Synopsis: A Manhattan bicycle messenger is assigned delivery of a small parcel that turns out to be at the center of a very dangerous conspiracy, leading to an all-out chase through the crowded streets of the bustling city.

So Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch didn't debut at number one last weekend; despite our consensus-minded culture, popularity and quality don't necessarily go hand in hand.  There's always next weekend, anyways, and in order to entice you into paying hard-earned money to see the fetishized action-fantasy, Warner Bros is offering the first five minutes of the film online for free.  So take a few minutes and get acquainted with Baby Doll, played by Emily Browning.

After just three live action feature films, director Zack Snyder has developed a signature visual style, and with his fourth movie, Sucker Punch, it looks like he's taken that style to new extremes.  The story – which has certain thematic similarities to Pan's Labyrinth – contrasts stunning, action-packed fantasy sequences with the oppressive daily reality faced by an institutionalized young woman known only as Baby Doll.  You can see Emily Browning in action as Baby Doll in four new clips from Sucker Punch, which jumpkicks its way into theaters this Friday.

Watchmen and 300 director Zack Snyder director sure knows how to create visuals that leave an impression, particularly when what looks like a whole movie's worth are crammed into a minute-and-a-half long trailer.  The latest trailer for the director's first original feature, Sucker Punch, is a rush of imagery, most of it the product of much labor from visual effects artists.  Starting at about 26 seconds in, the whole thing is just a whole lot of money shots, featuring battle bots, flying bullets, fire-breathing dragons, sexy women, and an ungodly amount of slow motion.  Check it out, folks, or be doomed to square-dom for all time.

Synopsis: “Sucker Punch” is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary…with potentially tragic consequences.

Oscar-nominee Michael Shannon (aka "the next Christopher Walken") and Jamie Chung have joined Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Premium Rush, a thriller co-written and soon to be directed by David Koepp.

The film centers on a New York bike messenger (Gordon-Levitt) who picks up an envelope at Columbia University, only to be chased throughout the city by a dirty cop desperate to get his hands on it.

Shannon will play the "deceptively affable" dirty cop, and Chung will play a fellow daredevil bike messenger. Having lived in New York City my entire life, I've nearly been killed by no less than a dozen daredevil bike messengers, so you'll excuse me if I'm momentarily siding with the dirty cop...