A Scene From Where The Wild Things Are

Can somebody please tell me if this is a legitimate clip or not? It... certainly... looks like it. And that certainly sounds like Benicio... and... well, it was a nice surprise to find it in my e-mail, let me tell you.

Yeah, let's face it. It is real. At the very least it was a real test. I love the suit. Spread the word.

I'm still very busy, working away on a couple of BIG film projects and teaching, teaching, teaching. I'm thinking of bringing back film ick as a weekly podcast... sound like a good idea? Where should I host it?

And... I don't know what to say about Heath Ledger. Sorry. I don't know what to say at all. But I'm obviously incredibly pleased that The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is going to be completed.

[EDIT: I'm now told this clip was a test shot in the summer of 2005 in Griffith Park. And that's not the final Max, but Griffin Armstorff who improvised everything you see him do here. Presumably, Benicio Del Toro was then given dialogue to match the improv lines, but it's also fairly clear that the basic scene outline was probably preplanned first of all. On top of everything else, I think we can expect the finished film to look even better than this does]

Direct Download Link For Hitman Origins Animatic-Style Video Comic Strip

Download a Hitman prologue in animatic-ish form, courtesy of IGN.

Direct Download Links For The Trailer For And The First Five Minutes Of Chrysalis

Chrysalis is a stylish French sci-fi action thriller and film ick fave Albert Dupontel is in it. Intrigued? The trailer - with a fair amount of French dialogue - and the first five minutes - with very little dialogue in any language - can be yours for the downloading now.

Direct Download Link For Nightmare Before Christmas 3D Featurette

Want to know more about the whys and wherefores of The Nightmare Before Christmas' new 3D incarnation? There's a handy downloadable featurette that will fill you in.

The film is on release now in many places - including the US and the UK - and I strongly advise you to make the effort to see it.

Direct Download Link For Elizabeth: The Golden Age Clip

Witness The Fruits of Piracy in 480p, 720p or 1080p. Right-click to save and rename the file pantoseason.mov to ensure it works.

Direct Download Link For The Heartbreak Kid's Blooper Reel

Here's an idea: promote a film not by showing the best or most enticing bits, as you would in a trailer, but by packaging all of the screw-ups, fluffs and botches, the stuff that definitely won't be in the movie.

Download the Heartbreak Kid blooper reel. Now - does that make you feel like rushing out and seeing the movie?

It looks like the weekend's number one film, though on a less than fifteen million take. And can somebody please tell me why the original hasn't been recently reissued on DVD?

Direct Download Links For New Enchanted Featurette: The Villains

See high camp and glorious cartoons in medium, big and huge standard-def and 480p, 720p and 1080p high-def Quicktime. The cast are apparently the saviours of this one - but it's nice enough to know that it has been saved.

Direct Download Links For The First Four Minutes Of The Kingdom

You could download the first four minutes of The Kingdom then turn up a bit late for the screening, walking in front of everybody, spilling popcorn and drink on them and carrying on a conversation on your cell phone.

If you're a pig.

Choose from 480p, 720p or 1080p. Right click to save and then rename the file something like nottheenchantedone.mov to ensure it works for you.

Direct Download Links For American Gangster Featurette

American Gangster is one of the year's best films (alongside Hot Fuzz, Ratatouille, Goya's Ghosts, Son of Rambow, Across the Universe... what else am I forgetting?) and you can now gee yourself up for it's November release with a new featurette.

Choose from 480p, 720p and 1080p resolution. Right click to save and rename the file something like howyousaygdaybruce.mov to ensure it works.

Direct Download Link For New Golden Compass Featurette - Defining Daemons

Download the Golden Compass: Defining Daemons featurette and get a good hyping right between the eyes. You can chose from medium, big and biggest sizes.

Right click to save and then rename it as ilikedtheoriginaldefinition.wmv or similar to ensure it works.

Direct Download Links For Five 3:10 To Yuma Clips

3:10 to Yuma is still a few days away from a UK release, so publicty teams on this side of the pond are keeping on it, working busily.

Here's an example: five clips from the film have now been made available. Download them - one, two, three, four and five.

If you look at the file titles, it seems to suggest that, perhaps, five more clips will be coming soon.

Direct-ish Download Link For The Accidental Husband Preview Reel

This is early stuff, a real first look at Uma Thurman and Colin Firth in their Accidental Husband roles. The film is still in production, apparently, so we're some ways a way from an actual trailer. You might call this a promo reel, or product reel, I'd guess.

The file is, as per usual, parked on Sendspace. You get five minutes of scenes from the film, which should give you quite a good idea of how it's shaping up.

Direct-ish Download Link For A Clip From Southland Tales

Very soon we'll all get to see for ourselves how much of a Southland Tales mk1 mess Southland Tales mk2 is. Could it have been made worse, not better, by the re-edits? It is very possible. Or, like Donnie Darko, the director's cut could prove to be the drastically inferior iteration.

I've been e-mailed a clip from the film and have parked it on Sendspace so that you might download it and see it for yourself. Scientists think this clip looks rather more futuristic than was expected - but what do you think?

[EDIT: I've found out now this clip has done the rounds before, but I certainly hadn't seen it... and I'm not the only one. It was new to Quint at AintItCool, and many, many others. And besides, it was only a streaming clip previously, I believe.

And it turns out that Twitch have three streaming clips from the film in total, which i'm sure you'll want to see.

Expect direct download links to the actual Southland Tales trailer here at film ick in the next day or so]

Direct Download Link For Five Minutes Of Kenny

Kenny was a complete and utter smash in Australia, and on 7th September it's hitting UK cinemas screens. You can now download and enjoy the first five minutes. You'll see that, quite literally, its toilet humour. Quite a charmer this Kenny, isn't he?

I'll be reviewing Kenny - yes, an actual review - sometime soon. Keep 'em peeled.

Direct Download Link For 3:10 To Yuma Clip

Have this 3:10 to Yuma clip in 480p, 720p or 1080p. Right click and rename the file as dustbrothers.mov or similar to ensure it works.

Direct Download Link For A Dripping Wet, Supposedly Sexy Scene From Atonement

Want to see Keira Knightley wearing something very skimpy and then getting this skimpy underwear soaked right through? I expect some of you do.

If so, why not download a medium or big sized version of the appropriate clip from Atonement, as provided by GQ Online.

Directish Download Link For Saw IV Scene

A scene from Saw IV has turned up on Sendspace for you to download and enjoy. It's VERY gory.

Thanks to SilverGA for the tip.

Direct Download Links For Five More Atonement Featurettes

Download or watch the new featurettes on Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Joe Wright, the Dunkirk sequence and the three Brionys.

Direct Download Link For Working Title's Atonement Featurette

Working Title are pimping Atonement in a full-on fashion. Download their latest hype-mongering clip, which features footage from the film and interviews.

Direct Download Link For Second Shoot 'Em Up Clip

There's a new Shoot 'Em Up clip doing the rounds, and you can have it in small, medium or large Quicktime. Right click and rename kisskissbangbang.mov or similar.