Earlier this month, we saw the first trailer for Gangster Squad, showing off all kinds of coolness as a group of incorruptible cops in 1949 Los Angeles form a covert group to battle the corrosive influence of Mickey Cohen, a Brooklyn-born criminal who brought East Coast-style organized crime to sunny LA. 

In order to remind you that Gangster Squad is a movie that includes some good looking people in some good looking outfits, as well as Sean Penn shooting a tommy gun, Warner Bros has released four new images from the film.

Warner Bros has released the first theatrical trailer for Gangster Squad, and if the ensemble wasn't on your "Movies I'm Damn Well Seeing As Soon As I Can" list, then it will be shortly.

The story kicks of 1949, as Brooklyn-born gangster Mickey Cohen brings an East Coast-style organization to crime in the sunny City of Angels and corrodes the police through corruption and intimidation.  Sergeant John O'Mara and Detective Jerry Wooters are tasked with forming a covert group of incorruptible cops to dismantle Cohen's empire by any means necessary.

This year's staid and congratulatory awards season is now a distant memory, but there's still one awards show left, one that self-consciously defies the pomp and circumstance of the Oscars and the like.  The MTV Movie Awards don't take themselves too seriously, as demonstrated by categories such as "Best Fight," "Best Kiss," and "Best On-Screen Dirtbag."  Nominations for the summer's awards have been announced, with The Hunger Games and Bridesmaids racking up eight apiece.

There's a strong chance you may not have seen Drive in theaters back in September, and if that's the case, then it's too bad.  Drive is one hell of a movie, one that's very different from what the TV spots made it out to be.  As of today, it's available on Blu-ray and DVD, so you can rectify the mistake of not having seen it, but if you're still on the fence about this movie that looked like it could just be Ryan Gosling in a rehash of The Fast and the Furious, the first seven minutes are now available to view online, free of charge. 

Warner Bros has released the first official still from Gangster Squad, giving a good look at Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen and Josh Brolin as John O'Mara, the cop determined to take him down.  Despite what the title might make you think, Gangster Squad isn't about a squad of gangsters so much as it's about a team of police officers who form a secret task force to root out corruption and the rise of East Coast-style organized criminality in early 1950's Los Angeles.  We've previously seen plenty of set photos with Brolin, Penn, Ryan Gosling, and Emma Stone, but this is the first image sanctioned by the Brothers Warner, and to accompany it, director Ruben Fleischer shared some new details on the story and characters.

He did some skull-crushing in Drive, Ryan Gosling and no doubt still retains his crown as the undisputed "Hey Girl" King of Cuddles, but new photos from the set of the currently-filming period crime saga Gangster Squad demonstrate a keen ability to wield an automatic weapon, as well.  Based on his attire in these and previous peeks at the set, it seems possible that Gosling signed on to this film based entirely on the wardrobe.  It also could've been the presence of actors like Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Nick Nolte.  Nah, definitely the snappy, 1940's style costumes.

Back in early September, Warner Bros' period crime drama Gangster Squad, with its ridiculously stacked cast and undeniably cool historical source material, began filming in notable locations throughout Los Angeles.  Subsequently, we saw set photos featuring leading men Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling in costume, followed by Gosling, Emma Stone, and an adorable bulldog enjoying a day at Griffith Observatory.  Up until now, though, we hadn't seen a hint of the film's most high-profile cast member, that being Sean Penn as real-life Mickey Cohen.  Today, a new batch of photos from the set shows Stone looking smashing alongside Penn in costume as the Brooklyn-born criminal who brought a new level of East Coast-style organization and corruption to crime in Los Angeles.

A new take on Logan's Run has been in development for so long that it's hard to believe that it will ever actually make it the screen.  Nonetheless, Warner Bros is indeed continuing to toil away on the project, which has had Drive collaborators Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling attached to direct and star since February.  Today, the studio has hired screenwriter Andrew Baldwin to work on the script and craft the story based on William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's futuristic sci-fi novel previously adapted as a cheesy but nonetheless fondly remembered 1976 feature starring Michael York.

Last year, Derek Cianfrance earned a whole lot of accolades for Blue Valentine, a drama that devastatingly juxtaposed the sweet beginnings of a relationship with its inevitable deterioration.  It's the sort of film that does exactly what it wants to, providing a cinematic approximation of the emotional clusterfuck that accompanies the cessation of a formerly loving relationship.  The leads were perfectly played by Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, and for his follow-up,The Place Beyond the Pines, Cianfrance is reteaming with former Mouseketeer Gosling.  The first images from the film have made their way online, and they provide the first look at Gosling rocking bleached blond hair, and fellow lead Bradley Cooper getting his run on in a police uniform.

Coward, the first story in writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips' masterful noir comic series Criminal, is a simple tale, told simply and effectively, with a focus on character.  It's a gem, a crime story with no frills and none of the self-conscious hyper-noir stylings of, say, Sin City (Not that there's anything wrong with that.  The Sin City books are a lot of fun).  Brubaker's currently a big dog at Marvel, which publishes the Criminal books under the Icon imprint, but it looks like he's making a move to movies, as he's writing Coward, a feature version of that first Criminal arc.  And there's already a director, as David Slade is attached to helm.  All of this, my friends, is good news.