Monthly Archives: May 2013
Trailer: Prisoners
When the only suspect (Paul Dano) in the disappearance of his 6 year old daughter and her friend is released from jail due to lack of evidence a father (Hugh Jackman) takes matters into his own hands to find the missing girls before it is too late.
Prisoners is directed by Denis Villeneuve (Incendies), and stars Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, and Paul Dano.
Final Trailer: Monsters University
Mike and Sulley are back in Pixar’s latest, this prequel to Monsters, Inc. Monsters University explores Mike and Sulley’s college days, back when they first met and were just learning how t scare children for a living. First-time Pixar director Dan Scanlon takes the helm and the characters are voiced by the likes of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Aubrey Plaza, Nathan Fillion, and Helen Mirren.
Trailer: Machete Kills
Robert Rodriguez’s next grindhouse-style movie. The US government recruits Machete to fight his way through Mexico and take down an arms dealer.
Directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Amber Heard, Sofía Vergara, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr., Demián Bichir, Lady Gaga, and Carlos Estevez. Hits theaters September 13th.
New Trailer: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
To stop an ancient evil from rising, Percy and his friends must retrieve the mythical Golden Fleece from the Sea of Monsters. Directed by Thor Freudenthal (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Hotel for Dogs) and starring Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Nathan Fillion, Sean Bean, Stanley Tucci, and Anthony Head. Hits screens on August 7th.
New Trailer: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, and Ben Foster star in this drama about a man, (Affleck) who escapes from prison to reunite with his wife (Mara) and daughter. This film has a lot of buzz after its favorable showing at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
New Trailer: The World’s End
New international trailer for The World’s End today. The Brits who brought us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are back with The World’s End. Edgar Wright directs, and Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, and Rosamund Pike star when five friends reunite after 20 years to recreate an epic pub crawl, but find that they are humanity’s only hope of survival against killer humanoid robots.
Teaser Trailer: Delivery Man
The story of affable underachiever David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn), whose mundane life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn’t look worse for David when he’s hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twentysomethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal histrue identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the father he could become as well.
–Dreamworks Pictures
Ken Scott directs, and Cobie Smulders and Chris Pratt also star. Coming to theaters November 22nd.
Red Band… TV Spot???: This is the End
Ok, I’m kind of confused by this… what exactly is the point of an R-rated television spot?
(Remember, Red Band means cursing.)
*Photo courtesy Columbia Pictures
Trailer: We’re the Millers
We’re the Millers stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, and Will Poulter as people pretending to be a family to smuggle pot across the Mexican border for Ed Helms. The movie is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball), and was written by the writers of Wedding Crashers, Hot Tub Time Machine, and She’s Out of My League. It hits theaters August 9th.
(Red Band trailer here. Features more male genitalia.)