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April 23, 2006 - April 29, 2006 Archives

  • April 28, 2006
    If you can stop yourself from reading about Brangelina for two minutes, you can catch the first half of the clever name fusion starring in the teaser trailer for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. While you'll get a sense of the feel of the film, don't... / Continue →
  • April 28, 2006
    If you wanted The Jungle Book to be more like Conan the Barbarian, you're in luck. Take a look at the trailer for the action/adventure Pathfinder, the story of a young Viking boy, accidentally abandoned in a raid against the Native Americans, who is then raised as one of their... / Continue →
  • April 27, 2006
    With ThinkFilm buying the rights to the prequel to the Comedy Central series of the same name, Strangers with Candy, the film will hopefully be released this summer. To tide you over until then, here's the trailer to the film on YouTube. Thanks to YouTube's handy "tag" featur... / Continue →
  • April 27, 2006
    If a film will ever reinvigorate the boring, brainy genre of the documentary, bringing it to the common people, it must surely be this, an in-depth look at The New York Times crossword puzzle. Featuring interviews with Jon Stewart, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Ken Burns, and New Yo... / Continue →
  • April 27, 2006
    Speaking on the future of Marvel Studios, chief executive Avi Arad revealed that the villain for the sequel to The Hulk will be the big, green, Yugoslavian counterpart to the transforming hero, the Abomination. "Our Hulk," Arad says, "will be a diet Hulk. Lighter. Focusing on th... / Continue →
  • April 26, 2006
    The French get it all-- the Eiffel Tower, American animosity, and now a new trailer for Sofia Coppola's Maria-Antoinette. As confident as I am in the director's work, I'm still not sure about this semi-updated take on a period piece. I'd say it's innovative for mixing 80's mu... / Continue →
  • April 26, 2006
    If you can't wait for Wes Anderson's next film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, or if you're in the market for a new credit card, take a gander at the director's commercial for American Express. It has his typical stylized look and quirky humor, so it's basically like getting a free mo... / Continue →
  • April 26, 2006
    After it was announced that Mission: Impossible 3 director J.J. Abrams would breathe new life into the Star Trek franchise by taking over the 11th film, rumors flew that the picture would tell the story of Kirk and Spock's early years. Speaking with Empire, however, Abrams now s... / Continue →
  • April 25, 2006
    I can't promise you'll ever get laid again, but I can assure you the Dead or Alive movie will be the next best thing. There are some new shots up that show that legitimate storylines and Dead or Alive won't mix, though wet t-shirts and Dead or Alive are like peanut butter and ... / Continue →
  • April 25, 2006
    What do you get when you shove six beautiful women together in a small, tight space? An erection! Or the terrifying, claustrophobic, British horror-thriller The Descent. Whichever applies more to you. The trailer to the latter is now online here. Source... / Continue →
  • April 24, 2006
    For those of you filled with too much patriotism to download the international trailer for The Omen, the domestic trailer is now available. It's chock full of new footage, including the above shot, which shows that if you give birth to the Devil, you're less phased by other su... / Continue →
  • April 24, 2006
    In what can only be described as a major coup for providers of low quality embedded media, AOL and Moviefone have scored the exclusive trailer for Warner's new romantic thing, The Lake House. If you thought the cast of Speed writing letters to each other would make great cinem... / Continue →
  • April 24, 2006
    If you like it when bandits is written in the Spanish feminine form, you need to see the trailer for Bandidas. The film, starring Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz, tells the story of a pair of women who become bank robbers to combat a tyrannical local enforcer, proving that desp... / Continue →