The previous Mission Impossible film was one of the best movies of 2023 and the upcoming sequel is one of the films that I can’t wait to see in 2025. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing how the franchise wraps things up. If nothing else, the Mission Impossible films stand as a reminder of what the Bond films were like before they all got whiny and somber.
Here’s the teaser for Mission Impossible — The Final Reckoning!
We’ve just devoted a month to horror here at the Shattered Lens.
However, even we will admit that there are good films are not horror films. For instance, there are the films that have been made about an adorable bear named Paddington. Paddington’s latest adventure is Paddington in Peru, which features him traveling to …. well, it’s right there in the title.
Here’s the latest trailer for Paddington in Peru!
Here’s the trailer for Presence, another horror film that could have taken advantage of the scary season but which is instead being released later next year. Add to that, this is a Steven Soderbergh film. When Soderbergh’s good, he’s great. When he’s bad, he’s painfully self-indulgent.
Lucy Liu is cool, though.
The trailer for The Damned was dropped by Vertical Entertainment yesterday.
No, not the Visconti film! This is a movie about ghost ships and sea creatures and fear in the arctic. The trailer makes it look like the perfect film for the Halloween season so it’s kind of a shame that it’s instead being released in January of 2025.
Here’s the trailer:
The latest trailer for A Complete Unknown pays tribute to the famous music video that opened the Bob Dylan documentary, Don’t Look Back.
Starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan and directed by the usually reliable craftsman, James Mangold, A Complete Unknown is scheduled to be released on Christmas Day and is expected to be pushed for Oscar recognition. As both a fan of Bob Dylan and a hater of the type of folk musician that Dylan upset by going electric, I’ll be curious to see the film, myself.
Here’s the trailer!
Here’s the trailer for Netflix’s Spellbound!
No, Netflix did not remake the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Instead, this is an animated film about a headstrong girl who accidentally turns her parents into monsters and has to figure out how to turn them back. It’s a good thing that this film is from the director of Shrek, who should know a thing about turning monsters into humans and vice versa.
Here’s the trailer.
This trailer has been out for a few days but, with all the activity surrounding Horrorthon and Halloween, I’m only getting a chance to watch and share it.
September 5th is a film based on the true story of the murder of 9 Israeli athletes by terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. It’s a tragic story, one that already served as the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Munich. September 5th appears to focus on the coverage of the hostage situation and the ethical question of whether or not terrorist scum should be given free air time. It’s not a question for which I have an easy answer. Obviously, covering terrorism can inspire other terrorists. At the same time, people do need to know what’s going on. The trailer also mentions (and I hope the film will explore) the fact that the games continued, even with athletes being held hostage and subsequently being murdered by their captors.
The trailer impressed me. I’m hoping that the film lives up to the trailer. This is an important story and one that feels very relevant today.
When I first saw that this trailer was for a film called Lake George, I automatically thought of Lake Placid and assumed that this was another film about a giant crocodile.
Well, it’s not. Apparently, it’s a film in which Jeremy Renner Shea Whigham plays a criminal who is forced to do one last job. However, when he falls in love with the woman he was supposed to kill, they go on a road trip instead.
ROAD TRIP! That sounds like a good idea.
Anyway, here’s the trailer for Lake George.
Yesterday, Disney+ released a trailer for all of the new Marvel shows that will be coming out later this year and in 2025. The majority of the trailer highlight Daredevil: Born Again.
Admittedly, we’ve gotten used to Marvel and its movies and its show and, as such, a new Marvel trailer is no longer the big event that it used to be. (The Marvel trailers that excite us usually involve characters like Deadpool, who comment on and satirize the conventions of the comic book movie. We love Deadpool’s jaded perspective because we’ve all gotten jaded ourselves.)
That said, the Daredevil: Born Again footage looked cool. The animated stuff was a bit of a mixed bag. (Jeff tells me that Marvel Zombies have been around for a while but I still laughed when they showed up in the trailer.) Ironheart looks insanely boring. But Daredevil, I’m cautiously optimistic about.
Here’s the trailer.
I have to be honest. I get the feeling that all of this film’s best moments were crammed into the trailer. The quotes insisting that this film is destined to be a “cult classic” also leave me feeling a bit skeptical. It’s very rare that any film described as being a future cult classic actually becomes one.
That said, the trailer does promise a mix of gore and comedy. If the filmmakers manage to maintain the right tone throughout the entire film, it seems like this could be fun. I do plan on watching The Invisible Raptor so I hope the film lives up to the hype of the trailer.
Here’s the trailer for The Invisible Raptor!
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