https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwievZ1Tx-8 In a digital orgy of visual effects and superhero overkill, the latest trailer for Avengers: Infinity War is itself a monolith unto the bloated excesses that major studio tentpoles now aspire to. God only knows what the actual film is going to feel like. Mileage, obviously, will vary, but for box office heights the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=rjLVCpE3kuw Following a surprise premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX, Warner Bros. has released a bonus trailer for Ready Player One just two weeks before its global debut. Initial reactions to Steven Spielberg's return to blockbuster spectacle were mostly raves, some gushing, with only a few detractors. Take one guess [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=116&v=5sEaYB4rLFQ That Dumbledore is all suave and whatnot. Such is the unsurprising takeaway from the first trailer for the Harry Potter prequel sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Moving from 1920s New York to Paris (by way of a stop at Hogwarts), Eddie Redmayne's Newt Scamander is joined by Jude Law's young Dumbledore in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=425M4M3Opkk Christopher Robin is all grown up and lost his way. Oh bother. But being in the big city far away from the Hundred Acre Wood won't keep Winnie the Pooh from tracking him down. The cuddly golden bear shows up to remind his old friend of what's most important in life: family, not work. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzcaR1N0pTI Poppins popped into the Oscars last night. Disney-owned ABC gave a tease for the upcoming musical sequel to the Academy Award winning classic from 1964, but not the full teaser trailer; that debuted online (and can be seen above). Emily Blunt takes over for Julie Andrews as the magical nanny who revisits the now [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=DIBw9dSVKdU It's hard to believe it'll be six years by the time this sequel drops, but the belated return to this world will be a welcome one. The original Wreck-It Ralph was the first non-musical computer-animated feature from Walt Disney Animation to employ the best artistic and emotional virtues of then-new corporate cousin Pixar. Since [...]
https://youtu.be/3TPY4TKo6uQ Scheming on a thing that's still largely a mirage, Chris Galegar of the War Starts At Midnight film podcast gave us a new way to look at the Solo footage we've seen so far. Inspired by previews from that other Star franchise (a.k.a. Trek), Galegar re-cut footage from the trailer to Solo: A Star Wars [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmYWk7kerU Here's the sequel to Terrence Malick's To the Wonder that we never knew we needed. Kind of. Thy Kingdom Come is a 43-minute short film premiering this March at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX. Directed by Euguene Richards, a photojournalist for The New Yorker, it utilizes bonus footage that Malick [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eZxSYRhco Spielberg's up to something, and I like it. If the initial trailers for Ready Player One (here and here) were designed to tap into our sense of nostalgia wrapped up in futuristic sci-fi eye candy, then this new 2-minute cut is meant to show us that it's actually about something, thematically and emotionally. Previous teasers [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=YBpdL9hSac4 Honey, it's been over 13 years since our favorite Pixar super suits were last donned. Now they're finally back in this first look sneak peak that ran during the Winter Olympics. The 90-second teaser looks like it's just scratching the surface of incredible ideas that have stacked up for a decade-plus, ones that mix those [...]
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