What can I say, this shit makes me laugh. I think what works best is not that a teddy bear is swearing and making sexual suggestions. What makes this work for me is how honestly Wahlberg is taking it. His reactions are perfect and treat the bear just like a frat house buddy. Seth MacFarlane seems to know my particular brand of potty joke, humor.
This ain’t safe for work, but who gives a rat’s ass. Check this out. Probably my favorite trailer of the year this side of Prometheus.
OK, so there is no getting of asses to Mars, and the chances of a three boob-ed lady or Kuato showing up are slim, but this new (full) trailer for Len “Underworld” Wiseman certainly delights in recycling images from the Paul Verhoeven film – only glossier and 21st century CGI-ier.
I sure hope that Kate Beckinsale gets her arms severed in this one, because the trailer seems to indicate that her character is a composite of both the Sharon Stone and the Michael Ironside characters in the 1990 version (but “See you at the party, Lori!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.)
Colour me biased to Verhoeven’s excessively trashy ways and unimpressed by Wiseman’s previous record as a slick – if totally bland – action director.
I remain unimpressed. The trailer is below.
After detouring into period setting and psychoanalysis with A Dangerous Method, the more aggressive, violent and contemporary David Cronenberg is back: Hand shootings, eye stabbings, monsters running amok downtown. This looks like the most aggressive and genre-ish work the filmmaker has made in years. I am reading the Enter The Void stylings of the titles in this trailer as a good sign. And yes, Robert Pattinson looks great here.
Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti, Matthieu Amalric, Juliette Binoche, Kevin Durand and Jay Baruchel round out an impressive supporting cast. Cosmopolis is based on Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name:
Eric Packer, a 28 year old multi-billionaire asset manager, makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan in order to get a haircut. Covering roughly one day of time and includes highly sexed women and the theme of father-son separation. Packer’s voyage is obstructed by various traffic jams caused by a presidential visit to the city, a funeral procession for a Sufi rap star and a full-fledged riot. Along the way, the hero has several chance meetings with his wife, seeing her in a taxi, a bookstore, and lying naked in the street, taking part in a movie as an extra. Meanwhile, Packer is stalked by two men, a comical “pastry assassin” and an unstable “credible threat”. Over the course of the day, Eric loses vast amounts of money for his clients by betting against the rise of the yen. Packer seems to relish being unburdened by the loss of so much money, even stopping to make sure he loses his wife’s fortune as well, to ensure his ruin is inevitable.
“I just feel like we are in over our heads.” “Yea, That’s investigative journalism.”
Undercover reporters, cults, and possible time travelers abound in this indie drama/thriller. The Sound of My Voice not only turned some heads at 2011′s SXSW & 2012s Sundance, it stars indie science-fiction favourite Brit Marling (Another Earth) as the enigmatic and charismatic cult leader. There is definitely a claustrophobic vibe to the tone and cinematography here. The trailer is below.
We bunched the 2012 Snow White films together in one post back in November. The comments were ablaze with praise and scoffing for one director’s take over the other. I was kind of on the fence for Rupert Sanders’ version as A) he’s a first time director and B) the trailer didn’t really give us much and it looked like it might be kind of “Twilight-y”.
So here’s a second trailer today. Funny. The Rupert Sanders version actually looks more like a Tarsem movie than Tarsem’s slap-sticky, fun version of the story. So while I’m not 100% sold yet, I like the Timur Bakmembetov (Night Watch) look to this trailer and if the film was playing this weekend, I’d very likely go check it out (after The Hunger Games of course;) for the visual style alone.
Also, I’ve lived long enough now to not doubt the powers of Charlize Theron. Not to mention Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Ray Winstone, and Ian McShane. Snow White and the Huntsman open wide on June 1st.
What say you? Trying too hard or balls on the ceiling wicked?
“Prometheus has landed!” Yes, there is pretty much no doubt left at this point that it’s an full-blown Alien prequel.
There have been plot details and photos of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows making their way around the internet for quite some time now. Despite my love for Burton and Depp, both separately and together, the photos didn’t do much to inspire any sort of interest in me. Perhaps it was my unfamiliarity with the television show in which it was based, but this poorly-constructed trailer seems to demonstrate a much different film then I expected – and I’m intrigued.
Dark Shadows stars Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, and Christopher Lee and you’ll be able to catch it in theaters on May 11, 2012.
What are your thoughts on the trailer for latest collaboration between Burton and Depp?
A very short Taiwanese spot for the Len “Underworld” Wiseman remake of Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall confirms that this remake is indeed going to look a lot like the 1990s film. I’ve never read the Philip K. Dick novel, and 30 seconds of action is not a lot of footage to judge things, but the whole thing at this point feels expensive and lazy and redundant. Colin Farell stars, John Cho cameos. See the spot below.
(It may be gone from Youtube, but France has your back. )
In one corner, a fiction-nonfiction hybrid following innovative rock band Shinsei Kamattechan and a number of their fans. In the other, a dark and eccentric tale in the vein of David Lynch. These are the films that will be bookending the fourth annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival in Toronto this upcoming summer. Last Saturday (March 10th), the festival organizers hosted a special screening of the 2011 omnibus film Quirky Guys and Gals at the Cinecycle event space on Spadina Avenue. Along with the screening, the event helped raise $151 for the Niji-Iro ‘Rainbow’ Cinema Support Project, which aids those still affected by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami one year later, and gave people a glimpse at some of the Japanese independent films that the festival will be featuring.
Here, you can see the trailers for the opening and closing night films. They are Yu Irie’s Ringing in Their Ears (pictured above) and Masafumi Yamada’s Tentsuki, both of which seeming to promise a refreshing and eclectic selection of films for viewers to dig into in a few months’ time.
The 2012 Shinsedai Cinema Festival will be hosted at the Revue Cinema in Toronto from July 12th to 15th. Check out the festival’s website for more information and to keep track of upcoming developments via Facebook and Twitter.
A day or two late with this, but I was on the road myself (ba-ching!) Walter Salles’ adaptation of the famous and iconic Jack Kerouac beat-travelogue, “On The Road,” strangely keeps the name changes of all the characters; the book’s definitive republishing “The Original Scroll” loses all Dean Moriartys and Carlo Marxs and Sal Paradises and puts back in everyones real name.
Judging from the trailer and overall cast of the film it is certainly not anything like the faces and places that went through my brain upon reading the novel, but there is a hazy-dream quality that cinema imparts to these things that has in no way dampened my enthusiasm for the property. Not the showiest of trailers, but it gets the job done (in terms of fueling interest) better than, say, The Rum Diaries.
Sam “Control” Reilly, Garett “Tron” Hedlund star in the film, while Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Terrence Howard, Steve Buscemi, Amy Adams, and Alice Braga all pop up over the course of Sal and Dean’s adventures.
After the modest success of Robert Rodriguez’s blown-up bubble-gum grindhouse feature, Machete, is the world ready for more Danny Trejo films? One might think they would come in the form of Machete sequels (two of which are on the way) but not so fast, Craig Moss (Saving Ryan’s Privates, Breaking Wind) somehow managed to make and secure a theatrical release for Bad Ass in which Trejo plays his age (67!) but still manages to bust a fair number of heads. This is hardly Mensa-stuff (the leading lady’s character name is Amber Lamps – Take that, Bond Franchise!) and surely not worth your $10, but somebody thinks so. Charles S. Dutton and Ron Perlman also star. The winner here is Trejo who has managed such an unlikely turn into leading man; albeit he still makes about a dozen films a year in which he is supporting bad ass.
The second trailer is below.
Decorated Vietnam hero Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It’s not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus (where he protects an elderly black man from a pair of skin heads) makes him a local hero where he’s suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend Klondike is murdered and the police aren’t doing anything about it.
The net is buzzing with talk over the latest trailer for The Avengers, where we get our first in-depth glimpse at what the summer blockbuster will have to offer. All the players get a bit of screen time in this trailer, which does a good job of setting the tone for the film without revealing too much footage. No matter how it turns out, it’s a pretty interesting experiment Marvel and the studio have done. We will see the results on May 4, 2012.
What are your thoughts on the trailer? My only complaint is it didn’t use the awesomely triumphant music from the arcade game.
