You have got to love True Blood, and if you don’t well .. suck it! All horrible puns aside, True Blood is a great show, granted you can get past the high speed humping that Jason seems to always be doing. HBO has done a fabulous job in promoting the upcoming season and pushing all kinds of goods across the net and on TV.

Check out a behind the scenes clip below:

Check out some new pictures from the upcoming season below:

I know I am renewing my HBO season pass for sure, but are you all? What do you think about True Blood? To over the top for your liking? Let us know what you think!

Every so often, good word of mouth can save a film from oblivion — which was undoubtedly the direction Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘R Treat was headed, pushed into distribution limbo for two entire years. The downside of this tactic is that a hype machine can be built that quickly grows out of control.

People have called Trick ‘R Treat the best Halloween film since, well, Halloween. Did it live up to the hype for me?

Yes, it absolutely did.

Not for the reasons I expected, either, which was part of the surprise of the film — this is a film about constant surprises, and rabbits being pulled out of hats at every corner.

When I heard the praise, I immediately thought the film would be scary. And while it does have some good scares strewn about, it’s much more fun than scary. Dougherty celebrates the holiday in a way that is truer to Halloween than any other film. It’s gleeful and disgusting and morbid and magical. If you go in expecting that, you’ll be much more pleased with the outcome.

The highest praise I can give the film is that it felt like an old episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? — that old, forgotten Nickelodeon show from my youth — but reverse engineered via Romero’s Creepshow for an adult audience. The whole movie, which is spun through four interweaving segments involving a cute, deadly little beast named Sam, bears this aesthetic of being told a ghost story.

Expect surprises from Trick ‘R Treat, more than a share of gore (although you won’t be disappointed in that regard, either). It’s perfectly suited to this season, and will undoubtedly make the yearly rotation of films the way that It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story have for the holidays. Dougherty has waited a long time for the release of this film, but it’s been worth it: he’s injected the horror genre with a film more in love with its subject material than any released in recent memory.

For extras on the disc, we get a little animated short film that Dougherty created in 1996 that served as the basis for the character of Sam. I think it’s a perfect thing to watch either immediately before or after the film, because it feels like a twisted Charlie Brown cartoon.

Rating: ★★★★☆ 

Popular geek site, IGN, caught up with Anna Paquin and asked if she will return to portray the mutant Southern belle, Rogue, in the upcoming X-Men: First Class.

“Absolutely. Yeah,” she revealed. “I would hope I could do a little bit more action next time, though. I kind of find it ironic that I did three big action films and did, actually, no action whatsoever. I mean I got some really amazing emotional story moments, but I didn’t really get to do the physical stuff.”

Rogue is looking for some action

She continued: “You know, as much as I loved doing those films I was kind of like, ‘OK, so when do I get to beat someone up? When do I get to steal some powers?’ You know Sookie [Paquin's 'True Blood' character] gets to do more action than Rogue ever did. So I’m just putting that out there. More action please, for next time.”

I couldn’t agree more.

The recently announced X-Men: First Class includes Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat. The OC, Gossip Girl and Chuck creator, Josh Schwartz, will pen the scriptm which is aimed to “bring the franchise to a younger generation.”

I’m not sure how much younger we can get here, 20th Century Fox?