So many trailers, so little time to get the popcorn, hold the soda and recline the comfy cinema chair … To save you all the effort of scouring the internet for yourselves, I have assembled five trailers for movies I think will be worth the effort going to see Continue Reading
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – new promo images + a LEGO trailer
SNAPSHOT After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest–without their Wizard. If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill Continue Reading
Shhh! Be vewy, vewy qwiet … Neil Patrick Harris has made a silent movie
Is there nothing that Neil Patrick Harris can’t do and do spectacularly well? I say no! My proof? He hosts the Tonys, performs magic like a pro, is a star on How I Met Your Mother, has two of the most adorable children with his partner, David Burtka … Continue Reading
Movie review: “Now You See Me”
Everything appears to be an illusion in Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter, Clash of the Titans) Now You See Me with magic, or the suggestion of magic, suffusing the whole film. That the art of magic and illusion is the centrepiece of this fast-paced highly enjoyable crime caper is made very clear Continue Reading
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser … J. J. Abrams intriguing new short film about ??
It’s Cloverfield all over again! Or Super 8! Or Believe … Frankly it could be for anything and that is the delight and mystery of the intriguing new trailer that has dropped from J. J. Abrams, the past and present master of the clever trail-of-breadcrumbs teaser campaign. While some Continue Reading
Movie review: “Francis Ha”
Life, complicated though it is, is one of those things that every adult on the planet is supposed to have totally figured out. Because we’re, you know, adults, and that’s what we’re expected to do. The truth is, all appearances aside, many of us don’t and it’s this subversively Continue Reading
The Gravity of life in space: new photos released from the movie
We human beings are a funny lot. We crave the certainty of routine – our regular train, our favourite restaurant with the chilli chicken dish we love so much, a morning greeting from the hunky barista – relishing the sense that everything will be just as we left it Continue Reading
Galactic love true love: Star Wars goes speed dating
Everyone, and I mean everyone wants to experience what the befuddled priest in The Princess Bride called “wuv, tru wuv, [that] will fowow you foweva …” Yes even Boba Fett. And the Emperor (who apparently is into S&M, which entirely makes sense). Just how into finding the right person Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: A. C. O. D. (Adult Children of Divorce)
SNAPSHOT The satirical comedy tentatively titled “A.C.O.D.” (Adult Children of Divorce) is the story of a grown man still caught in the crossfire of his parents’ 15-year-old divorce. The lead character discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children. He’s enlisted in a follow-up years later Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers: How I Live Now, Captain Phillips, Saving Mr Banks, The Monuments Men, CBGB
Much like the swallows arriving back en masse at Capistrano, movie trailers keep flocking to my inbox in numbers unseen since the last time they did so. Which was, you know, yesterday. And the day before and … I need to release a few every now and then, or Continue Reading