Trailer Watch: Lockout is Die Hard meets Escape from LA…in space
If that headline gets your heart pumping, you are going to love these trailers. Produced by Luc Besson, Lockout stars Guy Pearce who gets the unenviable job of rescuing the President’s daughter from a rioting space station prison. Let’s not complicate things beyond that. The reason we have two trailers here is that one is [...]
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Trailer Watch: Prequels to be excited about
I usually try not to do two trailer posts in a row, but this was an especially big week. First, we had the sequels, and now, the prequels. Two great directors. Two great franchises. Two great looking films. Enjoy. Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott opens on June 8, 2012. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, directed [...]
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Trailer Watch:Rampart or, Woody Harrelson’s Oscar Bait
Despite the facetious title up there, this looks dark, well done and brilliant. Woody Harrelson looks great, playing a character with the worst nickname (Date-Rape Dave) in cinematic history and chewing up the scenery in the process. Director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) brought his Oscar-nominated actor back and gave him something new to work on, [...]
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Trailer Watch: The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was a pleasant surprise for me. In retrospect, I should have read it earlier as the people who were recommending it were by no means devout followers of Twilight. However, I was wary of a similar story of forbidden love and annoying dialogue. I kick myself for this now. [...]
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Trailer Watch: Snow White and the Huntsman
Well I’m a bit surprised. For the most part, I’ve written Kristen Stewart off. I had no desire to see the Twilight films and Adventureland was merely so-so. However, I can say for sure that I will be seeing her new film after this intriguing and well done debut trailer. In the epic action-adventure Snow [...]
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Trailer Watch, Novel Edition
This first trailer is a bit of serendipity for me. Every year here in East Lansing, Michigan State University does ‘One Book, One Community’ with the goal to get everyone in town talking about the same book. It’s a brilliant idea and has worked extremely well with this being the tenth year. They bring the [...]
In: Eyes and Ears, Movies, News, Trailers · Tagged with: based on a novel, David Wong, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, John Dies at the End, Jonathan Safran Foer, Trailer Watch, Trailers
Trailer Watch: J. Edgar
I have mixed feelings about this first look at J. Edgar. Granted, Clint Eastwood is usually a pretty solid director and Dicaprio is always great, but apart from the aging makeup (which I’m reserving judgement on), sometimes biopics fall into a dangerous slow place. There is a lot to tell a story from here, so [...]
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Trailer Watch: The Pig with the Froggy Tattoo
In case the title isn’t obvious? This is another absolutely wonderful parody trailer for The Muppets. Including a fantastic original song. If these trailers are any indication, The Muppets is going to be one of the funniest, most clever films of the year. And they’re certainly building anticipation wonderfully. We’re getting a few glimpses of [...]
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Trailer Watch: WTF-Did-I-Just-Watch edition
Really, I’m only giving you one trailer today. But it’s a doozy. I recently saw the film Eyes Without a Face. I believe ‘ugh’ may be the word. However, it was also a brilliant flick. And the new Pedro Almodovar (Broken Embraces, Matador) film, The Skin I Live In, appears to owe at least a [...]
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Trailer Watch: Ralph Fiennes does Shakespeare, Lucas’ latest, and more
Can I just say that it’s sort of weird to see Ralph Fiennes with a nose? Fiennes has grown back his missing scent organ for his upcoming adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, which will also be his first film in the director’s chair. A modern retelling, it also stars Gerard Butler who looks pretty damn excited [...]
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