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  • 15 May

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    Trailer: Riddick

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    After the less-than-impressive box office and critical reception for 2004′s The Chronicles of Riddick, it’s fair to say that very few expected that there would ever be a third outing. Heck, even though the first film with Riddick (2000′s Pitch Black) wasn’t a critical darling either, it at least doubled its budget at the box office.

    Yet, as the years have passed, the character of Riddick has become something of a sci-fi nerd favorite. To say that there has become a cult following which provided a newfound appreciation for Riddick’s film universe wouldn’t be inaccurate. From video games to animated movies, the legend of Riddick has found a way to live on. He became so beloved that a third film was finally greenlit a couple of years ago by Universal Pictures – although this time with a $38 million budget rather than the reported $120 million of the second film.

    This time, David Twohy – who wrote and directed the first two films – is scaling back on the epic and looks to have made something more in line with the sci-fi thriller that was Pitch Black. And really, it looks pretty good. While I don’t have any sort of passionate love for the first two films, I enjoyed them for what they were. As far as I can tell from the trailer, this looks to be similarly enjoyable, particularly for a genre that is still grossly underrepresented in Hollywood.

    Riddick hits theaters on September 6, 2013.

    What are your thoughts on this latest trailer?

  • 15 May

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    Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups

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    With Cannes off and running, there are going to be dribs and drabs of trailers, posters and film stills as things are hawked in the large film marketplace that dominates the festival (and remains more or less outside of the bulk of press coverage.) Leading the charge is this first still from Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups Christian Bale in his third outing with the director stars alongside with Natalie Portman, who will be possibly following in the (bare) footsteps of Jessica Chastain and Olga Kurylenko. will be starring with Imoogen Poots, Cate Blanchett and Antonio Banderas supporting. The film still itself is about as typical an image from a 21st century Malick movie as one can gets: A couple on a beach, maybe frolicking, maybe twirling.

    I’d give you the plot, but would it really matter? You watch a Malick film for the cinematic vitality, not the plot points. Am I excited for this and hope it finds the proper investments to get a bigger release than the woefully neglected To The Wonder? Hell yes.

  • 14 May

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    Trailer: The Congress

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    And now, I am instantly excited for the prospect of Ari Folman’s science fiction feature, The Congress, an idea driven hybrid of live action and animation. After the phenomenal success of his rotoscoped war-drama Waltz with Bashir, it appears that identity and consciousness (two themes that were very much at play in that film) are still on his mind. Here Robin Wright, playing a fictional version of herself who has been retired to raise her son (The Road‘s Kodi Smit-McPhee) for some time – this curious timing considering her astounding turn in the recent House of Cards. Nevertheless, she is convinced by Harvey Keitel and Danny Huston, neither playing fictional versions of themselves, to have her ‘entire self’ digitized into an algorithm. Now in the digital world, there are several versions of her running around yearning to find out their true identity. The animation and the story seem to evoke everything from Cool World to Paprika to Sim0ne, and the modern classic science fiction tones please me greatly. Also noteworthy is that The Congress is all based on Novel from the great Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The film will make its initial bow quite soon at Cannes and I cannot wait for it to cross the pond.

  • 09 May

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    Trailer: Gravity

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    Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film Gravity has been in the news for years at this point. Since it was first announced, names such as Robert Downey Jr., Marion Cotillard, Scarlett Johansson, and Natalie Portman have all attached to or interested in the project at one point, before the final casting of George Clooney and Sandra Bullock was set. Really though, not of that is important. It’s all secondary to what excites most people about this film: this is Cuarón’s first feature film since his awesome 2006 sci-fi film Children of Men.

    The official synopsis? “Astronauts attempt to return to earth after debris crashes into their space shuttle, leaving them drifting alone in space.” The trailer teases what is sure to be one of the more impressive spectacles from the film. It does a great job of relaying the tone and intensity. This is going to be one thrilling, horrific, beautiful, lonely film – that much is for sure. In fact, it is said that Clooney and Bullock are the only two actors given screen time in the entirety of the film.

    Gravity drops into theaters on October 4, 2013. Then one can hope there will be some sci-fi at the Oscars next year.

  • 08 May

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    Trailer: Inside Llewyn Davis

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    An embittered folk singer struggles to make his mark on the 1960s-era Greenwich Village music scene. And with that short plot synopsis, we are very excited to see The Coen Brothers enter back into ‘Sad-Sack Idealist’ mode (Barton Fink, A Serious Man) with their latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis. We are also excited to see Oscar Isaac get a starring role in a Coen Brother’s film, even if everyone in this new Red Band trailer puts him down or calls him an asshole. (Oh you’re a potty mouth Carrie Mulligan. Potty mouth!)

    We don’t get to see the movie until December (although I’m holding out for some festival screenings in September), but I expect we’ll hear a lot of T Bone Burnett’s soundtrack.

  • 03 May

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    Trailer: A History of Future Folk (Vol. 1)

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    Here is an offbeat, cute little indie that mixes a little music magic, with ‘relationship problems’ and a close encounter of the third kind, or three. It picked up the Audience Award at Fantastic Fest and has been a pretty big favourite on the festival circuit.

    “Hondo! (that’s how we say ‘hello’ on our home planet, Hondo).”

    When a comet threatens to destroy their planet, the citizens of Hondo enlist their most decorated soldier, General Trius, to search for a new home planet- and wipe out the current inhabitants with a flesh-eating virus. After landing somewhere near Brooklyn, General Trius wanders into a megastore to unleash the terror… when he’s suddenly enchanted by a strange and mystical human invention known as “music.” They don’t have music on Hondo, and since it’s the best thing he’s ever heard, General Trius immediately abandons his mission to eradicate the human race, assumes the name Bill, starts a family, and launches a one-alien bluegrass act in a tiny bar owned by Larry. Years later, his peaceful life is disrupted when the Hondonians send a bumbling assassin named Kevin to get the mission back on track. Although subduing Kevin is no challenge for the great General Trius, the Hondonians have no intention of calling off their plan to eliminate mankind, so Bill and Kevin must join forces to save Hondo, prevent an intergalactic takeover of Earth, and hopefully get some bigger gigs for the universe’s first Hondonian bluegrass duo: Future Folk!

    “Future Folk is an acoustic-music duo from outer space and man, do we love music! We currently live and peform on Earth. Our escapades are detailed in a movie called The History of Future Folk and an album called Future Folk Vol. 1.”

    Yea, the have an album on iTunes (as any alien folk band should) but check the trailer for their film below.

  • 26 Apr

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    Trailer: Prince Avalanche

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    Welcome back David Gordon Green! Looking to combine the rural regionlism of his earlier pictures with the goofball charm of his latter, along comes Prince Avalanche, a not in a hurry to get anywhere type of film that lets Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch hang out in their idleness while painting yellow lines in the middle of the road. This looks really great, not just the usual Sundance-y kind of film, and I have now set my hopes for this one at the Withnail & I level.

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  • 25 Apr

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    Trailer: The East

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    Following up the quite excellent Sundance gem, The Sound of My Voice with a bigger budget and broader scope, comes the sophomore directorial effort from Zal Batmanglij. Co-writing the film and starring in it is new Indie queen Brit Marling where she will be joined by Ellen Page, Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Skarsgard. The East looks to be a 70s styled paranoid thriller wiht a 21st century independent bent to it. There also appears to be a fair bit of action for what is, relative to the rest of the summer blockbusters, a much smaller beast.

    Sarah Moss is a former FBI agent and an operative for the private intelligence firm Hiller Brood. She infiltrates an anarchist collective called The East and convinces its members of her genuine participation. Moss begins to fall in love with its leader Benji, and she begins to question the moral underpinnings of her undercover duty.

  • 24 Apr

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    Trailer: The Bling Ring

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    Undoubtedly (to me anyway) Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring will act as the Yin to Harmony Korine’s Yang in the shallow soul meltdown of post-MTV America. I’m far more looking forward to Emma Watson struting her stuff here, than swinging an axe in This is the End. What is up with Ms. Watson stealing from celebs? Is this a genre? Check out the excellent, quite stylish, trailer below.

  • 18 Apr

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    Two Trailer: Only God Forgives

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    “Time to meet the devil.” is spoken as red filters abound in this International trailer for Nicholas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives which offers promises of the exotic, the lurid and the quite violent. A vampy Kristen Scott Thomas calls for vengeance with extreme F-bomb prejudice while guns are fired, kick-boxing is going on in the background and other tightly coiled tensions unwind. Hey Girl! This film has Ryan Gosling in it.

    And this international French one courtesy of Twitchfilm is tucked under the seat.

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  • 16 Apr

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    Trailer: Man of Steel

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    (Holy Shit! Want. This. Now.)

    The scope and tone of the Zack Snyder directed Superman feels earnest and emotional in all the right ways. This is the best execution of ‘pure epic’ that I’ve ever seen in a modern comic book superhero movie. Here is hoping that Man of Steel lives up to the incredible expectations engendered by this trailer.

  • 09 Apr

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    Trailer: Elysium

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    It has been a couple years since the rousing success of Neil Blomkamp’s District 9, and the man has been busy playing with more money and a significant larger scale, but by the looks of the trailer, not abandoning his social-commentary one little bit. Here a shiny-domed Matt Damon straps on his own sleek exoskeletion Robocop suit in the slums of Earth and looks to bring a little hell in the paradise of Elysium, a satellite in orbit that has a very nice “Ringworld” (If you’re a fan of Larry Niven) aesthetic. I can’t wait for this, and it is coming at the tail end of Summer.

    In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people of Earth are desperate to escape the planet’s crime and poverty, and they critically need the state-of-the-art medical care available on Elysium – but some in Elysium will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve their citizens’ luxurious lifestyle. The only man with the chance bring equality to these worlds is Max, an ordinary guy in desperate need to get to Elysium. With his life hanging in the balance, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous mission – one that pits him against Elysium’s Secretary Delacourt and her hard-line forces – but if he succeeds, he could save not only his own life, but millions of people on Earth as well.

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