Archive for the ‘Trailers’ Category

  • I Believe in the God of Carnage

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    …And his name is Roman Polanski. He wreaks havoc of awesome with every piece of celluloid he touches and now he’s got another A-list set of stars to carry on the tradition in this seemingly dark comedy based on the play by Yasmina Reza.

    Two sets of parents meet an apartment to talk over the violent dispute between their 11 year-old sons on the school yard. Slowly, what starts as friendly banter turns into verbal blood-shed. aka Carnage.

    Maybe a little bit more over the top yet light-hearted version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? See the trailer below and make the call. I for one have a new most anticipated film for this year…

     

     

  • Trailer: Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna

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    Thomas Hardy is no stranger to Michael Winterbottom, this is his third kick at the can, the other two being The Claim, an loose adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude, an adaptation of Jude the Obscure. Trishna is a modern retelling of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and my only hope is that the prolific director makes something of Frieda Pinto luminous actress that has yet to move out of the ‘wet-blank’ of screen presence. By giving her the chance to be the star of this film, here is hoping. Thus far only the hint of any spark was shown in Woody Allen’s under-appreciated You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and was barely even registering beyond her looks in Danny Boyle’s disasterpiece Slumdog Millionaire and recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Shot and set in India, there looks to be plenty of song and dance here, but it’s probably not going to be that sort of film.

    Based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh who has come to India to work in his father’s hotel business. After an accident destroys her father’s Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Trishna’s tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.

    In light of my recent lengthy discussion of Winterbottom (and his method of literary adaptation) over at The Director’s Club Podcast, I am anxious to take this one in when it plays at this years edition of TIFF.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • Nic Cage and Nic Kidman go VOD: Trespass Trailer

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    Proving that Port of Call New Orleans (Kurt’s Review) was the exception more than the rule for glossy exploiters, Millennium Films, aka the modern day Golan-Globus/Cannon, along comes a movie that stars both Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman, has a wildly commercial concept, and yet it is straight to DVD. And this after the company managed to foist crap such as 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill into the multiplex (Maybe Al Pacino is the key…)

    Trespass is a hostage/heist film directed by Joel Schumacher (Batman & Robin, The Lost Boys) with a lot of chrome and expensive wood, but apparently very little brains. How do I make this assessment after only viewing a trailer, well, the trailer gives the whole plot away. Typical Millennium, typical.

    In a private, wealthy community, priority is placed on security and no exception is made for the Miller family’s estate. Behind their pristine walls and manicured gardens, Kyle, a fast-talking businessman, has entrusted the mansion’s renovation to his stunning wife, Sarah. But between making those big decisions and keeping tabs on their defiant teenage daughter, Sarah often finds herself distracted by a young, handsome worker at their home. Nothing is what it seems, and it will take a group of cold-blooded criminals led by Elias, who have been planning a vicious home invasion for months, to bring the Miller family together. When they storm the manor, everyone is tangled up in betrayal, deception, temptation and scheming. Kyle, Sarah and Avery will take the ultimate risk to make it out with their lives – and their family – intact.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.
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  • UK Trailer for Winding Refn’s Drive

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    Cannot wait to finally see this in September. It looks like the Brits will be getting Nicholas Winding Refn’s drama-action-thriller Drive (Jandy’s Review) about the same time as those of us on this side of the pond.

    A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

    The UK trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • Trailer: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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    Oh, Ms. Ramsay, we’ve missed you a lot. It’s been almost 10 years since the shocking and effective Morvern Callar, and lord knows, we are due for another round of disturbing and slightly off-putting social behaviour. Judging by this trailer, (possibly the best cut trailer of 2011) We Need To Talk About Kevin, is looking to be just that. I’ll be there with bells on when it screens at TIFF.

    Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly Star in another spin on the “School Shooting” film:

    The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief — and feelings of responsibility for her child’s actions — by writing to her estranged husband.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.
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  • A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: A new Christmas classic?

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    I have not watched either of the first two movies, but I reckon there must be some reason they are making a third one. I do find it mildly amusing that a Christmas stoner comedy is going to be coming out in 3D – yet nothing in the below trailer made me laugh out loud necessarily.

    I do find myself wanting to see every part of this movie that has Neil Patrick Harris in it though. He’s dope. As for Kal Penn, this seems to mean that his political days in the Obama administration are at an end.

    Has anyone in the third row caught these movies? Are they simply lowbrow stoner humor at its worst or is there more to them than I’ve always assumed?

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  • Trailer for David Gordon Green’s ‘The Sitter’

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    When thinking about how David Gordon Green views his own career, I can’t help but wonder what goes through his mind. Did the girl-who-got-away once refer to him as a pretentious phony? Was he just worn out on the drama? Does he even think about it at all? Once touted as a spiritual successor to Terrence Malick with his critical indie darlings such as George Washington, Undertow, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, in 2008 he took a turn for the comedic with Pineapple Express, followed it up with the hilarious and well-received television show Eastbound & Down, then next moved onto the stoner fantasy comedy Your Highness. He is now continuing that trend with the Jonah Hill starring flick The Sitter.

    This conversation is nothing new. We have discussed it on Row Three on numerous occasions – but it is still such a drastic, abrupt shift in tone for a writer and director that it continues to puzzle.

    What do you think of the trailer for his latest dip into comedy mainstream?

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  • Trailer: A Lonely Place to Die

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    I am a big fan of Julian Gilbey’s white knuckle chase-film, A Lonely Place to Die (Kurt’s Review). It is a film that absolutely must be seen on the big screen in glorious 2.35:1 scope. I’ve caught this one at two different film festivals with very enthusiastic audiences (one of which, ActionFest, the won the award for best feature film.) While it has one more big stop on the genre-fest circuit, Film4Frightfest, before its commercial release in the UK in September, (note that Yanks and Canucks will have to wait for any sort of release in November or so) Kaleidoscope Entertainment have cut together a trailer that surprisingly isn’t all that spoilerish, unless you count the first act set-up, and really this one is all about the action and the pacing, not so much the plot.

    A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.
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  • Did He Just Flying Drop-Kick a Deer!?

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    If you like your Zhang Yimou films and you like your Guy Ritchie version of Sherlock Holmes, what if you were to mesh them together and then strap on a little extra TNT? You might get Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. At least, that’s what I get after seeing this trailer today preceding (of all things) Another Earth. This one stars the great Chinese action hero Andy Lau and is directed by Hark Tsui – no stranger to martial arts and wuxia films himself.

    The film has been getting generally positive reviews out of TIFF, Fantasia and other festivals and I know our own MAMO! boys took a look at it some time ago as well. So I really look forward to this one hitting my neck of the woods at some point soon.

    And yes, there is a deer on the receiving end of some high flying kung-fu in here. God knows why it makes the sound of a goat. Watch this trailer and maybe you can tell us!

     

     

  • Trailer: Resurrect Dead – The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

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    It is Zodiac meets Exit Through The Gift Shop filtered with an X-Files sensibility in one of the most pleasant surprises on the documentary front this year, Jon Foy’s Resurrect Dead (Kurt’s Review.) Structured like a mystery-thriller the doc offers a primer on the baffling 20+ year old history of the Toynbee Tile mystery: A series of linoleum tiles embedded in asphalt across the eastern seaboard, all the way down to a few cities in South America with a rather esoteric text message carved into each one. Resurrect Dead is well worth a look, whether or not you are a fan of documentaries or street art, mainly due to the plethora of interesting personalities and surprises along the way.

    Screenings in your area? Check here.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • Trailer for Bekmambetov-produced The Darkest Hour

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    It’s been a while since we last saw a Timur Bekmambetov-directed film on this continent, and we’re going to have to wait a little longer to see if his visionary promise will ever translate into a fully well-executed film (perhaps Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter will be the one?), but in the meantime, he’s continuing to produce slick-looking sci-fi features for lesser-known directors. Next up, The Darkest Hour from director Chris Gorak, who actually has one quite well-received genre feature already under his belt in 2006′s Right at Your Door (Kurt’s Review), about a dirty bomb going off in Los Angeles. This time around, he’s got American teens (including Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, and Max Minghella) in Moscow, apparently the only survivors of a global alien attack. They have to figure out how to fight these aliens that remain invisible unless given away by electricity.

    I’ve been curious about the film since I first heard about it, but is it going to be more than your run-of-the-mill alien invasion flick? We’ve already had a few of those this year, and one of them (Attack the Block) seems to be pretty phenomenal. So check out the trailer for The Darkest Hour and let us know what you think. Do the electric aliens look cool? Do you think these party-happy kids have a chance? Am I alone in thinking it looks like a cross between Cloverfield and 28 Days Later, but with lightning aliens?

    The trailer is under the seats. The Darkest Hour comes out December 23rd.

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  • Trailer: Twixt

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    To be fair, I’ve not ventured into any of Francis Ford Coppola’s neo-revival (Youth Without Youth, Tetro), but they’ve not seemed as ‘straight up genre’ as Twixt does. Somewhere between In The Mouth of Madness and 1408 the film is stacked to the gills with interesting actors: Val Kilmer (and his ex wife, Joanne Whalley), Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning (that’s her covered in blood in the above poster), Ben Chaplin and David Paymer. While this doesn’t look half as strong or nuanced as Shutter Island, I’m certainly willing to give it a shot despite the cheap cinematography and poorly put together trailer that seems to be cribbing voice-over from Throw Mama From The Train, “The Night Was…Humid.”

    A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named “V.” Unsure of her connection to a murder in the town but nevertheless, he is grateful for the story being handed to him.

    The trailer is tucked under the seat.
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