Archive for the ‘trailers’ Category

Trailer park

Is the world ready for a suicide bomber comedy (suicide bomedy)? Almost certainly not, but it looks very funny.
Also, new trailer for the upcoming season of Lost. I think we can all agree that it’s not marketing hyperbole to call this the television event of the year. I mean that’s just true. It’s a fact.
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Remake Revulsion

I used to really like Neil LaBute. Well, that may not be the best way to phrase that. I thought In the Company of Men was an amazing gut-punch of a movie, and I thought Your Friends & Neighbors, while not nearly as impressive, was a good expansion of the same sensibility into more of [...]

This will change your life just like the Shins did

Am I the only one who saw this and thought of Jar Jar Binks?

Please Tim, Don’t Break My Childhood

I don’t think Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland looks good, which is a problem. Alice in Wonderland (and Alice Through the Looking-Glass) is one of my foundational texts (this goes a long way towards explaining my enthusiasm for movies like this). I’ve read and re-read it dozens of times, and every new version of it hits me [...]

I’m just going to say it

As long as this doesn’t go the disastrous way of a Tarsem movie, I will very likely love this movie.

Camp — the Sontag kind, not the Anawanna kind

So, I saw the above trailer  last night, and my first reaction was, “Come on, seriously? Nazis, zombies and Beethoven’s 9th? Really? Are people even trying anymore?” Normally, I just get a little irked by lazy moviemaking and move on, but, inexplicably, this trailer continued pissing me off. Now, keep in mind — this is [...]