Posts by Dan Silver
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Trailers of the Week: American Hustle, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, All Is Lost, and More
Insidious: Chapter 2 (September 13) Silver: There’s been a lot of chatter around the recent financial success of films like The Conjuring, Sinister, and The Purge,, but what’s missing in all the chatter is the fact that these films are actually really good. And in some cases really, really good. The downside is that when […]
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Trailers of the Week: Gravity, Snowpiercer, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and More
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (November 22) Silver: Second films in trilogies (see side note) have a distinct advantage over their predecessors and followers. They don’t need to establish a world, a tone, a visual, a style, or characters — they simply can start a story. They also don’t need to lead a narrative to […]
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Trailers of the Week: Oldboy, The Canyons, Out of the Furnace, and More
Oldboy (October 25) Silver: A wise Muppet once said, “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” And although I don’t want my cinematic opinions of Oldboy to travel down this perilous path, I can’t help but be fearful of this film. Sparing you the lengthy background, Oldboy is a twisty, […]
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Trailers of the Week: The Counselor, Prince Avalanche, Thanks for Sharing, and More
Escape Plan (October 18) Silver: What is there not to like about this? Sylvester Stallone’s role is a concoction of every character he’s ever played. I see the obvious similarities to Lock Up, a little bit of Cobra, a dash of Demolition Man, some The Specialist, and traces of every other movie where he played a so-called “specialist” that just […]
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Trailers of the Week: The Lego Movie, Crystal Fairy, Drinking Buddies, and More
Silver: Emily, I truly appreciate you stepping in while our buddy Rem gallivants around trying to explain this great country of ours. I think it’s going to be fun to mutually open up and poke around each other’s geek medicine cabinets as we dissect these fun-size cine-treats. They are, after all, THE reason the Internet was […]
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Trailers of the Week: Runner, Runner, The To Do List, Blackfish, and More
Paranoia (August 16) Silver: Three things … 1. I find it odd that the marketers of Paranoia felt it was necessary to tout this film as being “From the director of 21,” but do not, at any point, list its impressive cast. I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that the majority of folks seeing this film […]
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Trailers of the Week: Machete Kills, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Scenic Route, and More
Machete Kills (September 13) Silver: Robert Rodriguez has a very odd predilection for weaponized body parts. There was Tom Savini’s penis gun in From Dusk Till Dawn, Rose McGowan’s leg gun in Planet Terror, and with Machete Kills comes Sofia Vergara’s bullet breasts. Super weird. I really wanted to like the first Machete, just like […]
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Trailers of the Week: Man of Steel, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, and More
Silver: Rem … It was a veritable Memorial Day barbecue buffet of trailers this week. So if we’re going to make that double feature of Fast & Furious 6 and The Hangover Part III, I think we should make this an (As Close To) One-Sentence Trailer review week. I can’t be late — you know […]
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Trailers of the Week: August: Osage County, Fruitvale Station, Last Vegas, and More
Riddick (September 6) Silver: The Chronicles of Riddick’s box office catastrophe lost Vin Diesel all the equity he’d acquired after The Fast and the Furious (having already spent a significant amount of it on the lackluster xXx, which landed in between FF 1 and Chronicles). He practically became a Hollywood pariah, forced to take on […]
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Trailers of the Week: Gravity, Captain Phillips, The World’s End, and More
Gravity (October 4) Silver: Alfonso Cuaron has only directed three films since 2001 (his section in Paris, Je T’Aime does not count), and yet when you look at those three titles it’s easy to understand why he’s still considered to be one of the most revered filmmakers working today. 2001’s Y Tu Mamá También is the type […]
