As those of you who follow me on Twitter may have noticed, I am ripping through Being Human as fast as I possibly can before a remake of the show about a vampire, werewolf and ghost sharing a house premieres on SyFy. The thing that struck me about the SyFy trailer, and I’m sure will strike those of you who have seen the completely excellent BBC original, too, is how strikingly visually... 

I sort of wonder if this is the movie Pegg and Frost should have been making, rather than Paul: Mashing up stoner comedy and fantasy is a good idea, and even sort of traditional, isn’t it? The trailer did remind me that one of the impacts of being a) young and b) almost completely isolated from non-book pop culture in the 1980s was that I totally missed the cheesy, pre-advances-in-special-effects,... 

Maybe it’s just that I’m a sucker for slightly dilapidated amusement parks and mini-golf courses, but the trailer for Hanna looks rather visually gorgeous, doesn’t it? And that’s before we actually get to the substance of the movie, Saoirse Ronan’s ethereal teenaged (and perhaps genetically engineered) assassin. I loved the father-daughter dynamic in Kick-Ass, though... 

So, my post about The Tree of Life yesterday was cranky, and worse, inarticulate. I ended up sounding silly, and Simon, justifiably, slapped back at me for it. As an apology and explanation, I wanted to lay out a couple of things to do a better job of explaining both my preexisting assumptions and prejudices and what I find obnoxious about this particular trailer.1. I tend to think of mass-market... 

James Brooks spent $120 million on How Do You Know. I’ll let that sink in for a minute. That is a lot of money. No question the salaries involved are pricey, but let’s take a look at this trailer again: These are pretty average-looking clothes and sets, with the exception of Nationals Park, which I have to imagine the Lerners let Brooks use nearly for free for the sheer, giddy fact... 

At long last, we have a Thor trailer. A disclosure: I’m predisposed to like this movie tremendously for three reasons. First, I grew up on an extremely heavy dose of the D’Aulaires mythology books, and so I’m rather predisposed to big gods-and-men stories (not that anything other than Mads Mikkelsen was acceptable about Clash of the Titans), but given I sort of think that even... 

So, I somehow completely missed that I Love You Phillip Morris is based on a true story. When I slammed the movie trailer a couple of months ago, I think my reaction was mostly that it looked like an extravagantly stereotypical folly that had nothing to do with the reality of gay life. Well, color me feeling pretty silly. This is why it matters when memoirists lie. When real life proves to be... 

If only to tide me over until A Dance With Dragons comes out: I’ll be very curious to see if this garners an audience outside hardcore fans of the books (having ripped through each of them three times since y’all talked me into reading them, I think I’m now in that camp). Certainly, the first teaser trailer didn’t hook me in. And I think it’ll be hard to advertise... 

Nicole Kidman’s face has restricted her range of emotion some in recent films, which is too bad, since she’s a marvelous actress and I hate to see her fall out of the first ranks (to be fair, the spectacular failure of Australia cannot be blamed on her injectionist).  But the trailer for Rabbit Hole suggests she might be rather well-suited to take roles where characters are... 

Folks, Winona Ryder is 38. I say this not to say “She’s so old,” or “I’m so old,” but as a reminder that she’s still quite young, and is very attractive. So why the hell are her current crop of movies making her look either kinda awkward, or old? In the trailer for The Dilemma, they’ve got her hair looking kind of limp and her clothes sort of dorky...