https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVgQuZf5o1M Shrek's donkey is out. Mary's is in. That humble steed, and a whole crew of other animals, takes us on the (animated) journey of the very first Christmas in The Star, coming this fall from Sony Pictures Animation. The faith-based entry puts a comedic yet still reverent spin on the birth of Christ in [...]
Step aside Noah Hawley. When it comes to the Coenverse, George Clooney knows the territory as well as anybody. While Hawley's Fargo TV Series plays more like a mix between Coen Brothers quirk and what you'd expect from Prestige TV, the first trailer for Clooney's Suburbicon could easily be mistaken for a new film directly [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpQ3G08k48 They're heeeeere. Oh, wait, wrong Spielberg joint. In 1977, the big sci-fi phenomenon was Star Wars, but where George Lucas went mythic his best friend Steven Spielberg went existential. Now for its 40th Anniversary, Columbia Pictures is re-releasing Close Encounters of the Third Kind back into theaters for a one-week run, digitally remastered in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue80QwXMRHg Marvel fans are going to be geeked, there's no question about it. Even fair weather fans may be excited to, er, toke up to Thor: Ragnarok, if this latest trailer is any indication. In style, tone, and humor, the third Thor feature goes full on Guardians in an unabashed act of internal Marvel appropriation (I [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_6yBZKj-eo Hate on Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman all you want (I dug it), but this latest extended trailer for his Justice League looks pretty stinkin' awesome. Sure, Snyder footage always cuts a better promo than movie, but the new scenes that Warner Bros. revealed in this 4-minute Comic-Con preview (kicked off by new pop culture [...]
https://youtu.be/znavw4akfoY I'm ready for Ready Player One. Hot off its debut at the film's Comic-Con panel, the first trailer for Steven Spielberg's VR future saturated with 80s pop culture is as stunning as you'd hope. An adaptation of the YA novel phenomenon by Ernest Cline, Spielberg unleashes a dystopian vision that looks and feels like [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EZCBSsBxko The director of Suicide Squad has reteamed with Will Smith for Bright, Netflix's first big budget blockbuster - and it looks as cheesy as their DC villain flick flop. Writer/Director David Ayer has conceived a "Training Day meets Lord of the Rings" real world cop drama crossed with sci-fi fantasy, exploring themes of bigotry [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ryu1AWSh3g Todd Haynes, an auteur of classical formalism, ventures from adult & experimental fare into whole new territory: the family movie. Wonderstruck, based on the best-selling novel by ambitious YA author Brian Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabret), is the first PG-rated movie of Haynes career, one that has thus far been marked by adult-themed dramas such [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYWazblaUA Guillermo del Toro at his best? That's certainly the hope this first trailer for The Shape of Water conjures. Going back to Dramatic Period Fable territory (akin to the WWII set Pan's Labyrinth, del Toro's current masterpiece), The Shape of Water is a "creature feature" movie set in the 1960s Cold War era, playing [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOaI_Fn5o4 With each new look at Blade Runner 2049, my expectations for this sequel 35 years in the making keep getting higher. Along with more stunning futuristic cityscapes, both advanced and abandoned, the coolest sneak peaks this second trailer provides are the clips of Dave Bautista being a deadly serious polar opposite of Drax from [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 