This trailer only needs a few more cats to look like a heavy-handed YouTube parody but apparently, Geostorm is a real movie that will be opening in October. It was directed by Dean Devlin, who is a frequent partner of Roland Emmerich’s.
(In other words, expect a subplot about how Shakespeare didn’t actually write Twelfth Night.)
Geostorm will open in October and I imagine it will make its SyFy debut the following June.
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When Jeff and I went to see Logan on Thursday night, one of the many trailers that played before the film was this red band one for Free Fire. Free Fire is an action comedy, one that I think is meant to satirize the ultra violent heist films of the 90s and early aughts. Seriously, there are parts of this trailer that should make Guy Ritchie cringe.
That said, this trailer is also about a minute too long. At first, everyone in the theater thought it was kind of funny but then, around the two minute mark, the yawns started to kick in. “Are they just going to shoot at each other for the entire trailer?” someone asked.
The answer is yes. And you know what? The trailer probably doesn’t do Free Fire justice because this movie was directed by Ben Wheatley and I’m still having dreams inspired by his oddly hypnotic A Field in England. I’ll follow him anywhere!
Free Fire has a March 31st release date in the UK and an April 21st release date in the States.
Anyway, here’s the red band trailer for Free Fire!
Want to watch (or maybe rewatch) that teaser for Deadpool 2, the one that’s currently playing as a pre-credits scene in Logan?
Well, here you go!
T2, Danny Boyle’s sequel to Trainspotting, has already been released in the UK, where it received good but not great reviews.
(If anyone is interested in opening a TSL Bureau in the United Kingdom, please let us know.)
It’ll be released in America later this month. Here’s the latest trailer for the American release!
Coming to Netflix in October…
It’s a new show about serial killers and the people who study them, hunt them, and hopefully capture them. It’ll be like Criminal Minds, though it’ll probably feature more profanity and nudity and less Thomas Gibson-involved physical assaults.
This show was produced by David Fincher so you know every film blogger is going to have to watch at least one episode.
Hmmm…
Okay, so for two months — January and February to be exact — I was convinced that War Machine was going to be some sort of Oscar contender but this just released teaser has changed my mind. It’s not that the teaser necessarily looks bad as much as it’s the fact that it ends with “Only on Netflix.”
(So, I guess it’s time to update those predictions before all the other award bloggers come across them and laugh at me. Seriously, award bloggers are mean!)
(Of course, it’s also not uncommon for Netflix to play their films in a Los Angeles theater for a week so that they’ll be Oscar eligible. That didn’t really work for Beasts of No Nation, of course….)
Anyway, here’s the teaser!
Hey, look! It’s Kurt Russell!
What I’ve been told is that, apparently, Kurt is playing an entire planet in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I’m not sure how exactly that works but if anyone can pull off being a planet, I imagine it would be Kurt Russell.
Anyway, if I haven’t already mentioned it, there is probably no film that I am currently looking forward to more than I am looking forward to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2!
I kind of wish this trailer didn’t open with everyone grinning like a bunch of missionaries preparing to leave on their first trip to the Amazon rain forest but otherwise, Alien: Covenant is looking pretty promising.
In theory, no movie should be scarier than an Alien movie. Hopefully, Ridley Scott will return this franchise to its former glory.
If you love classic movies, you’re going to love this trailer for the new Netflix documentary, Five Came Back!
Based on Mark Harris’s brilliant non-fiction book, Five Came Back takes a look at the work that five great directors — Frank Capra, William Wyler, John Huston, George Stevens, and John Ford — did during World War II. It’s a fascinating story and it was a fascinating book. I just hope this documentary does it justice.
We’ll find out on March 31st!
(Incidentally, Five Came Back is narrated by Meryl Streep so expect to see her nominated for Best Actress next year…)
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