It looks like the Weinstein Company has picked up on the fact that the biggest factor drawing audiences to “Youth in Revolt” is the fact that Michael Cera finally plays someone other than himself. Pushed back from October to a January 8 release, a second cut of the trailer has been released starring “Michael Cera…and Michael Cera,” referring first to the awkward, familiar geek and second to a suave, blasé counterpart that creates all sorts of trouble (and sports an amazing moustache). Based on the novel by C.D. Payne, “Youth in Revolt” is the story of young Nick Twisp’s quest to win the heart of Sheeni Saunders (newcomer Portia Doubleday) with the help of a new persona that spirals out of control.
OK, so maybe my title is a little misleading. I mean, did Charles Darwin really "kill god"? Of course not! Well, maybe I guess. In a vague conceptual way. Get over it. People were killing God all the time back then. These days God dies every time someone looks at the Faces of Meth website.
This looks like a lovely little film that challenges increasingly archaic Judeo-Christian notions of creation AND has a monkey at the end. I mean, what more do you want?
Paranormal Activities, a new super-low budget horror movie from newcomer Oren Peli releasing later this month in select theaters, is getting much buzz after an interesting story leaked about a possibly haunted screener DVD of the film. Read on for the trailer and story.
Mamoru Hosoda, Japanese director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, has once again teamed up with
screenwriter Satoko Okudera and character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto to create
Summer Wars. The first five minutes
of the movie can be streamed at Yahoo Movies Japan site.
I should have known this would work. Granted, I thought the concept of a cheerleader possesed by a demon which makes her kill the guys in her high school was a REALLY cheesy concept. Plus, it was starring Megan Fox, which meant she would be sexing up the camera half naked to appeal to all the guys out there. But, it came from the delightful mind of Diablo Cody, who wowed us all with Juno.
Shame on me for doubting her.
Watch the trailer for Jennifer's Body and read my take after the jump
Does anyone
else feel like watching chipmunk love would be a little bit awkward? The first “Alvin
and the Chipmunks” movie is getting a sequel and apparently Alvin, Simon and
Theodore are in high school. Chipmunk public school systems aside, it seems fans cant get enough of their unnaturally super falsetto singing. Watch the
trailer after the jump.
Let me start
out by being honest. I think the MacGruber
sketches on Saturday Night Live are funny. Some may disagree, but I think it
works. Will Forte’s character has the potential of worming his way out of any
crisis, but always finds a minor fault (in his environment or sometimes within
himself) to distract him, leading to an inevitable explosion. These sketches
work when they last a minute or two, even when three of them are played in the
course of one episode of Saturday Night Live, but feature length? I’m not sure
if people will buy into two hours of Forte’s version of MacGyver. Both Forte
and co-star Kristen Wiig already have movie experience: Forte has appeared in Beerfest
and Baby Mama while Wiig has acted in Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall,
just as examples. Hopefully the two can find a way (preferably with three
everyday items) to make this movie a hit.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">And here comes the bandwagon – jump on to take advantage of those that fall in the 9.5% unemployment rate. You can’t blame me if that’s the first sentence that instantaneously popped into my head having watched the teaser for ‘Weather Girl'. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This low budget indie romantic comedy stars Tricia O’Kelley as a weather girl who discovers that her (much) older boyfriend (Mark Harmon) has been cheating on her. She openly reacts during her live weather segment and is consequently fired. From there on she wallows in the agony of her childless, homeless and jobless life after having thrown it away and eventually begins a search for direction and purpose in her life. </p><form class="at-page-break"></form>
<p class="MsoNormal">The flick may hit close to home for some, exuding the feel for real people living real lives. It’s a flick to pity the characters who live more desperate lives than our own; but sometimes after all the pain that reality has to throw our way, it feels nice to get lost in people’s problems, other than our own. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tricia O’Kelley’s character is with a doubt an attractive blond in her mid thirties whose character is torn between a younger rebound guy, an attractive façade who pulls her into the immaturities of young adulthood, and the graying ex, who could use some Viagra but can ensure life’s securities. It’s a reminder that one day we will all have to make the decision to either move away from or linger in our responsibility free college habits. It’s an obvious choice in writing, but ‘Weather Girl’ will blur that clarity.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">The flick, written and directed by Blayne Weaver, will open to theaters on July 10.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">-Francis Bea</p>
For the Gossip Girl fans out there, Penn Badgley plays Michael Harding, in The Stepfather who returns home from Military school to find that his mother has been hitched to a new mate. Dylan Walsh plays the mother’s new husband, David Harris, whom Michael finds suspiciously akin to a serial family murderer, only to have his suspicions subdued by his family and girlfriend.
Couples Retreat starring Vince Vaughn (Swingers), Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) , Jon Favreau (Also Swingers), Kristin Davis (Sex & The City), Kristen Bell, and Faizon Love (cute name). The story follows four Midwestern couples who attend a tropical resort designated for couples. One of the couples are there to save their marriage and the other couples are doing it for some fun in the sun. The couples are told it's mandatory for them to participate in the couple retreat and now the couples are looking at the funny side of their problems as couples.
I saw the list of names for this film and I instantly knew this film had to be funny. At first I wasn't seeing the "ha ha" moments but as the trailer went on it started to become funnier by the moment. I really hope this film turns out to be really, really funny because if not it would be such a waste of comedic talent. I hate seeing films where the trailer deceives you so badly you feel like writing to the studio and complaining about deceitful advertising. I really want to see this film and leave it with a smile on my face, nowadays we all need something to light up our lives with laughter.
The Informant! stars Matt Damon portraying real life Mark Whitacre who is the President of agriculture company Archer Daniels Midland. Suddenly Whitacre becomes a "whistleblower" on the company revealing a huge price fixing conspiracy to the FBI. Whitacre believes he would turn into a hero and everyone would praise him for being such a honest person. The FBI needing proof of Whitacre's allegations tell him to wear a wire and he eagerly agrees making him appear as a "secret agent." The FBI soon realizes Whitacre's story becoming a constantly inconsistent story, frustrating the FBI. This is based on the true story of the highest level executive whistleblower in U.S. history.
The first thing to strike me when I saw the trailer was Damon's look as a rather geeky and awkward guy. In most of his films, he usually doesn't play the "geeky" guy and this is a good change in character for Damon. The film appears to be quite quirky and could possibly be a dark comedy, which is always great for a film that has the potential to be boring when it comes down to whistleblowers (The Insider). I look forward to seeing Damon portray the very imaginative Mark Whitacre and what makes it even better it's based on a actual person. I can't believe there is actually a real Whitacre who was that in denial about his own life by telling stories to the FBI? I hope not.
In his interview with IndieWire, "Downloading Nancy" director Johan Renck calls the film "kind of “unsafe.” I'll say.
This trailer scares me, but that's the intention. It doesn't frighten me in the way that a horror movie might because it gestures towards something that is not supernatural but frighteningly real: human pain. Sure, the blood, the bound hands, the mousetrap, and the overtones of sadism and masochism are meant to make us feel uncomfortable, but I'm much more ill at ease with what appears to be the film's deeper message, that in order to find understanding and release, you may need to find someone to hurt you.
Even though it has all the trappings of yet another Mumblecore--the heady indie music, the road trip, the dark-rimmed glasses, the disaffected protagonists, and the inevitable breaking point followed by revelation--the Away We Go trailer points to a deeper, more unique film.
Maybe I have this hunch because I know that it's directed by Sam Mendes, whose elegant nightmare of suburban living in American Beauty is still with me; maybe it's because of the quality of its husband-wife writing team, novelist, journalist, and editor, Vendela Vida, and Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; or maybe it's because it looks like it captures a poetic, humorous, despairing tone that most Mumblecores can only dream of. Regardless, these two make me want my own cardboard window.
It’s a bad sign when you think to yourself five to ten times during a trailer “what the fuck is going on?” Besides being
disappointed that there was not even one dead-bro-walking, I would not be
surprised if whoever edited this trailer did it during a commercial break of an episode of 24.
The trailer for the remake of Fame was just released and
looks to be a production of fabulous proportion. Fame, originally an Oscar
winning musical, illustrates the lives of students cultivating their artistic
talents at the New York City High School of Performing Arts.
Hipsters look out, Jack white has
created the trendiest instrument on the face of the earth…and no it is not a
futuristic Glockenspiel. In “It Might Get Loud”,
producer Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) brings Jack White, the Edge,
and Jimmy Page together to share with each other their secrets of sound.
In Shrink, Director Jonas Pate reveals the neurotic insecurities of Hollywood players through the scope of psychiatrist Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey). The only problem is that Carter is more neurotic and insecure than his own clientele, and must confront his own issues head on before he is capable of helping his patients.
In recent years Hollywood and television have been almost obsessed with the complex intricacies of the doctor-patient relationship. This could be due to a variety of reasons, but I like to think that pill popping soccer mom culture that we live in today is the fuel behind the fire. Anyway, we all know that Spacey is entirely capable of carrying this character, and probably the movie if the rest of the cast proves to be inept, so I will bet that this movie will be decent at worst. And something tells that we are going to see Spacey hit rock bottom, and emerge as the reckless middle age pot-smoking dad we all loved in American Beauty, which is always fun.
On another note, Landry from Friday Night Lights is in the trailer, and anything from FNL is okay by me.
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