https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GddFXKQaC3g Leave it to Clint Eastwood to drop a bomb in the year-end awards season. From Million Dollar Baby to American Sniper, the legendary actor/director has made a late-career habit of quietly producing a movie with little fanfare and unknown release date that ends up becoming a last-minute Oscar contender. The industry buzz on The [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09a9laLh0k It's hard to take this liberal fan fiction seriously (at least by the tone of this first trailer), but it still may be entertaining. Vice is the new film from Academy Award winning filmmaker Adam McKay, and it plays like a kindred cousin to McKay's gonzo takedown of the 2008 subprime mortgage financial crisis, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=155&v=tg52up16eq0 In a web of alternate realities, a whole bunch of Spider-Mans get stuck in the net of one. Over the long history of Marvel's most iconic character, there have been variations beyond the Peter Parker standard, some more popular than others (and a few rather fringe). Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse -- the first animated [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpOGT3GTO84 If this first teaser is any indication, the Elton John biopic won't go breaking our hearts. In fact, if I had to pick between which two upcoming 70s/80s era pop-rock movies looks better - Rocketman or Bohemian Rhapsody - it's this tiny dancer, by a long shot. The trailers for the Queen / Freddie [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Eclj77aXmWs The apocalypse has definitely been cancelled. Following the disastrous reception of X:Men: Apocalypse (which I actually enjoyed for what it was, but whatevs), the X-Men franchise appears to be shifting gears in a dramatic way. From my perspective, it's all for the better. The first trailer for Dark Phoenix, which continues the prequel narrative [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=grPbxNBA8qc "It’s not just about revenge. It’s about a lot of things.” That's how actor Michael B. Jordan describes Creed II and, by the looks of this strong second trailer, I'd agree. The latest boxing sequel in the extended Rocky saga pits Jordan's Adonis Johnson, son of Apollo Creed, against Russian Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=8bYBOVWLNIs There are going to be some big reveals in Fantastic Beasts 2. If the main purpose of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them -- the first Harry Potter prequel, released in 2016 -- was to establish the wizarding world of the 1920s, then Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald appears to be accelerating the Potterverse [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwmDAYt22k This is not your Michael Bay Transformers. The new trailer for Bumblebee, the franchise's first prequel, continues the sentimental spirit of the first teaser by zeroing in on the "Girl and her Robot" story (think an E.T. dynamic) of Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), an 18-year-old young woman in the 1980s whose birthday gift of an old yellow [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=110&v=TVowQ4LgwLk If you want to cast a vision for your moon movie, it's smart to use the actual President that cast the vision for the moon mission. In this teaser-length cut, the latest preview for First Man -- the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 moon landing -- sets its visuals to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UOh0UX3alI Another Grinch preview that's leaving me, well, a little grinchy. The second, more revealing trailer for the new feature length animated take on Dr. Seuss's holiday favorite The Grinch triggers the same mixed feeling as the first: not hating it, but not particularly anticipating it either. As before, this new preview plays up the kid-friendly [...]
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