Every now and then a trailer comes along and offers a glimpse of a movie you had no idea you wanted to see, if only because you wouldn’t have thought it could exist in a million years. Case in point: the trailer for this Australian thriller In Her Skin . Until now, I had no idea that there was any hope of getting a Lifetime movie starring Guy Pearce and Sam Neill. But here we are!
In case you missed it the first time , Michael Bay has recently reiterated that, like most of us, he realizes that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was pretty awful and again vowed that Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be the opposite of that. But does this candor about the last film mean we can take Bay at his word? To investigate, let’s take a look back at what Bay was saying about the last film before the reviews came in.
When the first trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger debuted during the Super Bowl last month, Movieline HQ was buzzing with the blink-and-you-missed-him glimpse at Hugo Weaving-as-Red Skull . That skull! It was so… red . Now, courtesy of EW , comes the first official look at the villainous Nazi supersoldier — no screencapping necessary! So, how does he look?
It’s bad enough that Michael Dowse’s retro-comedy Take Me Home Tonight isn’t nearly as much fun as the ’80s actually were. Even worse, it’s less fun than most ’80s comedies were — and that’s bad. Topher Grace plays Matt, a recent MIT grad circa 1988, whose life is stuck on “pause”: He’s working a dead-end job at Suncoast Video, and he still has the hots for Tori (Teresa Palmer), the golden goddess who wouldn’t look twice at him in high school and who barely looks once now. She comes into the store one day; he not-so-subtly puts the moves on her, telling her he works for Goldman Sachs (in the old days, this was supposed to drive girls wild). They agree to meet later at a huge Labor Day bash, where Matt will be able to perpetuate his silly lie and, with luck, win the girl.
Good news, bad news, Star Wars fans. Lucasfilm has set Feb. 10, 2012 as the date for the first re-release of the franchise in 3-D. Unfortunately, they’re starting with Episode I — The Phantom Menace . How many injuries will result from people attempting to savagely elbow Jar-Jar Binks in the face during these 3-D showings? Stay tuned… [ StarWars.com ]
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the Bourne movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system — his focus fried away unnecessary calories. In The Informant! , the comedy comes from doughy Mark Whitacre’s single minded pursuit of the life he has in his head; the weight he happily carries didn’t make him earthbound. That film’s examination of identity played like a Philip K. Dick adaptation; it seems to serve the purpose of making writer/director George Nolfi’s simultaneously drab and florid adaptation of Dick’s Adjustment Team superfluous.
Colin Firth isn’t the only person with a voice. The New York Post brings news of a “bombshell” lawsuit from the makers of Hoodwinked that alleges Harvey and Bob Weinstein paid them $500,000 in “hush money” to keep the suit under wraps until after The King’s Speech won its Oscars. Considering the news of said legal documents are just coming out now, though, doesn’t it seem to have worked?
You know how Charlie Sheen’s sons were removed from his home early on Wednesday morning, after the Two and a Half Men actor threatened to cut the head off his estranged wife Brooke Mueller, “put it in a box and send it to [her] mom”? Well, apparently she was not the only person whose life Sheen threatened to brutally end in the past 36 hours. Winning?
You know how Charlie Sheen’s sons were removed from his home early on Wednesday morning, after the Two and a Half Men actor threatened to cut the head off his estranged wife Brooke Mueller, “put it in a box and send it to [her] mom”? Well, apparently she was not the only person whose life Sheen threatened to brutally end in the past 36 hours. Winning?
First things first: No one around here condones homophobia or any legislation under its influence, and generally speaking, any statement against said legislation is one worth backing. But that’s not why I’m pumped for the short film Porno Melodrama , which purports to be a direct reaction to institutionalized hate in Lithuania. I’m pumped because holy Christ this trailer .