If you are a fan of Viggo Mortensen and tattoos, you're in for a treat this coming weekend! The new David Cronenberg movie "Eastern Promises" goes into wide release, and features Mortensen as a tattoo Russian gangster. I'm so there! You can read more about it and get a sneak preview in the article listed below.

The fine folks over at Slingshot Studios sent me some pics and info about their new release "Sugarhouse." Andy Serkis, best known for his fowrk in the Lord of the Rings trilogy as Gollum, gets to be a heavily-tattooed, psycho criminal in this film. For those of you in the UK, that's in theaters now.

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