The genre is done to death

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Watch Despicable 2 Me Online Check out the interview at the top of this post, and revisit the White House Down trailer below. For more on the movie you can also check out the video review that Sean and I recorded, on location at the real White House, between our interviews with the cast and Emmerich at the historic Hay-Adams hotel in Washington, D.C. If you saw White House Down over the weekend, hop in the comments and let us know what you thought. You don't even have to see White House Down to know that its stars, Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, are pretty into each other. The two have been unofficially doing publicity for the movie for months now, starting with their post-Oscars appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which brought us the instant ear worm classic "Channing All Over Your Tatum." It involved Tatum writhing on a piano and shoving everyones' minds into the gutter. It was pretty great.

Watch Fast and Furious 6 Online Jessica Walter and Kristen Wiig: A good buddy-cop dynamic requires excellent chemistry within the partnership. Even though Kristen Wiig and Jessica Walter didn't get to demonstrate that chemistry in the new season of Arrested Development, since the two were never actually on screen together, Wiig's portrayal of a younger version of Walter's Lucille Bluth was so great that the next logical step is to partner these two up. Their demonstrated sense of comedic timing makes them a great fit to be teamed up, and their age difference invites some amazing potential to the dynamic, whether they're set up as mother and daughter or mentor and apprentice. I picture Walter less as a lady in blue and more as a suited up FBI agent with a wealth of knowledge and experience to impart on Wiig's character, who might still be climbing the ranks and pushing forward in her career. Regardless of the story, these two actors are funny and talented enough to make a great partnership, and one we'd love to see on screen. 

Watch Man of Steel Online I may have my timeline mixed up here, but the "They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard" remix is one of the first viral videos I can remember, right there with "Lazy Sunday" as a video passed around among people either before YouTube or right at the beginning of the service. Something about Orlando Bloom's weirdly stiff performance in the Lord of the Rings trilogy seemed to lend itself to this kind of dance remix. And Bloom, bless him, has enough of a sense of humor to play along, just as he finishes playing the character for the very last time.A day after saying goodbye to Gandalf and Tauriel, it was time to farewell Legolas. What a great day it was, with Orlando battling a serious Orc for all 12 hours of shooting - part of the Battle of the 5 Armies for the third Hobbit movie.

Watch The Way Way Back Online In case you've never seen the original mega-viral video-- at least, separate from the crazy blurry version you can see Bloom singing along with-- here it is below.You may have thought you were done with on-set videos from The Hobbit, given that the first film of the series came out in December and we had been seeing tons of photos and videos from the set for years now. But as you might expect when a two-part film series turns into three, some reshoots and additional scenes were required, so Jackson, Gandalf and company all trekked back to New Zealand for a few more weeks.

Watch White House Down Online Given that we haven't seen Bloom's return as Legolas at all yet-- though he's been heavily promoted as part of the forthcoming Desolation of Smaug-- it's intriguing that he's been such a big part of the reshoots. Or maybe Jackson just likes featuring him in videos so much because they've known each other for so long? I'm not sure what memes have broken out about Martin Freeman's performance as Bilbo, but it's time to make one if you want to see him joking about it on set before he wraps up reshoots too.

Watch The Purge Online Roland Emmerich has blown up the White House with an alien laser beam, knocked it over with an aircraft carrier, and allowed the entirety of Washington D.C. to be laid waste by total global apocalypse. But would you believe that the man who actually lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-- that would be former President Bill Clinton-- is a fan of his work? Emmerich is a man full of surprises, even if you've grown up on his movies like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow and think you know all there is about the king of disaster movies. He's a soft-spoken, extremely friendly guy who seems to love his work, getting just as excited about uncovering the secret identity of Shakespeare as a car chase on the lawn of the White House. He's also one of the few directors who can start work on a sequel nearly two decades after the original came out and sound genuinely enthusiastic about it.

Watch World War Z Online Collette's description of Gandolfini's character in the film seems a real change of pace from the glaring tough guys roles he was known for. But it also sounds like it might be the closest a film role has come to capturing the captivating man who has made us root for bad guys for decades. I never met Gandolfini, much less knew him, but I suspect that it's this charm and sweetness that everyone who did speaks of so often that is the key to even his bleakest roles. Because no matter how bad the guy he plays, he was oddly charming. There was a twinkle in his eye. And thankfully for those of us who've loved his work, there's more to come and a great legacy to revisit. The Heat is the surprise hit of the weekend, bringing in a whopping $40 million and continuing Melissa McCarthy's remarkable winning streak of pretty much whatever comedy she wants to make. Between this and last year's 21 Jump Street (and even this weekend's other release White House Down, in its own way) we seem to have found ourselves in a kind of meta-revival of the buddy cop movie.

Everyone knows that the genre is done to death, so they're working overtime to make something unique out of it-- like a story about two women, or a meta-comedy that knows it's a comedy, or… well, who knows what might be next? We haven't been this excited about seeing two mismatched cops take on a case since Murtaugh and Riggs first got on each others nerves, and we're already scheming up with more pairs of unlikely partners who we could see bring down the bad guys next. We've got 7 suggestions below, but we want to hear yours in the comments.