A House Is Not A Home, a film directed by Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray and produced by and starring one of my favorite actors, the great Gerald Webb, is having its world premiere tonight at the Burbank International Film Festival!
Here’s the trailer:
Can the world handle two Jesse Eisenbergs?
Here’s the trailer for the remake of Robocop, which appears to be full of all sorts of PG-13-rated mayhem. Personally, just from the look of him, I would have called him Rubber Cop. But that’s just me.
Neighbors is coming out in 2014. While the trailer doesn’t particularly make the film appear to be the epitome of cinematic brilliance, how can you resist a film that features Seth Rogen, Dave Franco, and Zac Efron?
We Are What We Are is a remake of a disturbingly intense 2010 Mexican film about a family of cannibals. Will the remake match the original’s intensity? It’s hard to imagine that it could but, judging from the trailer, the filmmakers are at least going to try.
Yay! It’s another trailer featuring my favorite actor — JAMES FRANCO! He not only stars in Palo Alto but he produced it and it’s even based on his short stories. Can we just go ahead and announce that 2013 will be forever remembered as the Year of Franco?
This year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and I have to admit that I’m surprised that there aren’t a few hundred JFK-related films coming out this year. Seriously, since January, it’s something that those of us in Dallas have had to hear about it on a daily basis.
Then again, it’s because I’m from Texas that I’m somewhat glad that there aren’t a lot of films coming out about that day back in 1963. Quite frankly, I don’t need to sit through a hundred films featuring a bunch of character actors butchering my state’s native accent.
If you can’t do the accent, don’t accept the damn role. End of story.
However, just because there aren’t a lot of them, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be films looking to exploit the anniversary. For example, there’s Parkland. Judging from the trailer below, Parkland appears to be an ensemble film about “ordinary” people dealing with the assassination of President Kennedy.
A lot of critics have been saying that Parkland might be a dark horse contender for best picture but it looks dreadfully earnest to me. Add to that, this seems like just the subject matter to bring out the pompousness that always seems to be hiding underneath the surface of producer Tom Hanks.
That said, I know I’ll end up seeing it.
It’s about my hometown, after all.
It’s hard for me to think of any film that I’m as eager to see this year as Blue Is The Warmest Colour. The film already won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year and it’ll be interesting to see if it duplicates the success that the previous Cannes winner, Amour, achieved in the U.S.
A lot of people, like me, felt that Matthew McConaughey deserved an Oscar nomination earlier this year for his performance in Killer Joe. It looks like he’ll get a second chance this year with his performances in both Mud and the upcoming Dallas Buyer’s Club, the trailer of which can be found below.
According to this trailer, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is “finally” going to give horror fans “what they’ve been asking for.”
So, I guess the question now is — what exactly have we been asking for? Myself, I know that I just want a genuinely scary film that features interesting (and occasionally, even intelligent) characters and is intense enough to be get under my skin without descending to the level of torture porn. I also know that I’ve been asking for more films that are not a part of the whole found footage genre. Also, as far as slasher movies are concerned, I prefer female characters who fight back as opposed to just running and screaming.
If All The Boys Love Mandy Lane can deliver on that, then it’ll definitely be what I’m waiting for. It’s a little hard to tell from the trailer. However, this has been a year of good horror films and therefore, I’m going to take a chance on All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and hope for the best.
Through the Shattered Lens 