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Movie Trailers: Anchorman: The Legend Continues (2013) »

Will Ferrell announced on Conan a few months ago that the long awaited sequel to “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” was greenlit. Today, two teaser trailers for Anchorman: The Legend Continues were released by Paramount Pictures whetting the appetites of fans of the creepy, chauvinistic Channel 4 News Team. From the intro, the guys [...]

Movie Trailer: Skyfall (2012) »

#23 is here. Well at least the trailer for the 23rd James Bond flick, Skyfall, is here. Plot details are limited; best we know right now is that something (or someone) from the past of “M” comes to the forefront testing Bond’s resolve and loyalty to her and to the program. The trailer below is [...]

Movie Trailer: Hit and Run (2012) »

The Witness Protection Program doesn’t always keep the bad guys away. In Open Road Films’ Hit and Run, bank robbery getaway driver Charlie gets found by his buddy that he helped get locked away (and apparently enabled his raping, as a running gag makes mention of). As the title implies, there is a lot of [...]

Movie Trailer: The Campaign (2012) »

Just in time for the presidential election in the United States comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Campaign. The satirical comedy pits suave incumbent congressman Cam Brady against Marty Huggins, a simple guy who works at the state Tourism Center. As is par for course in American politics, the race gets ugly — and when I [...]

Movie Trailer: Killer Joe (2011) »

What some people wouldn’t do for cash. In Killer Joe dimestore drug dealer Chris puts a hit out on his mother for her life insurance policy and offers up his sister to the hitman as collateral. In his defense, though, if he doesn’t come up with some cash he’s a dead man. But maybe death [...]

Movie Trailer #3: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) »

As if “The Avengers” coming out this weekend wasn’t enough superhero hype to swallow right now! Today, Sony Pictures dropped a new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man and like the previous one that dropped in February, it is good. More revelations are to be found within this one, as well as more shots of The [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Expendables 2 (2012) »

The first go round in December was just a tease as to what was to come with The Expendables 2. Today Lionsgate opened the lid with the first full trailer and it’s got a shitload of explosions in it. Very 80′s-like explosions preceded by very 80′s-like action. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a fun watch [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Prometheus (2012) »

A three-minute long spoilerish trailer for the sci-fi horror pic Prometheus has gone viral today. In it, the alien intelligence that beckoned us (meaning humans) to the farthest reaches of the universe prove to not be friendly. As a matter of fact, it seems they somehow want to use us to repopulate their species and [...]

Movie Trailer: This Is 40 (2012) »

I think we can all agree that Pete and Debbie from “Knocked Up” stole the show from Ben and Alison when they were on-screen together. So why not give them their own project? It comes in the form of This is 40 and the premise is . . . you guessed it, a change of [...]

Movie Trailer: A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) »

I’m not quite sure what to make of Universal Pictures’ A Fantastic Fear of Everything. The trailer released today is, to put it mildly, bizarre. Everyone’s favorite Brit funnyman Simon Pegg is Jack, an author of hedgehog inspired children’s books, who is traumatized by his involvement in researching a book on Victorian era serial killers. [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: Ted (2012) »

The bond a boy has with his teddy bear can be tough one to break. The one John has with his cuddly bear, Ted, is ridiculous. Ted, you see, is alive (John’s childhood Christmas wish) and has some very, very bad habits. He swears a lot. He drinks to blackout. He is terribly inappropriate to [...]

Movie Trailer: Total Recall (2012) »

I don’t know about you, but I was perfectly happy with the 1990 Schwarzenegger sci-fi actioner “Total Recall.” At least I thought I was. The now available trailer from Sony/Columbia Pictures has me believing otherwise. First, it stars Colin Farrell and two of the hottest women on Earth, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel. Secondly, it [...]

Movie Trailer: House at the End of the Street (2012) »

Be careful who your neighbors are. In House at the End of the Street, the neighbor is the survivor of a brutal axe murder — a parenticide, in which his sister killed their parents. In the bizarre trailer, mother and daughter (Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, respectively) are the “lucky” renters next door who are plagued [...]

Movie Trailer: Rise of the Guardians (2012) »

Santa Claus brings more than gifts to kids during Christmas. The Easter Bunny offers up more than jelly beans and eggs at Easter. The Tooth Fairy does more than swap teeth for cash. They, among others (Sandman, Jack Frost), are the immortal Guardians whose purpose is to the protect the beliefs and imaginations of the [...]

Movie Trailer: Hotel Transylvania (2012) »

Count Dracula is an enterprising fellow. He runs the Hotel Transylvania — the resort for monsters and their families to come to to kick back and relax. But relaxation isn’t in the cards for Dracula when an ordinary human stumbles upon his hidden retreat and takes a liking to his 118 year-old daughter, Mavis. The [...]

Movie Trailer: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) »

All good things must come to an end. In the case of The Twilight Saga, even bad things end. It’s ending, for which the first, albeit short, theatrical trailer has been released by Summit Entertainment, comes in the form of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. I’m not a fan of the series, [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Three Stooges (2012) »

The second trailer for the upcoming yuckfest The Three Stooges starts off with the statement: Before Jackass, there was dumbass. How right they are. It’s nothing but belly bopping, ass kicking, face slapping, eye gouging, prat fall lunacy as Larry, Moe and Curly bumble their way into a murder plot back at their childhood home. [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: Piranha 3DD (2012) »

You can’t keep a good prehistoric piranha down for long. After clearing Lake Victoria of them in “Piranha 3D,” the pesky flesh eaters have migrated to fun-in-the-sun summer destination: The Big Wet Water Park, in Piranha 3DD. The latest red-band trailer released today by Dimension Films makes it abundantly clear why the extra “D” is [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) »

The new trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman is here and without mincing words, it looks awesome. Sure the movie stars Kristen Stewart who, in the past has been berated for her acting chops in the Twilight series, but without doubt the story, visual effects and talent around her will offset any harm she [...]

Movie Trailer: Chernobyl Diaries (2012) »

Nothing spells vacation like taking a tour of abandoned, radioactive towns in Russia. From the mind of Oren Peli (he brought you “Paranormal Activity“) comes his latest horror flick that, even though the title Chernobyl Diaries lends itself to a found footage flick, isn’t a found footage flick. It may as well be as it [...]

Movie Trailer: Dark Shadows (2012) »

There is but two guarantees in the movie business and both deal with Johnny Depp. One, he can always be counted on to play “interesting” characters. Two, he is attached to the hip of Tim Burton. Both of these certainties are in play in the Gothic-themed horror flick Dark Shadows. Based on a 1960′s cult [...]

Movie Trailer: Battleship (2012) »

Don’t ask me why the upcoming alien invasion movie is titled Battleship after the mega-popular Hasbro board game; as best as I can tell, other than the fact the US Navy and its arsenal (carriers, destroyers and, yes, battleships) are in play, the movie has nothing to do with the game (I’d choke if the [...]

Movie Trailer: Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) »

Not having been the biggest fan of the previous three Ice Age movies, I can’t say I’m overly enthusiastic about the fourth, Ice Age: Continental Drift. The “endearing” prehistoric sloth, mammoth, sabertooth tiger and squirrel find themselves on a seafaring adventure — this time around when an earthquake causes the continents to break and drift [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Men in Black 3 (2012) »

Men in Black 3 is looking better than I anticipated. I was quietly concerned the premise had worn out its welcome, but the new trailer released today by Columbia Pictures looks fresh and fun. Will Smith as agent J is slick as ever and Josh Brolin as the young agent K makes a fine straight [...]

Movie Trailer: ParaNorman (2012) »

What normally happens to weird kids who proclaim to see and talk to ghosts? They get ignored, ostracized and/or bullied. Which is exactly what happens to little Norman in Focus Features’ claymation pic ParaNorman, that is until the town needs his peculiar gift. For reasons unknown (the trailer hints to a 300th anniversary of a [...]

Movie Trailer: Neighborhood Watch (2012) »

It’s tough to be cool rolling in a minivan, but the dads in Neighborhood Watch, for which the first teaser trailer was released today, almost manage to do it. I mean, c’mon, these guys have a tiger with fiery wings decal on the side of their ride! That logo identifies them as a part of [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Avengers (2012) »

A second trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers has gone viral. More in the way of how and why the team is formed can be found within, with, surprisingly, special attention being paid to the growing pains associated with so many super-egos sharing the stage. But for those longing for some explosions, don’t fret, there are [...]

Movie Trailer #3: John Carter (2012) »

The final trailer for John Carter is here and it couldn’t come any sooner — I for one am tired of the media blitz behind this. That being said, it is impressive to look at. The story may be derivative at this point, but Disney spared no expense in the effects department. The CGI rendering [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: Project X (2012) »

Warner Bros. has dropped a red-band trailer for Project X today and the warning accompanying it is most definitely warranted. It glorifies drug use, underage drinking, unprotected sex and mass destruction of property. Sounds like a happening party to me too. But while it’ll take the end of the world to stop me from seeing [...]

Movie Trailer: The Raid: Redemption (2011) »

I’m not entirely sure why the ‘Redemption’ was added to the title of The Raid to make The Raid: Redemption but it doesn’t shy me away from wanting to see it. Picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, this domestic trailer actually scales back some of the sick action seen in the international red-band trailer, Americanizing [...]

Movie Trailer #3: Brave (2012) »

It still looks like a winner for Disney/Pixar even if the latest trailer for their adventure Brave doesn’t offer up any more information about the movie. In this impressive clip Princess Merida, in Robin Hood fashion, outdoes those competing for her hand in marriage via an archery competition. It’s worth a check as great detail [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Intruders (2011) »

A second trailer for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders has been released by Millennium Entertainment and it’s more jarring than the first that was released in May of 2011. This one somehow links a young girl and a young boy from two separate families with a ghoulish figure. What it wants and why it has locked [...]

Movie Trailer: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) »

He wore a stovepipe hat, had an awesome beard, ended slavery and was ultimately assassinated. Can you think of a better way to make the 16th President of the United States any cooler? Well I suppose hunting vampires in between his ratifying the laws of the land would make him more awesome. This fantastical alternate [...]

Movie Trailer: The Bourne Legacy (2012) »

With Matt Damon out of the production, there was really only two ways Universal Pictures could have kept the highly successful franchise going: Hire a new lead as Jason Bourne and do a prequel or hire a new lead as a wholly new character and fit them into the aftermath of the Bourne fiasco. They [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) »

The second trailer for the highly anticipated reboot The Amazing Spider-Man has hit the airwaves today. Unlike the teaser trailer released in July of last year, this one offers a more defining glimpse into what the movie is about. In a nutshell, self-discovery. Peter Parker sets out to understand why his parents abandoned him while [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: God Bless America (2011) »

Unable to sit idly by as the country degenerates into worthless, crass, reality show shit, one man decides to take a stand. Actually that’s one man and one teenage girl. Together in the dark comedy God Bless America, they zag and zig across this great land of ours killing off the selfish, self righteous and [...]

Movie Trailer: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) »

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is back in his latest kid friendly flick, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. He takes on the role of buff stepfather to Sean, the teenaged kid involved in the “Journey to the Center of the Earth” adventure. (Brendan Fraser couldn’t be bothered to make the sequel apparently). This adventure takes the [...]

Movie Trailer: Project X (2012) »

I suppose it could be said that is was only a matter of time before Todd Phillips was going to set his “crude,” alcohol-fueled partying mind on teenaged subjects. He is, after all, the man behind such movies as “Old School” and “The Hangover” (which, if you recall, depicted grown-ups acting like drunken adolescents). Project [...]

Movie Trailer: Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) »

Jesus Christ. You’d think by now that damn T-virus and the Umbrella Corporation responsible for it would be out of commission. Neither are, and so Screen Gems has added a fifth installment to their video game cross-over cash cow — Resident Evil: Retribution. If you were wondering what happens this time around, stop. It’s basically [...]

Movie Trailer: Moonrise Kingdom (2012) »

Puppy love. It can make kids do stupid things. In Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, for which the first trailer was just released today, it causes Suzy and Sam to run away from their “normalish” lives to live on a small island together relying on Sam’s boy scout abilities to survive. This, predictably, doesn’t go well [...]

Movie Trailer: Prometheus (2012) »

In the hands of an ordinary director, the hype surrounding Prometheus would amount to nothing more than a blip on the radar screen. In the hands of Ridley Scott, the man responsible for one of the best sci-fi horror flicks made (Alien), there is a tsunami of interest. In his latest, he explores the origin [...]

Movie Trailer: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) »

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the precursor to one of the best movie trilogies ever made (referring to The Lord of the Rings) has, after many restarts and hype, finally debuted its trailer. Many of the cast — Gandalf, Legolas, Elrond, Bilbo, Frodo — are back, this time to face off with the evil dragon [...]

Movie Trailer: Wrath of the Titans (2012) »

This is certainly a step in the right direction. I’m speaking about the trailer to Wrath of the Titans, the follow-up to the much maligned Clash of the Titans remake. It looks as though Warner Bros. Pictures may have listened to the gripes of movie goers and come out with something with more action and [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Dark Knight Rises (2012) »

Well, the wishes of hundreds of thousands of fanboys has been answered. The first official trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises has finally hit the web after its premiering over the weekend with Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Being touted as the conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s visionary trilogy, the film pits [...]

Movie Trailer: Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012) »

One of the funniest clips I’ve ever seen and the one that cemented my love of Paul Rudd was from a skit on “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” (check it out: Celery Man). Apparently, someone liked their brand of humor too, thought these guys deserved a movie and so Tim & Eric’s Billion [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) »

“The world’s darkest hero rides again.” I’m not sure if the Ghost Rider is the darkest hero per se, but he’s definitely got a dark streak running through him. In the second trailer for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, he shows some of it off. Why? Well much to his chagrin, while “vacationing” in Europe, [...]

Movie Trailer: The Expendables 2 (2012) »

As if there was any doubt that a sequel to The Expendables, the not as good as it shoulda been action flick starring every action hero actor on Earth, would be made (although many secretly wished it wouldn’t). Details are scarce for Lionsgate’s The Expendables 2 — all we know is Church calls on the [...]

Movie Trailer: The Dictator (2012) »

Leave it to the mind of the man who brought Brüno and Borat to the big screen to dream up and make fun of what isn’t necessarily a funny scenario. Sacha Baron Cohen is a dictator in Paramount Pictures’ The Dictator. Hailing from the fictional Middle Eastern country of Wadiya and having untold wealth at [...]

Movie Trailer: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2012) »

Because I was a big fan of Cobra Command in my youth, I smiled at the trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation when a large portion of the G.I. Joe team are shot to hell up. The smile faded shortly thereafter. Best as I can tell, this sequel (of the less than stellar G.I. Joe: The [...]

Movie Trailer: Men in Black 3 (2012) »

How does one inject new life into a successful franchise that has laid dormant for nine years? In the case of Men in Black 3, the answer is to introduce time travel! In this installment, agent J goes back in time to work with a younger agent K to uncover deeply guarded secrets pertinent to [...]

Movie Trailer: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012) »

Nothing — and I mean nothing — can prepare you for children. So the advice you may receive from the five couples looking to conceive or adopt in Lionsgate’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting (or the best-selling books it is based off of) ain’t gonna help you one bit. What you will probably get, [...]

Movie Trailer: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012) »

Haven’t Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe or Gloria the Hippo made it back to their New York enclosures yet? I guess so long as DreamWorks Animation can come up with ways to keep them lost in the great big world they won’t. In Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, the displaced zoo [...]

Movie Trailer: The Three Stooges (2012) »

It looks a whole lot funnier than I thought it would. Yes, there are plenty of films that that statement could pertain to (more so in the other direction, however), but in this particular instance I’m referring to the trailer for 20th Century Fox’s The Three Stooges. To be honest though, it doesn’t look like [...]

Movie Trailer: The Wicker Tree (2010) »

A very eerier trailer for The Wicker Tree has surfaced today. Basically a reimaging of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man, the film follows two missionaries as they travel to Scotland to spread the word of Jesus Christ to the locals. Little do they realize the pagan townsfolk have been humoring them and really have other [...]

Movie Trailer: The Cabin in the Woods (2012) »

Few places spell horror like a secluded cabin in the woods does; so many things can — and will — go wrong. In The Cabin in the Woods, what goes wrong for five vacationing friends is a cross between being man-made and supernatural. The trap and guarantee of no escape comes from human hands. That [...]

Movie Trailer #2: John Carter (2012) »

The teaser trailer for John Carter was light on pretty much everything but this full theatrical trailer for the movie released by Disney yesterday has got much more meat on its bones. Too bad, it looks so much like Avatar though. Finding himself on an alien planet, human John Carter is hailed as a savior [...]

Movie Trailer: Loosies (2012) »

I never thought the life of a pickpocket was particularly endearing but after seeing the trailer for IFC Films’ Loosies, I’m not so sure. Master thief Bobby seems to be cruising along easy street — fine dining, buying to his hearts content and bedding pretty girls — that is until he finds out a one-night [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Brave (2012) »

Since the teaser, which was released in June, didn’t delve much into the story of Brave (choosing to instead focus on artistry and mystery), Disney-Pixar has finally released a full theatrical trailer which presents more of the story arc for their latest animated adventure. Denied allowance into the trials of the first borns because she [...]

Movie Trailer: Mirror Mirror (2012) »

It seems just like yesterday, a trailer for an updated take on a fairy tale was released. Oh wait, it was and for the same fairy tale too (Snow White and the Huntsman)! This adaptation from the imaginative mind of Tarsem Singh has more comedy and a family fun flair to it, and to be [...]

Movie Trailer: The Hunger Games (2012) »

American Gladiators has been resurrected. Well not really, but it is in a similar fashion that penance is paid to the rulers of Panem in Lionsgate’s upcoming film The Hunger Games. In the future, the 12 districts that comprise what was once North America, each submit one teenage girl and boy to take part in [...]

Movie Trailer: Safe (2012) »

Would you be terribly surprised to hear that Jason Statham was starring in yet another actioner showcasing his hand to hand prowess? He is and you shouldn’t. In Safe, for which the first theatrical trailer was released by Lionsgate today, he is pitted against crooked NY police and the Chinese and Russian mafias. Instead of [...]

Movie Trailer: Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) »

Every fairy tale deserves an updated telling, I suppose (notably Alice in Wonderland and Red Riding Hood). The latest, Snow White and the Huntsman, previewed it’s trailer today. In this rework, the lovely Sleeping Beauty, isn’t quite the pushover we remember as a toddler. The evil queen, who sucks the beauty from all she sees [...]

Movie Trailer: Safe House (2012) »

I must say, when Denzel Washington plays a badass motherfucker, no one can compare. In his latest, Safe House, he takes on the role of Tobin Frost, a wanted, rogue CIA agent — one responsible for the deaths of many agents and informants. When he suddenly turns up in Cape Town with a secret, all [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Underworld: Awakening (2012) »

The world has changed a great deal in 12 years. Humans have learned of the existence of werewolves and vampires and are on a crusade to eradicate them. In the second trailer for Underworld: Awakening, Screen Gems gives a closer look at the key to the war — a hybrid child. Selene must use her [...]

Movie Trailer: The Innkeepers (2011) »

Late last night Magnet Releasing (Magnolia Pictures) put out the trailer for their haunted hotel flick, The Innkeepers. It takes place in The Yankee Pedlar Hotel and poking its other-wordly inhabitants are two employees charged with boxing everything up and closing its doors forever. I’m not the biggest fan of Sara Paxton but the two [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) »

The second trailer for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol arrived yesterday and I must say I’m now pumped to see the movie. After his covert team is disavowed by the government for an attack on the Kremlin, Ethan Hunt and his team — Benji Dunn, Jane Carter and Brandt — must work blind to clear [...]

Movie Trailer: The Lorax (2012) »

From Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment (Hop, Despicable Me) and the flighty imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the timely tale of The Lorax. Timely in such that it is about the loss of environment at the hands of corporate greed. In it a boy, Ted, seeks out the wispy and colorful Truffula Tree to win [...]

Movie Trailer #2: 11-11-11 (2011) »

The second theatrical trailer for the supernatural induced Armageddon film 11-11-11 is now online. In it, an American widower begins to unveil clues to a coming invasion of demons to our Earthly realm. Finding himself alone and in a foreign land, he works feverishly to get believed and put together a plan to stop the [...]

Movie Trailer: The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) »

Every year or so a claymation project gets greenlit, to, I suppose, offset the plethora of computer animated features clogging cineplexs nowadays. The feature for 2012 is The Pirates! Band of Misfits, a Sony Pictures Animation and Aardman production that borrows a story from Gideon Defoe’s The Pirates! book series. In this adventure, Pirate Captain [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011) »

Out of fucking control is how I would describe the latest red-band trailer for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. There is not a single thing politically correct about it. From a baby getting high and snorting coke, to NPH calling Jesus a cockblocker, to a hot chick instructing Harold to “fuck a baby [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) »

A second trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows has been made available for viewing by Warner Bros. Pictures. This trailer markets more of the action — the train sequence is highlighted more as is the artillery shelling woods scene in which bullet time trickery is used with gusto. It’s also got [...]

Movie Trailer: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) »

The high-pitched singing sensations Alvin and the Chipmunks, and The Chipettes are back to fill our ears with squeaky versions of today’s popular songs in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (I’m not sure that is such a good thing, but nonetheless it’s going to happen). This time, after Alvin screws around on a well-needed vacation [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: American Reunion (2012) »

Milk it for all it’s worth. And let’s be realistic, some of the actors in American Reunion, the fourth in the American Pie series (unless you’re counting the four straight to DVD titles) don’t have much going for them and probably jumped at the chance to reprise their roles. This time around, the crew reconvene [...]

Movie Trailer: The Avengers (2012) »

Hold onto your gonads — the trailer for the most anticipated film in history, The Avengers, is here. Because there are battles that conventional human beings can’t fight, SHIELD director Nick Fury sets to build a team of super protectors that can. Enter: Thor, Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Man and Hawkeye (and perhaps Hulk?). [...]

Movie Trailer: Carnage (2011) »

Being the responsible parents that they are, when their boys get into a scrap in the schoolyard, the Cowan’s and Longstreet’s meet up to discuss the events. As the day progresses, however, it’s these “upstanding” parents that act more outrageous and childlike. Based off of the play “God of Carnage,” Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski, [...]

Movie Trailer: The Raven (2012) »

Creepy describes the situation Edgar Allan Poe finds himself in. In the dark thriller The Raven, it seems a serial killer has taken to Poe’s writing and is using it as a template to spectacularly kill people (think “The Pit and the Pendulum”). Poe, enlisted by Baltimore detectives, puts his macabre mind to work to [...]

Movie Trailer: Young Adult (2011) »

Let’s face it, no one is exactly young in Paramount Pictures’ Young Adult — one of them just acts like a snobby prom queen. That one in particular is Mavis Gary, a woman who returns to her small hometown (where she isn’t exactly remembered fondly) to reclaim her high school sweetheart. He, unfortunately, is married [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Puss in Boots (2011) »

The second, and last, theatrical trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots has made its way to the web. In this origin story, the swashbuckling Puss in Boots goes on a quest for the Goose that lays the Golden Egg with new characters Humpty Dumpty and Kitty Softpaws. Along the way, expect many kid and [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: I Melt with You (2011) »

I Melt with You. Sounds like some sort of romantic drama in which two people fall madly in love, doesn’t it? Not so in Magnolia Pictures upcoming feature — it follows a yearly weekend reunion of four life-long friends. And based on the trailer, these guys know how to get down, dirty and blow off [...]

Movie Trailer: Contraband (2012) »

Guy is a criminal. Guys cleans up his act, goes legit and starts a family. Guys gets pulled back in because someone in his family screwed up. Guy wages war on perps when things go sour. We’ve seen the premise many times before so there isn’t much to get excited about for Universal Pictures’ Contraband. [...]

Movie Trailer #2: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) »

The second trailer for Paranormal Activity 3 is here and perhaps I misspoke when I described the first trailer saying “. . . what made the series special had left already.” Maybe it has something to do with the connection to children, but the demon presented to us in this trailer is much more violent [...]

Movie Trailer: New Year’s Eve (2011) »

If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear Garry Marshall was trying to break the unofficial record he set in Valentine’s Day by jamming even more A and B-list actors into his new romantic comedy New Year’s Eve. The ultimate result is they are all a part of your basic multi-threaded movie that intertwines the [...]

Movie Trailer: One for the Money (2012) »

A guilty pleasure of mine is watching Jersey Shore. Another is watching Katherine Heigl. She puts her curves and flightiness (the reasons she is one of my pleasures) center stage again in Lionsgate’s new actiony rom-com One for the Money. Based on a long running mystery series written by Janet Evanovich, Heigl tackles the role [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) »

A full trailer for Columbia Pictures’ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo arrived today and it is promises this movie is going to kick ass. Based off the first book of the phenom that is “The Millennium Trilogy,” it starts the tale of a journalist’s investigation into the disappearance of a girl some 40-years ago. [...]

Movie Trailer: The Grey (2012) »

Man vs. Wild is one way to explain Open Road Films’ The Grey, although that’s a simple comparison. After a plane crashes in the pristine Alaskan wilderness, a group of survivors must battle the harsh elements and a pack of hungry grey wolves — some, to say the least, are luckier than others. I’d like [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: The Thing (2011) »

I’m not entirely sure why this latest trailer for The Thing is red-band; it’s got some good shots of the shape shifting creature, shape shifting and killing a scientist or two, but there isn’t anything that should raise the ire of the MPAA. But anyways, if you recall the original The Thing, it started with [...]

Movie Trailer: We Bought a Zoo (2011) »

You’ve heard of a family moving out of the bustling city to the serenity of rural life before, but have you heard of one moving to an animal park? Probably not, but in We Bought a Zoo, a despondent Benjamin Mee, tired of spinning his tires in the proverbial mud and desperately looking to strengthen [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) »

The second trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 was dropped late last night, causing kids to stay up past their bedtime and make a mad dash to pc screens around the world (I was sleeping peacefully). This trailer delves deeper into Bella’s pregnancy — she can’t safely carry the rapidly growing [...]

Movie Trailer: Red Lights (2012) »

A teaser trailer for upcoming thriller Red Lights was made available today by Nostromo Pictures. In it, director Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) sets the stage for us to question all we know and believe with a few pointed statements and a sinister shot that captures Robert De Niro’s famous scowl. It’s enough to at least pique [...]

Movie Trailer: Goon (2011) »

Every hockey team has an enforcer or two — a couple of guys who don’t have the best stick handling or skating skills but can kick the ass of those who do. In Goon that’s Doug Glatt. As a member of the lowly Halifax Highlanders, his responsibility is to wreak havoc on opposing teams while [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: The Raid (2011) »

In a well timed release (it is currently showing at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and receiving high praise), comes the first trailer for the Indonesian action flick The Raid. This high octane shoot ‘em up and kick their ass fest follows a team of highly trained SWAT officers as they raid a heavily [...]

Movie Trailer #2: The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011) »

The first trailer for The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) was crap. The second trailer, released today by IFC Films, gets down and dirty. It introduces us to Martin, the man with the brilliant plan to build upon Dr. Heiter’s sickening experiment. Can you think of a better way to pay homage to the demented [...]

Movie Trailer: The Big Year (2011) »

If not for anything else, the upcoming movie The Big Year should be entertaining just because it has a fantastic cast supporting it. It’s about three guys, each with a separate crisis — mid-life, work-life and no-life — that compete with each other in everything they do. It culminates — imagine it — at an [...]

Movie Trailer: The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011) »

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) pushed the boundaries of all that is good and decent in the world. Apparently that boundary wasn’t pushed far enough as now The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is set to squirm into theaters in October. The trailer for it is obviously staged for viewer reactions, but I’m sure what [...]

Movie Trailer: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) »

An international trailer for the psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene has been made available by Fox Searchlight Pictures today. In it, a woman seeks to re-assimilate herself to the real world after escaping from an all-consuming cult. It’s not as easy as it may seem, especially when she can’t be sure what is real [...]

Movie Trailer: The Rum Diary (2011) »

Johnny Depp must be a kindred spirit to Hunter S. Thompson (as well as Tim Burton), as he is starring in his third Thompson written and/or inspired movie. The Rum Diary, for which the first trailer was released, has him playing a slightly off center journalist who moves to Puerto Rico to start afresh. While [...]

Movie Trailer: Jack and Jill (2011) »

WOW! An international trailer for the sure to be train wreck Jack and Jill has surfaced and it’s just as unfunny as the domestic trailer. I’m guessing Happy Madison, the brains behind this venture, knows this movie, which has Adam Sandler playing both roles of fraternal twins (one of which is an annoying woman), is [...]

Movie Trailer: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) »

A second international trailer for the Cold War thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from Studio Canal and Working Title has been made available. It’s the Cold War and the Soviet’s have a high ranking mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service serving them up the most sensitive of information. With nothing seeming as it is [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: The Family Tree (2010) »

“Embrace the Dysfunction,” is the tagline for the dirtier trailer for The Family Tree which was dropped today by Entertainment One. There’s not much added to this trailer that you couldn’t get from the first one — just a few more sexual innuendos and curse words. But for those who don’t know the premise: The [...]

Movie Trailer: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) »

Admit, you secretly watch Ghost Rider every time it comes on basic cable (it is a guilty pleasure like eating Bonbons or listening to Celine Dion). Well, guess what? Johnny Blaze is back and so is Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance! This time around, he’s battling the devil for the life of [...]

Movie Trailer: Machine Gun Preacher (2011) »

Biker gangs ain’t all bad. Well, actually they are, but not all their members are rotten to the core. Take Sam Childers for instance, the man the new movie Machine Gun Preacher is based upon. Realizing his path in life was off course, he turned his back on a life of crime and turned to [...]

Movie Trailer: Underworld: Awakening (2012) »

You can’t keep a good vampire down. Especially one that looks so good in a tight fitting leather outfit. In this installment, 12 years have passed and the battle has changed from vampire vs. vampire and vampire vs. werewolf to human vs. vampire and werewolf. The trailer for Underworld: Awakening, released by Screen Gems today, [...]

Movie Trailer: The Woman in Black (2012) »

Yes, Daniel Radcliffe can act in something other than a movie with Harry Potter in the title. You can see for yourself in the second teaser trailer for his latest, The Woman in Black. He portrays an English (of course!) lawyer who, upon arriving at a remote village, stumbles on a female ghost with vengeance [...]

Movie Trailer: Immortals (2011) »

The third trailer for Relativity’s Greek epic Immortals has been released. In it is a more fleshed out story outlining the reason for the battle between King Hyperion, his army of banished Titans and those who, backed by the all powerful Gods, resist him (led by the warrior Theseus). The trailer is very well put [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: The Sitter (2011) »

Adventures in Babysitting has just been updated with a healthy helping of filth. Actually, if there was a word I could think of that describes the level of vulgarity and foulness in a more disturbing way, that word would better describe The Sitter. Just imagine what a crude, common sense devoid slacker would do with [...]

Movie Trailer: The Darkest Hour (2011) »

The second half of 2011 is seeing a resurgence of the alien invasion flick with Attack the Block and Cowboys & Aliens recently being released. Today Summit Entertainment presents to the web the trailer for the latest invasion movie, The Darkest Hour. And trust me when I tell you this one ain’t no joke. Breaking [...]

Movie Trailer: In Time (2011) »

Here is an interesting concept — what if people don’t age until they hit year 25 and then lose or gain time off of their lives depending on the goods they consume and the jobs they work? That’s how the world is in 20th Century Fox’s new science fiction thriller In Time. Yet, just like [...]

Movie Trailer: Tower Heist (2011) »

Sometimes the little guy gets the last laugh. Most times they don’t. With Tower Heist we can at least laugh as the little guy tries to get even with the powerful. After a Bernie Madoff type of scam sucks the pensions of hundreds of working stiffs dry, they aim to get even. Their plan? Since [...]

Movie Trailer: The Ides of March (2011) »

Behind every presidential hopeful, there is a driven man (or woman) who, believing in the cause whole heartedly, is busting their ass in the trenches — doing everything and anything to win. More often than not, there is also a secret stashed away that, if reported on, would ruin the chances of winning the presidency. [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: Red State (2011) »

No Jay or Silent Bob here. Red State breaks away from Kevin Smith’s comfort zone, representing his first foray into the horror genre. The hook? Extreme Christian fundamentalism in the heartland of America. Three teens find themselves captive of a Waco-like cult intent on changing the world they live in any way necessary. It’s not [...]

Movie Trailer: Happy Feet Two (2011) »

A second trailer for Happy Feet Two has been made available by Warner Bros, giving us more of the same — singing and dancing penguins. Animation-wise the movie gets high marks but from a watchabilty standpoint, this one looks like a bitterer pill to swallow than its predecessor. Children, however, will gobble this up like [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: Drive (2011) »

The appetite for driving fast in movies will never be satisfied. Drive Angry 3D and Transporter 3 are two recenter(?) movies with a theme that is conducive to lots of car chases and crashes. FilmDistrict, at Comic-Con, unveiled a trailer for their entrant into the genre: Drive. Basically, they replaced a man who delivers things [...]

Movie Trailer: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) »

If you ask me, I think what made the first Paranormal Activity special has left already left the series. Paramount thinks otherwise as the first taste of Paranormal Activity 3 has come online. This time around, it focuses on the beginning — when Katie and Kristi first summoned the demon to this world to wreak [...]

Movie Trailer: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) »

Two days ago it was the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. Today Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios released the anticipated teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. It’s hard to imagine the highly successful franchise getting a reboot already, but it is and this version, on the surface, looks to have a darker theme [...]

Movie Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises (2012) »

The teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s telling of the Batman story, is here. Finally. Even though this sneak peak doesn’t give away much, it still does just enough to get the adrenaline pumping. Watch below and crave for more. The Dark Knight Rises stars Christian Bale, Joseph [...]

Movie Trailer: The Thing (2011) »

Replacing Kurt Russell with Mary Elizabeth Winstead? That’s gotta be counted as a strike against the remake of The Thing. Then again, maybe she has an inner Sigourney Weaver she can channel. From the first theatrical trailer which has debuted today, we can’t be sure. Unfortunately, there aren’t any instances of her directly confronting the [...]

Movie Trailer: John Carter (2012) »

Talk about culture shock. Imagine waking up decades into the future on a foreign planet surrounded by hostile green aliens. I’d prefer not to, but that’s how John Carter finds himself. Aside from that, we don’t get much else from the teaser trailer of John Carter. From a cinematic standpoint, however, the picture definitely appears [...]

Movie Trailer: Contagion (2011) »

Besides a nuclear disaster, one of the biggest fears any government can have is the outbreak of a fast spreading, lethal virus. And it is this premise that the upcoming thriller Contagion delivers on. How does the populace react as more and more people fall victim? How will the government handle the growing fear (both [...]

Movie Trailer: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) »

There is a new threat for the infamous English detective Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. His name is Professor Moriarty. Holme’s intellectual equal, Moriarty has hatched a grand scheme with the sole purpose of shifting the balance of world power. Holmes, with a tag along fortune teller named Sim and his [...]

Movie Trailer: The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011) »

A follow-up international trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn has been made available by Paramount Pictures. Expanding greatly on the first trailer, this one delves further into the mystery surrounding the Unicorn and those that wish to wrest its answers and bounty from the hands of the boy reporter. The film [...]

Movie Trailer: The Family Tree (2010) »

And you thought your family was a dysfunctional mess. Take a look at the Burnett family. They’re majorly screwed up and while everyone in the clan has their respective quirk, the trailer for The Family Tree makes it appear that the mother is the cause of the bulk of the familial issues. But after mom [...]

Movie Trailer: Jack and Jill (2011) »

From the producers of Grown Ups and Just Go With. I’m not so sure that is a badge of honor to wear. Anyways, Sandler and the Happy Madison team have concocted Jack and Jill, a film that gives an audience twice the Adam Sandler in one sitting. One as his boyish self and one . [...]

Movie Trailer: Final Destination 5 (2011) »

Fans of watching young kids die in bizarre fashion unite — the latest trailer for Final Destination 5 is here. While it too highlights several of the unorthodox methods by which one can die (LASIK, acupuncture), it differentiates itself from the previous trailer by showcasing more of the bridge collapse (which surprising is very well [...]

Movie Trailer: The Skin I Live In (2011) »

The “mad scientist” in The Skin I Live In is a well-to-do plastic surgeon. His all consuming passion is the creation of an impervious, synthetic skin, which, if he had 12 years ago, would have saved his wife who was horrifically burned in a car crash. With his goal within grasp, the good doctor requires [...]

Movie Trailer: Johnny English Reborn (2011) »

The UK’s answer to America’s Get Smart has gotten himself a sequel. I’m talking about Johnny English and the film, for a which a new trailer has been made available, is Johnny English Reborn. Mr. English returns, after years of perfecting his technique, to MI-7 to thwart an attempt on the Chinese Premier’s life. Rowan [...]

Movie Trailer: Conan the Barbarian (2011) »

We’ve seen a so-so theatrical trailer and a so-so bloodier red-band trailer; today Lionsgate delivers a new UK trailer for Conan the Barbarian. This one provides more of the backstory as to how Conan became the barbarian that he is — his village is destroyed and his family is murdered at the hands of Khalar [...]

Movie Trailer: Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) »

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, [...]

Movie Trailer: The Three Musketeers (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: 11-11-11 (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Brave (2012) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Immortals (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Cowboys & Aliens (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Apollo 18 (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Killer Elite (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Footloose (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: A Dangerous Method (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Puss in Boots (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Flypaper (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: The Muppets (2011) »

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 [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: Conan the Barbarian (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: The Muppets (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Moneyball (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Dolphin Tale (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Dark Tide (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Planes (2013) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Lucky (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Fright Night (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: The Vow (2012) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) »

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 [...]

Movie Trailer: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) »

The second and longer trailer for the horror movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark has been made available by Miramax. A remake of a movie of the same name (and one that gave me nightmares as a child) centers around a family that has moved into a big creepy 19th-century mansion (red flag #1). [...]

Movie Trailer: 50/50 (2011) »

The darkly funny and heartwarming trailer for 50/50 has been made available by Summit Entertainment today. Based off of screenwriter Will Reiser’s real-life experience with cancer, the film centers around a young man named Adam and how he, and his friends and family cope with an abbreviated Five Stages Of Grief — shock, denial, resistance [...]

Movie Trailer: The Muppets (2011) »

Disney has released another teaser trailer for The Muppets. Like the previous trailer which was shown just Monday, the antics on the screen don’t appear to have anything to do with the actual film itself (which has the Muppets regrouping to stop a greedy oil tycoon from leveling their theater). After an explosion which has [...]

Movie Trailer: Happy Feet Two (2011) »

You can’t keep a good penguin down (especially one that saved the Emperor penguin population and made Warner Bros. Pictures a lot of money in the process). In Happy Feet Two the savior in Happy Feet, Mumbles, is all grown up with a wife and son. The issue at hand this time around isn’t that [...]

Movie Trailer: Shark Night 3D (2011) »

You can’t claim that you didn’t see this coming after the surprising success that was Piranha 3D. I’m talking about Shark Night 3D. The first trailer has surfaced and it smells of fantastic grade-B, party-gone-wrong cheese (it’s what made the 80s so memorable). Seven college kids set upon a house on a small lake island [...]

Movie Trailer: The Smurfs (2011) »

Fa la lalalala fa lala la laaa — the smurfy blue creatures from our 19080s Saturday morning cartoons are coming to the big screen in The Smurfs. In a 3D (2D too) offering from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Grouchy Smurf, Jokey Smurf and a bunch of other adjective named Smurfs [...]

Movie Trailer: The Ward (2010) »

Some may say the better days of horror pioneer John Carpenter (Halloween) are behind him. From the domestic trailer for The Ward it’s hard to say whether he’s returned to form or not (early festival reviews are a mixed bag) but it is good to at least see him in the director’s chair again, back [...]

Movie Trailer: Salvation Boulevard (2011) »

Church versus church. Pastor versus pastor. A member of the congregation holds the truth that could topple their empires. Based on the book of the same name (written by the stylized mind of Larry Beinhart), Salvation Boulevard exposes, while poking fun at, the goings-ons of evangelical megachurches. But, as the trailer for the movie released [...]

Movie Trailer: The Muppets (2011) »

I didn’t think it could happen, but fond childhood memories washed over me after watching the teaser trailer for The Muppets! Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal and others are back for another adventure which is sure to be comically interesting (Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller wrote the screenplay). Word is the puppet-marionette creations of [...]

Movie Trailer: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) »

You aren’t going to get the full effect here, but a new trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon is now showing in 3D. To really enjoy it, you’ll have to see it during a viewing of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (which you should be going out to watch any way.) This [...]

Movie Trailer: Zookeeper (2011) »

When you have lousy luck with the ladies, who do you seek advice from? A brother? A best friend? Griffin Keyes, the zookeeper at Franklin Park Zoo gets his tutelage from the animals he cares for. In the trailer for Zookeeper, he can be seen basking in those “making an ass of himself” moments which [...]

Movie Trailer: The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011) »

The much talked about trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn has arrived. In it (although this teaser trailer doesn’t divulge much), the young reporter finds himself — and his trusty dog Snowy — embroiled in a mystery involving ancestral and pirate lore while on the trail of sunken treasure. In the [...]

Movie Trailer: Straw Dogs (2011) »

There is a reason most Americans stay well clear of the deep South: They don’t like outsiders. In the trailer for Straw Dogs, L.A. screenwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy find out the hard way that good ‘ole boys ain’t always so good. It is a damn good way, however, to discover what you’re [...]

Movie Trailer: Cars 2 (2011) »

The latest trailer for Cars 2 has arrived. In the Disney•Pixar follow-up to the oft-criticized Cars, Lightning McQueen and his cadre of friends from Radiator Springs travel the globe to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world’s fastest car. This time, however, it isn’t all about the egotistical McQueen getting a [...]

Movie Trailer: Horrible Bosses (2011) »

We’ve all experienced what it is like to work for an asshole boss. Nick (Jason Bateman) has to deal with an egomaniacal Kevin Spacey, Dale (Charlie Day) is getting sexually harassed by Jennifer Aniston and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) is plagued with an idiotic, non-pc Colin Farrell. As quitting isn’t a viable option, the trio hatch [...]

Movie Trailer: Final Destination 5 (2011) »

Looks like some teenagers have snubbed death once again, and he (assuming the reaper is actually male) wants to collect what is rightfully his. Don’t expect too much from the first trailer for Final Destination 5 — it doesn’t offer up much else other than to let you know some guys in a room have [...]

Movie Trailer: Retreat (2011) »

If there is one thing compelling about the trailer of Retreat it’s that Jamie Bell looks like he makes a great psycho. Otherwise, the movie appears to be like any other run-of-the mill “take a helpless stranger in only to be terrorized by said helpless stranger” flick. Hopefully there is something more to the movie [...]

Movie Trailer: Colombiana (2011) »

A cold-blooded assassin never looked so damn good. And that’s because she’s Zoe Saldana — a hitwoman by trade and murderess of those responsible for her parents death at night. The new 2:20 trailer for Colombiana shows a lot of promise (which should be no surprise as Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, the brainiacs [...]

Movie Trailer: Conan the Barbarian (2011) »

A second trailer for the grittier and bloodier reboot of Conan the Barbarian has been released by Lionsgate today. It appears to be a closer depiction to what Robert E. Howard wrote, but it still seems to be missing what I want from my Conan movie — the indiscriminate bedding of scantily-clad women, the drinking [...]

Movie Trailer: Green Lantern (2011) »

The second theatrical trailer for the Green Lantern has been available today by Warner Bros. Pictures. I’m still scratching my head as to why a B-list comic character has been made into a such a high profile movie but from what is shown here my interest has been re-piqued (the first trailer was a complete [...]

Movie Trailer: The Ledge (2011) »

Why can’t men resist a beautiful woman? As seen in trailer for the upcoming thriller The Ledge Liv Tyler (the aforementioned woman) is at the crux of a love triangle between her God-fearing husband, Patrick Wilson, and her agnostic boss, Charlie Hunnam. It gets to an ugly head which ultimately results with Hunnam on the [...]

Movie Trailer: Intruders (2011) »

Something is amiss at the Farrow household. What it is, the creepy teaser trailer for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders doesn’t definitively show us. What it does shed light on is the daughter is in tune with it somehow and it ain’t friendly. With any luck this movie will add some good frights to the Halloween [...]

Movie Trailer: One Day (2011) »

Once a year, on the day of their university graduation, Emma and Dexter get together to celebrate the day they met. Based on the acclaimed novel by David Nicholls, One Day is a tale, spanning some 20 years, of enduring love and friendship through the best and worst of times for two people on separate [...]

Movie Trailer: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) »

If you thought the Decepticons were going to go away that easily, boy you were wrong. Paramount Pictures has finally launched the second official trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Megatron, et al appear to have found a new way to tilt the balance of power to their side. In doing so, Transformers: [...]

Movie Trailer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) »

Finally. Your craving has been satisfied and your Hogwartsian prayers have been answered. The trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has arrived and, even if I do say so myself (coming from a person who thought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 was a bit of a letdown), it [...]

Movie Trailer: X-Men: First Class (2011) »

What is probably the final trailer for X-Men: First Class, has been made available by 20th Century Fox via Yahoo! today ahead of the film’s highly anticipated June release. This latest extended teaser drops more visuals as to the looks, powers and relationships of the mutant teams and further establishes the philosophical differences between their [...]

Movie Trailer: What’s Your Number? (2011) »

The international trailer for the R-rated comedy What’s Your Number? has been made available by 20th Century Fox. In what looks like a funny, albeit a less than stellar premise, Anna Faris digs through her past boyfriends in search of Mr. Right. Her neighbor, a commitment-phobic playboy, played by Chris Evans, aids in her exploration [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: 30 Minutes or Less (2011) »

Pizza delivery isn’t all about getting to screw lonely housewives (Loverboy). Sometimes these front-liners can get kidnapped and forced to rob a bank as the expletive-ridden, new R-rated trailer for 30 Minutes or Less shows us. Something tells me this action-comedy directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) is going to be one to not miss this [...]

Movie Trailer: The Art of Getting By (2011) »

An updated trailer for The Art of Getting By (formerly known as Homework) has been made available by Fox Searchlight Pictures. It stars Freddie Highmore as George, the misunderstood boy that has yet to be challenged, and Emma Roberts as Sally, the girl who can peel away George’s shell and force him from his apathetic [...]

Red Band Movie Trailer: The Change-Up (2011) »

The red-band trailer for the latest body swapping comedy The Change-Up has dropped. The swappers this go round are Dave, a husband and father of three, and Mitch an irresponsible, unemployed player. The producers are making it a point to let everyone know the braintrust behind Wedding Crashers and The Hangover are behind The Change-Up; [...]

Movie Trailer: Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011) »

Quack. Quack. Okay, that may not be the sound a penguin makes, but you’re sure to hear something that sounds like that for the entirity of Mr. Popper’s Penguins. The English version of the international trailer has been released, offering additional glimpses of the mayhem six beaked birds can cause in a Manhattan loft. Following [...]

Movie Trailer: Cowboys & Aliens (2011) »

The second trailer for John Favreau’s highly anticipated adaptation of the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens, has arrived. While it is filled to the brim with alien crafts, abductions and gun fights (Colt 6-shooters versus lasers), it still keeps how the the aliens appear masked and leaves the mysterious backstories for [...]

Movie Trailer: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) »

Ever wonder how the apes rose up and conquered Earth? The first trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes lays it out for you — genetic engineering with the best of intentions gone wrong. The story may be derivative, however, the movie is sure to excel in the visual effects department (Weta Digital, [...]

Movie Trailer: Priest (2011) »

Judging from this second trailer for Priest, no expense has been sparred for the action and look of this post-apocalyptic thriller loosely based on a popular Korean comic. In it, a warrior priest, acting against the Church’s wishes, tracks down a group of vampires that have kidnapped his niece. Helping with his endeavor is a [...]

Movie Trailer: Passion Play (2010) »

Love is intoxicating, especially when, as the trailer of Passion Play depicts, the object of desire is an angel. Nat, a washed-up, tired jazz musician wants to save her (and himself along the way). Happy Shannon, a ruthless gangster and Sam, the owner of the carnival where “The Bird Woman” is the star attraction, wish [...]

Movie Trailer: The Debt (2010) »

An updated trailer has been released for The Debt by Focus Features today. Spanning two time periods, the John Madden-directed drama revolves around three Mossad secret agents and what they did in 1966 (targeting a Nazi war criminal) and how those actions affected them today. If the trailer is any indication, The Debt looks to [...]

Movie Trailer: Melancholia (2011) »

If you’ve seen Antichrist or Dogville, you know Lars von Trier is an artistic director who does not shy away from deep, dark, bleak, and generally very unsettling subject matter. The trailer for his latest, Melancholia, doesn’t say either way, but you can get a sense of what may come: Due to a freak planetary [...]

Movie Trailer: Anonymous (2011) »

Apparently in some circles (you know, the ones inhabited by “academics and brilliant minds”) there is a raging debate whether the 37 plays and 154 sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare were really written by William Shakespeare. Sounds dry, I know, but I suppose if anyone can make, what on the surface seems uninteresting interesting, Roland [...]

Movie Trailer: Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) »

Hitch meets The 40 Year Old Virgin with a mix of family values? Judging from the trailer of Crazy, Stupid, Love. that may be an apt description. In it, bland and fortyish Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) finds himself recently divorced from his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) (she cheated on him) and sticking out like a [...]

Movie Trailer: The Hangover Part II (2011) »

The four “boys” from The Hangover are back in full party force in The Hangover Part II. What can you expect from them this time around? Well from the trailer which dropped late last night, a big helping of the same insane antics that got them in trouble the first time, is what. The minor [...]

Movie Trailer: Everything Must Go (2010) »

If you attended the Toronto International Film Festival or the London Film Festival last year you would have caught a viewing of the comedy-drama Everything Must Go. For those of us who didn’t attend either, this fresh trailer provides a glimpse into Nick Halsey’s really crappy situation. In a single day he’s lost his job, [...]

Movie Trailer: Midnight in Paris (2011) »

Every year Woody Allen writes and directs at least one movie (his films have a more of a foothold in European cinema nowadays). His first for 2011 is Midnight in Paris. Set in picturesque Paris, it examines the relationship dynamics of a soon-to-be married couple as they travel away from their comfort zone. Will Midnight [...]

Movie Trailer: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) »

The first trailer of the eagerly awaited Captain America: The First Avenger has finally dropped. If you were anticipating some major action set pieces, however, you’re going to be slightly disappointed — this trailer touches more upon the how Captain America came into being than the what Captain America does to the Red Skull and [...]

Movie Trailer: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) »

Ahoy Mateys! The theatrical trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the highly prized Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, has been released into the wild. The film, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, Ian McShane as the ruthless pirate Blackbeard, Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa, Kevin R. [...]

Feature: Top 10 Depictions of Satan in a Movie »

I was holding out to see if Terry Gilliam could top his depiction of Satan in Time Bandits with that of Satan in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus before finishing off this list. He didn’t, so here is my Top 10 list of Movie Satans in the same form it was in a month or [...]

Feature: Top 10 Sexiest Bodysuits in a Movie »

The form fitting bodysuit/catsuit, made from leather, PVC, spandex — who cares. On the right figure, they all look simply spectacular. Criteria: Has to be a full bodysuit (i.e., cover arms and legs); classic black in color.

Feature: Top 10 Movie Robots »

Now that I’ve officially seen Transformers: Rise of the Fallen (yeah, I’m that slow), I can put this list of Top 10 Movie Robots together. Criteria: Has to be a mobile machine; nothing hand drawn; only one candidate eligible from a film or film series.

Feature: Top 10 Hottest Movie Strippers »

In honor of Ms. Jessica Biel adding herself to the list of actresses who’ve played a stripper on the big screen, I developed my personal top 10 list of the best and sexiest strippers in a movie. Criteria: Must be a known actress in a stripper role. There may be a few NSFW clips down [...]

Feature: Top 10 Funniest Poop Scenes in a Movie »

Fart scenes are funny. They’re even funnier when a good case of the Hershey Squirts are added in for good measure. So, while spending the better part of the day atop the porcelain throne, I starting listing the funnier movie moments that captured the hilarity of moving one’s bowels (my top 10 fart list will [...]

Feature: Top 10 Best Christmas Movies »

With the holidays upon us, I felt it was my duty to bring some Christmas spirit to all. Below is a list of my favorite movies that embody what this time of year is all about — fun, family and friends. Criteria: Theatrical release; have something to do with Christmas.

Feature: Top 10 Star Wars Movie Quotes »

I was holding out on this list until I saw Star Wars: The Clone Wars as I was thinking that perhaps something said would strike me as memorable. Nothing did. Criteria: Quote can come from any of the Star Wars installments.

Feature: Top 10 Cameos in a Comedy »

Sometimes a cameo appearance can put a movie over the top. Using this definition of cameo “a minor part played by a prominent performer in a single scene of a motion picture”, I’ve developed a list of the most memorable ones that I’ve seen in a comedy. My Criteria: Actor can’t play themselves in the [...]

Feature: Top 10 Fake Music Bands in a Movie »

It’s been done before, but not by me. Criteria: No solo acts; no documentaries; movie doesn’t have to be about the band in question.

Feature: Top 10 High School Comedies »

Several months ago, I compiled a list of the Top 10 College Comedies. Seeing as the initial brainstorm had a bunch of high school flicks in it, it was only natural to compile this list. Criteria: High schoolers; doesn’t necessarily have to take place on campus.

Feature: Top 10 Actresses with the Sexiest Lips »

While mindlessly watching television, a Revlon commercial caught my eye. It was basically nothing more than sexy, red pouting lips flashing across the screen. That got me to thinking about full-lipped actresses and from that, this list was born. Criteria: Actress in film; have lips that I obviously find luscious; under 40-years of age I’m [...]

Feature: Top 10 College Comedies »

Apparently, the good General watched American Pie Presents: Beta House the other day and while he enjoyed the T & A show, he wasn’t so happy about the obvious similarities with some of the other great college comedies of the past. So after he asked nicely, I’ve put my skills to use to add another [...]

Feature: Top 10 Movies with Male Crossdressers »

Last year at the final NASCAR event at Homestead I stayed in Miami Beach, one of the trendiest gay areas in America. Realizing a few of my friends are en route to Miami Beach next week for the final NASCAR race of the season, I got to wondering how many of them will end up [...]

Feature: Top 10 Hottest Bald-Headed Actresses »

There is no other reason for this list other than the fact that while buzzing my own hair off I wondered how many actresses had done the same thing. Turns out not so many. Criteria: Must have shaved or buzz cut their hair for a movie role — no bald caps.

Feature: Top 10 Hottest Models Turned Successful Actress »

While watching Fair Game, I noticed how poor of an actress Cindy Crawford was. She looked fantastic, but couldn’t act her way out of a wet paper bag. This set my analytical mind into motion and I immediately set upon creating a list of beautiful models who became successful actresses. Undoubtedly, this will lead to [...]

Feature: Top 10 Hottest Redheaded Actresses »

While channel surfing, I happened across this ridiculous show: Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List starring Kathy Griffin (obviously). Aside from being unfunny, the only thing that struck me was her red hair. Gears started turning in my head and I started to think about redheaded actresses in general. Who are they? Which of [...]

Feature: Top 10 Movie Presidents »

Watching those ridiculous YouTube Democratic presidential debates the other day made me ask myself: what movies had better presidents than the current crop running for office? As usual I set right to work to figure it out. Criteria: Must be a president, elected or otherwise (obviously); has to have more than just a quick entrance/photo [...]

Feature: Top 10 Stoner Movies »

While at a party over the weekend I was hanging around a few folks who were happily puffing away and talking incoherently. I got to asking myself, what are the best stoner movies? These guys offered up a few films rather quickly and by the end of the party the list was completed. Here is [...]

Feature: Top 10 Movies Starring Midgets »

While watching a television show titled Little People, Big World I got to wondering how many midgets are working in Hollywood. How many of their roles were actually any good? What I thought would be any easy list to churn out was a lot harder to compile than it should have been. Criteria: No Christmas [...]

Feature: Top 10 Hottest Crazy-Eyed Actresses »

While watching a Rodney Dangerfield movie (Easy Money, if you must know), I came to wonder how many actresses are running around Hollywood with screwy eyes? How many would I sleep with? So of course I set upon figuring it out and I’ve ranked them on their “do-ability”. Criteria: She has to be have appeared [...]

Feature: Top 10 Movies Starring Folks With Mental Defects »

Time for another Top Ten list. I thought of this one while watching some random news anchor talk about Paris Hilton and Rosie O’Donnell. Here is the criteria for Movies With Mentally Defective Characters: It must have had a full theatrical release — no made for television movies; be/have major character(s) that are mentally challenged [...]

Feature: Top 10 Fat Person Movies »

While sitting on the couch eating a microwavable burrito I was suddenly inspired to reach back into the recesses of my mind and compile a list of movies starring fat people. No other reason except I needed to fill in the two minutes of downtime I had while waiting for the other burrito to warm [...]

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