https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Z7QsRGxGo Previous trailers for Pixar's Onward seem to have teased a fairly conventional tale beneath its "Mythical World meets Suburban Domesticity" high concept, one that's complete with daddy issues. Well, this new trailer may suggest something different, and better: a movie that ditches the issues (but still requires the tissues) and, instead, tells an adventure [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCPiBWrIaSI "We spotted the fugitives." And with that, the first clip from Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker made public by Lucasfilm and Disney blasts off. In thirty seconds, we see the start of one of the coolest scenes teased in the trailers so far: a desert chase on new sand bikes, with Stormtroopers hot [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qphC39PJf4 They were teased in The Force Awakens then ignored in The Last Jedi, but now The Knights of Ren will finally reveal themselves in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The rogue warriors led by Kylo Ren -- who finally show up for the first time in this new TV ad titled "Fate" -- [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsOwj0PR5Sk "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." Such is how Jane Austen described the title character of her novel Emma, a comedy-of-errors about a young woman who gets in over her head as a meddling matchmaker. It's arguably the broadest comedy of Austen's work, and the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsp8iOt76YU The last full trailer may have already been revealed, but Lucasfilm and J. J. Abrams aren't done dropping more teases for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, including a new TV spot. Titled "End", the 30-second promo gives new, quick-shot glimpses that we haven't seen before. The same applies to a set of new [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTg7RIn-X8 The Trolls are back, and this time they're uniting to stop the totalitarian rule of hard rock. With Poppy and Branch leading the way (voiced by Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake once again), Trolls World Tour sees troll artists of all music genres assemble. Together with their jams, they fight Queen Barb (Rachel Bloom), her [...]
https://youtu.be/HfiH_526qhY A cultural icon for twenty years -- first on TV, then two movies, and recently a Tony-nominated musical -- the popularity of SpongeBob SquarePants shows no signs of letting up, so his upcoming third feature film should prove a real crowd-pleaser. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run follows in the computer-animated style of [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzNJVSsjE-I It's like a Christian movie, with swears. Though not in any way associated with the Kendrick Brothers (who've made breakout hits like Facing The Giants and this year's Overcomer), The Way Back follows the general template of a tried-and-true faith-based formula: an alcoholic overcomes his demons by taking on a high school coaching gig that [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWP0NwHuhc Previous trailers and featurettes have given us a good look at A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (a.k.a. the Mr. Rogers movie inspired by the true story of a reporter's relationship with the beloved PBS icon), but this latest -- and likely last -- trailer produced for international audiences offers the most concise version of the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szby7ZHLnkA Now honestly, how hard was that? The title rodent of Sonic the Hedgehog (the iconic video game / animation blue-fuzzy speedster) finally looks like himself rather than, you know, a freakish bizarro version. (Here's a side-by-side tweet of the old and new renderings.) https://twitter.com/ThePlaylist/status/1194353126037491712?s=20 Thanks to the huge online backlash against the original monstrosity (which was [...]
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