The Title or Trailer Game IV: Catch it!
Welcome, welcome to The Title or Trailer Gave IV. Here I am with another chance for one of our couples to win absolutely nothing. The rules are simple: if you don't know, flip a coin. Those who refrain from nodding …
A closer look at Megan Fox's bosom - er, This is 40
The new mid-life movie This is 40 isn't just Judd Apatow getting to fantasize that he's Paul Rudd by casting him opposite Mrs. Judd Apatow, aka Leslie Mann. It's also a chance for him to introduce the world to Megan …
A closer look at the trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP-o_JxysA Nice work, Mr. Trailer Editor: "You're gonna get yourself and everyone under your command killed" gets spoken right over a shot of Mr. Doomed Redshirt running scared: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/17/37043/ And it's not in the trailer, but what about this line …
A closer look at the trailer for Pacific Rim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w6Vv2z-QiAI Well BRAAAAHM my BRAAAAHM, it's another movie about punching robots. I kind of hope it opens with a 2001-style bit that traces the development of human warfare, from cavemen punching each other, to one picking up a bone and …
An even closer look at the trailer for Oblivion
"I've been watching you, Jack," intones Morgan Freeman in his best Morpheus voice. "You're curious. What are you looking for in those books?" http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36892/ So what exactly is that book that our hero finds himself reading? Why, it's Thomas Babbington …
A closer look at the trailer for Man of Steel
Whoa. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36887/ And what side is that, Dad? http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36888/ Ah. The flaming side. But Dad also tells his boy, "You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark." Apparently, he thinks it's …
A closer look at the trailers for Oblivion and After Earth
Chalk another one up to Hollywood Synchronicity - you know, the force that brought us Deep Impact and Armageddon, Dante's Peak and Volcano, etc. Cuz here come two films starring weirdly ageless A-listers (Tom Cruise and Will Smith) about space …
A closer listen to the teaser trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness
Okay, first off: Benedict Cumberbatch is hugely enjoyable as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, and I liked him just fine in the remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but I'm just not buying the menace here. There's something hollow in the …
Quentin Tarantino gives red band Django trailers a personalized touch
First a shout out to RZA, now Brad Pitt
First came Quentin Tarantino's shout out to "my boy" RZA at the head of the Django Unchained trailer that played theatrically before The Man With the Iron Fists. Those fortunate enough to have seen Killing Them Softly this weekend, (Matthew …