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Morning Glory Trailer: Wake Up Ron Burgundy

There was a time when Harrison Ford could have taken his part in Morning Glory — as a legendary-but-washed-out news anchor relegated to working on a morning show — and turned it into something really special. Unfortunately that time was almost 30 years ago, before he lost every ounce of his once-considerable charm. Needless to say, the new trailer for Morning Glory could work just a tiny bit better.

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Morning Glory Trailer: Wake Up Ron Burgundy

Going the Distance Trailer: Barrymore and Long Have Fun, Won’t Travel

In 23 seasons of The Real World , there have been countless roommates who spend the bulk of their running time either a) on the phone with the significant others they left behind, b) moaning to the camera about the significant others they left behind, or c) cheating on the significant others they left behind. The Drew Barrymore/Justin Long romcom Going the Distance is about a young couple doing a) and b) but fearing the possibility of c).

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Going the Distance Trailer: Barrymore and Long Have Fun, Won’t Travel

The Love Ranch Trailer: Helen Mirren, Get Some

As Liz Lemon said recently about those famous Helen Mirren-in-a-bikini photos : “How is it possible? Is she a wizard?” Judging from the new trailer for Love Ranch , a based on true events tale about a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada, the answer is yes. To wit: Mirren’s character is married to Joe Pesci, but ends up rolling around in bed with a hunky and decades-younger Argentine boxer, played by actor Sergio Peris-Mencheta. Hey, it’s Peris .

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The Love Ranch Trailer: Helen Mirren, Get Some

True Blood Season 3 Trailer: Less Bang, More Fang?

For those of us who jones for some fangbanging action in our lives, the good people at True Blood have heard our cries, and have given us a full, two-minute Season 3 trailer to whet our appetites in advance of the June 13 premiere. So what can we expect from our merry band of vamps, shape-shifters and mind-readers this season? Looks like healthy portions of hungry werewolves, bared fangs, bare asses, and enough spilled blood to make anyone blanch.

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True Blood Season 3 Trailer: Less Bang, More Fang?

You Again Trailer: Can Sigourney Weaver and Betty White Rescue Kristen Bell’s Catfight Comedy?

If there’s anything I’ve learned from reading Jezebel , it’s that women love paparazzi pictures of celebrities but hate the assumption that they can’t get along with each other. How to explain, then, the preponderance of movies like Mean Girls, Bride Wars , and the new Kristen Bell comedy You Again , which suggest women are never more entertaining then when they’re taking each other down?

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You Again Trailer: Can Sigourney Weaver and Betty White Rescue Kristen Bell’s Catfight Comedy?

The American Trailer: Does This George Clooney Film Owe a Debt to Lost?

I’ve been looking forward to the Anton Corbijn-directed, George Clooney-starring thriller The American for a while, and the new trailer doesn’t disappoint. Not only is it beautiful, spare, and visually striking, but it appears to be a big-budget feature version of “The Economist,” one of my favorite episodes of Lost .

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The American Trailer: Does This George Clooney Film Owe a Debt to Lost?

The Piranha 3D Trailer: Jaws With Smaller Fish

What kind of movie is Piranha 3D (besides awesome)? It’s the kind where the lead characters — in this case Elisabeth Shue as a town sheriff and Adam Scott (yes!) as some kind of scientist with a predilection towards flannel — are barely even glimpsed in the full-length trailer. Because there’s no time for them when you’ve got Doc Brown, Matt Hooper and a bunch of badly animated CGI piranhas…

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The Secretariat Trailer: Eat Hay, Seabiscuit!

Despite being more than five months away from release, Disney unfurled the new trailer for Secretariat today with the hopes of capitalizing on America’s Kentucky Derby fever. Wait, you didn’t realize the Kentucky Derby was this Saturday either? Nevertheless, cue up some inspirational music and John Malkovich over-acting…

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The Secretariat Trailer: Eat Hay, Seabiscuit!

The Last Airbender Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan Raids His Netflix Queue

After the nearly career-killing disaster that was The Happening , M. Night Shyamalan could have tried yet again to recapture the faux-Hitchcock weirdness of The Sixth Sense , or he could have blown things up to start over. Well, it looks like someone went out and got himself a large quantity of dynamite. And a bunch of DVD s. Say hello to M. Night Shyamalan v.2 in the trailer for The Last Airbender …

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The Last Airbender Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan Raids His Netflix Queue

The Kids Are All Right Trailer: Annette and Julianne’s Modern Family

You may remember that at Sundance this year, Movieline flipped for Lisa Cholodenko’s comedy The Kids are All Right , which stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as lesbian parents, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson as their children, Mark Ruffalo as their sperm donor, and Annette Benining’s omnipresent glass of red wine as itself. So, what are we to make of this new trailer advertising the film?

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The Kids Are All Right Trailer: Annette and Julianne’s Modern Family