trailer break: ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Well. I was about to say that this looks like nothing I’ve ever seen before, except that I do see shades of Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in the snippets here. And maybe some stuff that Tim Burton has dreamed up… a bit of Edward … more…

trailer break: ‘More Than a Game

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s nice that LeBron James made the big time. I wonder if the film makes the point that even though our culture holds out pro sports as a possible option for escaping poverty, very very few people can make it the way he did. It’s not even … more…

retro trailer: ‘Passport to Pimlico’

Take a look back at an old trailer… This charming 1949 movie is about a district in London just after WWII that decides it’s an independent nation, and sets up separating itself from England. It’s a hilarious satire on the deprivations of the postwar period and the frustrations Londoners were experiencing with their government at … more…

trailer break: ‘New York, I Love You’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Can the urban romance lightning-in-a-bottle that was Paris, je t’aime be captured again? I’d like to think so, especially since New York is my city. New York, I Love You opens in the U.S. on October 16; no U.K. release date has been announced.

trailer break: ‘Black Dynamite’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This is one of the funniest trailers I’ve seen in a long time — “I am smiling.” *snort* I hope the movie is as effective at aping 70s movie clichés as the trailer is at aping 70s trailers. And I really hope that all the funny bits … more…

trailer break: ‘The Stepfather’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I have to say that it’s about time stepfathers started getting the same bad rap as stepmothers. Oh, wait: this is a remake of a 1987 movie? Then how could the idea of the evil stepfather never caught on? Could it be that first movie sucked? Are … more…

trailer break: ‘Couples Retreat’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… At first glance — and frankly, at second and third glances, too — this looks like something I’m really, really gonna hate. But it’s written by Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, who I do really like on the other side of the camera as well, generally, and … more…

trailer break: ‘Zombieland’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Awesome. Worried about climate change and peak oil and your adjustable rate mortgage readjusting? Don’t. Is it Shaun of the Dead in America? A bit. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Zombieland opens in the U.S. on October 2, and in the U.K. on October 9.

trailer break: ‘Creation’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’m so looking forward to seeing this movie, and it looks like I’ll get my chance: the film has finally been picked up for U.S. distribution by Newmarket Films, after a period during which no one would touch it. As the Telegraph explained back on September 11: … more…

trailer break: ‘Whip It’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Wait, what’s this? A movie full of awesome women? That can’t be right. Who approved this? Did they use up all the women in Hollywood for this one movie? Where will all the other movies find their The Girl or The Wife till all these lovelies have … more…