One poster I haven’t seen before has been added to the gallery, a MQ poster for Wall Street from Germany:

Plus, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, awhile back I uploaded 2 MQ’s from an older photo shoot:

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I’ve finally got SHICONIC, the Icon Archive up and running and I’ve added 16 new icons made by me:

And too many to count made by the uber talented Katie at Bustix-Icons, aren’t they gorgeous? Big thanks to her for letting us archive them!:

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So, for once I’m not the last person to see a film, lol. A few days ago (and last night, too) I got a chance to see Eagle Eye, Shia’s new technological thriller. ( Natalie will be watching it tonight, and will send in a review and photo! )

Eagle Eye centers around Jerry Shaw, professional slacker and ‘Copy Associate’ at Copy Cabana, who makes a meager living and is less than content but accepting of a paycheck to paycheck life who learns that his identical twin brother Ethan, – the families Golden Child, chronic over achiever, – has been killed in a freak car accident.

The day of Ethan’s funeral, Jerry gets a bail out check from his father and while going to deposit it at an ATM later that day Jerry discovers that he’s got a small fortune in his account – this is where it starts to go horribly wrong. Jerry heads home to pay back rent only to find that a slew of packages – guns, passports, bomb makings – have been planted in his apartment while he was away. He’s barely had time to take this all in when his phone rings – a mysterious woman on the other end telling him that the FEDs will raid his apartment in 30 seconds and that he must flee the premises. Of course, being easy to confound and slightly thick, Jerry stays put and is arrested. Now the authorities have every reason to charge him with treason and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts – Jerry has been Activated.

Somewhere else in Chicago, Rachel Holloman is getting her son ready for a big trip. He and some other children will be preforming a concert in Washington D.C., a concert that Rachel will have to miss. She brings him to meet his deadbeat father on a train platform and they both see the boy off.

With her son on a trip, Rachel understandably takes a break and has a night out with the girls, during which she receives a phone call that she thinks is from her son. She excuses herself and walks outside to take the call when the same woman’s voice tells her she’s been Activated, threatening to derail the train her son is on if she doesn’t cooperate.

Eagle Eye is suspenseful and fast-paced, it’s got some great and believable characters, a bigger than life storyline and, while it relentlessly borrows from every major action thriller since the days of North by Northwest, it’s definitely a great ride.

Billy Bob Thornton is amazing in the role of wise-cracking Agent Thomas Morgan, as is the under-used Rosario Dawson and the barely credited Ethan Embry. You may recognize the amazing William Sadler, Jerry Shaw‘s father as Kelly Ernswiler’s (Shia) father Abe from The Battle of Shaker Heights, and from his long stint as Sheriff Jim Valenti on the WB’s sci-fi teen drama Roswell.

Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan have great on-screen chemistry and don’t fall into predictable patterns that you see in most films like this, they manage to keep their characters interesting, sympathetic and energetic through the entire film, and both turn in stellar performances during the emotional scenes.

Is this an original film? Neh, not really, but the film is definitely fun and scary, very entertaining and lives up to it’s hype very well. I give Eagle Eye 4 out of 5 stars – not my favorite of Shia’s films, but definitely one of them.

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So, it looks like when it comes to Indy 4 I was wrong when I thought I disagreed with everyone except for Natalie, Kate and Laota as to weither or not the Crystal Skull lived up to the previous four films ( my favorite of the three, almost hedged out by Raiders ) – apparently we SLO Goddesses do agree with one fan. Below Shia defends the newest addition to the franchise:

Actor says the ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ audience changed, not the series.

Nineteen years after he last rode into the sunset, the man with the hat finally came back to theaters this summer with the eagerly anticipated, feverishly discussed movie “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Just four months later, and it’s hard to find anybody who really cares.

While the fourth film in the insanely popular series was an unabashed financial success, thanks to more than $700 million in international box-office receipts, “Crystal Skull” was almost universally a fanboy disaster. Its only lasting contributions to the cultural zeitgeist are the insipid, Tarzan-esque scene of a character swinging through the jungle vines and the phrase “nuked the fridge,” which UrbanDictionary.com defines as “the precise moment at which a cinematic franchise has crossed over from remote plausibility to self parodying absurdity.” The phrase has spawned a Facebook group, countless YouTube parodies, a Web site and even a whole slew of T-shirts.

But if you thought “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was silly or juvenile, or that it didn’t measure up to the first three films, it’s not the movie’s fault — it’s your fault, co-star Shia LaBeouf told MTV News.

“I feel like people are watching the movie and it’s not the same viewer [as watched the originals]. It’s not necessarily the style of the films has changed, it’s the viewer — the viewer is different than the viewer was in the 80s,” said LaBeouf, who played Indiana’s prodigal son Mutt Williams. “It’s two different viewers, and I think it was an innocent viewer and a less-jaded consumer [back then].

“To suspend the disbelief — the swing through these vines and nuking of the fridge. It wasn’t like they didn’t do fantastical stuff in the first three,” he continued. “They did ridiculously fantastical things in the first three. But you could stomach it because you were a different viewer, and I think that the viewership has changed.”

But while LaBeouf embraced the silliness of nuking the fridge as consistent, screenwriter David Koepp already seems to be distancing himself a little from the center of the fanboy bull’s-eye. Asked whether he would defend “nuking the fridge” to his dying day, Koepp was quick to point out that that moment “wasn’t even my idea.” (Indeed, a similar scene was in Frank Darabont’s earlier version.)

“I thought the fridge was kind of cool, and I thought that was a lot of fun,” Koepp said. “There’s going to be stuff in movies that people like and don’t like. Going into that one, I knew I was going to get hammered from a number of quarters. That movie is owned by millions and millions of people. What I liked about the way the movie ended up playing was it was popular with families. I like that families really embraced it.”

At the end of the day, LaBeouf isn’t particularly concerned with whether fans liked the moment — he’s not even concerned with whether the average fan liked the movie, he said.

“I think that Steven [Spielberg], George [Lucas] and Harrison [Ford] are the only fans that I care about. … If they’re happy with the movie, then my job is done,” LaBeouf said. “And they’re happy with the movie.”

Check out everything we’ve got on “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

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Okay, because I had to cap it, I finally rented A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. If you haven’t seen this film, you’re not alone. Sleeper is the only way to discribe it, but it’s worth a rental or purchase because, like most of Robert Downey Jr.’s work, it’s absolutely beautiful, thoughtful and sad.

Robert Downey Jr. plays Dito, a semi autobiographical character based on the author’s life. Downey isn’t in much of the film, but what it lacks in Robert it surely makes up for in Shia face time.

As the younger version of Dito, Shia’s preformance was very real, very torn and not what most people think of first when they think of one of LaBeouf’s film roles. Dito’s not that funny, Dito’s not that bright, Dito’s not that tough. If anything, he’s very much a villian in his own story as a teenage boy in a lower class neighborhood growing up in violent times. He’s got to choose between sticking around, more for the benefit of his peers and family, or getting out of Dodge and making a life for himself in California. It’s really gorgeously m ade, you really feel for the characters in it, everyone is so real and so well drawn. This is easily a four out of five star film if I had to be very critical.

Shia’s preformance is outstanding to the point of outshining Downey’s. An amazing cast rounds out a great film. This is for you, Antonio.

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