trailer break: ‘Adventureland’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… “Life after college”? I thought this was gonna be a life-after-high school thing. After college, and he’s not even qualified for manual labor? Now, the summer of 1987 was my first summer after high school, and the summer of 1988 was my first summer after dropping out … more…

trailer break: ‘The Haunting in Connecticut’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… The message: Don’t sleep in the basement! Oh, you know, why don’t the dead just die already? Don’t they know they’re really pissing us off? Also: Connecticut? So not scary. Unless your talking about real estate prices in Greenwich. The Haunting in Connecticut opens in the U.S. … more…

trailer break: ‘Tyson’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Mike Tyson so repulses me that I don’t know if I want to sit through a movie about him, particularly one that appears, from this trailer, to be geared toward letting him justify himself. Just the fact that the film exists feels like a bit of a … more…

trailer break: ‘Wild Child’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Natasha Richardson’s last film — she appears briefly in the trailer toward the end: Wild Child hasn’t been released in the U.S. (and no release date appears to have been set), but it was released last summer in the U.K., and is already available on DVD in … more…

trailer break: ‘Fast & Furious’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… “A lot has changed”? Nothing has changed! It’s the same movie over and over again — they even recycled the title this time! Is dropping the thes really enough to make sure people don’t confuse this with the first movie… or is keeping the title almost identical … more…

trailer break: ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Aren’t we the lucky duckies: we get a boob joke and a poop joke right in the trailer! Look, this concept has the potential to be genuinely funny and visually striking, but can we please declare a moratorium on poop jokes? I find it impossible to believe … more…