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Trailer Trashin’: Jean-Claude Van Damme Plays Crazy in Enemies Closer
I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving, dear readers, and I hope a lot of you got out to see Frozen over the holiday weekend. December is finally here, and it’s time for us all to start preparing for our preferred winter holidays. In the meantime, this week’s slightly belated Trailer Trashin’ column takes a look at Enemies Closer, one of next January’s more low-profile rele...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Kermit the Frog and Company are Back in Muppets Most Wanted
Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers! Whether you’re traveling to see relatives, hosting relatives who have traveled to see you, getting ready for the football games, or just preparing for the big holiday feast, I hope you are stay safe and enjoy yourselves. In the meantime, this Thanksgiving-week edition of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at one of my most anticipated family films of next y...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Nick Frost Cuts a Rug in Cuban Fury
This week sees the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the highly-anticipated sequel to last year’s blockbuster. But in the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ column takes a look at the upcoming British comedy Cuban Fury. Premise: A lonely sad-sack named Bruce Garrett (Nick Frost) has a crush on his gorgeous new boss Julia (Rashida Jones), and the only way he can ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: It’s Elves vs. Dwarves vs. Men in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope a lot of you enjoyed Thor: The Dark World over the weekend. In the meantime, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ column takes another look at my most anticipated movie of the rest of the year, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Premise: After successfully crossing over, and under, the Misty Mountains, Thorin (Richard Armitage) and ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Eras Collide in X-Men Days of Future Past
This Friday, we at last get to see the next part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Thor: The Dark World finally hits theaters stateside. And fittingly, this week’s new installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines another upcoming Marvel Comics movie, next summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Premise: The X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of their species across two diff...[Read More]
Top 10 Horror Movie Villains of All Time
October is one of my favorite months and that’s partly due to Halloween and the increased interest in the horror genre. From books to movies to everything in between, in October I’m ready for a good scare. Since folks are typically more acceptable of things that go bump in the night around Halloween, I wanted to offer up my Top 10 Horror Movie Villains of All Time. Some are iconic, and some not as...[Read More]
Top Ten Horror Movies To Watch On Halloween
What was your first time like? Relax, I’ll go first to make things easier. I was eleven and staying over at a friend’s house for the night. That was the night I enjoyed my first horror movie – Salem’s Lot. My buddy and I were worried the noise from the television might get too loud and bring his mom into the room and that would have ended our entertainment for the evening. So we had the volume on ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The First Avenger Returns in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Happy Halloween, dear readers! I hope you all have a fun and safe holiday, whether you’re going trick-or-treating, attending parties, or staying at home and watching scary movies. And just like was the case last year, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at a film that’s sure to inspire a lot of costumes next October, Marvel’s Captain America: The ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tom Clancy’s Hero Returns to the Big Screen in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
We’re two-thirds of the way through October, and Gravity has just had its third straight week atop the box office, which I think qualifies it as succeeding beyond anyone’s expectations. In the meantime, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at this Christmas’ upcoming thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Premise: Jack Ryan (Chris Pine), a young CIA a...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: David O. Russell Gets Groovy with American Hustle
Hello again, dear readers. I hope at least some of you got out to see Machete Kills over the weekend – we need to get those box office numbers up! But moving on from films paying tribute to the 1970s to films actually set in the 1970s, this week’s new installment of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at David O. Russell’s upcoming period drama American Hustle. Premise: Brilliant con m...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Dragon Unleashed in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Today is a great day, dear readers, because my favorite movie of the year so far, Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, is finally out on DVD and Blu-ray, so everyone who wasn’t able to check it out in theaters will finally have the chance to see it. Also, this Friday finally sees the release of Machete Kills – you can expect my review later this week – and us getting to see whether Ro...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Let it Snow in Disney’s Frozen
Hello once again, dear readers, and I hope that at least some of you got out to see Rush this past weekend. This week’s belated edition of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the new UK trailer for the upcoming Disney animated film Frozen. Premise: Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) teams up with mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick Sven in an epic journey, encounter...[Read More]