2014’s The Purge: Anarchy was a wonderfully subversive political satire disguised as an action film. Not only was Anarchy a huge improvement over the original Purge, it also introduced many filmgoers to Frank Grillo, one of the greatest tough guy actors since Robert Mitchum.
After the success of Anarchy, there was little doubt that there would be a third Purge film. There was also little doubt that Frank Grillo would return.
And that time has finally arrived. Earlier today, the first trailer for The Purge: Election Year was released. And here it is!
The Purge: Election Year will be released on the 4th of July.
Okay, one more Super Bowl movie preview to go! Here’s the Super Bowl TV spot for Independence Day: Resurgence! Here’s hoping the aliens win this time and blow up the whole damn planet…
Hi! Captain American, Jason Bourne, and the X-Men weren’t the only ones to be featured in Super Bowl advertisements tonight! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles showed up as well. And while I have less than zero desire to see this film, I know that there are plenty of people out there who disagree with me. So, with those people in mind, here’s the ad for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows!
Much like Miles Ahead, Demolition is another film that was briefly pegged as a certain 2015 Oscar nominee until its release date was moved back to 2016. Jean-Marc Vallee’s follow-up to the wonderful Wild, Demolition features Jake Gyllenhaal as a recent widower who struggles to deal with his grief.
I have to admit that I’ve seen the first trailer for Demolition about a hundred times now (it plays before every film at the Alamo Drafthouse) and I’m kind of sick of listening to Gyllenhaal talk about that damn vending machine. That said, I’ll watch Jake Gyllenhaal in just about anything. If I could force myself to sit through Southpaw, I’m sure I’ll be able to handle Demolition when it opens in April.
Here’s the latest trailer for Demolition! Unfortunately, it opens with that same endless vending machine monologue but it does go on to reveal that one of my favorite actresses, Naomi Watts, is in the film as well. So, that’s a good thing.
With Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle both directs and stars as jazz legend Miles Davis. Originally expected to be released at the end of last year, Miles Ahead is also a film that many of us were expecting to be a definite Oscar contender. However, the film’s release was delayed, the Oscar nominations led to #OscarsSoWhite trending on twitter for the second year in a row, and Miles Ahead will finally be released in April of this year.
And here’s the trailer! With a few notable exceptions — like Grand Budapest Hotel— it’s rare that anything too good is ever released in March or April. But I remain cautiously optimistic, if just because of the pairing of Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor.
So, here’s the thing: there is an intense moment towards the end of the just released red band trailer for Green Room that is literally bone snapping. I saw it, I heard it, and I literally threw my hands over my eyes and went, “Agck!”
Green Room is about a punk band who finds themselves fighting for their lives against Patrick Stewart and a bunch of Neo-Nazis. The red band trailer (which you can watch below) is seriously intense! Now I have to admit that I’ve reached a point of exhaustion when it comes to film violence but I’m still going to see Green Room because it was directed by Jeremy Saulnier, who previously directed the brilliant (and unapologetically violent) Blue Ruin.Saulnier’s involvement promises that, at the very least, Green Room will be a hundred times better than Kevin Smith’s Red State.
Here’s the trailer for the upcoming action film, Pandemic. It’s a zombie apocalypse film that is entirely shot in the first person. Judging from the trailer … well, it looks kinda awkward. Since you’re viewing the film through the eyes of a soldier, I imagine that a good deal of the film will be made up of people telling the solider (and by extension, you) to do things. I don’t know about you but I would have a problem with that. I don’t like being told what to do, I’m not good at following orders, and I think I would resent a film that would suggest otherwise.
Then again, I really loved Unfriended and that was also shot in the first person. So, I will try to keep an open eye. (Not to mention an open mind!)
(Assuming, of course, that I actually see Pandemic…)
Apparently, Ulli Lommel is taking a break from making low-budget serial killer biopics to make another sequel to his 1980 film, The Boogeyman! This sequel will be titled Boogeyman: Reincarnation, which is an improvement over the previous Boogeyman sequel, Revenge of the Boogeyman.
(As a film blogger writing about Ulli Lommel, I am now contractually obligated to point out that Revenge of the Boogeyman was largely made up of flashbacks to the first Boogeyman film.)
Now, here at the Shattered Lens offices, we have a long-running debate going over whether Ulli Lommel or Uwe Boll is the worst director of all time. Usually, I pick Lommel but let’s give credit where credit is due. Both The Boogeyman and The Devonsville Terror had plenty of spooky atmosphere. They certainly were far better than Curse of the Zodiac or any of Lommel’s more recent films.
(As a film blogger writing about Ulli Lommel, I am now contractually obligated to point out that Curse of the Zodiac is the worst film ever made.)
And the trailer for Boogeyman: Reincarnation may not look great but it doesn’t look as bad as most of Lommel’s films. In fact, I would even say that Boogeyman: Reincarnation looks almost good enough to be mistaken for a Bill Rebane film!
Anyway, here’s the trailer for Boogeyman: Reincarnation, which has no release date but which will probably end up on Netflix at some point in the future.
Look, I’ll just be absolutely honest here. I know next to little about Pokemon. I neither speak nor read Japanese. I don’t have the slightest damn idea what is actually going on in the video below but it sure is cute!
Apparently, Great Detective Pikachu will be released on Nintendo 3DS in Japan on February 3rd, 2016. There’s no set date for a Western release.
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