trailer break: ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… And then watch this one: Same movie… but you might not guess it from these two trailers. The first one makes this look like it’s akin to a cozy British mystery you might find on PBS: sure, there’s sex and murder, but it hasn’t been glamorized and … more…

trailer break: ‘Repo Men’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… So, not a sequel to Repo Man, then… 51 seconds into the trailer, I’m guessing this will be the “big twist”: Jude Law (or Forest Whitaker) secretly has a mortgaged replacement organ, and Forest Whitaker (or Jude Law) will be forced to repo it from his best … more…

trailer break: ‘Universal Dead’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Nope, it’s not another installment in the Universal Monsters reboot, but a new online series that will debut “around March 15th,” according to screenwriter Kelly Parks, whom I “spoke” to via Facebook last night. The trailer looks pretty impressive for a low-budget effort, and the cast is … more…

trailer break: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… How to Train Your Dragon is my favorite title of 2010 (so far, anyway), but this isn’t quite the movie I was expecting to go along with it. I didn’t expect that the dragons would be mostly “bad” — I thought it might be more like National … more…

trailer break: ‘The Ghost Writer’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Hey, did you know that Roman Polanski has a new movie about to hit screens? Yeah, neither did I. I wonder why everyone’s keeping it such a secret? Hmmmm…. Look at that cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams — Timothy Hutton’s in this, too, … more…

trailer break: ‘The Runaways’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Hmm, lessee: a movie written and directed by a woman — Floria Sigismondi — about a bunch of young women doing something awesome and unexpected and for themselves, not for men or for babies. Will this kick box office ass? Or will it be this year’s Whip … more…

trailer break: ‘Cop Out’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This is the movie that was once titled A Couple of Dicks. Kevin Smith thinks it’s funny that the new title — changed for obvious reasons of prudery — is Cop Out (after an interim alteration to A Couple of Cops). Unfortunately, the trailer makes the movie … more…

trailer break: ‘Hubble 3D’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Remember how when the space shuttle lost all its air and no one knew if the Hubble repair astronauts would be able to slingshot around the Moon and get home again, but after three days of nailbiting suspense, they did? That was cool. Seriously, though: The Hubble … more…

trailer break: ‘To Save a Life’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This is one of those “Christian” movies that managed to do so well when it opened this past weekend — it was the best performing film in limited release — because it worked the untraditional (but increasingly common) marketing method of targeting church groups and getting them … more…

trailer break: ‘Universal Soldier: Regeneration’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I bet you get huge tax credits for shooting at Chernobyl. What’s that? They didn’t actually shoot at Chernobyl? This is what’s wrong with cinema today: everyone’s willing to let Hollywood glam and FX trump authenticity. *sigh* Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme: Which one will be … more…