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Well, after To the Wonder premiered last month to a devise set of reviews—either raving that it was a symphonic ballet of emotion and beauty or a shallow and two-dimension story that looked stunning but lacked feeling—we're all wondering just where the other features he's been working on will fall on the Terrence Malick scale of greatness. And next up, before his Austin-set music film is Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, and Cate Blanchett. And with the Cannes Film Festival kicking off today, foreign distributor's will get their first taste of the film when FilmNation debuts footage at the festival. But for us, The Hollywood Reporter has now released the first time from the film—and it's truly shocking.

I don't think it's serendipity that I walked to work this morning with "I Want a New Drug" in my head. Instead, it's probably because of all the press releases I've received lately announcing the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Huey Lewis and the News' Sports. Who knows where the time goes? (Also, please sign up for my mailing list, because I'll send PR blasts in a few months about my thirtieth birthday.) Many of you young kids might know the song because the Ghostbusters theme ripped it off, or, possibly, from Christian Bale's monologue in American Psycho. Thank goodness Huey Lewis himself has a good sense of humor about the latter and teamed up with Funny or Die and "Weird Al" Yankovic to parody the cult-classic.

If I've learned anything from Hollywood, it's this: Jesus was a hottie. There've been hundreds of actors throughout the years who have donned the robes and the wigs and the fake beards to play our Lord and Savior, but only a select few could be singled out as being the hottest Jesuses in cinematic history. So on this Good Friday, sit back and click through this slideshow of heavenly eye-candy. There are a lot of thin white dudes with light-colored eyes to feast upon here, just as God would have wanted.

Prior to this year Terrence Malick was notoriously one of the most enigmatic directors in Hollywood. And although still a mystery and total bizzaro genius, it feels as though we're seeing more of him than ever. From his current film, To the Wonder, which looks to be released in the US this April, to whatever he's doing with Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara, and that other thing with Christain Bale and Natalie Portman—or is that the same thing? Too confusing. Either way, the man is going non-stop. And now, he's taking it to the dance floor! (Where else?) This clip may be brief but it is obviously integral to your day's viewings. Also, check out this wonderful piece in which we find out that, "Malick is said to be such a fan of Zoolander, the 2001 send-up of the fashion world, that colleagues say he watches it regularly and likes to quote it. Ben Stiller, the star of the film, once dressed up in character and recorded him a special birthday video message." Good.

Enigmatic director Terrence Malick is known for his signature style of filmmaking that unites sight and sound (and usually a wheat field during magic hour) to create something highly cinematic while being virtually dialogue-less (save some sweeping philosophical voiceovers). That, and the fact that his films are almost always made at least half a decade apart. At least until last year, that is, when he surprised everyone with the news that The Tree of Life was to be followed by not only To the Wonder but two other films to be rolled out in the next two years.

There's a Facebook campaign afoot to do something positive in the wake of Friday's Dark Knight Rises massacre which left 12 people dead and nearly 60 injured: a user is asking Christian Bale to don his Batman costume and visit injured children hospitalized after the Aurora, Colorado shooting.

The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale released a statement regarding Friday's massacre in Aurora, Colorado, during a screening of the film that killed 12 and almost 60 others.

Give director Christopher Nolan some credit for refusing to settle with The Dark Knight Rises: while things are just as gritty and dour in old Gotham town this time around, they can in no way said to be realistic. And that’s not just in reference to the fact that Christian Bale’s Batman is hovering around in an impossibly space age aircraft for a good portion of every action sequence or that he’s seemed to pick up some heretofore unseen metahuman (if you’ll excuse the DC Comics house style, even if Nolan won’t) healing powers. No, the city is plunged into a bombastic, vaguely philosophical kind of anarchy for half the movie, like Lord of the Flies or Jose Saramago’s Blindness on a summer popcorn flick scale.

Hey guys. As you know, The Dark Knight Rises opens on Friday. Well, technically, on Thursday at midnight. Are you one of those dumb-dumbs paying lots of money for midnight screening tickets? First of all, get out of my face. Second of all, if I wake up on Friday morning to a bunch of blog posts about this stupid movie in which all of them spoil it for me, I will find you and kill you. 

The Dark Knight Rises is the movie you can't avoid this summer and if you're like millions of fans, you probably won't want to, anyway. So make sure you don't miss this new 13-minute long featurette with the cast and crew's behind-the-scenes commentary. Watch it after the jump.