Here is the third and final trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes! Judging from this trailer, it looks like the apes are basically kicking humanity’s ass and you know what?
GO APES!
Sadly, it appears that my beloved James Franco has failed to survive the apocalypse. However, Gary Oldman is still around and, if anyone can properly represent what’s left of humanity, it’s probably Gary Oldman.
(Incidentally, I’m pretty sure that I would survive the apocalypse. I have redhead survival skills, after all…)
Here’s the latest trailer for The Expendables 3. Apparently, every actor over the age of 60 will eventually appear in an installment of the Expendables franchise.
Kim Jung-un, the verifiably evil dictator of North Korea who is currently starving his nation and trying to build up a nuclear arsenal, might seem an unlikely subject for a comedy. However, you would be wrong. This is America and our filmmakers are willing to use anyone and anything, except for Barack Obama, for comedy fodder. YAY AMERICA!
Anyway, the upcoming film The Interview deals with a talk show host (James Franco) and his producer (Seth Rogen) and details what happens when they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jung-un. It’s probably not too much of a stretch to say that the CIA has an actual, real-life plan to assassinate Kim Jung-un but, then again, it’s not like this film is ever going to be seen in North Korea.
Add to that, the trailer actually looks funny. And even more importantly, James Franco looks really hot.
Birdman is one of those films that people like me have been predicting will be an Oscar contender, despite the fact that we know next to nothing about the film. What we do know is that it’s been described as a dark comedy. We know that it features Michael Keaton as an actor who is best known for playing a super hero. We know that it has an excellent and quirky supporting cast that is made up of wonderful performers like Edward Norton, Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts, and Emma Stone. Perhaps most importantly, we know that it was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, a brilliant director who one usually does not associate with comedy.
The first teaser for Birdman was released today and having seen it, I’m even more excited to see the actual movie. I say this despite the fact that the trailer doesn’t reveal anything new about the film. However, the trailer makes good use of Crazy and I now really want to know what that marching band is doing on the stage.
To be honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of the first Sin City. I thought the movie, as a whole, dragged and all of the hard-boiled narration didn’t really work as an homage or a parody. I appreciated the film’s unique look and respected the fact that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller really did succeed in creating a very real cinematic world but, on the whole, the film just didn’t work for me. It was a movie that failed to leave me excited, offended, enthralled, exhilarated, or angry. Instead, I was just bored.
Judging by how excited people online seem to be about Sin City’s upcoming sequel, I am very obviously in the minority.
And, I have to admit, I’ll probably end up watching Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. After all, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it. I just hope that, unlike just about every character in the first film, he doesn’t end up getting disemboweled or shot in the head.
Here’s the 2nd trailer for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.
(Also, if somebody doesn’t create a parody called Sim City: A Dame To Kill For, I will end up losing all faith in the internet….)
As our regular readers know, I love SyFy original movies.
Whenever people discover that fact about me, they always assume that I must have loved Sharknado. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Sharknado was film that tried to force snark as opposed to generating it naturally. One need only watch a good SyFy film — like End of the World— to see just how overrated Sharknado truly was.
But that’s the thing. Most of the people who rave about Sharknado have never actually seen any other SyFy films. To me, everything that I disliked about Sharknado was captured in the image of Mia Farrow and Phillip Roth live-tweeting along with the film. Everyone knows that Mia Farrow and Philip Roth had never watched SyFy before Sharknado and they’ve probably never watched it after. And, though they might not want to admit it, everyone knows that Mia’s Sharknado-tweets were pedestrian and predictable. But, because she’s kind of famous and Ronan Farrow is a thing, we were supposed to be impressed.
Meanwhile, those of us who actually put SyFy original movies on the twitter map, were expected to be thrilled that a celeb had decided to come hang out with the common folks.
If you’ve seen Sharknado but you haven’t seen End of the World or Battledogs, then you don’t know what you’re missing.
(Or what you missed since SyFy appears to be getting out of the original movie business…)
Well, somebody call Mia Farrow because Sharknado 2 is going to be premiering on July 30th. Judging from the trailer below, it appears that the entire cast will return for “the second one.” And make no doubt, I will be live-tweeting this film because somebody has to show these false SyFy fans how it’s done.
How much is Ghostbusters a part of the American culture? It’s such a part that the decoration pictured above was the most popular thing in the neighborhood last Halloween. All through the month of October, people young and old drove up and down the street just to see the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man.
Well, come August 29th, those same people will have a chance to see him again because, in honor of the film’s 30th anniversary, Ghostbusters is going to be re-released. And, speaking as someone who has only gotten to see Ghostbusters on television, I can’t wait to watch it on the big screen.
And, since I love trailer, what better way to commemorate the re-release of Ghostbusters than be sharing the trailer?
So, apparently, somebody out there was very smart and realized that, as far as titles go, Hercules: The Thracian Wars was incredibly unwieldy. As a result, the film’s title has been shortened to simply Hercules, which is what everyone was going to call it anyway.
(Except for maybe the people of Thrace…)
Having watched this trailer, I really can’t say that I am in any way excited about the prospect of watching Hercules. I like Dwayne Johnson and this would seem to be a perfect role for him but the trailer just feels so generic that it could just as easily been a trailer for The Legend of Hercules.
Or, to put it another way, if I hadn’t already known that this film was directed by Brett Ratner, I would have guessed on the basis of the trailer.
Personally, I’d like to see a movie about Pandora and the box.
Here’s the second trailer for the 7th season of True Blood. It appears that the world might be ending but that’s not going stop Lafayette from going out with style.
Just put yourself in my 4 inch heels for a moment.
You’re a film blogger who, though her tastes may be quirky, can usually defend her opinions fairly well. You make an effort to see films that others may have missed and you pride yourself on your willingness to take and defend unpopular positions.
And let’s say that you’ve defied the conventional wisdom of so many of your fellow bloggers by declaring that Nicolas Cage is still a good actor and he still has something to offer the film world, beyond bad movies and weird performances. You’ve even reviewed a film called Joe and triumphantly declared that this film proves that Nicolas Cage is a “great actor.”
And maybe, when certain people on Facebook laughed at you for using the terms “great” and “Nicolas Cage” in the same sentence, you argued that Cage is about to make a Matthew McConaughey-style comeback. How? By playing challenging roles in intelligent indie films. You might have even said, “McConaughey had his Killer Joeand Nicolas Cage has Joe.”
And then this trailer for an upcoming film is released:
Nic, I still believe in you but, oh my God, you do test me sometimes.
Through the Shattered Lens 