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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It doesn't take very long in today's trainwreck-hungry media environment for one surly interview to tank a movie star's career--a subsidiary, vanity career, mind you, but a career nonetheless. And in the few short days since Billy Bob Thornton delivered a barrage of impudent responses to unerringly polite CBC radio journalist Jian Ghomeshi, that's exactly what happened. The showdown, if you've not yet seen it, is highly entertaining--one yeshiva beard short of blogger nirvana, really--and occurred Wednesday, when Thornton was in Toronto with his band the Boxmasters to open for Willie Nelson.
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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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