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'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' Still Looking Good in This Second Trailer

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If it seemed like the last Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy trailer perhaps rested too smugly on its co-opted, super-intense Wolfman score, let this new trailer put to rest the notion this film needs any Danny Elfman music to feel intense. IT DOES NOT. This latest trailer co-opts an entirely different score and STILL it feels like the most thrilling spy thriller in ages--and that's all somehow without a single instance of Matt Damon showing up with a gun. Plus, it's hard to beat this cast of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, and John Hurt, so give it a look.

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'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' Trailer: Respected UK Actors Must Uncover the Mole!

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Director Tomas Alfredson's name only really started showing up outside Sweden after 2008's Let the Right One In, but already he apparently has the clout to call upon the UK's most esteemed actors, young and old, when they're needed. For Alfredson's adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt, and more have all come together, uniting over The Wolfman soundtrack in a stylish, '70s spy thriller so intense that even a shot of someone in goofy optometrist trial frames is super intense. Seriously, you will be on the edge of your seat waiting to hear his lens prescription.

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'The Rite' Trailer: Yet Another Girl Needs an Exorcism

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Did you miss the last time some poor young girl was portrayed as a demon-infested puppet of Satan whose only salvation was through the elaborate, baseless rituals of the Catholic faith? Don't sweat it: it's already happening again! And Anthony Hopkins is involved in this exorcism, so you probably couldn't have walked in at a better time. That Academy Award-winner is going to look so convincingly concerned when this possessed broad is thrashing around and puking up nails. Here's your trailer:

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