Pop Culture Roundup 47 / The Superslice

We don’t think Mittens Rombot would appreciate this PCR much. It’s the 47th edition of the Pop Culture Roundup, Girls and Boys.

Although we have a cavalcade of trailers for you this week, it seems as if it’s slow on the tentpole movie front. Although, one film that has been gaining considerable buzz since its inception, at the beginning of last summer, is Spring Breakers (movie site). The film was made by Harmony Korine, the counterculture avant-garde-lite writer/director who wrote Kids and directed the bizarre Gummo. Spring Breakers follows four college girls (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine) who land in jail after their spring break partying gets out of hand in Florida. They find themselves bailed out by a local Riff Raff-esque rapper and drug dealer (James Franco) who takes them under his wing.

It’s a quartet of college girls, gone bad in Florida, and in over their heads. Sounds titillating; count us in. Watch the trailer at the header, pics are below.

TRAILERS, TEASERS and FEATURETTES

The New York Times: Quentin’s World: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own
Vanity Fair: Scandal Sheets: Kerry Washington on Django Unchained
Vulture: Django Unchained Action Figures Discontinued: Should They Have Ever Existed in the First Place? They pulled the figures and we called it! These figures are going for a $1,000 on eBay now.
GQ: Ben Affleck: Filmmaker of the Year 2012
BlackBook: The Fifteen Most Anticipated Films at This Year’s Sundance Film Festival
BlackBook: Check Out the Stunning New Stills from Terrence Malick’s ‘To the Wonder’

21 and Over (Trailer #2)

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (Red Band Trailer HD)

Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game Teaser Trailer)

Emperor (Official Trailer) – As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew Fox and Kaori Momoi.

G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation (Japanese Trailer)

Ghost Team One (Official Trailer – Slamdance Film Festival 2013) – Brad and Sergio are what wimps refer to as wussies. They don’t want to see a ghost. But the girl they want to have sex with sure does. The housemates set out to film their own version of a Paranormal Activity as an excuse to be near her, but quickly find themselves much closer to a demon whore than the woman of their dreams. Ghost Team One is a comical spin on the found footage genre that delights in the dream space between a man’s heart and his balls.

Leonie (Trailer) – Emily Mortimer stars as Leonie, who falls in love with a famous Japanese poet and gives birth to a son: world renowned artist and architect Isamu Noguchi. Directed by Hisako Matsui.

Red 2 (Official Trailer) – Frank Moses and his motley crew of retired assassins return for a second outing.

Small Apartments (Official Trailer) – When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

S-VHS (Teaser Trailer)

The Canyons – (Preview Scene Clip)

The End of Love (Official Trailer) – Directed by Mark Webber and starring Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Amanda Seyfried and Aubrey Plaza.

The Iceman (Trailer)

The Last Exorcism Part II (Official Trailer #2)

The Power of Few – Official Trailer) – Spies, cops, holy fools and well-armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. The Power of Few unfolds through the lives of five unusual characters who unknowingly are connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation on a day when religious conspiracy and urban crime collide. Starring Christopher Walken and Christian Slater.

TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard): The Pirate Bay Documentary (Official Trailer) – Trailer for the upcoming documentary TPB AFK about the founders of the Pirate Bay. The film will be released for free online at the premiere of a major film festival. Release date to be announced during January 2013.

The Stranger Inside (Trailer) – Actress Emily Moore is kidnapped and tortured by a masked man. Deemed a psychotic fan by the world’s press, only Emily knows the real reason why he did so. On the run from the terror that has caught up to her, Emily leaves New York for a Mediterranean island with her husband Robert, a psychiatrist. But the idyllic seclusion of this paradise now serves as a trap when a young and attractive girl turns up with blood on her hands and a penchant for mind games.

Upstream Color (Trailer)

Wrong Cops (Rough Preview)

Lincoln (20 Minute Featurette)

Stills from Oblivion

The Internship

TELEROUNDUP

BlackBook: Intoxicated Quentin Tarantino Tells You About His Process
The Atlantic: Golden Globes 2013: The Best Awards Show … Ever?
Animated GIFs: 2013 Golden Globe Superhero Awards – Check out all of the superheroes in attendance!
Animated GIFs: Ben Affleck honoring his fellow Golden Globe nominees for Best Director – All the losers are like, “Shut up, Affleck.”
Game of Thrones Stars at the HBO Golden Globes Afterparty
BlackBook: Why We Should Be Talking About Jodie Foster’s Coming Out – We appreciated her sentiments but thought her speech was awkwardly drawn out and clouded.
LAist: Candid Photos From the 2013 Golden Globe Awards’ Red Carpet
The New York Times: Nick Kroll Takes a Hike
Rolling Stone: Cover Story Excerpt: The Last Days of ’30 Rock’
GQ: Make This the Angriest Inauguration Ever! Key and Peele
The Biggest Movie Of 2013 Is “Dog President”: Amy and Tina crashed the actual Golden Globes nominee recitations with fake nominations of their own.

More at Vulture: 35 Candid Polaroids From Last Night’s Golden Globes by photographer Lucas Michael

Just the Amy and Tina Parts from Last Night’s Golden Globes

Bates Motel

Workaholics is back. This is by Henry the Worst.

Ripper Street (Sneak Peek Exclusive) – New BBC America series debuts January 19th. It’s East London, 1889 and you’re invited on a tour of the haunts of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious serial killer in history.In the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders, can anyone keep order in the blood-stained London Streets? Haunted by the failure to catch London’s most evil killer, Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest district in London’s East End. Charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel, Inspector Reid is soon drawn deep into the seedy criminal underworld of Victorian London — where fear always lurks that each new murder could mark the return of The Ripper.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Part 2, Clip #2)

Making Of Game Of Thrones Season 3: Vlog #2 – Molding the Book Into a Series

The Walking Dead: The Animated Series – Rick Grimes and Clementine by David Cousens

The Walking Dead: The Suicide King (Season 3, Episode 9, Promo #3)

Watch the Shameless (our new favorite show after shotgunning the first two seasons) and Californication Season Premieres in their entirety (nudity blurred) below: