It's been five years since Wes Craven last directed a film (the solid little Rachel McAdams thriller Red Eye), and sixteen years since he directed one that he wrote himself (Wes Craven's New Nightmare). The new My Soul to Take ends both of those droughts, but the new trailer isn't exactly thirst-quenching.
Since the success of Mulholland Drive, there has been a sad dearth of beautiful actresses making out in trippy art-house dramas designed to make you question what's really real, man. Into that void comes Black Swan with a dramatic jeté.
Eastbound and Down ended last season with Danny McBride's baseball washout, Kenny Powers, abandoning his true love after by leaving her at a gas station and heading to Mexico. Apparently, he just got there.
Did you think Joaquin Phoenix's rap career was a smirky stunt? It may well have been, but now that a trailer's been released for I'm Still Here, the documentary Casey Affleck directed about Phoenix's Hollywood sabbatical, it appears the joke is on us.
For a certain group of the population -- all television critics on Twitter, for instance -- the name Shawn Ryan means "Must See TV"; the veteran showrunner made The Shield for FX and, as such, has a lifetime pass. Good thing, then, since from the looks of his new FX series Terriers, he's going to need some slack.
You don't see a lot of movies set in Pittsburgh, huh? Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys and, um, that's about it. (Thank goodness for the books of Michael Chabon, right?) So three cheers (and rivers) for Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days, the movie destined to put Pittsburgh on the Hollywood map... by giving Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson some terrible accents.
When Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway got together in Brokeback Mountain, there were a few issues: Jake kept disappearing off on "fishing trips," Thanksgiving dinner took forever, and even in her most poignant moments, Hathaway simply couldn't keep the old-lady lipstick off her teeth. Things may go better for their reteaming in Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs if this trailer is any indication, because at least they've got Viagra on their side now.
The key tenet to Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's best-selling book series Freakonomics is that incentive makes the world go 'round. So what are the incentives for you to see a documentary based their writings? Well, there are six actually: Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), Seth Gordon (King of Kong), and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp).
How do you know it's almost the end of the summer? Because the trailer for How Do You Know has arrived. The question mark-less James L. Brooks romantic comedy -- featuring a murderer's row cast of Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson -- doesn't hit theaters until Christmas, but that doesn't mean its too early to start the hype machine on the first film from the Oscar-winner in six years. Besides, it already looks better than Spanglish.
American remakes of foreign films have become so commonplace that even a statute of limitations barely exists anymore; Le Dîner de Cons -- the French film that Dinner for Schmucks was based on -- came out in 1998. So by those standards, Zhang Yimou's Chinese conversion of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple -- A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop -- feels positively warranted. After all, it has been 26 years since the original came out.
If you needed any further proof that Marvel's Hulk franchise is irrevocably cursed, then have a look at the stirring trailer for HALKa -- the downmarket Bangladeshi adaptation that will have everyone from Edward Norton to Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige quivering with inferiority. Is it too late to replace Mark Ruffalo?
Part of District 9's novelty came from its setting: While films like Independence Day and the upcoming Battle: Los Angeles posit that invading aliens will choose Los Angeles as their point of first contact, District 9 set its extraterrestrials in South Africa, an immediately refreshing and offbeat choice. Now we've got the trailer for the Comic-Con sci-fi vehicle Skyline, and it seems like the aliens are back to their old tricks again.
You've seen the epilepsy-inducing credit sequences from Gaspar Noe's surrealist Enter the Void, but now that IFC has put out a trailer in advance of the film's September 24 bow stateside, you can get a closer look at the whole hallucinogenic experience. Can you handle a film that simultaneously invokes elements of a first-person shooter, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the Rainbow Road stage from Super Mario Kart?
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark might have been scared of featuring Katie Holmes in its marketing materials, but The Romantics certainly isn't -- Mrs. Tom Cruise appears in almost every shot of the newly released trailer. Though since the film looks like a warmed-over version of Rachel Getting Married recast with television actors, perhaps Holmes should be the one worrying.
What's there to say about the trailer for Jackass 3D, other than the fact that the trailer is not in 3D? Well, not much. But, if you like watching grown men do increasingly ridiculous stunts with reckless abandon to their body and their surroundings, then this is the movie for you!
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