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Trailer: The Interview

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

James Franco

Kim Jung-un, the verifiably evil dictator of North Korea who is currently starving his nation and trying to build up a nuclear arsenal, might seem an unlikely subject for a comedy.  However, you would be wrong.  This is America and our filmmakers are willing to use anyone and anything, except for Barack Obama, for comedy fodder.  YAY AMERICA!

Anyway, the upcoming film The Interview deals with a talk show host (James Franco) and his producer (Seth Rogen) and details what happens when they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jung-un.  It’s probably not too much of a stretch to say that the CIA has an actual, real-life plan to assassinate Kim Jung-un but, then again, it’s not like this film is ever going to be seen in North Korea.

Add to that, the trailer actually looks funny.  And even more importantly, James Franco looks really hot.

The Interview will be released on October 10th.

The Official Teaser For Birdman Is Here!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

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Birdman is one of those films that people like me have been predicting will be an Oscar contender, despite the fact that we know next to nothing about the film.  What we do know is that it’s been described as a dark comedy.  We know that it features Michael Keaton as an actor who is best known for playing a super hero.  We know that it has an excellent and quirky supporting cast that is made up of wonderful performers like Edward Norton, Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts, and Emma Stone.  Perhaps most importantly, we know that it was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, a brilliant director who one usually does not associate with comedy.

The first teaser for Birdman was released today and having seen it, I’m even more excited to see the actual movie.  I say this despite the fact that the trailer doesn’t reveal anything new about the film.  However, the trailer makes good use of Crazy and I now really want to know what that marching band is doing on the stage.

Watch it below!

Trailer #2: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

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To be honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of the first Sin City.  I thought the movie, as a whole, dragged and all of the hard-boiled narration didn’t really work as an homage or a parody.  I appreciated the film’s unique look and respected the fact that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller really did succeed in creating a very real cinematic world but, on the whole, the film just didn’t work for me.  It was a movie that failed to leave me excited, offended, enthralled, exhilarated, or angry.  Instead, I was just bored.

Judging by how excited people online seem to be about Sin City’s upcoming sequel, I am very obviously in the minority.

And, I have to admit, I’ll probably end up watching Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.  After all, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it.  I just hope that, unlike just about every character in the first film, he doesn’t end up getting disemboweled or shot in the head.

Here’s the 2nd trailer for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

(Also, if somebody doesn’t create a parody called Sim City: A Dame To Kill For, I will end up losing all faith in the internet….)

Trailer: Harbinger Down (Official)

Posted on by Arleigh

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Last summer something caught my eye while scrolling up my Twitter feed. People I had been following were retweeting a Kickstarter campaign for an independent film. No, this wasn’t a Veronica Mars deal or Zach Braff begging the public for millions so he could make his own film. This was for a scifi-horror film that was going the whole practical effects route.

Harbinger Down is the brainchild of practical effects masters Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. whose own special effects studio Amalgamated Dynamics were instrumental in creating some of the practical effects for films such as the latest Godzilla and the underwhelming prequel for The Thing. It was their practical effects work for that prequel being replaced by CGI monsters at the very last second which convinced the two men to try and make a film using nothing but practical effects to show Hollywood bean counters and studio heads that there was still a place for the practical instead of going all-CG.

Their Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to start Harbinger Down succeeded and in addition to the $387,000 or so raised and their own money and studio time the film began principal photography this past January. A rough trailer was shown around MArch, but now we have the first official trailer to Harbinger Down which looks like a love letter to Carpenter’s very own The Thing.

Trailer: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal

Posted on by Arleigh

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“Mūn Purizumu Pawā, Meikuappu!”

When it was announced in the summer of 2012 that a new Sailor Moon anime series was in production the anime fandom was all a-twitter about the news. Whether one was male or female, Sailor Moon was a major part of the viewing regimen of anime fans young and old.

It’s now two year since that announcement and we finally have the first trailer of the return of Sailor Moon back on the airwaves. The series title will be Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal, but it will most likely be shortened to just Sailor Moon Crystal to keep it simple. Toei Animation will be the studio doing the animation work while the series will premiere on the network Niconico in Japan while it will also stream on the website streaming service Crunchyroll.

It’s been over 20 years since the original Sailor Moon series went off-the-air and to say it’s back with a brand new season has made anime fans ecstatic (grumblings about the change in animation style notwithstanding) the world over.

Sailor Moon Crystal to premiere on July 5, 2014.

Somebody alert Mia Farrow … here comes Sharknado 2

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

As our regular readers know, I love SyFy original movies.

Whenever people discover that fact about me, they always assume that I must have loved Sharknado.  Actually, nothing could be further from the truth.  Sharknado was film that tried to force snark as opposed to generating it naturally.  One need only watch a good SyFy film — like End of the World — to see just how overrated Sharknado truly was.

But that’s the thing.  Most of the people who rave about Sharknado have never actually seen any other SyFy films.  To me, everything that I disliked about Sharknado was captured in the image of Mia Farrow and Phillip Roth live-tweeting along with the film.  Everyone knows that Mia Farrow and Philip Roth had never watched SyFy before Sharknado and they’ve probably never watched it after.  And, though they might not want to admit it, everyone knows that Mia’s Sharknado-tweets were pedestrian and predictable.  But, because she’s kind of famous and Ronan Farrow is a thing, we were supposed to be impressed.

Meanwhile, those of us who actually put SyFy original movies on the twitter map, were expected to be thrilled that a celeb had decided to come hang out with the common folks.

If you’ve seen Sharknado but you haven’t seen End of the World or Battledogs, then you don’t know what you’re missing.

(Or what you missed since SyFy appears to be getting out of the original movie business…)

Well, somebody call Mia Farrow because Sharknado 2 is going to be premiering on July 30th.  Judging from the trailer below, it appears that the entire cast will return for “the second one.”  And make no doubt, I will be live-tweeting this film because somebody has to show these false SyFy fans how it’s done.

 

The Ghostbusters Return To Theaters on August 29th

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Photograph by Erin Nicole

Photograph by Erin Nicole

How much is Ghostbusters a part of the American culture?  It’s such a part that the decoration pictured above was the most popular thing in the neighborhood last Halloween.  All through the month of October, people young and old drove up and down the street just to see the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man.

Well, come August 29th, those same people will have a chance to see him again because, in honor of the film’s 30th anniversary, Ghostbusters is going to be re-released.    And, speaking as someone who has only gotten to see Ghostbusters on television, I can’t wait to watch it on the big screen.

And, since I love trailer, what better way to commemorate the re-release of Ghostbusters than be sharing the trailer?

Enjoy!

(Are you the Key Master?)

Photograph by Erin Nicole

Photograph by Erin Nicole

 

Trailer #2: Hercules

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

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So, apparently, somebody out there was very smart and realized that, as far as titles go, Hercules: The Thracian Wars was incredibly unwieldy.  As a result, the film’s title has been shortened to simply Hercules, which is what everyone was going to call it anyway.

(Except for maybe the people of Thrace…)

Having watched this trailer, I really can’t say that I am in any way excited about the prospect of watching Hercules.  I like Dwayne Johnson and this would seem to be a perfect role for him but the trailer just feels so generic that it could just as easily been a trailer for The Legend of Hercules.

Or, to put it another way, if I hadn’t already known that this film was directed by Brett Ratner, I would have guessed on the basis of the trailer.

Personally, I’d like to see a movie about Pandora and the box.

Trailer: The Green Inferno (2nd Official)

Posted on by Arleigh

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Ah, the Italian cannibal subgenre of grindhouse and exploitation films. It’s been awhile since we’ve had something like this. Sure, we’ve had cannibal-based films throughout the years with some even becoming cult hits (I look at Ravenous as an example), but not one that takes it’s setting and basic plot straight out of the cannibal films of the late 70’s and early 80’s from the Italian horror filmmakers of that era.

Eli Roth returns to directing after a seven years in hiatus to give horror fans a taste of the old-school cannibal flicks with his homage to Ruggero Deodato’s classic grindhouse film Cannibal Holocaust. The interesting bit about Roth’s film is how it’s title actually is part of the homage to Deodato’s film which was originally suppose to be called….The Green Inferno.

This is the second official trailer for The Green Inferno and it even uses a quaint, serene song to open it up the way Deodato’s film and trailer for said film does over thirty years ago. We don’t see much cannibal feasting going on, but it’s hinted at that it’s what’s for dinner.

Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno is set for an September 5, 2014 release date in the US.