Trailers
Trailer: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan
by Erika Olson | August 31st, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersAlthough I should have known better — Black Swan IS a film by Darron Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler), after all — the beginning of its trailer had me sighing, “Oh, yippee. A battle of ballerinas. SNORE!” But then I reached the – 52 point. Whaaa…. ? Yep, freaky stuff is goin’ [...]
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Monsters: This Year’s District 9?
by Erika Olson | August 26th, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersI’ve heard nothing but fantastic buzz about Monsters, the upcoming indie sci-fi flick shot in Mexico for very little cash (some say less than $15,000…) by Gareth Edwards. The first-time feature filmmaker handled all of the special effects on his computer, though neither of its teaser trailers really show much action, so it’s hard to [...]
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Stop Everything for a Look at Unstoppable
by Erika Olson | August 24th, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersTony Scott’s latest, Unstoppable (in theaters November 12 ) is already being dubbed The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Part Two. I gotta admit, I was getting an indisputable Pelham vibe, too, so I can see where the razzes are coming from. But since I liked Pelham — a lot — that’s not a [...]
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The Freeze Frame Answers & Winners, and a Bizarre Trailer from Joaquin Phoenix
by Erika Olson | August 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, TrailersCongratulations are in order for Paul N, one of our first members of the Readers Who Rock crew. He knew that Friday’s movies were Stand By Me, Sneakers, and Running on Empty. What should we have Paul whip together out of aluminum foil for his victory prize? How about a movie-reel canister? It’s flat, round, [...]
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Divas Unite!
by Erika Olson | August 18th, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersAs we continue to celebrate Movies That Sing, I thought it might be an appropriate time to talk about Burlesque, the upcoming musical from Steve Antin (aka: “Troy, the mean jock in The Goonies“). It looks like the typical “small-town-girl wants to make it big” story — I detected many shades of Chicago in the [...]
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Dude. NO.
by Erika Olson | August 5th, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersAs Locke learned long ago, whenever I utter “dude,” it means that everybody better listen up, because I’m about to say something serious. “Dude. NO.” was my reaction after watching the horrendous Yogi Bear (in 3D… of course) trailer. I dare you to tell me that my use of the D-word — and my despair [...]
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Prepare to Be Sucker Punched
by Erika Olson | August 4th, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersA year ago I wrote about some of the casting shake-ups for Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch, in which a young girl named Babydoll (The Uninvited‘s Emily Browning) has five days to escape from an insane asylum — where she’s scheduled to be lobotomized. The film, which Snyder describes as “Alice in Wonderland… with machine guns,” [...]
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Buried: Clearly Not for Claustrophobics
by Erika Olson | August 3rd, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersIn February, I posted the teaser trailer for Buried, a freaky-looking thriller that stars Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy, an American contractor in Iraq who wakes up and finds that he’s in a coffin, six feet under. He has only a cell phone and a lighter on him, and in order to see the sun [...]
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Yep, More Vampires.
by Erika Olson | July 29th, 2010 | Filed under: TrailersLet’s hear it for the motherland: Go Sweden! My name’s Erika Olson, remember. My ancestors hail from the land that brought you IKEA, ABBA, Roxette, Ace of Base, lingonberry jam and lutfisk (which, admittedly, might just be the nastiest stuff ever.) And guess what else the Swedes delivered in the more recent past? Stiegg Larsson’s [...]
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“The Best Novel of the Decade” (or of 2005, at least) Gets the Hollywood Treatment
by Erika Olson | July 27th, 2010 | Filed under: Redbox Focus, TrailersConsidering that we’re making it a point to discuss literary adaptations this week, when I saw the poster for the big-screen version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, my first instinct was to immediately perform a Google search to get some confirmation that Time magazine had in fact declared this novel The Best of [...]
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