Trailer Trashin’: Gangster Squad Looks to Deliver Stylish Period Crime Drama
After last week’s double-dose of superhero goodness, it’s time for something completely different. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at director Ruben Fleischer’s cops-and-crooks film Gangster Squad. Premise: A vigilante police force within the LAPD fights to keep the East Coast Mafia, led by Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s....[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Amazing Spider-Man Fails to Live Up to Its Title
Now that The Avengers has been released – it’s awesome, go see it if you haven’t – and the summer movie season has officially begun, the new trailers will be coming in fast and furious. Attached to Marvel’s comic book opus are the final trailers for the other big superhero films of the summer: The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. With two such high-profile trailers b...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Dark Knight Rises Promises an Epic Conclusion
Now that The Avengers has been released – it’s awesome, go see it if you haven’t – and the summer movie season has officially begun, the new trailers will be coming in fast and furious. Attached to Marvel’s comic book opus are the final trailers for the other big superhero films of the summer: The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. With two such high-profile trailers b...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: G.I. Joe: Retaliation Brings the High Explosive Fun
With the release of The Avengers this Friday, the 2012 summer movie season officially begins. As an appropriate tie-in, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ features another summer movie about a team of larger-than-life heroes: G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Premise: The war between the elite fighting force G.I. Joe and the terrorist organization Cobra is reignited when Cobra agents within the U.S. go...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Looper Sports a Confusing Premise in a Terrific Teaser
Another week, another column-sized dose of trashing a trailer. On the docket this time is the first teaser for writer/director Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi action film Looper. Premise: In the future, time travel will be invented, but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When mobsters in 2072 want to get rid of someone, they send the victim back to 2042, where hired gu...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: A Fantastic Fear of Everything Promises to Be Awesomely Bizarre
Hey, folks, it’s Tuesday. You know what that means. It’s time for your weekly installment of Trailer Trashin’! This week, I’m taking a look at the upcoming British dark comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Premise: Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children’s book author trying to make the switch to writing crime novels. But his deep research into gruesome murders of the Victo...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Total Recall Looks Slick But Soulless
In the debut edition of Trailer Trashin’ last week, I talked about my excitement for Rise of the Guardians, this week we’re looking at something completely different – the upcoming remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven/Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Total Recall. Premise: In the dystopian future of 2084, the countries of Euroamerica and New Shanghai vie for political power. Douglas Quaid (Colin F...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Rise of the Guardians May Be Freaking Brilliant!
Hey, folks. We’re debuting a new feature here on CinemaNerdz called “Trailer Trashin’.” At least once a week, I’ll be taking a look at a hot new trailer and giving you my take on what looks good, what looks bad, and how excited I am for the upcoming movie in question. And to kick this feature off, I’m looking at the first trailer for the upcoming animated family...[Read More]
Ranking Ray Harryhausen’s Fantasy Films
I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger fan of Ray Harryhausen than yours truly. As a kid, I was captivated by the characters and creatures he brought to life through stop-motion animation, and it helped to cement my lifelong love of both movies and the genres of science-fiction and fantasy. With Wrath of the Titans, the sequel to the 2010 remake of Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans, hittin...[Read More]
My Ten Favorite Christmas Movies
Christmas is almost upon us, and with the holiday comes Christmas movies. We all have ones we like and ones we don’t. So in the spirit of the holiday, I want to share with all of you a list of my favorite Christmas films. Now, these may not be the most traditionally popular choices (though some may be just by chance), rather they’re the movies I think make Christmas a bit better, but you can proba...[Read More]