. Unfortunately, some jerk yanks the snake out of her cootch and turns it into a dagger. She's pissed (who wouldn't be?) and vows revenge on his great-grandaughter. His thought, no doubt, at this point is, "Okay, Crazy, good luck with that grandaughter thing!"

Fast-forward to the 80s, when Tania, an anthropologist, is investigating the South Seas Queen. We know she's an anthropologist because of the immortal line: "I'm not a lady! I'm an anthropologist!" Anyway, Tania is scuba diving in the general vicinity of the old South Sea Queen place when her boat is capsized by a tsunami and she is dragged to the bottom of the sea and onto a bed in a perfectly dry room (No, I can't really explain that) where that sea serpent enters her vag (via really bad animation) and possesses her.

Tania emerges from the surf possessed and naked and the film proceeds to blatantly rip off entire sequences from Terminator as she hunts the grandaughter, who is an Indonesian pop singer, and get hunted by a cop with the worst mullet this side of country music. Countless people get shot, numerous scenes get lifted, clothes get shed with abandon. What's amazing to me about Lady Terminator is how it adapts James Cameron's movie for the Indonesian working-class audience by incorporating so much local mythology. It looks like the film we know until it gets into sea serpents and witchy queens who live at the bottom of the ocean. It's all fairly strange.

Big props to YouTube user Slasherfan, who put up 20 minutes of the best moments from this instant classic online. Here's another 10 minutes of Lady Terminator goodness:

In honor of the upcoming Ultraman movie, Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie, several monsters from the Ultraman franchise appeared on a Japanese variety show to "audition" for parts in the movie. They showed off their most menacing dance skills for the assembled Ultramen, an impressive feat given those unwieldy-looking rubber suits.

Ultra Monsters dance to ‘Thriller' [Pink Tentacle]

Lost Season Five comes out on DVD next Tuesday, Dec. 8, to give you a couple of months to relive the time-traveling insanity before the show returns for its last season. Here are some early preview clips:

Bloopers:

Filming the "White Light" sequences was a major headache:

Building 23 And Beyond with Michael Emerson:

The Others' Secret:

Kaliet:

Deleted Scenes:

Behind The Scenes: He's Our You:

Sigourney Weaver plays the Na'vi sympathizer, Grace, and Giovanni Ribisi plays the money-hungry CEO, Parker Selfridge. It's actually pretty fun to see Ribisi in this sort of role. Either way, now we know how the Na'vi learned English and that there had been better relations between the two species, until now... but why?

[via MSN]

The little interlude in the middle of that clip involves Robert Conrad and his partner investigating the cyborg killing spree... which, whatever. But the subplot, about the cyborg and the woman who loves him, is actually surprisingly great. (In a bit of forced irony, in a later scene she tells the cyborg he's a wonderful man and laments that all the men she usually meets are "so plastic.")

Through the midst of this heartbreaking work, one character stands out as the trouble yet hilarious family member, thank goodness they got Susan Sarandon...

Plus she also helps capture the feel of the 70s, or in her case the 60s, that this movie is beautifully set in. Here's another video that properly breaks down the family dynamic and the tragedy that befalls the Salmon family. The Lovely Bones, which is based off of Alice Sebold's novel, comes out in limited release Dec. 11 and wider release on Dec. 25.

The sequel takes place right after the last film, with Sarah running for her life out of the Appalachian cave system. Remember, in the U.S. release of The Descent, Sarah got out — she was saved, not doomed to live trapped by her own insanity inside the depths of the cave, food for the Crawlers, as in the U.K. ending. But her memory is now gone and the cops are forcing her back into the darkness to find her buddies, naturally.

Here are a few clips from the sequel, which comes out in the USA December 4th:

Hospital:

Getting Ready

Down Under

Cave In

Don't get put off by the first two minutes, I promise you it pays off around 4:03 when you get to see a side-by-side break down of Zoe Saldana flipping out as herself, and as her alien character Neytiri. I think I've watched that part 30 times. Say what you will about the plot or the blue people, you can't deny that the technology in this film is pretty impressive. Especially since Cameron can basically pick any shot he wants from any angle, and the computer will recreate the scene. But on the downside, why does Neytiri sound like Natasha from Bullwinkle?

Found the youtube version for those that have trouble viewing Hulu:

Please add your favorite food-related gross-out in the comments too!

When I watched this film on TV a while back, I was on the fence about whether those were real-life lizards fighting — their motions were so jerky, their skins so fake-looking, I just thought they were really well-done Harryhausen-style stop-motion creations. But no — as various commenters have pointed out, those are real life lizards, being harmed in the making of this film. As English professor Michael Delahoyde puts it on his Dino-Films page:

The dinosaurs are photographically enlarged lizards, and are enjoyable to see eating and slurping the air, but distressing to see encumbered with all the glued-on crap to make them into things that look like dinosaurs only insofar as they don't look like lizards anymore. Pitting the two lizards against each other for the fight scene is inexcusable. More humans need to be killed instead.

It is really depressing to think of the film-makers making the lizards fight, just for a dumb spectacle. We definitely do not condone cruelty to lizards or other critters in the making of terrible monster movies.

In any case, to make it up to you, here's a giant green spider that hopefully was allowed to scuttle away unharmed after this take: