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Denzel Washington Will Kill People In September

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I love Denzel Washington.

Not only is he a great actor who can seemingly play just about any role but, by all reports, he’s also apparently a pretty nice guy off-screen as well.  He has such a natural and likable screen presence that he can even make a potentially problematic film, like last year’s Flight, compelling and watchable.  My friend Jake Moore once said that Denzel was the closest thing that we have to a modern-day Jimmy Stewart and I happen to agree.

Yes, I love Denzel.  I just wish he wasn’t always killing people in the movies.

Don’t get me wrong.  Denzel makes for a believable action hero and it makes sense that, if your hero is going to be killing everyone he meets, you would want him to be played by an actor who can actually be likable while murdering.

It’s just that Denzel Washington is such a good actor that sometimes, it’s a shame to see him in generic action films where he often seems to be playing characters that could be played by just about any actor.  Washington always gives a good performance and brings a lot of charm to the proceedings but that doesn’t change the fact that his role in Safe House could have just as easily been played by Jason Statham.

Add to that, I’m growing bored with film violence.  Whenever I see a trailer for a new action film, I often have the same reaction that I had when I first saw the trailer for Jack Reacher.  “Really?” I think to myself, “Am I supposed to pretend to be excited about this?”

My feelings aside, it doesn’t look like things are going to change anytime soon.  And perhaps as proof, here’s the trailer for Denzel Washington’s new film, The Equalizer.  Don’t get me wrong.  I’m sure Denzel gives a great performance here and the film might even be entertaining when taken on its own terms.

It’s just that it all feels so generic.

Here’s The Trailer For Magic In The Moonlight

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here’s the trailer for Woody Allen’s latest film Magic In The Moonlight.

For the longest time, a lot of film bloggers (myself included) have been predicting that Emma Stone might be Oscar-nominated for this film.  This was largely because actresses who appear in Woody Allen films always seem to end up getting nominated and we all know that Emma Stone is going to be nominated at some point in her career.

(She deserved a nomination for Easy A.)

(Oh, she so totally did!)

However, having now seen the trailer, I’m no longer quite as sure.  It looks like it’s going to be a perfectly charming little comedy and the trailer is gorgeous to look at but the film itself doesn’t look like it’s going to be the type to resonate as strongly as Blue Jasmine or Midnight In Paris.

On the plus side, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be another To Rome With Love, either.

Can You Figure Out The Trailer For Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language?

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Jean-Luc Godard, that iconic and frustrating pioneer of the French New Wave, has a new film.  Goodbye to Language is 70 minutes long and it’s in 3D.  Knowing Godard (but does anyone really know Godard?), it’s probably going to be a film that’s going to be loved by many and hated by even more.

Goodbye to Language premiered at Cannes yesterday and, perhaps surprisingly given Godard’s lack of concern with traditional narrative, much of the response has been both positive and baffled.  Speaking as someone who hasn’t seen the film but who is somewhat familiar with some of Godard’s films, I think the best review so far was posted by A.A. Dowd over at the A.V. Club.  (Dowd also makes a very important point about why it is necessary to properly reflect on a film before passing judgment and why so many other critics fail to do just that.  Seriously, read the article.)  Dowd usually gives letter grades to the films that he reviews.  For Goodbye to Language, his grade is “?????”

All of this, needless to say, makes me very much want to see Goodbye to Language for myself.  Though I haven’t been able to find a release date, the film is apparently being distributed by 20th Century Fox so maybe it will eventually make its way over here to the States.  (That said, I’m a bit worried that even if it does, it will only be shown in New York and Los Angeles and will never make down to my part of the country.  There seems to be an elitist belief that people in middle America aren’t interested in seeing the latest from Jean-Luc Godard and, unfortunately, that’s probably true…)

But until it does, here’s the NSFW trailer for Goodbye to Language.  Can you figure out what’s going on?  I can’t and I speak French.  But that impenetrability is a part of what makes me want to see the film.

And here’s a version of the trailer with English subtitles.

Here’s the Teaser Clip For Ryan Gosling’s Lost River!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here is the teaser clip for Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, which was released ahead of the film’s premiere at Cannes.

So far, the majority of the reviews out of Cannes have been mixed.  The film has been called self-indulgent, incoherent, and pretentious and, perhaps worst of all, it has been compared by more than one reviewer to Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales.

Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian, a reviewer whose opinion I usually respect, writes: “Ryan Gosling’s Lost River is a conceited clunker – and yet there are great images and mad energy.”  That gave me some hope — I can forgive self-indulgence if it’s at least interesting to watch.  But then Jeff Wells had to pop up and start comparing it to Beasts of the Southern Wild.  As usual, Sasha Stone over at Awards Daily has some very strong feelings about the film, despite the fact that — as she readily admits — she hasn’t actually seen it.  (But Sasha’s so much smarter than the rest of us common people, so who are we to question her, right?)

Well, as you can probably guess, I don’t care what the critics think or say.  I’m still going to see it and judge it for myself.  Not only is the film directed by Ryan Gosling but it also stars three of my favorite actresses — Eva Mendes, Saoirse Ronan, and Barbara Steele.  Dr. Who fans will be happy to see Matt Smith while those of you who enjoy Agents of SHIELD can get a chance to apparently see a new side of Iain De Caestecker.

As for the teaser below — well, who knows what the Hell’s going on?  But aren’t you just a little bit intrigued to find out?

Trailer: Guardians of the Galaxy (2nd Official)

Posted on by Arleigh

GuardiansoftheGalaxy

As promised by James Gunn over three days of teasing this trailer over the weekend we finally have the latest trailer from his upcoming addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Guardians of the Galaxy.

The trailer seems to expand more on some of the scenes shown in the firs trailer and still keeping most of the plot outside of the “losers team-up against Ultimate Evil” being introduced with this trailer. We do get something that people have been wondering about since the first trailer and that was how would Rocket Raccoon and Groot would sound. It’s still weird hearing Bradley Cooper’s voice come out of a suited-up raccoon, but Vin Diesel definitely nailed it as Groot. Though that’s not saying much.

We get a few more brief glimpses of Ronan the Accuser and, what should make hardcore comic book fans smile from ear-to-ear, the severed and floating head of a Celestial (2100 foot Godlike cosmic beings) that either will serve as the home base for the Guardians or for the Collector (Benicio Del Toro’s character).

It’s still a couple months away, but Guardians of the Galaxy seems to be getting the tone of Marvel’s cosmic side just right. We still haven’t even seen Michael Rooker’s Yondu character.

Guardians of the Galaxy is set for an August 1, 2014 release date.

Trailer: True Blood Season 7

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The final season of True Blood starts on June 22nd and I’m looking forward to reviewing it.  Judging from this trailer from HBO … well, it’s kind of hard to judge much of anything based on this trailer.  It looks like there’s going to be a lot of death and a lot of Sookie/Bill bathtub action.  In other words, it’s True Blood!

Teaser: Cinderella

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

After watching the teaser for Disney’s live action version of Cinderella, all I can say is that shoe looks really uncomfortable!  I can’t imagine dancing in that!  That said, I still like this trailer because it has a nice fairy tale feel to it, with the butterfly turning into gold and all.  Maybe Cinderella will go against the current trend of reinterpreting every childhood tale as darkly as possible.

We’ll find out in 2015.

Trailer: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Official)

Posted on by Arleigh

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

One of my most-anticipated films this summer of 2014 has released it’s latest trailer and it shows the central conflict which will drive this sequel to 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

It’s been many years since the pandemic from the “simian flu” tore through the planet as shown during the end credits of the first film. Now the surviving humans must now contend with the growing population of hyper-intelligent apes led by Caesar from the first film.

While the first film showed the rise of Caesar as a revolutionary leader it looks like this sequel will now put him in the role of war leader as his apes must now gear up for a war with the surviving humans that can’t seem to be avoided.

Plus, all I can say is this: Apes on horses with assault rifles.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set for a July 11, 2014 release date.

Extender Trailer: The Fault In Our Stars

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here is the extended trailer for the much anticipated film adaptation of The Fault In Our Stars.  With so many people currently comparing Shailene Woodley to Jennifer Lawrence (and Divergent to The Hunger Games), it’ll be interesting to see if this film becomes Shailene’s Silver Linings Playbook.