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Metro Manila trailer: this is how you sell a film

Wed, Sep 18, 2013
6 comments

This is a fair representation of what the movie feels like that hints at what it’s about without actually revealing anything at all.

| 6 Comments

CBGB trailer: punk us

Tue, Sep 17, 2013
13 comments

How is this film not huge? Why are fans having to demand they be allowed to see it This is too depressing.

| 13 Comments

Escape from Tomorrow trailer: the horror-est place on Earth

Mon, Sep 16, 2013
7 comments

Filmmaker Randy Moore shot this secretly at Disneyland and Disney World without Disney’s knowledge or permission. I like it already.

| 7 Comments

Thanks for Sharing trailer: we need a new way to sell movies

Fri, Sep 13, 2013
1 comment

I’ve seen this movie, and it’s really excellent, but this does not do it justice.

| 1 Comment

Battle of the Year trailer: dudes dancing

Thu, Sep 12, 2013
13 comments

Shakes up the tired dance-contest genre by cleverly eliminating half the human race.

| 13 Comments

Justin and the Knights of Valour trailer: silly English kehniggit

Wed, Sep 11, 2013
10 comments

Sorry, but a boy who dreams of adventure is NOT “the world’s unlikeliest hero.” He’s pretty much the definition of the cliché of a movie hero.

| 10 Comments

Salinger trailer: catcher of the wry?

Tue, Sep 10, 2013
2 comments

My theory: Catcher in the Rye was written by aliens. Probably the same ones who built the pyramids and make crop circles.

| 2 Comments

RoboCop trailer: does no one have a new idea? anyone?

Mon, Sep 09, 2013
29 comments

This may be “the future of American justice,” but it is the past of American filmmaking.

| 29 Comments

Cold Comes the Night trailer: don’t you threaten her baby!

Fri, Sep 06, 2013
3 comments

I like Alice Eve. And I love Bryan Cranston. So, fingers crossed.

| 3 Comments

The Summit trailer: go telling what happened on the mountain

Thu, Sep 05, 2013
2 comments

Damn. Looks like I missed this both at the London Film Festival last year and at Sheffield Doc/Fest this spring. Crap.

| 2 Comments
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