As befits the maker of four consecutive American masterpieces in the '70s, nothing can possibly override Francis Ford Coppola's lifetime exemption from irrelevance. Which isn't to say he's reliable; his much-anticipated return from a 10-year hiatus ended anticlimactically in 2007 with the incomprehensible, navel-dwelling drama Youth Without Youth. But Coppola wasn't about to disappear again, turning instead to Tetro, his first original screenplay since The Conversation and your official Vincent Gallo fix for the next two minutes.
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After leaving you all with an excruciating case of bluepinkies by snapping away the bootlegged version of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer shortly after we put it up, I felt you deserved something in its place to release all that pent-up, anticipatory fanboy tension. And do I have it: Lock your bedroom doors and tell your moms you'll be late for dinner, people. It's the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra trailer.
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The last we saw of Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, they were soberly chasing Oscar in a pair of nun's habits. Their reunion in Julie & Julia promises a lighter lilt in their summertime pursuit of female moviegoers, while the new trailer hints at a bit of narrative gimmickry you might know from yet another Streep effort from not long ago.
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The new trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is expected in theaters soon, but a viewer who caught an early glimpse apparently decided there's no reason you should have to wait. And while the low resolution does little justice to Michael Bay's $200 million VFX pride and joy, the irresistible character of the thing comes through loud and clear. Or at least loud.
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In today's The Two-Minute Verdict, we present for your enjoyment the trailer to Tommy and the Cool Mule. A touching coming-of-age tale with a rural American setting, it follows the unlikely adventures of our young hero, Tommy, who's desperately in need of a strong male role model after his father heads off to war. He finds it in Jackie A, a bling-wearing jive donkey with the ability to speak decades-old catchphrases ("I pity da fool!" "Things that make you go hmmm...." "Whachu talkin' about, Tommy?" etc...) in Ice-T's voice.
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Welcome to a very special edition of Movieline's Two-Minute Verdict, this time taking on the epic, seven-minute proportions of this opening clip from The Brothers Bloom. As director Rian Johnson explains in his introduction, the film features Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as sibling con-men looking to grift the wealthy Rachel Weisz out of at least some of her riches. Alas, you will have to wait until May 29 to witness those exploits; for now, we have only the young brothers' origin story, a nifty (if essentially nonsensical, conspicuously derivative) short film on its own.
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The new Paper Heart trailer is as good a means as any for determining one's Twee Tolerance Index, measuring your genetic capacity to endure the soft-spoken brand of naive preciousness that Charlyne Yi heaps upon this hard-to-classify, scripted-doc hybrid.
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Over five films, we've observed Harry Potter and his Hogwarts companions survive wand-fumbling puberty and brooding teen witchdom. Now, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, they have matured into formidable young adult conjurers. Watching these kids grow up is just one of the series' many charms. (We seriously wish they'd keep making these things until Daniel Radcliffe was 90, like Michael Apted's Up series with a $4 billion budget.)
The new trailer will officially release in two hours, but E! has a sneak preview, which we'll now scrutinize for your convenience in the latest edition of The 2-Minute Verdict.
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Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker has bounced around the festival circuit for more than six months to virtually unilateral acclaim -- so much so that the latest trailer for the Iraq bomb-squad thriller (opening June 26) feels almost anticlimactic. Almost.
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In today's Two-Minute Verdict, we'll analyze the Chéri trailer to see why the reunion of Dangerous Liaisons alums Michelle Pfeiffer, director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton has garnered less attention than Bai Ling's Oscar campaign.
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In this edition of the Two-Minute Verdict, have your first glimpse at (and judgment of) the trailer for Antichrist, the new effort by Danish provocateur Lars Von Trier. You may know him best for degrading some of the world's most respected actresses (Nicole Kidman in Dogville, Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves), but with his latest, there is but one objective for star Charlotte Gainsbourg: Keep. Screaming.
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Welcome to The Two-Minute Verdict, Movieline's regular feature dedicated to parsing the best, worst and weirdest new movie trailers on the market. In the spirit of our grand opening, we begin here with not quite a review, but rather a game: How many Sam Rockwells can you count in the teaser for his one-man, multi-character thriller Moon?
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Although its trailer premiered a little over a month ago, I'm sad to say I'm only now catching up with the upcoming indie drama Perfect Sport. If its relative anonymity in the YouTube wilds is any indication, I wasn't alone in my oversight. Let's clear up this injustice right now, and, in the process, hopefully resolve an even bigger issue around the film. To wit: What the hell is this movie about?
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Every once in a generation comes a trailer so sublimely nonsensical, so unfathomably awful, it's as if God Himself lowered a divine finger to scrawl "WTF?" across its title card in cursive.
And so it was written, and so it shall be, that After Last Season was that trailer.
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