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Trailer Tuesday: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

I’m not a Ben Stiller fan.  I tolerate him in a few things (Dodgeball, Tropic Thunder) but I only really enjoy him in The Royal Tenenbaums.  Also, I’ve never read “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber.  So imagine my surprise when I saw this trailer before a screening of The Wolverine, and was fascinated by it.  As things currently stand, I’m really looking forward to this.  Take a look, and read on for my thoughts:

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Trailer Tuesday: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

This weekend at Comic-con saw the release of a new trailer for Catching Fire, the upcoming sequel to last year’s The Hunger Games.  I covered the first trailer back in April, but watch the new one and then read on for my thoughts:

We get a lot of new footage in this trailer, mixed in with some things we’ve seen before, so let’s take it from the top. Continue reading →

Trailer Tuesday: Saving Mr. Banks

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

It’s been torture, having to wait until today to share this trailer with you.  I’ll save my thoughts for after, so go ahead and watch:

My obsession with all things Disney should be well know by this point to anyone who regularly reads this blog. Continue reading →

Trailer Tuesday: R.I.P.D.

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

For today’s Trailer Tuesday I was going to do Austenland, but I couldn’t find a version of the trailer that I could embed here (so look for that sometime soon).  Instead, today you’re going to get R.I.P.D., the supernatural comedy coming on July 19.  Take a look, and read on for my thoughts:

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Trailer Tuesday: The Lone Ranger

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

During my movie marathon a couple weeks ago, I saw a trailer for The Lone Ranger (out tomorrow) before my showing of Man of Steel.  There’s nothing unusual about this, and I fully expected it, but what I didn’t expect was this unusual take on a trailer instead of something more typical.  Take a look, and then read on for my thoughts:

Instead of a standard trailer we instead got a behind-the-scenes look at the film.   Continue reading →

Trailer Tuesday: Frozen

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

Those of you who saw Monsters University were probably treated to this small teaser for the upcoming Disney Animation film, Frozen.  Frozen is a retelling of “The Snow Queen,” a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson.  It features the voice talents of Kristen Bell (sloths!), Idina Menzel, Alan Tudyk and Jonathan Groff.  It’s also a musical, with songs written by Robert Lopez (songwriter for Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon and the Scrubs musical episode) and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez.

The trailer is just a simple tease, though it does a lot to evoke the most popular characters from Tangled, Maximus the horse and Pascal the chameleon.  It may not tell us much, but it sure is cute!  Take a look: Continue reading →

Trailer Tuesday: In a World…

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

In my opinion, there aren’t enough women in Hollywood who are creating movies.  Sure, there are the Tina Fey’s and Amy Poehler’s and Kristen Wiig’s who write their own material, but it’s not nearly enough.  Enter Lake Bell, and In a World…  Take a look:

In a World… premiered at Sundance and received positive reviews.  The trailer has the quirky style you expect from an indie comedy.  As the main character’s father says, “I just love that, it’s so random.”  Lake Bell wrote, directed, produced and starred in the film as Carol, the daughter of a famous trailer voiceover performer (think Don LaFontaine), who wants to follow in her father’s footsteps, despite it being a male dominated industry. Continue reading →

Trailer Tuesday: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

I figure that because I (intentionally) gave you a horrible trailer this morning, that I owed you an alternate.  So here, I present you with the freshly released trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.  Watch below, and read on for my thoughts:

1) Do you think we can go ahead and compare this film to The Two Towers?   Continue reading →

(Awful) Trailer Tuesday: The Heat

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

Sometimes a trailer comes out that is so bad it’s mind boggling that the film was ever made.  I get the appeal.  People love Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, and I’m sure some executive thought this would make a lot of money.  After all, Identity Thief made $174 million dollars.  Take a look:

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Trailer Tuesday: Much Ado About Nothing

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be endlessly fascinating.

When Joss Whedon announced that he had secretly filmed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with his acting troupe at his house as part of a stay-at-home vacation, I freaked out.  I wasn’t alone in this either.  The idea of Whedon doing Shakespeare is perfectly brilliant.  We should have all known it was bound to happen, considering the references to the Bard in his shows and films (“We few, we happy few…” “We band of buggered.”).  Take a look at the trailer and read on for my thoughts:

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