The 58-year-old actor who played BA Baracus on the small screen in the ‘80s was not amused with the film after watching a test screening.

Mr T: I pity the fool who watches the movie

The movie version sees Liam Neeson playing Hannibal (originally played by George Peppard), Bradley Cooper as Faceman, Sharlto Copley as Murdock and Quinton Jackson as BA.

The new A-Team

How much did you say my dress is again?

Director Michael Patrick King and movie stylist Patricia Field pulled out all the stops when it came to outfitting the four leading ladies.

Just in one scene, where the ladies go karaoke in Abu Dhabi, Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw character wears a US$4,000 embellished Blonds jeans under a US$47,000 silver and gold Chanel lamé dress. That's right, an outfit worth more than US$50,000 for a night out of bad singing. Even Angelina Jolie doesn't wear something as expensive for the Oscars.

Director King explained his decision for spending so much just on the wardrobe, "I thought Hollywood should take people on a big vacation that maybe they couldn't afford themselves. I wanted to make it a big, extravagant vacation."

SATC2, which will open in Malaysia next month, premiered just a few days ago in the U.S. and the initial reviews have been bad (one reviewer wrote, "This year's worst release since the BP oil spill, with just as many f***ed-up birds").  

Well, at least there are pretty clothes to look at.

Megan the mesmerising mermaid?

There have been reports from Hollywood that she is close to signing a deal to start in the new Pirates Of The Caribbean movie!

An insider revealed, “Megan is mulling over a number of big movie offers including another sci fi franchise and a role in the next Pirates Of The Caribbean. She would play a mermaid who charms Captain Jack but she has a dark motive. Megan has always loved Johnny and is desperate to work with him. She’s grateful to Transformers for making her name but she’s ready to move on to better and bigger things."

A mermaid? Wow, we can already imagine the costume on Megan, or rather the lack of it.

According to reports, Megan Fox was dropped from Transformers 3. Apparently, the new script involves Shia LaBeouf’s character getting a new love interest.

Out of the picture

So, this has nothing to do with the alleged heated argument between Michael Bay and Megan during the release of the last film where she compared Michael to Hitler and he said that Megan “still has a lot of growing up to do”? Right.

The Megan Fox-free Transformers 3 is scheduled for a July 2011 release.

Robins Good and Bad

All eyes and ears are on Christopher Nolan’s Inception after the amazing feat (and whopping success) he pulled with The Dark Knight. Post Dark Knight’s glory, Hollywood has given Nolan a free reign with Inception.

Clearly, Nolan is one of the more promising young directors who has managed to find the balance between critical and commercial success, with Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight in his glorious resume.

The director of The Dark Knight -- Christopher Nolan

Not very much is known about Inception (although it is gonna be released in July in U.S.) except that it is an enigmatic sci-fi thriller with great box office potential, and that it stars all of my fave stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine and more. The film is set in a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, where a single idea within one’s mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset.

Check out the new Inception trailer, which was released yesterday. It sure looks promising, great visuals, great sounds. I’m totally psyched. Don’t know about you, but I must, I must watch this movie … ON THE BIG SCREEN!

The camera is rolling, so let's all look happy.

In an interview with Marie Claire, the stars - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon - blame it on the long hours on set which led to some arguments.

SJP, who plays Carrie Bradshaw on SATC, said, "When you're on set, you're working 90-hour weeks, you're never home, you're exhausted. There are times when all of us have been sensitive and sometimes feelings get hurt. But I don't have any regrets about how I've treated people."

However, both Cynthia and Kim are quick to point out that despite the fights, the girls are still friends.

"It hasn't always been smooth sailing. But the idea that we're somehow adversarial is ludicrous," Cynthia said.

Kim echoed Cynthia's statement, "Nineteen-hour workdays are stressful, whether you're driving a truck, working in a coal mine or on a set and trying to be your brightest at 4 o'clock in the morning. But there's a camaraderie that happened through all of that... The chemistry among the four of us is very strong."

This Freddy ain't scary.

So, when a 2010 remake was announced, I was curious to see how they can improve the '80s classic horror flick.

Well, improve they didn't. Instead, Freddy 2.0 looks like someone in a Halloween costume rather than a killer out for blood.

Plot-wise, the new version stays true to the original movie where some teens from Elm Street are afraid to fall asleep because when they do, Freddy kills them in their dreams. And when you die in your dream, you die in real life.

You can scream all you want but we know you're the twentysomething from Melrose Place.

Jackie Earle Haley's Freddy isn't as fun as Robert Englund's campy version of the villain. Sure, there are some cheesy lines in the new film. But, somehow, it just doesn't seem to work. When a victim falls into a puddle of blood while running away from Freddy, the killer tells her, "How's that for a wet dream." Not a single chuckle in the cinema.

Even Freddy's attacks in this remake seem bland and boring after the third kill. Yes, the only time I cringe in the new A Nightmare On Elm Street is when I realised how uncreative Hollywood has become.

Sleep at your own risk