When was the last time we saw a hypersexual family comedy? Does Addams Family Values count? In The Family Tree, we revisit the forgotten genre and talents of Christina Hendricks, Hope Davis, Oscar-winning songwriter Keith Carradine, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Anwar, and Selma Blair in full Velma Kelly drag. How refreshing! It also helps that Christina Hendricks weeps about dildos.
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Nothing edifies the soul like an endless barrage of CGi fire. Remember when you'd come home from school in your wool cap, set your knapsack down in the chilly den, and Mother would crank up computer-animated flames in the plasma-screen hearth? Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance understands and would like to add a few more soul-tickling items to your precious memories: Nicolas Cage's terrifying gaze, leather jackets, and fire pee. Serious.
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"I done a lot of things, that I ain't proud of. Hurt a lot of people." So says a repentant Gerard Butler as real-life ex-con Sam Childers at the beginning of the trailer for Marc Forster's September curio, Machine Gun Preacher. How can Childers save his crumbling soul? By becoming a born-again missionary helping orphans in the Sudan... and by hurting those who oppose with the aide of a bazooka. What did you expect?
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Like the killer in a Texan massacre tale, this Jessica Chastain person keeps coming back! In every possible supporting role! With the new movie Texas Killing Fields, the Tree of Life lumberjill co-stars alongside Sam Worthington (who looks a lot like Nathan from The Real World: Seattle these days, in case you were wondering) and Chloe Moretz in a tale of serial murder and Southern accents. Director Ami Canaan Mann is Michael Mann's daughter, which officially makes this film a hotbed for a new school of talent. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan is like the principal of that school.
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Today in 3-D sequel news, Screen Gems has unveiled the trailer for Underworld: Awakening, the fourth (and possibly last) installment in the Kate Beckinsale vampire-and-werewolf franchise. So! Squeeze into your best leather body suit, find some blue cellophane to look through, and click ahead to see Beckinsale reprise her role as the most badass vampire warrioress at the box office.
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The long, strange saga of Trespass is piling on the milestones of late, with this week's TIFF premiere announcement supplemented today by a new trailer. Is this home-invasion thriller, as one early viewer noted not too long ago, in fact Joel Schumacher's Funny Games? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is certain: This definitely looks like Joel Schumacher's latest Joel Schumacher film.
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Fighter piloting is inherently cinematic, so when a new movie comes out in the vein of Memphis Belle and Top Gun, I already hear the swells of music and gunfire. But in the case of Red Tails, the new Anthony Hemingway drama that arrives in theaters January 20, the grace of the genre is replaced with spotty dialogue and catatonic performances. Cuba Gooding Jr., you may as well call this movie Plane Trip.
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In this summer's Captain America, Chris Evans embodies a sickly man who, after being injected with miracle drug, becomes a crime-fighting hero. In this September's based-on-a-true-story indie Puncture, Chris Evans plays a sickly (in the drug-addicted sense) lawyer who chooses to fight health care crime in the court room. Watch Evans transition away from his Marvel superhero role in the first trailer for Puncture after the jump.
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The logline for The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe's first post-Harry Potter film, is as follows: "While taking care of a deceased client's estate, a young lawyer encounters a mysterious woman dressed in black and uncovers a tragic secret." Sounds typical? What that neglects to tell you, however, is that The Woman in Black features enough creepy dolls, creepy photographs and creepy images to give you day terrors. (Are "day terrors" a thing? They should be.) Click through to watch the scariest trailer of the week/month and to check out its 10 most unsettling images.
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Since modern sex comedies are so often listless (see: The Change-Up), perhaps a trip back to the 19th century will liven things up. Fresh off announcing the Gala premiere of the Tanya Wexler-directed Hysteria, the Toronto International Film Festival has released a new trailer for the period sex comedy replete with more orgasms than most late night Skinemax films. Scandalous! Or at least an heir to the throne of sexual antics of Road to Wellville.
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Milla Jovovich has squared off against many insidious adversaries in her career, including zombies (Resident Evil), evil itself (The Fifth Element), and critics (The Messenger). So why is it that her latest foe, a real-life affliction known as prosopagnosia -- which confuses a person's ability to recognize the faces of friends and loved ones (or, in Jovovich's case in Faces in the Crowd, the face of her would-be killer) -- seem like the silliest and most far-fetched enemy of all?
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First 50/50 released a theatrical trailer some 30 seconds shorter than its teaser trailer, and now Footloose has done the same thing. Is this the beginnings of a trend? Have the definitions of "trailer" and "teaser" been reversed at some point in the last 48 hours? Will there be a memo sent out explaining the cause? Silly questions, sure, but also more interesting than what's presented in the somewhat boring new trailer for Footloose. Bring back the "teaser"!
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"If you were a casino game, you'd have the best odds." So says Kyle (Seth Rogen) to his best friend Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) after finding out he has a 50/50 chance of beating his recently diagnosed cancer. Based on the real-life experience of screenwriter (and Rogen pal) Will Reiser, 50/50 is hoping to thread the needle between comedy and drama, all while dealing with a touchy subject: potentially terminal illness. Judging from the latest trailer, it won't be as hard as you'd imagine. Click through for a look.
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If there's one simple request I have of Kevin Spacey, it's that he take one movie off from wearing a suit. Mix it up! Grow your hair out! Wear schlubby clothes! Don't always be so Kevin Spacey-esque, Kevin Spacey, because it's become a thing and we're all tired of it. Which is why the new trailer for the indie comedy Father of Invention seems a step in the right direction. Long prison beard and an everyman's sense of humility? Bring it on, Spaceman.
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Oh, no; Taylor Lautner's life is a lie! In the new trailer for Abduction, Twilight's crybaby sex wolf enters a world of intrigue and fear -- and I do mean the fearful stare of Sigourney Weaver, who suddenly resembles Christopher Walken when acting terrified. Will Taylor Lautner be smooth enough to survive when he's stripped of his identity instead of his clothes?
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