A little bit of Blade, a little bit of John Carpenter's Vampires, and just a touch of awesome. This new film from the Spierig brothers, makers of Undead, is set in a world where nearly everyone is a vampire and human blood is running out. The cast includes Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, and Willem Dafoe.
Not so sure about this one. I haven't seen the original, but this looks like another mass-marketed remake that will fail to deliver. I'll probably end up seeing it...
This looks awesome! Horror comedy set in a world overrun by zombies. Join Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as they try to suvive in this new world. This is going to be great! (I hope)
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl - Clip and trailer
Friday, June 12, 2009
It has been awhile since I uttered the words "What the...?" at a clip or trailer before, but this did it. The clip features teen girls competing in a wrist cut rally. Yes, you read that right. It is completely random, bloody, and not for the easily offended. I guess I should not be surprised to learn it is from the director of Tokyo Gore Police.
The French hit REC is getting a sequel. I wonder if this will lead to Quarantine 2? The trailer seems to show the same location being investigated by the military when it hits the fan.
What else need be said? it is only tangentially connected to the movie, but te connection is there and that means the video has been making the rounds of movie sites. It features Norwegian model Linni Meister singing (ahem) a lame pop song about her anatomy.
Martin Scorsese's new movie looks great! I am officially hyped based on this trailer. The cast includes Leonardo Dicaprio, Michelle Williams, Max Von Sydow, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Jamie Earle Haley, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, and Elias Koteas. Wow.
Screen Rant has a hi-rez image of Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2, the first released of him as the film's baddie Whiplash. Take a look, let me know what you think. I like it, cannot wait to see him in action.
This looks pretty darn cool. I cannot say I ever thought I would see a martial arts based movie with stars like Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, and Danny Huston. The real star of the show is Dong-Kun Jang. The trailer is small and I look forward to seeing a higher rez version of it.
The new film from Sam Mendes is one I am looking forward to despite its uber-indie feeling trailer. The film stars John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. Story: Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski [“The Office’] and Maya Rudolph [“Saturday Night Live’]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the first time. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch.
Director: Sam Mendes (“American Beauty,” “Road to Perdition,” “Jarhead,” “Revolutionary Road”)
Writers: Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), Vendela Vida (And Now You Can Go)
Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney, Chris Messina, Catherine O’Hara, Paul Schneider, Carmen Ejogo, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Hamilton, Melanie Lynskey
I look at this trailer, and it seems familiar, really familiar, but I cannot quite put my finger on it. How about you? In the vein of When a Stranger Calls and Disturbia, the suspense unfolds in ELSEWHERE, a new teen thriller featuring rising star Anna Kendrick (fresh off a landslide of exposure from Twilight and news of her latest role opposite George Clooney in Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air). On June 2, E1 Entertainment presents ELSEWHERE to audiences for the first time ever on DVD and Blu-ray for $24.98 SRP each.
In the small town of Goshen, Indiana, teenage girls are mysteriously disappearing and no one seems to care. After revealing to her best friend Sarah (Kendrick) that she has been meeting men online, Jillian (Tania Raymonde, “Lost”) goes missing. Now the only clues to her whereabouts are her diary and a cryptic video message sent from her cell phone. Aided by Jasper (Chuck Carter), the town’s computer geek, the two plunge head-long into Goshen’s dark secrets – uncovering corrupt police, jilted boyfriends, a mother driven mad by loss, and an unsolved string of child abductions… the final truth they unearth will rock the town to its foundations.
Bonus features on both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of ELSEWHERE include an audio commentary with director Nathan Hope and producer Vincent Palomino, “The Road to Elsewhere” making-of/interview featurette, deleted scenes and a photo gallery.
Also featuring Paul Wesley (“Everwood,” “Fallen”), Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite, Taken), Chuck Carter (Senior Skip Day) and Olivia Dawn York in supporting roles, ELSEWHERE was written by and is the feature film directorial debut of award-winning cinematographer Nathan Hope (The Fog, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”). The film was shot on location in and around Goshen, Indiana. It is rated R by the MPAA for language, violence/disturbing images, and some drug and alcohol use by teens.
I really like these guys. Say them on, I think, Taste of Chaos a few years back and they stole the show. This tune is not as heavy as most of their stuff, but is still really good.
This actually looks pretty good. The Kevin Spacey drama features the star as a shrink to the stars who begins having some issues of his own. Below is the official synopsis, trailer, and poster. What happens when the people we count on to hold us together…are barely holding it together themselves? Jonas Pate's Shrink is a striking, fast-paced exposé of the “other” Hollywood, featuring folks living outside their comfort zone and the people who put them there. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) is a psychiatrist with an A-list clientele, including a once-famous actress (Saffron Burrows), an insecure young writer (Mark Webber), and a comically obsessive-compulsive superagent (Dallas Roberts). Henry is not in a good place, however. He has been asked to take his first pro bono case, a troubled teenage girl from a neighborhood far from the Hollywood hills. Considering his present state of mind, is he ready for the real-life troubles of a young woman who loves the world of movies he has become so jaded by? At its core, Shrink is a study of control and our endless need for it, even when it grows increasingly impossible to obtain. Writer Thomas Moffett uses classic archetypes in this modern Hollywood tale, but never pushes them over the edge of credibility. Performed by a well-matched cast at the top of their form, the result is both satisfying and exhilarating. Watching Shrink makes us feel like voyeurs looking through a window into the lives of people who look great, feel worse, and end up behaving badly.
A tart, funny, and uplifting drama about the courage it takes to achieve happiness, SHRINK stars Kevin Spacey, Robert Loggia, Pell James, Keke Palmer, Griffin Dunne, Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston, Dallas Roberts, Gore Vidal, Laura Ramsey, Mark Webber, Jesse Plemons, Joel Gretsch. It is directed by Jonas Pate (DECEIVER), written by Thomas Moffett, and produced by Michael Burns, Braxton Pope, and Dana Brunetti
