Trailer for Pixar's "Brave"
Pixar has posted the trailer for its next feature, "Brave," which opens in June 2012. I had a bit of a meh reaction to this, though I can't put my finger on why, precisely. I'm generally very fond of...
View ArticleTrailer for Tim Burton's "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"
Here's a trailer for Tim Burton's forthcoming adaptation of the satirical horror novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Hard to tell how Burton will play it -- it will be tricky to maintain the...
View ArticleDocumentary about 1970s northern California Star Trek conventions
Apropos yesterday's post about 1970s science fiction convention costumes, Strephon Taylor sez, "I just saw your post on the 1970's science fiction costumes. I made a documentary on the early northern...
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The Heat trailer: A new brand of buddy-cop movie has arrived
(Video link) Sandra Bullock. Melissa McCarthy. From the director of Bridesmaids, Paul Feig. A buddy-cop comedy, and the cops are chicks. Goodbye and good riddance to at least one glass ceiling. And...
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New 2001: A Space Odyssey trailer
2001: A Space Odyssey got a new trailer to celebrate BFI's theatrical UK re-release for Kubrick's genre-defining film. Even though every shot is already burned into our collective conscience, the...
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Jurassic Park with cats instead of "velociraptors"
The trailer for the new Jurassic Park film "Jurassic World" has just been released, and it's awesome. (Hello, Chris Pratt-as-dinosaur-hunter!) If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. But since...
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Comic trailer: Raising Dion, superhero child with a single mom
What's it like Raising Dion, a 7-year-old son with superpowers? Watch the trailer, then read the first issue free. (more…)
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This is the trailer you're looking for. (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
"It’s true. All of it. The Dark Side. The Jedi. They’re real."
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"The Chickening," a deeply weird remix of The Shining
The Chickening, directed by Nick DenBoer and Davy Force: It is a theatrical trailer for a fictional film in which Stanley Kubrick’s classic film The Shininghas been artfully transformed into a new,...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. superb owl trailer
Guardians of the Galaxy was a huge surprise for me. I'm looking forward to this one!
View ArticleJane Austen + Fight Club = Regency excitement!
The answer to the tedium of Regency drawing rooms? Jane Austen's Fight Club, natch! "The first rule of fight club is one never mentions fight club." Sara sez, "Made by my best friends, a bunch of...
View ArticleWonderful trailers for B-movies that never existed
Jason sends us, "my former supervisor and friend Michael S. Deak's series of faux 50's and 60's trailers. He has worked in Special Makeup Effects for 30+ years and has appeared in many cheesy 80's...
View ArticleThe Legend of Zelda: the 80s teen movie
Truly, words can not justify what you are about to witness, but I'll give it a whack anyway: A brilliant mashup trailer of 80s teen movie moments all smoothly tied together into a video game character...
View ArticleBuddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede - update on the movie
I wrote back in 2009 about the wonderful news that Bradley Denton's world-beatingly awesome comic novel Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede was to be adapted as a big-budget science fiction...
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Watch the documentary trailer about rock mag Creem
Creem: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine looks at the freewheeling Detroit-based publication that was as gonzo as the artists they covered. As Craig S. Karpel observes, "There was no parallel for...
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Watch the trailer about Robin Williams' struggles with dementia
Robin's Wish explores beloved comedian Robin Williams' final days as he struggled with the devastating effects of Lewy Body Dementia. Via EW, his widow Susan Schneider Williams explained her motive in...
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'The Batman' trailer reveals Robert Pattinson as the eponymous crimefighter
The DC FanDome got a preview of next year's The Batman, and it is definitely in keeping with the dark and brooding aesthetic of recent iterations. Via IGN: Director Matt Reeves gave Batman fans the...
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We finally have a Santa Claus action movie starring David Harbour
Christmas movies occupy a strange space in cinema. On the one hand, Christmas-centric films can come in virtually any genre to satisfy the specific tonal cravings of movie buffs. On the other hand,...
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14-year-old fan remakes 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' trailer in Lego
A 14-year-old fan has recreated the entire second trailer in Lego for the upcoming film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, using CGI animation. The artist, LegoMe_TheOG on YouTube, reports that the...
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Watch the trailer for KNEECAP, a raucous new docudrama about Irish hip-hop
I've been a huge fan of Belfast hip-hop crew KNEECAP since the group dropped its first single back in 2017. That song, "C.E.A.R.T.A." — the Irish word for "rights" — was inspired by a real-life...
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How Kevin Smith remembers the 1980s
Kevin Smith's new 1980s teensploitation flick will thrill all Gen X moviegoers. It's too bad there are like 10 of us. This trailer for Kevin Smith's "The 4:30 Movie" evokes all the feels a movie set in...
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"Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" trailer hits hard
Christopher Reeve was Superman. The physicality of his dual performances as Clark Kent and Superman has never been matched by the others who have come after him. How he responded to tragedy made him...
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Hotline Miami spiritual successor looks beautifully brutal
The Hotline Miami series is nothing short of excellent – a tight, focused top-down shooter polished to a mirror sheen to send you into exactly the kind of neon-soaked, synth-pounding bloodlust its...
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Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd link up for a bizarre-looking dark comedy
Tim Robinson is one of the most talented and underrated comedians of our time, and I will die on that hill. I Think You Should Leave is nothing short of genius, and even if SNL didn't appreciate his...
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Battle arena inspired by Warcraft mod looks like an undiluted good time
MOBAs get a bad rap. When was the last time you heard anyone say anything good about League of Legends that wasn't "wow, I really liked Arcane"? Even in my own experience, most modern MOBAs tend to be...
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Dark Souls-inspired game casts you as the final boss
Have you ever run into a particularly infuriating Elden Ring boss? Trick question – if you've played Elden Ring, of course you have. The fantastical powers and barely-telegraphed attacks that the...
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Animated Predator anthology looks like what fans want (video)
2022's Prey was the best movie in the long-running and often mediocre Predator franchise since the much-lauded original, and the general consensus seems to agree. Dropping a Predator into a historic...
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Midsommar director's next film is about small town COVID denialism
Attention trauma enthusiasts: Ari Aster, cinema's favorite merchant of psychological damage, is back to ruin your summer with Eddington, a contemporary Western featuring the most emotionally unstable...
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Marvel's Fantastic Four looks surprisingly interesting in first full trailer
The first real trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps promises to finally free this particular superhero team from their cursed history on the big screen – and doesn't even look to contain any AI,...
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Watch tech bros plot mankind's doom in HBO's Mountainhead
Stick to what you know, I guess. Succession may have wrapped, but showrunner Jesse Armstrong clearly isn't done with making a farce out of the utterly empty inner lives of America's billionaires quite...
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