Here’s the teaser for Pixar’s Coco!

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Another year, another Pixar movie that’s probably going to make Lisa cry.

This year, Pixar will be offering up Cars 3 (contain your enthusiasm) and Coco! Check out the teaser for Coco below:

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Cleopatra Edition

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films is all about letting the visuals do the talking.

Let’s celebrate the Ides of March with four shots from four films about Caesar’s one true love, Cleopatra!

4 Shots From 4 Films

Cleopatra (1917, dir by J. Gordon Edwards)

Cleopatra (1934, dir by Cecil B. DeMille)

Cleopatra (1963, dir by Joseph L. Mankiewicz )

Cleopatra (1970, dir by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto)

Baby Driver Has An Official International Trailer as well…

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

…and it has an almost entirely different feel from the American trailer.

Here’s that trailer for Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver!

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here’s the trailer for Edgar Wright’s highly anticipated new film, Baby Driver!

Here’s that trailer for Wonder Woman!

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Despite my better instincts, I hope Wonder Woman turns out to be a good movie. I know it probably won’t, just on the basis of Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad. But still, I hold out hope.

I mean, let’s consider the positives:

Patty Jenkins is a wonderfully unorthodox pick to direct a comic book movie. Of course, sometimes being unorthodox works and sometimes, it doesn’t. Ang Lee was an unorthodox pick to direct that Hulk movie and when was the last time you voluntarily watched that?

But Gal Gadot — OMG, Gal Gadot kicks so much ass!

Let’s hope this film does her justice.

Anyway, here’s the trailer!

Here’s The Latest Trailer For The Fate of the Furious

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Oh my God, Dom’s turned on the family!?

And apparently, Charlize Theron is going to be the most dangerous woman in movies this year. Check out in the Atomic Blonde trailer after watching this one for The Fate of the Furious.

Here’s the Trailer for Atomic Blonde!

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here’s the trailer for Atomic Blonde, which stars Charlize Theron as an ass-kicking British spy.

I have to admit that, whenever I have the office to myself here at the TSL Bunker, I often imagine what would happen if a bunch of spies suddenly showed up and started trying to hack into our files. In my imagination, it usually plays out something like this trailer.

Except, of course, it’s called Atomic Redhead…

Here’s The Trailer for Geostorm, which is apparently a real movie

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

This trailer only needs a few more cats to look like a heavy-handed YouTube parody but apparently, Geostorm is a real movie that will be opening in October. It was directed by Dean Devlin, who is a frequent partner of Roland Emmerich’s.

(In other words, expect a subplot about how Shakespeare didn’t actually write Twelfth Night.)

Geostorm will open in October and I imagine it will make its SyFy debut the following June.

4 Shots From 4 Films: Coffy, They Call Her One Eye, Cleopatra Jones, Ms. 45

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

I was going to use four other shots for today but then I was inspired by my sister’s pick for artwork of the day.

For those who might question my decision to highlight four grindhouse films on International Women’s Day, I kindly refer them to my essay, Too Sordid To Ever Be Corrupted.

4 Shots From 4 Films

Coffy (1973, dir by Jack Hill)

Thriller, A Cruel Picture a.k.a. They Call Her One Eye (1973, dir by Bo Arne Vibenius)

Cleopatra Jones (1973, dir by Jack Starrett)

Ms. 45 (1981, dir by Abel Ferrara)

Insomnia File #23: Death Do Us Part (dir by Nicholas Humphries)

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

What’s an Insomnia File? You know how some times you just can’t get any sleep and, at about three in the morning, you’ll find yourself watching whatever you can find on cable? This feature is all about those insomnia-inspired discoveries!

If you were having trouble getting to sleep around one in the morning on March 7th, you could have watched the 2012 horror film, Death Do Us Part, on Showtime.

I don’t know if it would have helped you get to sleep though. Death Do Us Part is one of those films where the entire cast spends a lot of time screaming. I couldn’t tell you much about who all of the characters were meant to be, as they all kind of blended together (especially the male characters), but, if need be, I could identify all of their screams.

Of course, it takes a while for the screaming to get started. Death Do Us Part takes its time getting to the mayhem. It tells the story of a rich girl named Kennedy (Julia Benson) who has a history of mental instability and who is marrying Ryan Harris (Peter Benson). Kennedy enjoys posing in her wedding dress, popping pills, and nervously smiling. Life seems to be perfect for her! But, as often seems to happen in these movies, Ryan is also having the occasional quickie with Kennedy’s sister, Hannah (Christine Catelain). Kennedy’s best friend, Emily (Emilie Ullerup), happens to see Hannah and Ryan doing it in the woods. Emily gets a slightly crazy look in her eyes as she watches.

(Then again, at some point in this movie, everyone has a crazy look in their eyes.)

Kennedy, Ryan, Hannah, Emily, and a couple of guys who aren’t that important are spending the weekend in a cabin in the woods. The cabin comes with its own pervy caretaker. If I ever spend the weekend at a cabin in the woods, I’m going to specifically ask for a cabin that doesn’t come with a caretaker. Judging from the movies that I’ve seen, those dudes are always bad news.

ANYWAY — it takes a while but eventually, people start dying. In fact, once people start dying, the movie suddenly picks up the pace. Before you know it, everyone’s running around in the woods and getting killed and screaming. Seriously, there’s lots and lots of screaming.

Up until the last fifteen minutes, I was ready to dismiss Death Do Us Part as just another low-budget attempt at horror but I actually did like the chaos of everyone running around in the woods. Don’t get me wrong. The movie takes way too long to get going and the characters are so generic that you really don’t care whether they’re dead or not. But I did appreciate the fact that, when confronted by a murderous maniac, the majority of the characters reacted the way that I would have reacted. They started running around, screaming their heads off, and ultimately, they just made things worse. It was a nice change from the usual movie technique of having one of the characters suddenly turn out to be a hyper competent survival machine.

There is a twist but you’ll see it coming from a mile away. That said, the final few shots of the film were enjoyably surreal in only the way that a bloody wedding dress can be.

(Speaking of wedding dresses, I loved the one in this film. Way to go, Kennedy!)

Anyway, I can’t really recommend Death Do Us Part because it takes too long to get going and the characters are way too generic. But, I did like the final fourth of the film and I may have found my future wedding dress!

All in all, not a bad way to handle insomnia.