Trailer Trashin’
Trailer Trashin’: Can We Spoil John Dies at the End?
Happy Election Day, dear readers! Now that you’ve (hopefully) gone to vote, a new installment of Trailer Trashin’ is here to help wash the taste of all things political out of your brain. This week’s column dives far down the rabbit-hole into weirdness, with the new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi/horror/comedy John Dies at the End. Premise: It’s a drug that promises an out...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tony Stark Lives Again in Iron Man 3
Happy Halloween, everyone! It’s the time for candy, costumes, trick-or-treating, parties, and watching horror and monster movies. On the Trailer Trashin’ docket this week is the first trailer for a film that’s sure to inspire a lot of Halloween costumes next year: Iron Man 3, the first post-Avengers film from Marvel Studios. Premise: When an enemy disrupts that which industrialis...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tom Cruise versus Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher
This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the second trailer for Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming book-adapted thriller Jack Reacher. Premise: In an innocent heartland city, five people are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But the accused man claims he’s innocent and says “Get Jack Reac...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Master of Suspense Lives Again in Hitchcock
With the release of Argo this past week, we’re officially in the season of prestige films and Oscar contenders. With that in mind, this week breaks new ground for Trailer Trashin’, because it’s my first time writing about a biopic, with the first trailer for Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock. Premise: The film centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony H...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Saddle Up with the Lone Ranger
It may only be the beginning of October, but it’s never too early for the studios to start hyping their slate of 2013 movies. On this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’, I aim my film journalism six-guns at the first trailer for next summer’s The Lone Ranger. Premise: Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Park Chan-Wook Creeps Us the Hell Out with Stoker
And now for something completely different. After a family-friendly fantasy literature adaptation last time, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines a disturbing, real-world horror/drama. Let’s take a look at the first trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Stoker. Premise: After India Stoker’s (Mia Wasikowska) father dies in an auto accident, her uncle Charlie (Ma...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: We’re Heading Back to Middle-Earth in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
My dear readers, this is a day I’ve been eagerly awaiting. At long last, I get to write about what is one of my most anticipated films of 2012. On this week’s Trailer Trashin’, it is time for me to look with adoring eyes on the second trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first part of the three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first Middle-Earth book. Premi...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Get in the Game with Wreck-It Ralph
With the cooler fall weather comes the beginning of the long wait for the big year-end movies. But in the meantime, there are still plenty of cool trailers being released. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ looks at Disney’s upcoming animated film Wreck-It Ralph. Premise: Wreck-It Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) is the villain of the arcade video game Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the gam...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Sci-Fi Meets the Surreal in Cloud Atlas
Another week brings another new trailer to dissect and analyze. In this week’s column, I turn my cold, bespectacled gaze onto the second trailer for the upcoming sci-fi/drama epic Cloud Atlas. Premise: An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present, and future, as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior, ...[Read More]
Retro Trailer Trashin’: The Baddest Man Alive is Named Black Dynamite!
With the end of the summer movie season, I’ve decided it’s time to debut Retro Trailer Trashin’, which I hope will become a recurring occasional supplement to the main Trailer Trashin’ column. In these columns, I’ll be taking a look at the trailer for an older movie, and give my in-hindsight take on how successful that trailer was in selling the movie. To kick this ne...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Blood and Blades Go Flying in The Man with the Iron Fists
With the end of August, the summer movie season finally ends with the last handful of releases. Of course, ridiculous B-movies are in no way restricted to the summer months, and the subject’s of today’s column is proof of that. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ looks at the second trailer for the blood-soaked, hip hop-infused martial arts extravaganza The Man with the Iron Fists...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Murder and Mirth Come Together in Seven Psychopaths
There’s only about two weeks left in August, the 2012 summer movie season is almost over, and soon we’ll be in the prestige seasons of fall and winter. This week on Trailer Trashin’, I’m taking a look at the first trailer for the upcoming black comedy Seven Psychopaths. Premise: Marty (Colin Farrell) is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, “Seven Psyc...[Read More]