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Although there's little light being shed on the web of shadows surrounding Spider-Man 4, there is a new trailer out for new video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. Released recently, the game is available on (if not sold out for) all platforms.

Last season, Lost really hit its stride. Despite the strike-shortened season, the producers and writers seemed confidently in charge of the story, and they didn't waste a single episode like they have in the past (I'm looking at you, Nikki and Paulo). And the show hit its emotional peak as well with the Desmond and Penny romance, particularly in "The Constant" and the season finale.

A film on the life of the Notorious B.I.G. seems alternatively like a no-brainer and doomed before it’s even released. Judging from the brief, new teaser trailer for Notorious, the first fiction film about the rapper since his 1997 murder, it looks to be a little of both. The heavy-handed trailer fuses faux-hip-hop-video tropes with an apparently affectionate portrait of the late star.

First optioned for film in 1967, Richard Yates’s classic novel Revolutionary Road has had a long run-up to the screen. Published almost contemporary to its action in 1961 and yet starkly modern in thought, the story concerns a husband and wife in suburban Connecticut circa 1955, she deeply discontent with the social prerogatives of the period, he more and more immersed in them.

When Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) decided to direct one of his screenplays for the first time, it wasn’t clear exactly what would happen. And now, a completed film and two major festival runs later, it’s still not clear what did happen—reviews out of Cannes and Toronto were as wild as the movie apparently is, and even the people who seem to admire the film aren’t sure what to make of it.

It has finally arrived...the trailer for the much anticipated Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) film The Soloist, that is. And before you ask, no, it doesn't star Keira Knightley.

When a small movie called Nothing is Private debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last year, it didn't exactly come quietly. For one thing, the man behind it was Alan Ball, the writer of American Beauty and creator of Six Feet Under, who made a name for himself with subversive dramas unafraid of the darker aspects of American life. And its subject, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl who must sift through ethnic and sexual tension in early-’90s Houston, left even seasoned festival audiences a little squeamish.

Bad drivers, car aficionados and the speed-obsessed alike, time to rejoice: your latest fix, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, is coming to stores in a few short weeks. The game’s developer, Rockstar San Diego (whose last title was the critically lauded Xbox 360 title from 2006, Table Tennis), has just debuted the latest trailer for the fourth installment of their popular high-octane racing franchise (for your viewing pleasure below).

If Paste had existed back in the early '80s, it's probable that the P4ST3 51GN5 of L1F3 4 1982 would have featured a little movie about video games and virtual reality called Tron, starring a relatively unknown actor named Jeff Bridges.

We are witnessing the resurgence of an archetype, and Michael Cera is quickly moving to corner the market. Having successfully transplanted his endearingly geeky George Michael Bluth schtick from Arrested Development to Superbad and Juno, he'll be keeping his feet planted on the romantic-comedy side of the line of scrimmage for the upcoming Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, a music-themed love story set in New York City, due out Oct 3.

Rest easy Potterheads, your next fix is here. After many months spent scrounging the shadowy sidestreets of Knockturn Alley for a little bit of arcana to get you through another long, H.P.-less night, the trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has finally dropped.

Don't misunderestimate Oliver Stone. After all, the filmmaker/activist might seem like the last person likely to pen and direct a biopic on our polarizing President. That's exactly what he's doing with his new movie W. : he's got his sights set on Crawford, Texas, and the teaser trailer promises a less-than-flattering look at the ascendancy of one George Walker Bush.

It seems only appropriate that no more than two weeks after Merriam-Webster added "fanboy" to its dictionary ("boy who is an enthusiastic devotee, such as of comics or movies," if you're scoring at home), the trailer for the most celebrated graphic novel in history, Watchmen, debuted online (as well as at showings of some little-known arthouse flick called The Dark Knight).

When Bonnie Tyler crooned that she was "holding out for a hero" in 1984, she probably wasn't speaking in literal terms, but more along the lines of "I want a guy that's not a jerk," or, as the video suggests, cowboys with glowing neon bullwhips.

The dicey politics of animatronics are no longer to remain ensconded in secrecy. This fall, a documentary will expose the truth behind the rise and fall of The Rock-afire Explosion, the animal-robot house band for Showbiz Pizza Place (most recently featured in MGMT's "Electric Feel" video) before Chuck E. Cheese and a sinister idea known as "concept unification" became its ruination.

James Bond trailers are sort of like a funny experiment in system overload. Bond films themselves are obviously action-packed, but also provide the added bonus of a plot so you can convince yourself you wouldn’t pay your $10 just to watch the recklessly charming Brit roll around on the floor (woman still in arms), finding a way to escape his staked-out hotel room through a hidden fire escape. But given the constraints of space, the Bond trailer has the daunting task of packing all the action of the jet ski chase, speedboat chase, motorcycle chase and classic bedroom chase into under two minutes. The fact that they even take the time to address a plot in these things is an achievement in itself.