If you haven't noticed from idly clicking around the Internet today while you were supposed to be working, this week before Christmas is poised to be a slow one. Which is good because you can get your last minute holiday shopping done (cough, Gift Guide), but bad because boring! Thankfully, the teaser for Wilfred has arrived to brighten your day. That it begins with Elijah Wood penning the third (and then fourth) version of his suicide note is of no consequence.
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Directors like Tim Burton have cited the classic British horror movies produced by Hammer Films as huge influences on their work. Burton even used Hammer Films regular Christopher Lee in multiple movies, including his most direct tribute to British horror, Sleepy Hollow. Now after a long period of hibernation, Hammer Films is back! They produced this year's superb Let Me In, they are working on The Woman in Black, starring the grown-up Daniel Radcliffe, and now they've released the trailer for Wake Wood, their first original horror film since 1976. Get ready for Pagan rituals and people getting sucked into the ground.
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The teaser for Paul revealed the setup of this geek-wet-dream-alien-road-trip-comedy (sure to soon be a profitable Hollywood sub-genre), and now the full trailer gives a glimpse at the follow-through. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are still hilarious, but the trailer as a whole is kind of a mixed bag. Well, unless you just can't get enough alien dick jokes. Then it's a home run.
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Here's a Hollywood truism for Dec. 16: No matter how stringy the wig you put on Bradley Cooper looks, he's still Bradley Cooper. Translation: He's really good looking! Yet the trailer for Limitless would have us believe that Cooper was a dingy old writer (with John Cusack's wig from Being John Malkovich) and that only some crazypants clear pill -- which has some deadly side effects, as we've learned -- could make him look like "Bradley Cooper." Riiiiight.
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Here's an inspirational story for the holidays: Director Tom Shadyac was living the dream as the A-List director of cash cows like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor and Liar Liar. Then, after surviving a near-fatal bike accident, Shadyac adopted a completely new perspective on life. He sold his house and moved into a mobile home, got out of Hollywood, and gave away a large amount of his money. Now, he's directed the documentary I am, which purports to examine what's wrong with the world and what we can do to change it.
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While the Water For Elephants trailer certainly doesn't skimp on the elephants, it's oddly lacking in clowns, lion tamers and all of the other outcasts and oddities that make the circus so fascinating. I suppose that seeing Robert Patinson and Reese Witherspoon hang out with an elephant is almost as interesting, but still, if Hollywood is going to go to the circus, it'd be nice if they went all the way.
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Unless you were one of the chosen people Fox Searchlight invited to their lot two weeks ago for a special "screening" of the trailer for Terrence Malick's Tree of Life -- or, you know, unless you spotted it pirated on YouTube; or in the theater when you saw Black Swan -- this is the first time you're seeing anything resembling moving images from the much-delayed film. Try not to hyperventilate, folks! Let's hold hands and take a look together.
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It seems like the Gangster-comedy sub-genre should be scraping the bottom of a dry well by now, but they just keep coming! And while A Somewhat Gentle Man indeed looks like rehash of dark comedy we've seen before, the fact that character actor and Lars Von Trier regular Stellan Skarsgård (Breaking the Waves, Mamma Mia!) plays the lead offers hop that maybe this Norwegian import has more to offer than the trailer suggests.
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Well, if nothing else, maybe Take Me Home Tonight will go down as the death rattle for the 80s nostalgia coming-of-age film. It's set in 1988, so I suppose maybe we'll see one in a few years set in 1989, but based on this trailer, I'd say it's about time to move on. It's actually bizarre how comfortable the marketing for this film seems with every single overused last-great-party-of-youth cliche known to man. That said, the film does have one secret weapon, and as with Yogi Bear trailer, it's extremely under-utilized here.
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Can you believe that we live in a world where five versions of The Fast & The Furious exist? Me neither! But they do, and people love them. Which, despite having never seen one of the films in this franchise, I can understand: Watching property get decimated at an alarming pace is fun...especially when you don't have to clean up after all those explosions.
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Another day, another trailer featuring Johnny Depp. You know what that means: The biggest actor in the world will have two more Golden Globe nominations to add to his impressive tally next year! Never mind that he only voices the chameleon at the heart of Gore Verbinski's Rango; if the Golden Globes can nominate Jennifer Love Hewitt as Best Actress in a Mini-Series, they can certainly find room for another shot of Depp.
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Much like The Matrix spawned two unwatchable sequels, so too did Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; in fact, if you can even remember one nonsensical plot point from either mega-grossing sequel -- hell, if you can even remember their titles -- you're already ahead of many people watching the just released teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Still, that first film -- that was fun! Can Pirates 4 recapture the glory?
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After awhile, there are only so many action movies about cops, spies or puddle-faced Shia LeBeouf one can take. A little variety is needed! So that's why I'm glad that Thor is here. Isn't it time we had a big, rollicking action movie starring a pantheon of Norse gods? After the break, take a look at the trailer for Marvel Studios' latest salvo for summer movie domination, Thor.
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The first trailer for Real Steel is here, and it delivers pretty much what it promised from the start: A Shawn Levy movie... about boxing robots... developed and trained by Hugh Jackman... as a father working out his issues with his adolescent son... while muttering and/or barking a succession of cornball action-movie clichés. One of them will no doubt turn up on the poster; let's deduce which.
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The fact that NBC has titled a midseason replacement about three incredibly imperfect couples Perfect Couples shows that the network understands irony. So maybe irony was what the network was also going for when it cut together this completely unfunny preview devoid of any romance to promote what is being called a romantic comedy. On the plus side though, it does feature Olivia Munn, Kyle Bornheimer and four other attractive young actors in bed a lot.
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