Lord have mercy. Aroma-scope. Really? You won’t get the full effect from the gimmick in the first full theatrical trailer for Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (thankfully) but it’ll be there in some form or another when it makes its way into theaters. One can only hope that Robert Rodriguez will [...]

It wasn’t so long ago that Korean/Japanese horror was the fertile hunting grounds for studios looking to make a quick buck. The Ring, The Grudge, The Eye, Mirrors and countless others are all products of the Hollywood makeover spa. Today those hunting grounds have seemingly moved to Scandinavia. Let the Right One In was recently [...]

A teaser trailer for the Cold War thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has landed. Based on the best selling novel by John Le Carre, the movie spins a tale of espionage cat and mouse — George Smiley, a retired MI-6 agent, is brought back to uncover a Soviet mole entrenched in the upper echelons of [...]

Actor-come-filmmaker David Schwimmer’s sophomore theatrical effort as a director, 2010′s Trust deals with sensitive, challenging subject matter that most directors would refuse to touch with a 20-foot pole. Armed with a timely significance and a relevant message pertaining to the dangers of the World Wide Web, this is a powerful and provocative independent drama with [...]

Late last night Paramount Pictures dropped the first trailer for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. In a strange twist, the J.J. Abrams written and produced actioner see Ethan Hunt and his covert team on the run — getting pinned for the bombing of the Kremlin and being labelled terrorists by their own government. They’re mission, [...]

After a fine first effort in the action/adventure department with Transformers, the series ran into major writer’s block (as well as a writer’s strike) with the horrid second installment, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And while still not up to the inaugural’s standard, the newest release, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, is a decent addition [...]

A new take on the legendary Musketeers is nearing. Announcing its pending arrival is another theatrical trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers. Shot entirely in 3D, the film boasts massively choreographed sword and gun fights as well as battles with bomb-laden blimps! All this in support of a story that has the three [...]

Topher Grace took time off from his role as Eric Forman in the hugely successful That ’70s Show back in 2004 (you know, that Dennis Quaid movie he totally phoned in on) and left the show in 2007 for a supporting role in Spider-Man 3. Following those two debacles was a role in a small-time, [...]

Numerology is the study of the mystical relationship between numbers and existence. Some numbers are seen as good, others not so much. Samuel believes the number 11 has significance in his life in Darren Lynn Bousman’s (Saw III, Saw IV) new horror film 11-11-11, for which the first theatrical trailer has been made available. Invoking [...]

The teaser trailer for Disney-Pixar’s upcoming animated adventure Brave is available for viewing. It is a story about an unruly princess, who through her defiant actions, brings chaos to the kingdom. To undue her mistake, she sets out on a mission with three Lords to retrieve a wish from a questionable source. Sure to be [...]

It appears Hollywood’s obsession with unnecessary sequels has hit Australian shores, with the recent release of perhaps the most unnecessary of all follow-up films: Kings of Mykonos. Nick Giannopoulos and Vince Colosimo reprise their roles as “Wog Boys” Steve and Frank, who embark on a trip to the beautiful Greek island to claim what is [...]

It’s ancient times and, once again, the survival of humanity hangs in the balance. No, the Gods aren’t leveling the people because of their blasphemies this time, it’s a power-mad king named Hyperion causing the destruction. In his quest for the Bow of Epirus — a weapon that will even make the Gods of Olympus [...]

One has to balance the several fine performances with the most depressing screenplay of the year if one is to gain any kind of satisfaction from Running With Scissors, the debut directorial effort from Ryan Murphy (TV series Nip/Tuck) about a dysfunctional — with a capital “D” — family. In fact, it’s like American Beauty [...]

Ride ‘em cowboy! The latest trailer for Cowboys & Aliens has arrived. Based off of a successful graphic novel, the movie tells the tale of Absolution, an old West town, and their fight against invading aliens. Easier said than done (aliens have spaceships and lasers, Westerners have horses and Colt 45s), that is until a [...]

The last time that former visual effects technician Scott Charles Stewart directed Paul Bettany in a motion picture, the result was 2010′s quite literally God-awful Legion. Loosely based on the South Korean comic series of the same name, 2011′s Priest is an improvement over Legion . . . but not by much. As befitting of [...]

With all of our advances in engineering and science, why haven’t we been back to the moon? The upcoming movie Apollo 18 offers up a reason. Aliens. From the first theatrical trailer for the film we see there was a secret mission after Apollo 17, which ended . . . mysteriously. Pieced together from archival [...]

The porn business. Every man in the civilized world has had a dream or two (or three or four) to get into the industry to screw super hot, bleached blond porn stars. àœberdork Bucky Larson, well, he just wants find his way after being fired from his grocery bagging job. So off to Los Angeles [...]

Lightning McQueen: Mater, you ARE the bomb. Never have truer words been spoken in a movie, and never have I had the displeasure to pronounce a Pixar film a failure — until now. Cars 2, the sequel to the 2005 runaway animated hit Cars, misfires on so many cylinders, it becomes a huge lemon long [...]

I’ve had my fair share of eccentric teachers. In junior high, there was Mr. Plotsker, who despite being fit as a horse, walked with a cane. Sometimes he would twirl it around during long-winded lectures. Other times, he’d pretend it was a machine gun. “Close, but no cigar,” he’d proclaim, pointing its end towards a [...]

In 2003 Brian Douglas Wells, a high school dropout, pizza deliveryman, and “valued employee” of the Mama Mia Pizzeria, was double-crossed by Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes, his co-conspirators in a botched robbery plot. On the afternoon of August 28th, at the end of a dirt road, the crooks fastened a time bomb to Wells’ [...]

So we’re going with something a little different this week. In what is the first non-fiction film I’ve ever reviewed, Martin Scorsese gets behind the camera to present a part-concert, part-documentary film chronicling two night shows by iconic band The Rolling Stones at the historic Beacon Theatre in New York City. Although the original plan [...]

A new trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger has been made available by Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures. Like the previous trailers, the action is toned down and more emphasis is put towards the back story of how Steve Rogers morphs into the iconic Captain America. Truth be told I initially was as high [...]

Action fans rejoice; the trailer for Killer Elite, the first high octane actioner of 2011 is here. Supposedly based on a true story, the movie follows the carnage wreaked by a retired British Elite Operative as he races to save his mentor from the clutches of three assassins. Okay, De Niro’s days as a testosterone [...]

You know a movie, where the main plot line is skipping school, is bad when the main character tells the audience there are “rules” to such activities. And unless that character is Ferris Bueller, the viewers — for the most part — should just ignore those guidelines. I’ll even go a step further. The Art [...]

What a little gem of a film. Many would put it in the often-mentioned “best films you’ve never seen” category, and I would not be one to argue. Shane Black sits in the director’s chair for the first (and to date, only) time and co-wrote the screenplay to this part murder-mystery, part comedy movie that [...]

Shot on every cent of a five million dollar budget and the directorial debut of Duncan Jones (the son of David Bowie, no less), Moon was without doubt the most underrated and underviewed film of 2009. With an underrated film comes an underrated actor in Sam Rockwell (Frost/Nixon, Iron Man 2) who pairs up with [...]

In a word: Intriguing. In a few more, Wasted On The Young is an ardent revenge film that shows substance and style in some areas, but appears to have bitten off more than it can chew in others. This little-known Australian film continues to follow the trend in the local film industry. That is, for [...]

Dancing, they say, can change the world. Kevin Bacon used it to change the little town of Bomont in 1984′s Footloose. Kenny Wormald gets to do it in the remake, although I’m not quite sure why. MTV’s telling of Footloose, of which the trailer was released today, updates the dance moves and the kids’ ever [...]

Just because a film is made for children does not mean it needs to be childish; just because a film stars Heather Graham does not mean it has to be awful; just because a film attempts to salute the nostalgic summers of our past youth does not mean a person should want to put a [...]

Even the great scientific minds of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung can misstep. Especially when a beautiful and complicated woman is involved. In David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, ethical and moral lines are crossed, when both men fall under said woman’s spell. The trailer, which released today by HanWay Films, promises the movie will spice [...]

What is the obsession many Hollywood writers have with bathroom humor? Have American standards of comedy sunk so far that the only way to illicit a laugh nowadays is to resort to the lowest possible denominator? Have the Three Stooges (once the lowest of lowbrow comedy) become the gold standard of guffaws? I ask these [...]

Origin stories aren’t just for Marvel or DC superhero movies anymore — DreamWorks Animation Studio’s Puss in Boots is taking a page from its hero brethren. With the closing of the cash cow that was the Shrek film series, it was only natural for the studio to spin-off one of the more memorable characters. The [...]

One bank. Two gangs of bank robbers. Same time and day. That makes for one helluva scenario, especially when crafted in the hands of the boys who wrote The Hangover. As the trailer for Flypaper shows, it gets awfully complicated and comical — one gang is made up of professional thieves, the other is a [...]

It’s surprising that The Roommate wasn’t entitled Single White Female: The College Years, since this flick is pretty much just a Single White Female redux for which the filmmakers trimmed a few years off the cast and, just to be safe, also trimmed down characterizations, logic, etc. Simply put, The Roommate is unbearable and uncreative, [...]

The parody teaser trailers are done (at least for the moment). Disney has finally released the first theatrical trailer for my new most anticipated movie of 2011 — The Muppets. This trailer promises a movie filled with action, adventure, heroes and driving. All of that and more is being done to save the world renowned [...]

A friend of mine once argued about the redundancy behind DC Comics; its name, he claimed, originally stood for Detective Comics, thus by adding an extra ‘comics’ at the end, one is left with the awkwardly titled Detective Comics Comics. Though, despite the discrepancy behind the publisher’s name, it has remained a powerhouse in the [...]

A bloodier red-band trailer for Conan the Barbarian has been released by Lionsgate today. Personally, I’m becoming less enthused about the film — the accompanying music leaves a lot to be desired, the blood effects (of which there are many scenes of) looks hokey and the limited dialogue just seems off. I’m not going to [...]

This is it. What is being touted as the final trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has been made available by Warner Bros. Pictures. Increasingly darker than its predecessors, the story culminates with the final battle between good and evil, between Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter. I’ll say it again (said [...]

If Disney wasn’t doing this so well, this would get old super fast. Today, they released a 3rd teaser trailer for The Muppets titled “Being Green.” In this one, the play is on the upcoming Green Lantern flick, which, coincidentally, features a green guy. A major take away from this trailer is the promise that [...]

Forced to build a contending major league baseball team on a budget, Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s, turns to statistical analysis to draft his players. Traditionalists of the game, however, see this as gaming the system — effectively ripping the fun and purity from the game they hold dear. Based on [...]

What you expect from a film really paints what you will feel about the film afterward. Whether you are partial to or despise the director or one of the actors, if you’ve heard good or bad reviews from friends, or if you’ve been sucked in or led astray by marketing will already start you with [...]

Move over Willie, there is a new ocean creature to focus our collective love upon. Inspired by true events comes Dolphin Tale, a story about a boy who builds a bond with Winter, a dolphin that lost its tail in a crab trap. Guaranteed to make you cry, the film chronicles the life and death [...]

Is 2011 becoming the year of the shark? Possibly, as the US has Shark Night 3D coming out this year, Australia has Bait (also 3D coincidentally) and now comes Dark Tide. This film, however, promises to be more of a dramatic thriller as opposed to the mindless body chomping guaranteed by the other films (although [...]

With Cars 2 right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to drop a tease as to what Disney Pixar (although the Pixar name is ominously missing from the trailer) has in store for us in the next few years. On tap, Planes. From an animation standpoint, it’s nothing more than replacing the cars from [...]

Filmmakers Carlo Ledesma, Enzo Tedeschi & Julian Harvey clearly took heed of the philosophies and techniques of renowned scare-meister Alfred Hitchcock for 2011′s The Tunnel, namely his mantra that less is more: It is not always what you see that scares you, but what you imagine. A low-budget horror pic filmed in 14 days and [...]

The mental institution is a great location for nearly all movie types, but none more so than the horror or thriller genre. Isolation, deeply disturbed patients and or a sadistic doctor are several cornerstones that can be explored. And using some of these staples, John Carpenter, emerging from a ten year hiatus from movie making, [...]

It is no secret that the last decade has not been kind to the great filmmaker, Woody Allen. Whether is it a loss of touch or focus, one could argue that Allen hasn’t made a particularly good film since 1989′s Crimes and Misdemeanors — while he has had minor successes in the past decade, there [...]

Set in Lillian, Ohio, J.J. Abrams’ (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III) latest, Super 8 chronicles Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a young boy who struggles to connect with his depressed workaholic of a father, Jack (Kyle Chandler), the town’s Deputy Sherriff. He spends his time playing with monster makeup on the set of his friend, Charles’ [...]

What does winning the lottery have to do with serial killing? On the surface nothing, but in the new indie comedy Lucky, whose trailer debuted today, everything. When weak and ignored office worker Ben wins the lottery, his world, as one would suspect, changes. He gets the girl of his dreams (who couldn’t stand him [...]

American film director Terrence Malick’s fifth feature film release, in four decades in the business, The Tree Of Life, is a film that, in parts, has some of the greatest techniques and moments ever recorded in film history. It also has some fatal narrative flaws that prevent it from outright greatness as an overall work [...]

Many a man believes Megan Fox is an angel. Not necessarily one that resides in heaven with a halo over its head, mind you, but more in the you’re in my sexual fantasies kind of way. In Passion Play, Mitch Glazer’s directorial debut, Mrs. Fox combines both elements — she pouts and purses her lips [...]

Premiering during the MTV Movie Awards comes the second trailer for Fright Night, a decidedly darker and more violent telling of the 1985 cult hit of the same name. The premise remains the same, a vampire moves into the neighborhood and preys on the bountiful food source. Yet only Charlie and his best friend Ed [...]

The beginning of the end has begun. The first trailer for the highly anticipated The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 has arrived to the squeals of prepubescent girls around the globe. In it, aside from lots of madly-in-love kissing and goo-goo eyes, the teaser of Edward and Bella’s pending nuptials and Bella’s pregnancy [...]

What good is Valentine’s Day without a nice big helping of sappy romance? Generally the answer is “none,” but today Screen Gems released the first trailer for The Vow, effectively telling the world that they’re doing their part to ensure there is tear-inducing romance ready for next year. Enlisting the aid of Hollywood’s favorite girl-next-door [...]

20th Century Fox has released the second theatrical trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In it, the foundation of Caesar, the leader of the ape rebellion is laid out. A highlight of this trailer, as in the first, is the lifelike modeling of the primates by Weta Digital, which could be argued [...]

The Uncanny X-Men are back in their best adventure since X2! In X-Men: First Class, we see, in fantastic fashion, what transpired to form them together (and tear them apart), and are fed interesting treats (especially to any hardcore buffs) like how Magneto got his helmet, who the superhero Darwin was, and even how the [...]

Yes, the first movie adaptation of the “The Millennium Trilogy” just wrapped up a year ago and a retelling is already slated for release later this year. Based off the official trailer of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (a bootlegged version arrived last week), however, this looks like a bad-ass reboot. The David Fincher [...]