I can usually judge whether I like a person based on how much they love Jean-Claude Van Damme. Do they relish in the grace of Bloodsport? The glory of Kickboxer? The sad-looking Raul Julia of Street Fighter? Then they are fine citizens. I hope those mensches are as torqued as I am for Assassination Games, the new Van Damme joint with a red band trailer that just arrived at our doorstep. Do I smell Oscar in the air? Or is that just the nutritional allure of raw brussel sprouts?
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If you had to sit through Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, there's a good chance you will be forced to see the fourth installment of the Spy Kids franchise when it premieres Aug. 19. Unfortunately for you, Sylvester Stallone will not be reprising his role as the unintentionally hilarious villain toymaker, and even more unfortunately, not even Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Ricky Gervais and the movie's Aromascope feature will be able to save the latest Spy Kids movie All the Time in the World from kid-approved ridiculousness. At least, that's what the latest trailer makes it seem like.
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Wondering what your favorite British actors have been up to since filming stopped on the Harry Potter franchise? Well, for some, it looks like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The upcoming adaptation of John le Carré's bestselling novel from Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson features Potter vets Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Toby Jones and Ciaran Hinds, as well as Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, and newly-minted Best Actor winner Colin Firth. British! Also, fantastic, judging by this new international teaser trailer.
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With all of the excitement about this week's Transformers: Dark of the Moon release, it's important not to forget the other lunar-themed film hitting theaters this summer: Apollo 18. The Weinstein brothers may have delayed the premiere of this found-footage-horror flick six months but that doesn't mean it is necessarily bad, right? Take a look at the second official trailer and see for yourself.
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When the trailer for The Adventures of Tintin was released online last month, it was met with some push-back from Steven Spielberg fans because of its Zemeckis-y tumble into the uncanny valley. Good thing, then, that Spielberg has another December release lined up to please his many devotees: the motion capture-free War Horse. The first trailer for the World War I drama about a boy (Jeremy Irvine) and his horse has arrived online, and you might want to bring a tissue to watch it ahead.
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"The president has initiated Ghost Protocol," intones an über-serious Tom Wilkinson at the start of the trailer for Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol. "The entire IMF has been disavowed." Yikes! What happens now, super agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)? "So, what happens now?" Yes -- just asked that question. Stop being difficult and just cue up some Eminem -- the first trailer for the fourth Mission: Impossible film is live and online.
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You'll read a lot in the coming 48 hours about how Michael Bay is the scourge of the Earth, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the dumbest movie of the summer, and the fact that it will make money only proves audiences are stupid. One retort for those of you who actually like Dark of the Moon? At least it isn't The Three Musketeers. Click ahead to watch the latest trailer for his Alexandre Dumas "adaptation."
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Titans! Will! Scream! Loudly. Noted film aficionado Ryan Seacrest debuted the brand-new trailer for Immortals on Monday morning, and the latest bit of marketing for the 300-like film does not disappoint -- especially if you're into seeing new Superman Henry Cavill yell shouts of encouragement to shirtless hordes at the top of his lungs.
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If you weren't sold on the Chris Evans-starring Captain America: The First Avenger yet, let the newly released theatrical trailer assuage your fears that it'll turn out to be another tame, Thor-level Marvel meh-fest. Instead, the trailer tells us, literally, what Edith Zimmerman learned the drunken way: Evans, and Captain America, is "gonna get so many girls." And boys. And anyone with a lingering fetish for the retro-futuristic stylings of Raiders of the Lost Ark and director Joe Johnston's underappreciated 1991 adventure The Rocketeer.
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Usually I'd support Ryan Kwanten in any effort he made to wear novelty costumes, but when it comes to superhero togs, I have to think twice. Can we tolerate another caped crusader -- let alone enjoy one -- after Green Lantern? In Griff the Invisible, Kwanten plays a wannabe comic hero stuck in the real world, and I'm sure we'll learn all about how he's heroic nonetheless. Is it enough of a twist on the familiar tale to warrant a viewing? Trailer and poster follow.
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Not even yesterday's first look photo of Robert De Niro and his great big bushy beard could prepare us for the non-stop macho action in the trailer for the Jason Statham-Clive Owen starrer Killer Elite, which hit the web today. After the jump, watch the wealth of punches, power kicks, explosions, gunshots, inventive action moves, and unabashed man love on display in the span of a minute and forty seconds. Then mark your calendars for September 23.
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So there's this animated Danish movie called The Great Bear that has been quietly making the festival rounds. I only today accidentally discovered the trailer, whose accompanying synopsis promises quite the story. But it's the animation itself that has me wondering what kind of legend The Great Bear has in store for it.
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With all of this talk about David Cronenberg's upcoming Cosmopolis feature starring Robert Pattinson -- which the Canadian government is kindly funding -- we've forgotten about A Dangerous Method. Fortunately, the film's trailer was released today to remind us of Cronenberg's historical project starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley as a psych patient with a daddy fetish. Click through for the Electra complex delights.
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You know what gets Movieline excited about Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Hearing James Franco talk all movie scientist-y while dramatic music underscores footage of a CGI ape defending John Lithgow's honor on a suburban street corner. With that in mind apparently, Twentieth Century Fox has customized the international trailer for Rupert Wyatt's Planet of the Apes reboot.
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Enough trailers. And posters. And character posters. And nostalgic featurettes. This is the last stop. The final Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II trailer is also the final Harry Potter trailer ever. At least until the reboots in ten years. Click ahead to watch the epic.
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