For all eight of you Family Guy fans out there, here’s the red band trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming film, A Million Ways To Die In The West.
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Trailer: Helen Alone
I haven’t heard much about Helen Alone, beyond the fact that it’s an independent film, it’s the directorial debut of Henrik Bech Poulsen, and it was filmed in my home state of Texas. According to its imdb page, it’s scheduled to be released on August 1st.
And, based on the trailer, I’m looking forward to seeing it. The trailer has a nicely surreal feel to it. As someone who spent her teen years living in the Texas suburbs, there was a lot in this to which I could definitely relate.
Trailer: The Rover
A lot of people are probably going to be inclined to dismiss The Rover out-of-hand simply because it stars Robert Pattinson. I suggest that, if those people need proof that Pattinson is capable of more than Twilight, they should go watch Cosmopolis.
And besides, even if you aren’t a fan of Pattinson’s, you should still be willing to take a chance on The Rover because it was directed by David Michod, who previously directed the absolutely brilliant Animal Kingdom, and it co-stars the great Guy Pearce.
The Rover will be released in the summer of 2014.
Trailer: The Walking Dead Season 4 “Don’t Look Back”
“I see a bad moon rising.”
It’s just less than a month away until the second half of The Walking Dead season 4 begins.
This fourth season of AMC’s massively popular survival-horror series has had a sort of resurgent year. New showrunner Scott M. Gimple has done a good job in fixing some of the issues that popped up during previous showrunner Gen Mazzara’s tenure during the final stretch of season 3. While Gimple has done a good job the show still has some issues when it comes to stand-alone episodes as we saw with the two-parter that reintroduced the Governor.
The ultimate payoff of that two-parter led to the ending that should’ve been the season finale of season 3. The showdown and final attack on the prison was as exciting as how Kirkman wrote it for the comics. There were even scenes that seemed to have been lifted from the pages. With Rick and those who survived the prison assault now thrown to all points of the compass it brings up some interesting prospects of seeing the group trying to survive on the road not as a coherent veteran team, but in piecemeal.
With the Governor and most of his people dead the show will now have room to introduce some new characters. These characters should be familiar to fans of the comics and it will be interesting how Gimple and his stable of writers will be able to translate them from pages to the small screen.
The Walking Dead returns on AMC on February 9, 2014.
Trailer: Game of Thrones Season 4
Have you seen the trailer for season 4 of Game of Thrones yet?
If not, here it is! I’m going to avoid saying too much about it, other then to observe that my hated for King Joffrey grows with each passing hour.
Trailer: The Monkey King
One of my guilty pleasure films of the past 20 years was this little martial fantasy flick called Storm Riders. I think most everyone of my generation who heard about it ended up seeking it out.
I have a feeling the same thing will happen for this latest generation when they hear whispers and ever-growing tales of Donnie Yen’s The Monkey King. It has Yen in heavy make-up to look ike The Monkey King from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. It has Chow Yun-Fat as the Jade Emperor. What else does one need. Plus, it’s in IMAX 3D!
The Monkey King has been given a September 14, 2014 release date for North America
Trailer: Veronica Mars
Cheer up everyone! It may be snowing up north. The ground may be shaking in California. It might be 30 degrees and sunny in the South. But the first trailer for Veronica Mars is here and everyone should be happy!
Trailer: The Raid 2: Berandal
Here’s something for everyone to look forward to in 2014.
Trailer: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
To say that 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes went a long way in washing out the taste out of fans mouth after having seen Tim Burton’s reboot of Planet of the Apes would be an understatement. Rupert Wyatt was able to bring the franchise back to prominence by actually treating the story as a sort of scifi allegory instead of a platform to once again exercise one’s filmmaking quirks.
It was a no-brainer that a sequel will follow up the success of the 2011 film. But with a fast-moving schedule there were several casualties. Rupert Wyatt didn’t think he had enough time to shoot the film the way he wanted to so he was replaced by Matt Reeves. James Franco is also gone from the project. Instead we get several veteran actors like Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell and Kirk Acevedo joining Andy Serkis.
The film seems to take places a decade or so after the release of the deadly virus at the end of the first film. Humanity has survived both the virus and the wars which followed it, but civilization as we know it now are a thing of the past. With humanity trying to rebuild it must now deal with a rising nation of genetically-enhanced apes led by Andy Serkis’ Caesar. With Gary Oldman on one side seeming to be the leader of humanity’s survivors I don’t see peace as being a goal in this film.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set for a July 11, 2014 release.
Trailer: 22 Jump Street (Red Band)
One of the biggest surprises for 2012 was the fact that a remake of an 80’s TV show on the fledgling Fox Network ended up being a major hit for the year. The show was 21 Jump Street and the film that stared Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill was a laugh riot from beginning to end.
So, just like any hit that comes out of Hollywood there’s bound to be a sequel and the producers were quick to make it happen. This is why in the summer of 2014 we will get the sequel to 21 Jump Street which will be called 22 Jump Street. It would seem the Korean Catholic Church being used in the first film was sod so now they move across the street to the abandoned Vietnamese Catholic Church on 22 Jump Street.
Will this sequel catch lightning in a bottle once again? Will Channing Tatum finally realize that his true calling is to be a comedic action star?
22 Jump Street will answer all these questions and more you probably didn’t realize you had on June 13, 2014.
