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Posts tagged "Trailers"
Prescreen Provides a One-Stop Sundance 'Trailer' Park

Prescreen Provides a One-Stop Sundance ‘Trailer’ Park

If you are like me and NOT going to the snowy cinematic extravaganza known as Sundance Film Festival, there is a bright side: you can watch all the trailers for the “Official Sundance Selections” in one spot. And that spot is Prescreen.com. Prescreen.com is a unique hybrid of Living Social/Netflix for lovers of indie film...
Screw Snow White, it's all about the bitchy Evil Queen

Screw Snow White, it’s all about the bitchy Evil Queen

Last week, the trailer for dark and bad-ass Snow White and the Huntsman by rookie feature film director Rupert Sanders came out. Yesterday, director Tarsem Singh answered with his more fantastical Snow White adaptation, Mirror, Mirror. It looks like the Snow White wars have begun (we’ll leave TV’s Once Upon a Time out of this...
The Hunger Games trailer has been released into the wild!

The Hunger Games trailer has been released into the wild!

The trailer for The Hunger Games has officially been released. It’s everything I imagined — and I am watching it over and over again. Kind of like porn. Check it out:
J. Edgar vs. Melancholia: Which movie should you watch while high?

J. Edgar vs. Melancholia: Which movie should you watch while high?

J. Edgar and Melancholia open in more theaters today and both are causing quite a buzz among critic circles. Kirsten Dunst already snagged an award at Cannes for her portrayal of Justine in Melancholia. She’s simply a girl coping with her troubled relationship with her sister and the threat of a new mysterious planet about...
21 Jump Street trailer hits the net and it has lots of curse words

21 Jump Street trailer hits the net and it has lots of curse words

As a person who owns the original 21 Jump Street TV series on DVD, you can only imagine how excited/apprehensive (or “exprehensive,” if you will) I was when they announced the movie adaptation. Today, the red band trailer has hit the Interwebs, I am happy to say that it looks pretty damn good — mainly...
Interview: Elizabeth Olsen and Sean Durkin talk Martha Marcy May Marlene, cult life and Katy Perry

Interview: Elizabeth Olsen and Sean Durkin talk Martha Marcy May Marlene, cult life and Katy Perry

Elizabeth Olsen (left) with Sarah Paulson in Martha Marcy May Marlene. “It’s so cold inside and there are weird patterns on the wall,” says Martha Marcy May Marlene actor Elizabeth Olsen (yes, she is the sister of the Hollywood Olsen duo of Full House fame) as she, director/writer Sean Durkin and a small group of...
Human Centipede: America's new sweetheart

Human Centipede: America’s new sweetheart

There comes a time in life when something sweeps the popular culture world by storm. In the past, things such as Beanie Babies, Pokemon, and Pogs have reached iconic pop culture status but now, it is finally time for the outlandishly demented Human Centipede to bask in the spotlight. The borderline kitschy/shocking joy-sucking (and ass...
My Week With Marilyn vs. Dawson's Creek

My Week With Marilyn vs. Dawson’s Creek

The theatrical trailer of My Week With Marilyn debuted yesterday — let’s take a look at it shall we? That movie has Oscar bait slathered all over it. In addition to what seems to be a knock-out performance by Michelle Williams as the Norma Jean, the movie has a thespian decibal level of jet engine...
Tweet three times in the dark to see Paranormal Activity 3 first

Tweet three times in the dark to see Paranormal Activity 3 first

Paramount Pictures is taking full advantage of the social media landscape by launching a “Tweet To See It First” campaign for Paranormal Activity 3. In this third installment of their haunting home video horror franchise. There’s a home video camera and…well…scary shit happens. Here’s how it works: the movie will premiere in 20 cities worldwide...
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton make a Joyful Noise

Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton make a Joyful Noise

Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton could possibly be the new Dr. Dre and Eminem. The trailer for their new movie, Joyful Noise looks like a failed attempt to duplicate the brilliance of Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. They can try, but they NEVER will. Check out the new trailer: To the normal person,...
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is All About Getting Knocked Up

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is All About Getting Knocked Up

After a teasing buzz for the trailer for the trailer for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, the FULL theatrical trailer for the two-part franchise finale of angsty, brooding vampires with Mormon undertones has finally hit the web. Check it out: There are plenty of talking points in regards to the trailer, but the main...
Snap Judgment: "Hysteria" Trailer Brings Sophistication and Class to the Vibrator

Snap Judgment: “Hysteria” Trailer Brings Sophistication and Class to the Vibrator

Please don’t let the title of this post fool you. The vibrator IS classy and sophisticated — but the new trailer for Hysteria makes the popular sex toy even classier. Like a whore in a corset doing the waltz. The movie gives us the history of the invention of the vibrator and proves that adding...