I loved Zack Synder’s previous two movies (300, Watchmen) and again the style of this movie looks great.
Here’s the description from Wikipedia:
Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll (Browning), who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution in Brattleboro, Vermont and while there she starts to imagine alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. She has 5 days to escape before being lobotomized. In order to cope with the situation, she enters the hyper-real world of her imagination, and the lines between reality and dream begin to blur.
The first full length trailer of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 has been revealed! It looks pretty awesome! I’m struggling to remember what exactly happened in the final book; somehow nothing in the trailer seems familiar, but it seems epic. I think the two movies will give this entire series a worthy ending.
It’s actually only a teaser trailer, but I know plenty of you who’d be interested in seeing the first glimpse of ‘that Facebook movie’. We don’t actually get to see anything yet, it’s only audio, but it does sound pretty intense:
The Social Network stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, and Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin.
I’m running a few days behind with this, but WOW. This is what a Mortal Kombat movie should be like:
It first wasn’t clear what this clip was (promotion for the upcoming game? a real trailer?), but turns out it’s a test video shot by Kevin Tancharoen to promote his vision of an MK movie to Warner Brothers. I looove the look of this! Hopefully they’ll pick it up, cause I think it could be awesome.
A second trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs The World came out this morning and it looks awesome! It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, with a bit too many video game and comic references, but I love the look of it.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World is coming out in the UK on August 6th and in the US on August 13th.
The Adjustment Bureau: This looks great! Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, this movie features Matt Damon as a politician who crosses paths with a ballerina (Emily Blunt). Add to that a PKD twist and you’ve got yourself a good blend of romance and sci-fi. Release Date: 30 July 2010 (UK), 17 September 2010 (US)
Super 8: Ooh, another secret alien project from JJ Abrams. I loved the buildup to Cloverfield (although to be honest I still haven’t seen the movie) and this seems pretty similar. There’s also a whole viral game added to this (of course), check out the Unfiction forum for more info about that. Release Date: 2011 (US, UK)
Easy A: This looks like fun! After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl (Emma Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne’s in “The Scarlet Letter,” which she is currently studying in school – until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing. Release Date: September 17th (US)
Jonah Hex: I’m not sure about this movie; it’s look a bit mediocre to be honest. It could be massive fun, but I’m not expecting a lot of this. Based on the comic book ‘hero’ of the same name, Josh Brolin plays Jonah Hex, a scarred drifter and bounty hunter. Jonah’s past is about to catch up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can’t refuse: in exchange for his freedom from the warrants on his head, he must track down and stop the dangerous terrorist Quentin Turnbull. Release Date: June 18th (US)
Buried: Ryan Reynolds stars as Paul, a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis, he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap. This was released at one of the festivals last year and got quite a good reception. Release Date: September 24th (US)
Secretariat: Based on a true story, Secretariat is about the spectacular journey of the 1973 Triple Crown winner. Housewife and mother Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father’s stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, she manages to navigate the male-dominated business. Release Date: October 8th (US)
Charlie St. Cloud: I’ve got a bit of a weak spot for Zac Efron, but this movie looks a bit too soppy for my tastes. It’s about Charlie, a young man overcome by grief at the death of his younger brother Sam. So much so that Charlie begins ‘seeing’ Sam, talking to him and playing catch with him every night. Release Date: June 25th (UK), July 30th (US)
You Again: I like the look of this, but mainly because of the cast involved. Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Kristin Chenoweth, Victor Garber and Betty White. Please let there be at least one musical scene! Successful PR pro Marni (Kristen Bell) heads home for her brother’s wedding and discovers that he’s marrying her high school arch nemesis (Odette Yustman), who’s conveniently forgotten all the rotten things she did so many years ago. Then the bride’s jet-setting aunt (Sigourney Weaver) bursts in and Marni’s mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes face to face with her own high school rival. Release Date: September 24th (US)
I’ve only gotten a PS3 this year, but one of the first games I fell in love with for it was Little Big Planet. I still haven’t completely finished the standard game and haven’t even started trying out some the amazing custom levels; there’s just so much going on!
Even though I’ll be still hooked on the first game for quite a while, the recently announced Little Big Planet 2 looks amazing:
Ooh, so many cool new features! I can’t wait to see how this will turn out. I like the look of the AI/digital puppetry features; curious to see what crazy levels people come up with!
To read about more of the new features of Little Big Planet 2, check out their website.
I haven’t been convinced yet by Gemma Arterton. She’s been in Quantum of Solace and Clash of the Titans, but in both she’s was basically just playing pretty. This movie though seems to require more of her acting skills, so I’m curious to see how she does.
It looks good, right? It opens this Friday (30th April) here in the UK.
We’re less than a month away from Iron Man 2, so prepare to be bombarded with trailers, images and whatever else they come up with. This latest trailer doesn’t show any new footage, but it’s interactive. Hotspots within the video release further content once clicked on, with information on the characters and other interesting tidbits:
Tomorrow, When The War Began is one of those books I read over and over again as a teenager. I never imagined that more than 10 years later it would be turned into a movie!
Like the novel, the film is about a group of 8 teenagers from the Australian town of Wirrawee, who head out for a week of camping. When they return home though, they discover their town has been invaded and that local citizens are being held captive by a hostile foreign force. They decide to fight back and form a guerilla war on the invaders.
What do you think of the trailer? So far the glimpses I’ve seen of the characters are exactly as I imagined them to be! Can’t say much further about them until I see some more, but it looks good, better than I expected.
