https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qztxwL4Wl3I Thank you, Amazon Studios, for funding our best filmmakers and allowing their movies to have proper theatrical releases (as opposed to Netflix, the Sith Lords of streaming services). After taking 2 Oscars last year with Manchester by the Sea, Amazon will now distribute Wonderstruck, the latest from director Todd Haynes (Carol). Carefully crafted with his usual controlled [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk7B90uceMg I've got a retro feeling about this. The unrepentant geeks at the YouTube channel JoBlo Videos have created a fully animated version of the first official trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, all in OG Nintendo glory. May the bits be with you, always.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaseSovWDY Sure, this may be a sequel that nobody asked for, but based on this trailer - which focuses on the rivalry between the aging Lightning McQueen and the new upstart hotshot Jackson Storm - Cars 3 could still be a fun summertime diversion for the entire family. It opens on June 16, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1myyWOCMFyI Michael Bay, rewriting history with transforming robots. We've been warned. Transformers: The Last Knight opens on June 21, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4 Time to reboot. Director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) takes the reins from executive producer Ridley Scott for Blade Runner 2049. and if the final cut is as good as this trailer then, well, the response from fans will be like cheers in rain. Starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, and Jared Leto (whose performance here would've made for [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSB4wGIdDwo All is not quiet on the Western front in the latest and last trailer for the upcoming Wonder Woman, the first female-led superhero movie of the modern era and, perhaps, the first best hope for the DECU (that's DC Extended Cinematic Universe.) From director Patty Jenkins, who steered Charlize Theron to an Oscar in Monster, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7O7BtBnsG4 Saving Private Ryan meets Titanic, with aerial dogfights added to the mix. That's how I'd describe this first official trailer for director Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, which follows a previously released first trailer and teaser. The World War II true story was filmed on a mammoth IMAX scale, and it may very well join Spielberg's and [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjwfqXTebIY Fans of Stephen King's The Dark Tower have waited (I'm)patiently through numerous announced and failed permutations of adaptations (including an exapnsive multi-platform Movie/TV narrative by Ron Howard). When this single feature finally became a thing, its production schedule was shrouded in mystery, as was its release date. When it was finally announced that it [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LeOH9AGJQM After one darker, gritty looking teaser and another that highlighted the Next Generation, the first full official trailer for Cars 3 shows that Pixar hasn't really changed the formula after all. Setting aside the high irony that Lightning McQueen's moral quandary is that he's sold out for merchandising riches (the very reason that Cars sequels even exist), Cars 3 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_FSRbuZ9Y Sofia Coppola is one of the world's best living directors, and so whenever she makes a movie - regardless of what it's about - it's must-see viewing. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker (for her Lost In Translation screenplay) is back this summer with The Beguiled, an adaptation of the novel by Thomas Cullinan. Set in [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 