This film, which features Vanessa Hudgens in a change-of-pace role, looks good and life-affirming. However, there are two reasons for concern.
First off, the movie is being released in January, which is traditionally the time of year that all of the really bad movies are released.
Secondly, the trailer features three quotes praising the film but they’re all from the same review.
Hopefully, Gimme Shelter will beat the odds.
We’re a little late in sharing this one but then again, it’s not like the movie’s going to be any good. Here is the 2nd trailer for the remake of Robocop — or as I think it should be called, Rubber Cop.
What do you think about remakes, trailer kitty?
This film, which is due out on Valentine’s Day, looks like it might be really sweet and funny. It features Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, and — best of all, as far as I’m concerned — a lot of dancing!
I have mixed feelings about the upcoming film Noah.
On the one hand, it’s directed by one of my favorite directors, Darren Aronofsky. I don’t think I need to remind anyone just how much I love Black Swan.
However, it also stars Russell Crowe. Crowe is a good actor but he’s also rather impressed with himself and Noah seems like the type of film that will bring out all of his worst tendencies.
But the film is directed by Darren Aronofsky.
Then again, Noah also appears to feature Anthony Hopkins playing yet another vaguely threatening mentor figure. Hopkins is also a good actor. I like Anthony Hopkins. But, seriously, as soon as I heard that they were making a film about Noah, I knew Anthony Hopkins would be somehow involved. It’s just so …. expected.
However, the film is being directed by Darren Aronofsky.
Unfortunately, the trailer that was released yesterday has a painfully generic feel to it. Let’s put it like this — every time I saw the trailer for Black Swan, I knew that this was a movie that I had to see. Every time I see the trailer for Noah, I find myself wondering if Michael Bay was somehow involved in producing the film. That’s how generic it feels.
However, Noah was directed by Darren Aronofsky.
So, I’ll see it.
When I first saw this trailer for the upcoming film Divergent, my immediate response was to go, “Uhmm … Hunger Games much?” That said, it should be fun to watch Kate Winslet play a villain and Shailene Woodley is a talented and underrated actress. It will be interesting to see if Divergent will make her a star in the same way that Hunger Games did for Jennifer Lawrence.
Maleficent retells the story of Sleeping Beauty from Maleficent’s point of view. Quite frankly, I always suspected that the original film was biased in favor of Aurora. This Disney film, which stars Angelina Jolie, is set to be released in May of 2014.
In 2011, a little action film from Indonesia directed by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans took the world by storm. The film was called The Raid (The Raid: Redemption in the West). It out-actioned every Hollywood blockbuster action film of that year and still manages to hold its own against other action films since.
So, it’s no surprise that a sequel was already in production by the time that film’s theater run was winding down in the West. Gareth Evans will return as director of The Raid 2: Berandal and so will the survivors of the first film.
With filming all pretty much done and the film moving on to post-production the first official teaser trailer for the sequel has been released and all I can say is…WOW.
The Raid 2: Berandal will be punching people in the face sometime around 2014.
“The lord of silver fountains,
The King of carven stone,
The King beneath the mountain
Shall come into his own!
And the bells shall ring in gladness
At the Mountain-king’s return,
But all shall fail in sadness
And the lake shall shine and burn.”
Today, over in NYC a special fan event for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was held which introduced a new one-sheet poster (look above), but also premiere a 3-minute sneak peek trailer to the second entry in The Hobbit Trilogy.
To say that this extended trailer is a vast improvement to all the previous teasers and official trailers for this second film in the prequel set would be an understatement. It still shows the film as being much more darker in tone than the book source it’s being adapted from, but it definitely shows a film that looks and feels much more put together than the first film (still just an assumption, but I have hopes I’ll be correct).
We see more of Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman who looks to fit in rather well instead of looking “too modern” as some feared he would look. I like how the trailer uses the poem, “The King Beneath the Mountains”, but in an altered form to make it sound like it was a prophecy. I know purist will probably rail and scream to anyone who will listen that this wasn’t how Tolkien wrote the poem. If they haven’t figured out by now that these film adaptations have been altering the written work to better fit the story then what have they been watching over the past decade.
I, for one, can’t wait for this middle film in the trilogy to finally come out and come out it shall on December 13, 2013. I saw the first film in every format and watch it in all format I shall for this one as well.
So, originally, The Wolf of Wall Street was the movie that everyone was expecting to dominate the Oscar race. Then, a few months ago, it was announced that the film might be held back until 2014 while director Martin Scorsese put the finishing touches on the film. And then, just as suddenly, it was announced that The Wolf of Wall Street would be released this year, on Christmas Day to be exact.
And with that announcement comes a second trailer!
To be honest, neither one of the film’s trailers really feel like trailers for a Scorsese film. Then again, that’s the same thing that many of us said about Hugo.
This trailer has been out for nearly a month now so I’m a little late in sharing it. However, after having watched this trailer play before every single movie that I’ve seen since the month of October, I have to say that there is no film that I am more looking forward to seeing than American Hustle.
(You can check out the first trailer for American Hustle here.)
Through the Shattered Lens 