trailers

retro trailer: ‘Howard the Duck’

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Take a look back at an old trailer… Do we have a greater purpose? Some cosmic cause? These are the questions that haunt us in the depths of the night. Aren’t we all trapped in a world we never made? This is some deep stuff. Can you believe that I’ve never seen this movie? I … more…

trailer break: ‘Legion’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Speaking of prophesies… By the time you read this, I’ll be seeing the movie at a studio courtesy screening, because they hadn’t screened it in advance for critics. I prophesize that the movie may well exhibit signs of suckitude. Do angels wear electronic collars? I hadn’t heard … more…

trailer break: ‘The Crazies’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Fantastic: another remake of a 1970s horror movie. The 1973 original was by George Romero, so surely it’s still worth watching today. What’s the point of a remake? How is this not like every other damn movie about infection we’ve ever seen? The ordinary folk getting sick. … more…

trailer break: ‘MacGruber’ redband trailer

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I know I’m dating myself when I say that I don’t watch Saturday Night Live because it hasn’t been funny since about 1984. And this kind of crap is why. It really pisses me off to see SNL making fun of my longtime boyfriend MacGyver like this. … more…

trailer break: ‘From Paris with Love’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s Taken meets Die Hard! It’s the first action comedy of the War on Terror! Take that, bad guys! From Paris with Love opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on February 5.

trailer break: ‘Dear John’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, please, not another Nicholas Sparks movie. The romantic confession in the rain! The snuggling on the beach! The wondering who’s gonna live and who’s gonna die and who’s gonna be sad, so so terribly terribly sad when it happens! Lasse Hallström sure has come a long … more…

trailer break: ‘Polytechnique’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This week, the Toronto Film Critics Association named this film, by Denis Villeneuve, the best Canadian film of 2009. It’s about the mass shooting at the Montreal Polytechnique school in 1989 in which the shooter targeted women studying to be engineers, since he believed that feminism had … more…

trailer break: ‘Frozen’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Ooo, it’s Open Water on a ski lift! See, this is what happens when you try to scam the ticket guy by lying about losing your credit card. And when do the zombie Nazis show up? I guess no one had their cell phone on them, eh? … more…

trailer break: ‘When in Rome’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… OMG! Kristen Bell is soooo cute! It’s always adorable when cute little blondes are klutzes! OMG! It’s so true that cute little blondes have sooooo much trouble attracting men! OMG! Thank god for magic, which is the only way a cute little blonde could get a date, … more…