"This is something of a pointillist Wuthering Heights, a story told more with dots and dashes than with long, bold strokes," wrote Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek after seeing Andrea Arnold's bold take on the classic novel upon its Venice Film Festival debut. Now that the film's first teaser has debuted, you can see for yourself what she meant, windswept longing gazes and foggy moors and elemental snatches of scenery and all.
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"We must never forget our history," Leonardo DiCaprio warns in the brand new trailer for J. Edgar. Conveniently, this narrative demand means that you should probably see the very biographical drama from director Clint Eastwood that this trailer advertises. Take a look at DiCaprio as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover below in the film's first trailer.
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Aside from providing a cautionary tale about why you should never build a feature-length movie around a doo-wop song, there has never been any use for Sandra Bullock's 1992 flop Love Potion No. 9. Until today -- because its plot has apparently inspired Jennifer Lopez's first post-break-up music video "Papi." Tate Donovan, this could be the pop culture relevance you've been waiting for.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up in George Clooney's bed with a horse mask and a hangover? Thanks to a clever (or just strange) commercial from Norwegian bank DnB NOR, you no longer have to wonder!
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With less than a month until The Thing -- the prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi classic -- hits theaters, Universal is upping their marketing ante with a spoileriffic red band trailer that not only reveals The Thing, how it is discovered, how it attacks, who it attacks and who it kills, but it also shows off some of the climactic special effects. Subtle much? Click through to see the red band trailer at your own risk.
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Henning Ohlenbusch has more than just one of the most awesome names in contemporary music. He also now has a full-length album of songs inspired by movies. It's quite the spectrum, too -- Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Straight Story, Amélie, Joe Versus the Volcano, Logan's Run, Meatballs, The Year My Voice Broke, Superbad and, in an irresistible effort you can hear after the jump, a folk song inspired by that mellow, soothing cinematic bromide known as Poltergeist.
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The NYC cop drama/thriller Son of No One set up quite a bubble for itself ahead of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: Talented filmmaker Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Fighting) had his muse Channing Tatum spearheading a cast including Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta and, going straight, Tracy Morgan, creds that helped the movie earn the festival's prestigious closing-night spot. And then came that notorious press and industry screening, piercing the bubble and hurling Son into indie limbo. Art-house ensemble piece or genre potboiler? Misunderstood gem or biggest swing-and-miss of 2011? And while I'd never suggest judging a film by its trailer, the latest spot does prompt the necessary question asked of all marketing: Does this preview actually make you want to see Son of No One? That's where things get complicated.
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Take it from Jennifer Aniston -- working as a New York City bike messenger is neither glamorous nor exciting. Unless you're Joseph Gordon-Levitt in David Koepp's upcoming bike messenger thriller Premium Rush, in which case transporting packages across town is a fast-paced career option with hot co-workers, adrenaline rushes and the occasional highly dangerous assignment.
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Because even Movieline HQ has an extended happy hour on Thursdays, check the latest Entertainment Minute from our sister network ENTV -- now featuring selections from this site's very own Weekend Forecast. This will be a regular thing going forward, so please tune in weekly for your companion video with host Chelsea Cannell. And get all the expert marks on the latest and greatest movies in our scintillating Reviews section. You can't lose. Click through for this week's episode!
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Have you heard about The Awakening yet? No, not the Kate Chopin novel about female empowerment or the Kate Beckinsale Underworld fourquel about vampire warrioress empowerment but Nick Murphy's period thriller about 1920s ghost empowerment. Rebecca Hall stars as an author/skeptic who is invited to a creepy boarding school in World War I-era England to investigate a phantom boy. Naturally, things take a supernatural turn for the worse and, well, take a look for yourself in the trailer below.
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The parody trailers for The Muppets have tackled rom coms, Green Lantern, and more over the course of the marketing campaign for the Jason Segel-led November release, but this one takes the cake. Because you haven't really thought enough about Kermit and Miss Piggy until you've seen them posing as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander. (Sans pierced-nipple nudity, but still.) Muppets, you win.
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Movieline is pleased to bring you the first official theatrical trailer for The Swell Season, a documentary chronicling the creative partnership, intimate romance, meteoric rise and turbulent Oscar aftermath of Once co-stars and songwriters Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.
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Who can think about naked Scarlett Johansson photos today when the new trailer for Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo has just debuted, amirite?? Take a look at Crowe's first feature since Elizabethtown, about a single father (Matt Damon) who moves his family into a zoo to turn things around by helping animals and stuff. Also, to fall for impassioned zookeeper Scarlett Johansson. Quite a coincidence of timing, no?
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George Clooney may have been voted Sexiest Man Alive twice by People magazine but you still might want to think long and hard before hiring the Oscar winner to maintain your inground pool. The Ides of March writer/director/star certainly looks pretty while wielding a leaf skimmer but in a new clip for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, he misses an entire forest's worth of foliage in his pool while barking frustrated parenting cues at his daughters. Pool Boy Union of America, you may want to avert your eyes.
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Uh-oh! The new full-length trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is out, and trouble is stirring in the womb of Bella Swan. "You did this!" Jacob spits at Edward, who's all like, "Ugh, I know, my bad." And then the wolves are all like, "Raaaahhhrrr." And then the new baby bump is all like, "Bllerrgh." And Bill Condon's all like, "Check out this sweet move I saw last night on Lifetime."
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