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The Cars 2 Trailer Presents Your Shopping Guide for Christmas 2011

You might be stumped with what to get your loved ones this Christmas — on that front, don’t worry: Movieline’s Gift Guide is coming soon to a web browser near you! — but thanks to Pixar, Christmas 2011 is already covered. The trailer for next summer’s Cars 2 has arrived and brought with it enough stocking stuffers to please even the most fickle Michael Caine impersonator .

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Matt LeBlanc Overcomes Being Matt LeBlanc By Playing Matt LeBlanc in Episodes

While Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer struggled to overcome “The Friends Curse” since fleeing Central Perk in 2004, Matt LeBlanc has battled an even worse affliction: “The Matt LeBlanc Curse.” Unlike his co-stars, LeBlanc tried to mine his Friends success into a spin-off that failed so dramatically, it has since prevented the actor’s casting in any project — even an “It Gets Better” PSA. (Because, let’s face it, LeBlanc’s career has only proved otherwise.) Now, the former Joey Tribbiani is going to extreme lengths to prove that he is anything but a dimwitted has-been…by playing a jaded has-been in Showtime’s Episodes .

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Matt LeBlanc Overcomes Being Matt LeBlanc By Playing Matt LeBlanc in Episodes

The Coen Brothers Enter the Oscar Race with the Teaser for True Grit

Tired of reading about how the Oscar campaign is going to come down to The King’s Speech and The Social Network ? Then warmly embrace the Coen Brothers and their adaptation of True Grit , since it could probably get a Best Picture nomination based on this first teaser trailer alone. If only Roger Deakins could shoot every movie, ever.

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The Coen Brothers Enter the Oscar Race with the Teaser for True Grit

Ryan Gosling Cops to ‘Phony’ Tough-Guy Accent

Have you ever wondered why Ryan Gosling — a Canadian with extensive child actor and Mouseketeer experience — somehow talks in real life like he is a surly, New York teamster? “As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t sound tough,” he admits to W . “I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore. I’m going for the Madonna thing, the Lady Gaga thing — a phony accent that becomes your trademark.” [ W ]

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Ryan Gosling Cops to ‘Phony’ Tough-Guy Accent

Kenny Powers Gets a Gun in the Trailer for Eastbound & Down

“A man who has seen the things I’ve seen; experienced the loss and pain that I’ve experienced… I transcend race, hombre.” So says Kenny Powers at the beginning of the first real trailer for the second season of HBO’ s Eastbound & Down . That the disgraced former Major Leaguer — who escaped to Mexico during the season one finale — has a wicked set of cornrows should come as no surprise to anyone who has seen a subway ad or billboard promoting the Sept. 26 premiere. That Powers has a collection of firearms, however, might.

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Kenny Powers Gets a Gun in the Trailer for Eastbound & Down

The Mildred Pierce Trailer: Kate Winslet Moves One Step Closer to an EGOT

The major networks aren’t going to like this one bit . HBO has unveiled the first trailer for Todd Haynes’ 5-part mini-series adaptation of Mildred Pierce , starring Kate Winslet, Evan Rachel Wood and Guy Pearce, and it basically screams Emmys. Prepare to see all these people conga line up the podium during the ceremony next year… unless the awards telecast gets relegated to cable .

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The Mildred Pierce Trailer: Kate Winslet Moves One Step Closer to an EGOT

Today in Unwatchable Things: Uwe Boll’s NSFW Holocaust Movie Trailer

The teaser trailer for Uwe Boll’s Auschwitz has finally made its debut, and — what’s that you say? Why yes, the man behind Bloodrayne , Alone in the Dark and Postal has gone and made a movie about the notorious Nazi death camp, flinging awareness of it your way like a little graphic, NSFW poison dart. Just because I ducked doesn’t mean you have to. Tell me what I missed (besides Boll playing a Nazi guard, pictured) after the jump.

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Hobo With a Shotgun Trailer is NSFW, Anywhere Else For That Matter

The world is ending and everything is terrible, but you already knew that. What you didn’t likely know is that there is some mild comfort to be found in that very dystopia, as you’ll see in the new trailer for Rutger Hauer’s Hobo With a Shotgun . Even as you nod along with Hauer’s downer monologue to a newborn baby (“People look at you and think how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you’re more likely to wind up selling your body on the streets.”), the punctuating sprays of blood, brains and viscera will at least assure that that baby will be endlessly entertained. And so you will you.

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Tamara Drewe Trailer: A Stephen Frears Movie That Heidi Montag Could Love

Can a nose job lead to fame and fortune? It can if it’s accompanied by Daisy Dukes and better lighting, as Gemma Arterton finds out in the new Stephen Frears comedy Tamara Drewe , and as plastic surgery devotee Heidi Montag knows all too well.

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Tamara Drewe Trailer: A Stephen Frears Movie That Heidi Montag Could Love

Triple Dog Trailer: Best Slumber-Party Suicide Exploitation Thriller Ever?

Sure, the fall-movie season hype right now orbits a few big festivals and early awards favorites, but let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. After all, we’ve still got Triple Dog * in front of us — and it looks awesome .

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Triple Dog Trailer: Best Slumber-Party Suicide Exploitation Thriller Ever?