The trailer for Tom Hanks's latest directorial effort Larry Crowne has emerged, featuring the actor as a nice, average guy thrust into midlife uncertainty by a job layoff, scooter purchase, and new young friends made in a community college class taught by a sexy, jaded woman with whom he eventually falls in love. What? It could happen.
If three is a trend, say hello to the latest indie trend: Kids helping adults find their way in life. Things kicked off on this front in happythankyoumoreplease, where Josh Radnor's character was pushed into some semblance of adulthood following his encounter with an African-American orphan on the subway; on Friday, a high school wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti) will see how much he can learn from young runaway when Win Win opens; and later this year, two sorta-grave robbers (Jason Ritter and Jake Sandvig) get their maturity tested by an abandoned kid in A Bag of Hammers. What hath The Blind Side wrought?
The Russian X-Men: First Class trailer has more of everything -- More special effects, more banter (in Russian), more heroes and... more footage of what look like concentration camps. Actually, the way the epic, melodramatic music plays over this footage, you'd swear the studio was begging for Oscar nominations and not a vote of confidence from hipsters and comic book geeks. Watch your back, Super 8!
I get that once you've put yourself through the ringer and taken on some of the most challenging, memorable roles of the last 30 years, that maybe you want to just relax and get paid. That's fine! I'm sure Harvey Keitel knew exactly what he was getting into when he signed up to do Little Fockers. That said, could he have possibly been paid that much to star in what appears to be South Korea's answer to Mr. Bean?
Since we now have confirmation that U.S. audiences will have a chance to see the uncut version of A Serbian Film (AKA: The movie that sparks child pornography charges and police raids), it seems like as good of a time as any to check out the restricted trailer for the film. But what's that? Jason Statham just crashed a motorcycle through three windows and brought a Red Band trailer for his new vigilante cop movie Blitz as well! But which trailer makes better use of this marketing gimmick and crams in more explicit content? Let's break it down. Obviously, NSFW content lies ahead.
Sometime last year, Spike Jonze shot a 30-minute film with Arcade Fire called Scenes From the Suburbs in honor of the Canadian indie band's third album, The Suburbs. Today, the first trailer from said project (which was written by Jonze, Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler and Butler's bandmate/brother Will) surfaced on the Internet, complete with so much suburban teenage ennui and narrator nostalgia that it ends up feeling like a modern-day version of the viewer-beloved 90's movie The Sandlot. Let's investigate.
I was one of the few who wasn't totally enamored with the Super 8 Superbowl spot, which felt rushed and uneven to me. Knowing full-well that my minority opinion probably caused J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg no grief whatsoever, I'd still like to go ahead and formally apologize, because this new full length trailer is phenomenal.
Based on the full trailer for The Smurfs, I'm guessing that Shrek 2 and Daddy Daycare writers J. David Stern and David N. Weiss scored the most coveted writing gig in Hollywood. At points in the script where most writers may have paced back and forth for hours, struggling for the right words, this team could simply just fill in any blank with the word "smurf." In just under two minutes, the word is used in four different contexts, only two of which I understood. But will this movie go all the way?
During his short life, Bill Hicks managed to establish himself as one of the most groundbreaking, angry and flat-out hilarious comedians of his generation. His unique, confrontational stand-up has been well-documented in films like Sane Man and Relentless, but it's great to finally see a documentary like American: The Bill Hicks Story that delves deeper into his life, his philosophy and his battles with the establishment. That said, what's with all of the goofy animation here?
The genius thing about the Lifetime Network is that it takes sensational news stories and speedily fashions them into successful made-for-TV-movies by somehow making the most unsympathetic real-life female protagonists into sympathetic characters. For instance, the chick who was engaged to the Craigslist Killer? Lifetime made her an eager bride-to-be who was too obsessed with floral arrangements to notice her fiance's knife collection under the bed. Been there! And with the network's upcoming William & Kate -- the film about the next royal couple -- Lifetime throws a teary Kate Middleton character into a bathtub with a glass of Merlot and watches her heart break in real time. The future Queen of England is just like us.
You don't need to speak German to get the gist of Vincent Wants to Sea [sic], an odd-trio-psych-disorder-romcom-road movie that finally brings together some of the most nefarious scourges of neurology, psychology and pop music in one jaw-dropping trailer.
And you thought those X-Men: First Class posters were bad. The first "unofficial trailer" for Things Fall Apart -- the new film co-written and starring Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as a high school football player stricken with cancer -- has arrived online, and it packs enough terrible within its two minute-and-twenty-seven second running time to basically redefine terrible. This is like an SNL Digital Short, minus the production values. Oh, co-stars Mario Van Peebles and Ray Liotta, what hath time on the C-list wrought?
Murder mysteries have both harrowing and hokey connotations, but AMC's new trailer for its series The Killing looks to raise the bar on the genre for good. Let's check out the gritty four-minute trailer and recall our favorite murder mysteries (of all types) after the jump.
When we last checked in with Fast Five -- Universal's summer kick-off extravaganza of exploding cars and biceps -- things looked a little underwhelming. After all, how many cars could one watch explode before falling asleep from boredom? Judging from the new theatrical trailer for the film, that figure might place somewhere near infinity.
After three summers in a row of Pixar movies that moved more than half of the audience to tears, the new trailer for Cars 2 seems to more or less guarantee that we'll be able to leave the tissues at home this time. The plot setup seems even more convoluted in this trailer (something to do with international espionage and...racing), but that doesn't mean you can't kick back, relax and enjoy the pretty colors, wink-nudge one-liners and wacky antics of Larry the Cable Guy.
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