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Jack Black’s new movie Bernie opens today! We’re giving away the movie poster from the film, signed both by Jack Black and director Richard Linklater – enter to win today!

Ah, babysitter movies. Pillow fights, sexy vixens in underwear and crazy adventures. Or Jonah Hill. And not even post-weight-loss Jonah Hill either. Very disappointing. In the new ridiculously unfunny The Sitter, Hill plays Noah, a college student who does nothing but hang out at his mother’s house. He is talked into babysitting three children for the evening, but what should be a simple night turns into something much more as he sets out to buy drugs for his girlfriend so she’ll have sex with him. The things we do for love. Or sex. Or entertaining an audience.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Sitter movie review.

The Five-Year Engagement, from comedic duo Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller (whose last collaboration was the hilarious Forgetting Sarah Marshall), comes to theaters this Friday. The movie, which stars Segel and Emily Blunt, is about an engaged couple who just can’t find their way to the other end of the aisle. We’ve added 30 new images to The Five-Year Engagement photo gallery – check them out now!

It may be early in the year to be making a list like this, but we are only 1/4 of the way through 2012 and most of the previews I have seen for summer blockbusters have been lame to say the least. Lets take a look at this year’s worst movie trailers so far:

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Five horny college students go to a cabin in the woods. You know what happens next. Or not. A perfect example of don’t judge a book by its cover, or a movie by its trailer, The Cabin in the Woods is one of the most entertaining, strange, absurdly awesome horror movies to hit theaters in the history of cinema. It has its scares, but it’s also hilarious, and most importantly, it is completely unpredictable in all the right ways.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Cabin in the Woods movie review.

When you’ve come to the conclusion that you should walk out on a movie approximately 76 seconds after the opening credits, you know you’re in for a world of hurt. The Three Stooges does a great job of capturing the humor and giddiness of the three classic characters. Unfortunately, their humor has been obsolete for 80 years.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Three Stooges movie review.

Move over The Artist. The biggest awards show winner was not that critically praised silent movie. It wasn’t Hugo, and it wasn’t The Descendants. No, winner of 11 honorable awards including Worst Actor, Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Ensemble, Worst Remake, Worst Screen Couple, Worst Screen Ensemble, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Supporting Actress and, most importantly, Worst Picture, is Jack and Jill, a movie that stars Adam Sandler as both title characters.

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Just when you think Channing Tatum’s career is on the downturn, he cranks out 21 Jump Street, a critical and financial hit that ensures the sometimes-cardboard actor has a franchise on his hands. And don’t forget Jonah Hill, who, hot off his Oscar-nominated performance in Moneyball, co-stars in this funny if sometimes obnoxious action-comedy.

Read FilmJabber’s full 21 Jump Street movie review.

If apple pies could run, they would run for cover, because Jim is back for more awkward sexual antics in American Reunion, the long-awaited third theatrical sequel to American Pie no one asked for. Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas and Eddie Kaye Thomas have all returned to show just how little their careers have progressed since the 1999 classic. Despite being a blatant cash grab and by no means a comedy classic, American Reunion has enough laughs and goofy antics to make it worth a trip into the land of nostalgia.

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Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for the upcoming Seth MacFarlane comedy Ted, which stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who has a talking teddy bear as a best friend. Mila Kunis plays his girlfriend, and she wants the crude, prostitute-loving bear out of the house, and understandably so. He’s obnoxious and not very funny, much like the movie trailer

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Hooray!  Finally the Snow White adaptation that we’ve all been excited for has arrived. Slick visuals, Chris Hemsworth and Kristen Stewart look great….oh wait – that’s Snow White and the Huntsman, which comes out this summer.  Instead, this is the Relativity version that had been jockeying for release schedule supremacy with its counterpart to ensure it reached audiences first.  There’s a reason for that.

Read FilmJabber’s full Mirror Mirror movie review.

After nearly a year since it came to theaters, the Easter-themed movie Hop bounded its way onto DVD last week, understandably timed to take advantage of the religious holiday once again. An animated/live-action blend, Hop is more tolerable than other recent films in the sub-genre, though comparing the movie to the likes of Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks doesn’t say a whole lot. In other words, the movie will entertain very young kids and not insult parents, but is no comedy classic.

Read FilmJabber’s full Hop movie review.