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The Machine trailer: robot chick goes crazy

Mon, Mar 10, 2014
1 comment

Same old story.

| 1 Comment

Sabotage redband trailer: gotta restrain my enthusiasm for this…

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
2 comments

David Ayer’s movies need really great actors to pull them off, and I don’t think Arnold Schwarzenegger has the chops for serious drama…

| 2 Comments

New York Times critic AO Scott is all boo-hoo waaaa grrl power

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
16 comments

Do you imagine that anyone — any single person — will accuse Scott of dragging feminism into everything?

| 16 Comments

The Cold Lands trailer: guess MaryAnn’s reaction to this!

Thu, Mar 06, 2014
4 comments

Looks like this trailer picked the wrong week to cross my path…

| 4 Comments

Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer: do they *promise* this franchise is about to go extinct?

Wed, Mar 05, 2014
3 comments

Astonishingly, sexy blonde 19-year-old Nicola Peltz is actually playing Mark Wahlberg’s daughter, not his girlfriend. Progress!

| 3 Comments

Next Goal Wins trailer: are you ready for some football?

Tue, Mar 04, 2014
7 comments

This movie is going to be huge.

| 7 Comments

A Million Ways to Die in the West redband trailer: oh [expletive]

Fri, Feb 28, 2014
9 comments

I’m gonna be rooting for Liam Neeson to shoot Seth MacFarlane dead in this one.

| 9 Comments

Godzilla trailer: this is gonna be awesome

Thu, Feb 27, 2014
39 comments

“All those nuclear tests in the Pacific… not tests.” Ooo, that gave me chills.

| 39 Comments

The Double and Enemy trailers: doppelganger movies

Wed, Feb 26, 2014
6 comments

Two movies about a man who discovers he has an identical double, and the identical double is up to no good. Is someone trying to drive movie lovers crazy?

| 6 Comments

Veronica Mars trailer: will this have anything for non-fans?

Tue, Feb 25, 2014
16 comments

This trailer looks pretty generic-20something-comedy. It looks — perhaps unsurprisingly — like an for a TV show.

| 16 Comments
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