Stop me if this sounds familiar: Four siblings suffering from varying degrees of dysfunction try to win the approval of their domineering and outspoken father, all while a relatively famous person narrates the sitcom antics that ensue. It's Arrested Development, right? Try Peep World, Barry Blaustein's familial comedy that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.
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Based on the trailer, Jackass 3.5 looks like it delves into Dada expression a bit more elegantly than Jackass and Jackass 3-D, but does not quite reach the go-for-broke verve of Jackass 2. The aesthetics here indicate...nah, just kidding. As promised, Jackass 3.5, made up of leftover footage from Jackass 3-D, will premiere on your internet on April 1. If this excites you, then you should probably watch the first trailer.
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Here comes more middle-age malaise, this time with a talking dog and Christopher Plummer as a father who comes out of the closet after 44 years of marriage. Ewan McGregor is trying to sort it all out, and he's also just met a beautiful girl played by the lovely Mélanie Laurent from Inglorious Basterds. Cheer up, buddy! I have a feeling everything's going to be alright.
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Remember that two-year period when James McAvoy was a sexy up-and-coming actor capable of carrying great films like The Last King of Scotland and Atonement? Apparently the Scot took time off from such award-worthy projects to star in Penelope and Robert Redford's The Conspirator, a historical drama about the only female co-conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (played by a haggard-looking Robin Wright). The trailer for the latter was released today, and judging from those two minutes, The Conspirator will play out like a lesser History Channel movie and put you to sleep like a box full of Benadryl. Although there is one exciting moment, courtesy of a very unlikely actor.
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Unfair as it may be, it's often hard to get excited about movies that take place entirely in one or two rooms while two characters have it out verbally. That said, if you're going to stick two actors in a room and film them, you could do a lot worse than Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. A source play by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road) doesn't hurt either. For proof, just check out the totally riveting full length trailer for the Jones-directed HBO movie The Sunset Limited.
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It probably goes without saying that I've spent many sleepless nights pondering how well Tracy Morgan could hold his own against Al Pacino and Juliette Binoche in a dramatic role (Who hasn't?). And now, behold! The trailer for the Sundance closing night film The Son of No One not only hints at that answer, but throws Channing Tatum, Katie Holmes and Ray Liotta into the mix as well! And just look at that title! There's no comic relief in sight here; just struggles for redemption and revenge in the mean city streets. So how does the usually hilarious Morgan do when confronted with this dark material and these acting heavyweights?
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In the wake of all those crazy-making I Melt With You teasers, what we really need from our Sundance previews right now is a vessel for some good old-fashioned character and story. The trailer for Perfect Sense, a festival premiere starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green and directed by David Mackenzie, is not that vessel.
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You didn't wake up this morning thinking, "Man, if only I could see a trailer for a movie about a tire that kills people by exploding their heads," but sometimes life works in mysterious ways. As such, let's watch the first full-length trailer for Rubber, Quentin Dupieux's grindhouse horror film about the aforementioned sinister tire, and his many victims. Hide the Michelin baby!
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Darren Bousman's home invasion horror pic Mother's Day hasn't had the easiest time while struggling to see the light of day. Shot back in 2009, it's taken a long road to securing distribution, and earned mixed-to-mildly enthusiastic reviews among the fanboy elite at last September's Fantastic Fest -- not exactly the place to bow to "meh" reactions if you're trying to generate genre buzz. But, hey; this newly unearthed foreign sales promo could be just the ticket to reversing that tide of bad luck!
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It's never a good thing when a high-profile screenwriter gets the axe and a series creator tweets his discontent in the middle of production, but hey, how about a few dozen meta jokes? Revel in the fast-paced, action-packed, self-referential Scream-iness of the new Scream 4 trailer that just hit the web and forget about all the dramarama behind the scenes. Ghostface is back, and he's got a 4G wireless broadband connection!
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Gregg Araki directed the excruciatingly great Mysterious Skin with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the surprisingly funny Smiley Face with Anna Faris. And now the trailer for his latest flick, Kaboom, seems to bridging the gap between the goofs of the latter with the dread of the former.
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It's nice that romantic comedies are finally getting the message that sometimes women have other goals than just meeting "the one" and getting married so that they can settle down. But after watching the trailer for the Kate Hudson/Gael García Bernal cancer love story A Little Bit of Heaven, I have one more modest request for the genre. Could we please get a movie that's actually good? Or even a little bit good?
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While I'm on record as being at least curious about how Jim Henson Productions' in-development puppet film noir The Happytime Murders will play out, I'll readily admit that it could definitely go either way. Now, here's an early glimpse at the feature directorial debut from Todd Berger, who wrote the Happytime screenplay, and while it's not necessarily a home run, it doesn't sink all hope for a fun hard-boiled puppet murder movie either.
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You should never really judge a film by its trailer, if only because, like books and their covers, the trailer only tells the part of the story marketing wants you to know. So, let's all give the new trailer for Josh Radnor's well-received 2010 Sundance Audience Award winner a pass...because, hoo boy, is this one horrible.
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While Werner Herzog does narrate Cave of Forgotten Dreams, his 3-D documentary about the oldest-known man-made art in the Chauvet caves of Southern France, his voice-over is conspicuously absent from the first trailer. That's probably just as well, because I'm not positive that I could resist falling asleep if Herzog's soothing voice was paired with the sublime images presented here. At least not in 2-D.
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