Jun 19 2008 'The Wackness' Red-Band Trailer is Totally Wack, Other Crazy '90s Slang
Still aren't sure you're willing to buy into a "period piece" set in mid-'90s? Uncomfortable paying to see Mary-Kate Olsen attempting a role that isn't half of a madcap twinship? The sight of a depressed, 18-year-old, drug-dealing virgin all too familiar? Then you probably don't want to see The Wackness when it hits theaters July 3. But if you want to see a first-person POV of flicking off people and a former Gandhi taking a bong hit, then you're definitely going to want to at least watch the red-band trailer. And it's under the cut!
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Apr 16 2008 '100 Feet' Promo Reel Merges Lifetime Movies and 'Ghost Dad'
Think Lifetime has explored every possibly scenario of an abusive husband seeking revenge on his wife who finally fought back? Well, though they probably think so as well, you're both wrong. Writer/director Eric Red has a new, exciting take on the subject: what if the husband comes back as a ghost?! Famke Janssen fills the role normally reserved for Tracey Gold, playing a wife on house arrest after killing her husband in self-defense, but finds out the guy is just as big of a dick from beyond the grave when he continually attempts to murder her. There's not yet a trailer, but the promo reel beyond the cut will give you a sense of why paranormal patriarchy is a real, serious issue.
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Apr 15 2008 Fly Teaser Trailer to 'The Wackness'
Looking for a new way to show off your premature nostalgia for the early '90s (your neon hightops aren't cutting it), possibly via the art of cinema? Try on this teaser trailer to Jonathan Levine's The Wackness! Here is the enticing summary:
Story, set in 1994, centers on a troubled teenage drug dealer and a drug-addled psychiatrist -- after the former trades pot for therapy sessions, then falls for the doctor's daughter.
Seriously though, it might be worth checking out. The film has been getting a lot of positive buzz at festivals, and features a diverse cast that includes Famke Janssen, half of the classic Nickelodeon duo Josh & Drake (the Drake Josh half), half of the classic rap/Right Guard duo Redman & Method Man (the Method Man half), and two of our greatest fasting icons: Ben Kingsley and Mary-Kate Olsen. And did I mention there are fly girls in it? No, not the bullshit Flygirls of In Living Color; I'm talking real, honest-to-goodness girls who are (or at least were) fly. So watch them be fly, for god's sake, below the cut.
Jan 15 2008 AM Poster Post: 'The Wackness' Proves Graffiti is So Hot Right Now
Which is more "wack": that Ben Kingsley is a drug-addicted therapist trading sessions for drugs, when the young drug dealer falls for his daughter (the actual plot), or that Mary-Kate Olsen is being treated as both an individual and an actual actress? I say the latter, though I admit to never seeing her part in Weeds or any of the 30 pun-filled misadventures she had with her twin sister.
The Wackness Poster [IMPA]
