trailer break: ‘The Great Buck Howard’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, it’s another trailer that gives away a bit too much of the movie, but not enough to ruin it. I saw this yesterday, and found it absolutely delightful. And if it’s possible to imagine, Colin Hanks might be more ridiculously charming than his father. This is … more…

trailer break: ‘Sunshine Cleaning’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’m seeing this tonight, and I just saw this trailer for the first time. It looks even more promising than I was expecting. I hate when that happens, because then I get my hopes up, which means they only have further to crash when I’m disappointed. I … more…

trailer break: ‘Knowing’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I get it! Nicolas Cage finds a piece of paper that, 50 years prior, unerringly predicted each and every future large-scale disaster to come… and there’s a few more yet to unfold. And Nicolas Cage will stop those disasters from unfolding. Because these predictions are absolutely accurate … more…

trailer break: ‘Miss March’ red-band trailer

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… So let me get this straight: It’s “funny” if a woman who is offering herself sexually to a man is then punished for behaving in a way that would generally garner at least temporary approval from men by being sucked out of the window of a moving … more…

trailer break: ‘Race to Witch Mountain’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Someone pitched this as The Rock Versus Area 51, I’m thinking. Or maybe Last Taxi to the End of the World? I wanted to be able to like this, because I have fond memories of the 1975 flick Escape to Witch Mountain, but after seeing this trailer, … more…

trailer break: ’17 Again’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Um, Freaky Friday much? Um, we’re supposed to believe that Matthew Perry looked like Zac Efron 25 years ago? That’s funny. The rest of it? Ugh. Look, I like Zac Efron. He’s adorable, he’s talented, but he needs a better agent if this is the best he … more…

trailer break: ‘Mutant Chronicles’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… (It’s red-band, but I don’t see anything here that warrants it.) Looks like it’s back to the future for a war between humans and “mutants” (who gets to define “mutant,” I wonder…?) in the trenches of World War I — at least, that’s what it looks like … more…

trailer break: ‘Departures (Okuribito)’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This is the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film. The subtitles are terrible, and clearly not official, but they do to give you a sense of what the movie is about until we get an official trailer: It’s funeral chic! I blame Six Feet Under. Departures … more…

trailer break: ‘Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This may be the most generic trailer I’ve ever seen. What’s the story? Who are the people living the story? What’s the movie actually about? Can it really be actually about anonymous people engaging in hand-to-hand combat, with the occasional instance of stuff blowing up? Of course … more…

trailer break: ‘Battle for Terra’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I saw this at the Tribeca Film Festival last year — in 2D, and it was titled simply Terra then — and I quite liked it. It flips some conventions of cinematic science fiction around: the humans are the aliens, for one, which is a refreshing change. … more…