Oh no! The sharks are back and they’re attacking Las Vegas!
In other words, here’s a teaser for Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens. It premieres on July 31st on the SyFy network. Speaking of Sharkando, did you remember to vote as to whether or not April should die? I voted for April die, just because I’m a sweet little thing with morbid thoughts.
I guess we’ll find out April’s fate on July 31st!
Director Jon Watts is having quite a career right now! Last year, Cop Car was released to considerable acclaim and, as a result, he was hired to direct the upcoming MCU blockbuster Spider-Man: Homecoming!
Here in America, Cop Car was pretty much sold as being Watts’s first film. However, that wasn’t really the case. Before Watts directed Cop Car, he made a movie called Clown. Clown was executive produced by Eli Roth and, though it did play in Europe in 2014, it was never released in the U.S.
Until now!
Now that Watts is about the become the next big thing, Dimension Films is going to give Clown a limited release in June.
Apparently, Clown is about a man who dresses up like a clown for his son’s birthday party and then discovers that he can’t take off the big red nose. The clown makeup is apparently demonic and it ends up possessing him.
And apparently, it’s not a comedy.
Anyway, here’s the trailer! Again, while watching this preview, consider that Clown is apparently not supposed to be a comedy…
I honestly don’t know much about Star Trek but I have seen both Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6 and, if I didn’t already know that Justin Lin was the director of the latest Star Trek film, I could have guessed from watching the 2nd trailer for Stark Trek Beyond.
(I’m also guessing that Star Trek Beyond is in no way related to Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, which is a shame really.)
Seriously, judging from this trailer, Star Trek Beyond looks exciting and that should make for a nice change from the last Star Trek film. It also appears that the Enterprise gets destroyed during Star Trek Beyond so I guess this must be the last movie….
(I’m totally kidding, calm down.)
One final note: somebody needs to make a movie starring Simon Pegg and Karl Urban as two cops who may break all the rules but who … GET RESULTS!
Anyway, until that happens, we can watch Simon and Karl in the trailer for Star Trek Beyond!
Here’s the 2nd trailer for The Purge: Election Year!
Will this movie be more like the first Purge film or the second Purge film? It’s an important question because the first Purge had an intriguing premise but only so-so execution. Whereas the second Purge film should have been nominated for all sorts of Oscars…
One good sign: Frank Grillo is back! Then again, it’s not like they could have brought anyone back from the first Purge film because the first Purge film ended with almost everyone dead. Between the first Purge and Sinister, Ethan Hawke briefly managed to corner the market on unstable father figures who end up dead by the end of the movie.
(Whoops, was that a spoiler or was that two spoilers? Sorry, I hope you can still love me…)
Anyway, here’s the trailer for The Purge: Election Year! Feel free to watch it and leave your own comments comparing the Purge to either the Donald Trump campaign or the Hillary Clinton campaign.
(By the way, since this is an election year, I’m planning on doing a twitter poll in October. I’m going to ask who my 8,000 plus followers think I should vote for. I will then vote the exact opposite because the world needs a red-headed contrarian.)
(On another note, someone on YouTube mentioned that “It must be a bitch to clean up all the graffiti every year,” and I think he’s right! I would not want that job!)
(Also, if there was a real-life annual Purge, I would not murder anyone but I probably would do a little shoplifting. But that’s just me. You spend your purge the way that you want to…)
Here’s the 2nd trailer for Ghostbusters, which is a marked improvement on the first trailer. The jokes still feel weak but the ghosts are certainly effective!
I guess I should say more about this remake and the angry men who are upset about it and the pressure that I’m feeling, as a woman who loves movies, to give this film a chance but … bleh. I’m already bored with writing about the Ghostbusters remake.
Here’s the thing:
Just because many of the remake’s critics are a bunch of misogynists, that doesn’t mean that the first trailer looked particularly good.
Just because the first trailer didn’t look particularly good, that doesn’t mean that the misogynists are any less idiotic, disgusting, tedious, or annoying.
I’ll see the film when it’s released in July. If it’s good, I’ll give it a good review. If it’s bad, I’ll give it a bad review. And if I have anything else that I’d rather do that weekend, I’ll probably desperately beg someone else here at the Shattered Lens to watch and review the film so that I don’t have to.
And no matter what happens, I’ll end the night dancing.
But until then, here’s the 2nd trailer for Ghostbusters, which is better than the first (though you still have to wonder why the only black woman in the film couldn’t be a scientist as well)…
Despite getting mixed reviews at Cannes, Steven Spielberg’s The BFG is still one of the most anticipated films of the summer. I have to admit that, for the longest time, I assumed that the title was an acronym for Big F*cking German but no, apparently BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant.
And the just released second trailer for the film features a good deal of the Big Friendly Giant! The Big Friendly Giant is played by Mark Rylance. Mark Rylance is a good actor but I still think Sylvester Stallone should have won that Oscar.
Anyway, here’s the trailer! I always want to be skeptical of Spielberg because he’s such a mainstream filmmaker and my natural tendency is always to embrace outsiders. But dammit, The BFG looks like it might, at the very least, be a very enjoyable and very big film.
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* It’s family film, hence the asterisk.
Can someone please write another great role for Aaron Eckhart? He’s such a good actor but it seems like whenever he actually gets to star in a movie, he ends up in stuff like I, Frankenstein.
Just judging from the trailer below, Incarnate might actually be worse than I, Frankenstein. Time will tell!
(Then again, Incarnate is coming out in September so who knows? Maybe it’s going to be an Oscar contender…)
(No, it’s not.)
(But it could be…)
(But it won’t.)
It’s interesting how many post-apocalyptic films have been released over the past few years. People really do seem to be convinced that the world is on the verge of ending and who knows? Maybe it is!
Oh well. It has to end sometime, right?
Anyway, here’s the trailer for Into The Forest. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood play sisters who live in a house that’s on the edge of the forest. When the world ends, they go into the forest and make a deal with Meryl Streep and … oh wait, that’s Into The Woods.
Okay, so there’s no Meryl Streep and that might actually be a good thing. Both Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are excellent actresses and they deserve a chance to shine. Fortunately, Into The Forest is also a Canadian film and our longtime readers know how much I love the nation that gave us Degrassi.
So, prepare for the world to end with Into The Forest!
When I first read that Don’t Breathe caused quite a stir at SXSW earlier this year, I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical. Trust me for I am from Texas and I have spent a lot of time in Austin and I know of what I speak: it’s not that hard to create a stir in Austin. In fact, the main appeal of Austin is that practically everything leads to a stir.
But then I watched the trailer and wow, is it intense! The film tells the story of three teenagers who make the mistake of attempting to rob a blind man. The blind man is played by Stephen Lang and, considering that his character was one of the worst things about Avatar, it’s kind of nice to see that Lang may have finally gotten a role worthy of his menacing talent.
Here’s the trailer:
Here’s the trailer for Assassin’s Creed!
I know next to nothing about the game that this film is based on, beyond what I’ve seen in commercials. (Apparently, it involves a lot of building jumping.) But the trailer features Michael Fassbender, looking all intense and haunted and sexy and that’s a good thing!
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