Indeed! And here’s the exclusive IMAX trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes which …. I mean, it might be good. The trailer is effective. The other Planet of the Apes films have largely been good, except for the one Tim Burton did. (Even the bad ones — like Battle For The Planet of the Apes — have been oddly entertaining.) That said, Andy Serkis was really the heart and soul of the whole reboot and he’s not in this one. On the plus side, the great Kevin Durand is in this film and if anyone was ever meant to be play a tyrannical warlord who takes over a post-apocalyptic Earth, it’s Kevin Durand.
Here’s the teaser for Alien: Romulus, which is being sold as a return to the Alien franchise’s roots as being a haunted house film in space.
I doubt this film will raise quite as many questions as some of the previous Alien films. However, director Fede Alvarez previously did good work with Don’t Breathe and his reboot of Evil Dead has its fans as well.
As it’s been 30 years since Alex Proyas’ The Crow was released, a remake was inevitable. From Rupert Sanders (Ghost in the Shell), this version of The Crow has Bill Skarsgard (John Wick 4) taking on the role of Eric Draven, who is brought back to life when he and his girlfriend Shelley (FKA Twigs, The King’s Man) are brutally murdered. Aided by a Crow, Eric searches for vengeance and it looks like Danny Houston (30 Days of Night) may be Draven’s main target. The look of the film seems to be a mix of DMC: Devil May Cry with some John Wick classic shooting action sequences. That’s not entirely a bad thing. It’s a new story for a new generation. The writers on board here are Zach Baylin (Gran Turismo) and William Schneider, who has the upcoming Return to Silent Hill.
In my previous post, I mentioned The Bikeriders as a film that is widely expected to be contender at next year’s Academy Awards. Here’s the latest trailer for Jeff Nichols’s film about motorcycles and the people who ride them!
For all the rumors that occasionally surface about his apparent desire to retire, Nicolas Cage is still making movies and we’re all the better for it. Here’s the trailer for his upcoming film, Arcadian!
Coming soon to Shudder, Late Night With The Devil takes place in 1977, on a night in which a television broadcast brings evil into the world. Before anyone asks, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour did air in 1977 but it started in 1976. So, as tempting as it is to speculate, I think the two events were unrelated.
I know that things have been unusually quiet here on the Shattered Lens today. I wish I could say that was because I was busy watching movies but the truth of the matter is that I had a doctor’s appointment today that involved bloodwork and other needles and have I mentioned that I am neither a fan of needles in general or the sight of my own blood being extracted from my body? And, of course, the doctor’s office was super crowded, the doctor kept getting called away from me, and I spent what seemed like hours shivering in a cold exam room.
Yeah, it’s been that type of day.
After finally finishing up with my doctor, I went to vote in the Texas primaries and I got stuck in line behind a first-time voter who was freaking out because he had left his list of who to vote for out in his car. It bothered me that all of the poll workers made such a big deal about him being a first-time voter when he wasn’t even smart enough to memorize who he was going to vote for. Add to that, I think he may have actually been voting in the wrong party’s primary because I just got the feeling he and I were probably on opposite sides of the fence politically. I’m not really a fan of early voting but I do think, in the future, I should get the vote early while everyone else has to do it on election day.
Then, I tried to get a quick dinner from Panda Express but I got stuck in the drive-through behind a police car and I had to sit there and listen as the vehicle’s inhabitants used their slow, dry-as-sandpaper “cop voices” to order their food. The only thing that kept me from honking at them for taking so long was the fact that they were cops and I assume they would have arrested me for disturbing the peace.
And then I got home, curled up on the couch, passed out, and, since finally waking back up, I have accomplished nothing. I have so much to watch and I’m running out of time to do it and it’s very frustrating.
ANYWAY, ONE OF THOSE DAYS!
But it doesn’t matter because you know what? The trailer for The Wild Robot is so wonderful that I’m sitting here with my spirit brightened and a smile on my face. Seriously, the trailer has totally brightened my day and I can’t wait until the film comes out in September. Watch the trailer below:
It looks like everyone’s favorite Vault Hunters are taking Pandora by storm in Eli Roth’s trailer for the Borderlands movie. I’m a little biased on this one. Gearbox (the makers of the Borderlands game) once came under fire for supposedly using the funding Sega gave them to make an Aliens game to push Borderlands 2. Sega was left with the terrible Aliens: Colonel Marines. We may forgive, but we haven’t forgotten.
Still, it looks like we have 4 adventures in search of a great treasure while trying to fend off all the dangers in a wasteland. Cate Blanchett (Tár) plays Lilith, with a mix of gunplay and hopefully elemental abilities. Claptrap (Jack Black, Kung Fu Panda 4) is in the mix along with Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt, Barbie) and Kevin Hart (Jumanji) as Roland. I’m kind of curious about what Eli Roth (Thanksgiving) has up his sleeve here, but it definitely feels like they’re dipping in the Guardians of the Galaxy marketing style.
If there’s one creature on the planet that gets a bad rap, it’s the spider. They have too many legs, too many eyes (save for Tarantulas), and they were designed with faces perfect for making people shudder. Without them, however, we’d be overrun with insects. I don’t even to look at this trailer to know this is pure Nightmare Fuel. One rapidly growing alien spider running loose in an apartment complex? There’s so much Nope in this, I don’t even know where to start.
At least the hero’s named Charlotte. That’s pretty cool. In Sting, we have an apartment complex and an alien spider that seems to be growing both in size and in appetite.
When I first started watching it, the trailer for American Dreamer played out like a remake of Bernie but given that the film was directed by Theodore Melfi, the same guy who did Hidden Figures and St. Vincent, I’m going to guess that American Dreamer is going to be a bit more sentimental than Richard Linklater’s criminally overlooked film.
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