Mar 27 2009 'Taking Woodstock' Trailer with Demetri Martin

Imagine you agree to have a quiet little concert party behind your parents' motel. But then that little concert party quickly snowballs into a really big, awesome concert party! And the name of that concert party is WOODSTOCK! ORIGINAL WOODSTOCK, not those bullshit '90s Woodstocks. Now quiet your eager imagination, because this concept is already a movie directed by Ang Lee, and here is the trailer:

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Sep 4 2008 I Believe in Harvey 'Milk' Trailer. Get It? It's Like Harvey Dent

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to a public office in the U.S. (though some of the Founding Fathers seemed a bit iffy at times). He was then murdered by a fellow city supervisor who hated Harvey Milk being the first openly gay man elected to a public office in the U.S., because that's the American way. Gus Van Sant has made the story into a biopic starring Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna, and Sean Penn as Milk, a role that will surely get him Oscar nominations and other prizes made of gold. Here's the trailer:

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May 9 2008 Watch: First Seven Minutes of 'Speed Racer'

0-:30 - Help! I'm trapped in a sponsored kaleidoscope! Phew, I'm out. Apparently that was just the portal to a Nickelodeon locker room.

:30-4:00 - The constant rhythmic movements, the paralyzing hallucinations, the guttural outbursts, the insane scribblings, the Asperger-level singular obsession mixed with complete social disregard: it's abundantly clear that childhood Speed has some serious mental issues to overcome. I can't wait to see how they address such crippling psychoses in a family movie.

4:00-end - Never mind. I guess we're going to ignore all that in favor of a sneak peek of Nintendo's upcoming F-Zero Played on the Wario's Coliseum Mario Kart Course.

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Mar 19 2008 'Speed Racer' Character/Mannequin Posters

Yahoo! has posted some new character posters for Speed Racer, giving us fresh looks at Christina Ricci as Trixie, Matthew Fox as Racer X, and, our star, Buddy the Magical Doll Boy. See the rest here.

Mar 13 2008 New 'Speed Racer' Trailer is So Cool Beans

A new domestic trailer to Speed Racer has arrived, forcing some retro kitsch into its computer-generated candy world with the addition of a "cool beans!" moment. Aside from conspicuously dated slang, the new trailer also gives us disturbing hints of incest, and the shocking revelation that the protagonist--whose birth name is Speed Racer--has had an unnatural fascination with speed racing for his entire life. Who would have thought? Despite all the eye-roll-inducing dialogue--true to the series but not really much worse than Matrix lines--I'm finding myself strangely drawn to the Wachowskis' psychedelic, phsyics-free racing fantasy.

See some speed racing and Matthew Fox playing Racer X like an android Batman, under the cut.

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Mar 10 2008 Two New Internationally Epilepsy-Inducing 'Speed Racer' Trailers

Equal parts video game, hallucinogen, and exposition, two new international trailers for Speed Racer have found their way online in all their blinding, over-saturated glory. I don't know why the Wachowskis keep releasing trailers when it's obvious that the in-theater seizures are going to be the real publicity builders.

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Feb 13 2008 First Look at Emile Hirsch in 'Milk'

From the set of Milk, the Sean Penn-starring biopic on politician/activist Harvey Milk, come the first images of co-star Emile Hirsch in-character, apparently as the young bombardier Gene Shalit.

Lucas Grabeel and Emile Hirsch Get Milked [JustJared]

Dec 18 2007 AM Poster Post: 'Speed Racer' at Groin Level

From the creators of The Matrix trilogy comes another unbelievable world full of guys plastered in leather and latex, but this time it's also sort of like a bleary-eyed look at a Christmas Tree.

Speed Racer Poster! [JoBlo]

Dec 7 2007 'Speed Racer' Trailer Simulates Brain of Juvenile Psychotics

Envision a jarring nightmare full of absurdly cliched dialogue, the Playstation game Wipeout, fan-fiction, epilepsy, ninjas, Michael Jackson's '80s wardrobe, all the worst parts of Star Wars: Episode I, and Maury Povich's ideal guest (a child who is both fat and prematurely aged), all filtered through the mind of a boy with ADHD. If you did it right, you're now pretty close to the trailer to Speed Racer, only more so.

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Dec 6 2007 'Speed Racer' Images Resemble Cough Syrup Experiences

Since the Wachowskis announced they were making a live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, there's been a lot of speculation and doubt as to how well they could translate the anime. It turns out our worries were completely unfounded. Just like you'd want, it looks exactly like a spaceman having a psychotic episode while half in a spectroscope, half in a Hot Wheels commercial.

And more under the cut!

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Dec 5 2007 'Speed Racer' Behind-the-Scenes with Racer X

In this Entertainment Tonight exclusive--one of the few that doesn't reference "TomKat"--get your first look at Matthew Fox as Racer X, and see Emile Hirsch, as the titular Speed Racer, deliver provocative dialogue from under a goofy wig.

Now I see why, despite the pleas of fans, directors often choose to alter the look of comic book/anime characters for film. As it turns out, using the actual costumes makes it seem like we've stumbled into a strange celebrity cos-play convention, producing the same awkward emotions as if you saw a co-worker dressed like a Jedi. It starts with the feeling of "Oh god, they're one of those," then ascends to "Oh god, I wish I hadn't seen them like this. Are we supposed to just act like this didn't happen?"

Still though, good job being uncomfortably accuracy. Maybe it will seem less weird on film.

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