The MTV News crew recently had a chance to sit down with the stars of “Sex and the City: The Movie,” and boy, was it, um, fabulicious? Cosmo…tastic? OK, here’s the deal: I don’t know anything about “Sex and the City” (I’ve dated guys that own more makeup than I do). But from what I gather, shoes are very important in the “SATC” universe. So check out the photos after the jump and match the feet to the actresses. The stylish boots on the right belong to the lovely Kim Stolz, but can you figure out who’s on the left? In the weeks leading up to the movie, we’ll have the answers, plus more pertinent information, like things that were actually said during the interviews. Read more…

So the whole entire world is gagga for “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Evil-Encrusted Nazi Loot That Will Eat Your Heart.” I mean, Shia LaBeouf’s in it! Or he’s not. Wait, he totally is! And Harrison Ford is probably old enough to still be okay pulling off those boulder-jumping stunts. We hope. Well, Calista Flockhart thinks so.

Anywho, because they are so in the know — and because they have nothing else to do but obsess about these things — the Movies team has handed over a track-by-track psychoanalysis of the soon-to-be blockbuster’s soundtrack. It’s a pretty informed (and slightly insane) play-by-play prediction of how the film unfolds, based on the John Williams score. Everything from grave-robbing to scorpions and, of course, snakes.

Yeah, baby, yeah! Mike Myers is hosting the MTV Movie Awards on June 1st. This is the uber-comic’s second time hosting since 1997, and last year he was handed the Generation Award. The hosting gig will be just in time for the release of Myers’ brand-spanking-new film “The Love Guru” — that’s called “synergy” in the “business.”

Below is an interview Mike Myers gave to MTV News about the subtly charged, Bergman-esque family drama that is “The Love Guru,” co-starring Justin Timberlake. No word on the Movie Awards nominations yet, but you can be sure that if J.T. gets any kind of nod, Myers will have plenty to say about it: he revealed to us that he’s completely “sickened” by that “12-year-old”…

So Josh Horowitz, over at the MTV Movies Blog, has struck up this odd, phone-only friendship with one Jack Nicholson. Well, “friendship,” being a loose term, but in the last couple of months they’ve talked on the phone a couple of times, but not in your standard journalist/subject “interview” format. Long, rambling phone conversations about everything and nothing, war stories and lucid comments about stuff that happened 30 years ago. It’s Jack’s world, etc, etc.

Josh was a little giddy in this morning’s news meeting because the second of said conversations took place last night, and
they talked about that crazy Hillary Clinton ad that Jack did, and politics in general. And Jack used Josh’s name a lot and I think that got Josh weak in the knees. HE IS WOOING YOU, JOSHUA!

So check out that interview - it’s good stuff - and also check out his own off-the-record take on the whole thing, and you will see just how much he has been WOOED.

Fall Out Boy are making a movie. It’s called “Sex Drive” and is a teen-sex romp/road-trip mash-up. Oh yeah, it stars Josh Zuckerman and Seth Green. Something about FOB’s bus breaking down and running into Green, who helps them out in exchange for them playing his Rumspringa party (you know, the Amish rite-of-passage period that may or may not involve a full exploration of all things forbidden).

So Fall Out Boy are in Florida filming this movie (not necessarily the bastion of Amish activity, but it’s Hollywood and shooting in Florida is probably cheaper than shooting in Pennsylvania), and they invited MTV News crack-reporter James Montgomery to visit the set. He got everyone to discuss just how authentic this Rumspringa party was going to be portrayed. Shenanigans ensued. [via MTV Movies Blog].

With some truly commendable stand-out performances in films like The Green Mile, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Matchstick Men, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”and of course Galaxy Quest — Sam Rockwell is definitely one of the best in the business.

He came by the MTV studios here in Times Square this week, to talk to us about his latest film Joshua. A horror/thriller film about a young Manhattan family who are torn apart by the increasingly psychotic behavior of their mentally disturbed son Joshua…and when I say psychotic — I mean PSYCHOTIC.

Yes we’ve seen Damien from The Omen, Henry from The Good Son and Rhoda from The Bad Seed — but now there’s an even more realistic and disturbing kid: Joshua, a 9-year-old child prodigy. prodigy. And a prodigy he is. I mean, how many of us can play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on the piano and murder human beings before reaching adolescence? If you can — don’t answer that question!

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Saw two films last week- “Sunshine” and “Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer” … Two very different films but one common denominator - Chris Evans (”Cellular,” “The Perfect Score,” “Fantastic Four”). In “Sunshine,” Chris plays the character of Mace- an astronaut who is part of a team sent to the Sun to reignite it using the largest bomb ever created. A cool story-line that director Danny Boyle brings vividly to life. I’ve enjoyed a lot of his films from “Shallow Grave” to “Trainspotting,” “The Beach,” “28 Days Later” and now “Sunshine” - so I guess that makes him one of my personal favourite directors (plus he’s British). It seems to me that he gets better with each film and “Sunshine” fits in with that theory. I’m not here to do a film review (you can go to the mtvmoviesblog.com for that) - but I will say, it’s definitely worth watching. Even though it does take a long time to really get anywhere, the story-line is unique, the actors have been very well cast, the special effects are awesome and there’s a pretty good twist at the end.

For Chris, the choice of this movie was obviously a no-brainer. Not only do you have Danny Boyle at the helm alongside a very talented cast (Hiroyuki Sanada, Cillian Murphy, Mark Strong) but Chris also got the role of one of the films heroes and stand-out characters, Mace. Mace is one of those parts that comes along only every now and then. He’s not a good guy but at the same time he’s not a bad guy. He’s on the good guys side, but is someone with no moral ambiguity whatsoever (a trait all good guys have). Without giving too much way, Mace has a couple of great scenes when he makes calls for the overall good of the mission but at the sacrifice of his closest friends on the spaceship. Leaving people behind, to get burned alive by the sun or to freeze to death in the cold of space- is never a nice thing to do. But in the mind of Mace- you got to do what you got to do. A complex character that gives the actor a rare opportunity to redefine critics pre-conceptions and stereotypes- and hopefully get the eye of more Hollywood producers and directors.And then there’s “Fantastic Four : Rise of blah blah blah.” It’s obviously a family / kids movie so I went in there expecting the worst - after all, it only carried a PG rating. I won’t lie, it’s not a great film. The characters still need more depth and the storyline is only slightly less flaky than before- slightly. But all this is nothing compared to the monster let down of the film - Galactus. There I was expecting some CGI brilliance and insane special effects, but instead what I got was a cloud of gas. There really is no excuse for this! Spend all that money on creating the Silver Surfer and that ridiculous Fantastic Four car- and nothing on Galactus. That makes no sense to me. Did the studio bosses spend all the budget on girls, drinks and drugs when it came time to design Galactus and bring him to life? A massive disappointment. But regardless, there are some super-cool scenes in the film, that the kid in most of us will appreciate, especially the scenes with The Silver Surfer (voiced by Lawrence Fishburne) and The Human Torch…and did I forget to mention, my future ex-wife Jessica Alba is in it. Enough said.

So, with a truly commendable performance in “Sunshine” and with The Human Torch saving the day in the end (sorry for spoiling it, but whatever), Chris Evans was an obvious choice as an actor to throw some of the MTV spotlight on. Apart from the you-know-what-incident with the giant lightbulb - the interview flew by. After all, Chris is as real as they come and a stand-up guy to go with it. With a genuine passion for his work, he was honest with his opinions- sometimes brutally honest. He gave his real thoughts on the Fantastic Four movies so far, his suggestion as to how FF could improve, and a hint as to who the next villain could be. Then we spoke about “Sunshine.” This is obviously a film that Chris is proud to have starred in. Obviously one of the more challenging acting roles he has undertaken to-date, Chris was under pressure to deliver with his performance in this film. He spoke on his character of Mace, working with Danny Boyle and the intense and extensive training the team had to go through for their roles. He actually got to meet an astronaut. He gave us invaluable insight into the way Danny Boyle creates these unique and awe-inspiring special effects using a combination of both real-life set and CGI. Boyle re-created the entire ship (with an incredible attention to detail) across 8 massive soundstages and actually had the cast live together throughout the duration of the film in a dorm-like environment to instil the sense of companionship and give the actors a feeling of what it is like to live in close quarters in a very claustrophobic environment. With five new movies coming out where he stars alongside an array of talent including Forest Whitaker, Brian Cox, Keanu Reeves and Scarlett Johansson - it’s clear Chris Evans has the eye of Hollywood. Here’s some of the best bits but look out for the MTV Rough Cut coming soon to screens near you…