trailer break: ‘Cheri’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Hooray! It’s an older woman-younger man romance. Or sex romp, at least. It’s based on the naughty novels by turn-of-the-20th-century French author Colette, so perhaps it will be free of the bizarre hangups we seem to have developed about sex in our pop culture in the last … more…

trailer break: ‘Dead Snow’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Perhaps the most awesome thing about this trailer is that it’s not in English, and it doesn’t matter one bit. A buncha kids go skiing the mountains where people don’t speak English… but where Nazis once roamed. And now the Nazis are zombies. What more do you … more…

trailer break: ‘Moon’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Three years on the Moon, and two weeks to go? Oh, this can’t be good. That’s like being a movie cop and talking about how you’re getting ready to retire. That’s like being a soldier in a WWII movie and showing around a picture of your sweetheart … more…

trailer break: ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh my god, I am so rooting for the bad guy in this. Christopher Eccleston can conquer my world any time he wants. I mean, he destroys the Eiffel Tower? How deliciously evil is that? And probably all because some dame broke his heart once and told … more…

trailer break: ‘District 9’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… What a truly intriguing trailer! It teases you into thinking it’s gonna be a documentary about racism and segregation in South Africa… and then it turns into a trailer for a science fiction film — perhaps one that’s done in a documentary style — about specism and … more…

trailer break: ‘Land of the Lost’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Ah, I see that no nods will be given to the earnestness of the original show. This makes me sad: This show warped my tiny brain as a child with its talk of time warps and intelligent dinosaurs and such, and it would have been nice to … more…

“embedding disabled by request”

I cannot tell you how completely insane it makes me to go to YouTube looking for trailers to feature here and to see how many of them have had their “embedding disabled by request.” Or how crazy it makes me to discover that a trailer I embedded in a post a couple of months ago … more…

trailer break: ‘Angels & Demons’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Woo-hoo! Illuminati! Conspiracy theories! Evil religions! Tom Hanks snarking at priests! Ewan McGregor in a clerical collar! Well, actually, that last doesn’t do much for me, but I know someone who’s going to be very intrigued by that. Man, if church had been this exciting, I might … more…

trailer break: “The Hunt for Gollum”

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… A bunch of readers have emailed me about this — thank you all –and yes, I’ve been aware of it, and I’ve been meaning to get to it for quite a while. Remember when Strider went hunting for Gollum? You do if you read the appendices Tolkien … more…