Ever since deranged Dutch filmmaker Tom Six announced that Human Centipede 2 would make his original mouth-to-anus picture "look like a Disney film," we have been anxiously awaiting video evidence. After seeing this week's Australian teaser debut, IFC Films has granted us a first trailer for The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, which has already been banned in the U.K. So guys, hold on tight to your Human Centipede charm necklaces and click through -- except for you, Donnie Wahlberg.
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"We just need a little adventure. [...] A big year to do everything we never could," explain the trio of lead characters in the trailer for David Frankel's The Big Year. Because 365 days worth of adventure-seeking and ticking off bucket-list items will surely drive the crises right out of Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. And at the very least, that "big year" will give the comedic actors a reason to goof around on skis, forge meaningful bonds and, most likely, realize that the cure to their middle-aged woes have been in plain view the entire time. Or am I missing the plot entirely?
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Imagine if Sofia Coppola's Somewhere had been about a girl who bonds with her estranged musician father while on tour instead of a girl who bonds with her estranged movie star dad at the Chateau Marmont. That alternative scenario is exactly what writer/director David M. Rosenthal explores in Janie Jones, which stars Abigail Breslin as the titular offspring and Alessandro Nivola as her struggling rocker father.
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It's not often that I'm intrigued, bothered, titillated, confused, and exhilarated after watching a trailer, but A Dangerous Method does the trick. In the new preview for the dazzling Keira Knightley/Michael Fassbender Freud drama, we watch as Knightley begs to be beaten (not sexy), Fassbender reinvents Talented Mr. Ripley sailboat glamor (sexy), and Freud (Viggo Mortensen) drops in for some insight (id-tickling sexy)!
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Compared to the other releases set for Sept. 23 (Moneyball, Killer Elite, Abduction, Machine Gun Preacher), precious little is known about The Double. Correction: after watching the new trailer for the Richard Gere-led thriller, everything seems known about The Double. If you thought the trailer for Dream House gave up the farm, you ain't seen nothing yet!
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If Sean Penn didn't love the abstract narrative Terrence Malick employed in Tree of Life, maybe he'll dig the pretty-similar, much more conventional stuff in the long-delayed Fireflies in the Garden -- a Tree of Life Lite starring Ryan Reynolds as a middle-aged man who returns to his Texas childhood home to deal with his strained relationship with his stern father (Willem Dafoe). Period flashbacks, memories of an angelic mother (Julia Roberts), and a pivotal death that inspires exploration into deep emotional scars? The only things missing are the cosmic clouds of particles laden with meaning. Would Penn approve?
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Jennifer Lawrence introduced a suspenseful, heavily forested preview of The Hunger Games at the tail end of MTV's Video Music Awards in a pre-taped segment from North Carolina, where the adaptation of Suzanne Collins's bestseller is still being shot. And speaking of being shot: In the clip, Lawrence takes aim with a fiery arrow and artfully dodges some woodsy danger. Indeed, she's the new goddess of the hunt. Watch after the jump.
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Hunter S. Thompson fans have been patiently waiting over a decade for The Rum Diary to reach the big screen. (In fact, the adaptation process, which began in 2000, was so frustrating that the author himself coined the phrase "waterhead fuckaround" to describe the slow studio proceedings.) But The Rum Diary is finally in the can with a fall release date thanks to English writer and director Bruce Robinson, Thompson's long-time friend Johnny Depp and Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil. Let's take a look at the trailer!
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Red band trailers are the Movieline reader's one-stop shop for swear words, PG nudity, and otherwise offensive dialogue. They're the Costco of cusses. In the new red band trailer for the pleasant-seeming Our Idiot Brother (read the Movieline review here), Paul Rudd befuddles his parole officer, interrupts some schtupping, and survives the cutting commentary of his sister Elizabeth Banks. It's all very red, you know?
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Cannes favorite The Artist looks flashy and frothy, but that combination is perfect for Michel Hazanavicius's sumptuous melodrama (in theaters Nov. 23) set in old Hollywood. It's chock-full of Errol Flynn mustaches, Marcel waves, mink stoles, and the kind of magnificent Tinseltown excesses that killed everyone on E!'s Mysteries and Scandals. The new English trailer is available in HD, so let's watch ahead.
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Here at Movieline, we've seen some pretty random casts take the screen. Take for instance, the WTF-ery of The Big Bang (James Van Der Beek, Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg) or the brain teaser talent pool on Dorothy of Oz (Lea Michele, Kelsey Grammer and Patrick Stewart). But what can possibly be said about a trailer featuring Winona Ryder, Hilary Duff, Chevy Chase, Jon Cryer, Josh Holloway and Sean Astin acting out a second-rate Grosse Point Blank plot? Take a look at the trailer for Stay Cool and then we'll try to articulate our thoughts.
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The SXSW/Outfest favorite Weekend, starring newcomers Tom Cullen and Chris New, explores what happens when a one-night stand turns into a meaningful bond -- and when the two lovers in question happen to be sexy, hirsute gentlemen who sometimes look like each others' doppelgangers. In other words, this movie should be taught in schools. View the trailer for director Andrew Haigh's touching (not cloying!), honest (not earnest!) film after the jump.
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Of all the features set to premiere at this year's Toronto Film Festival, only one production resulted in the deportation of its lead. That film is Luc Besson's biopic The Lady, which stars Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress and Burmese deportee Michelle Yeoh as Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner and Burmese government protester. Finally, a teaser trailer for this controversial picture has surfaced.
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If you're a Martin Scorsese fanboy or girl troubled by the fact that the great director is releasing Hugo -- a 3-D kids movie that looks like something Shawn Levy could have directed -- this year, some hope: the first trailer for Scorsese's long-in-the-making HBO documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World has arrived online, and it's as epic as the film's near four-hour running time. Click through to watch.
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Ever since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Movieline -- as well as pretty much anyone who has seen Martha Marcy May Marlene -- has been predicting an Oscar nomination for its breakout leading lady Elizabeth Olsen. Now, thanks to two more haunting trailers from Fox Searchlight, you can double dose on Olsen's apparently brilliant work as a young woman trying to move past her eerie cult experience and wonder again, "Will Olsen be this year's Jennifer Lawrence?"
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