Posts by Dan Silver
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Trailers of the Week: The Internship, Trance, Oblivion, and More
The Internship (June 7) Silver: The Internship feels like the sad test-tube baby of Wedding Crashers, Old School, and Dodgeball released 10 years too late. Now let me explain why, simply based on its trailer, this is one of the worst things I’ve ever said about a film. Here’s a little insight into my movie […]
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Trailers of the Week: Sizing Up the Super Bowl Teasers
Silver: Forget the Oscars (Seriously. We should. It’s gotten to the point where the hype in/around awards season is more appealing than the telecast. Which at this point feels more like required DMV orientation-video viewing.) Each year, I look to the Super Bowl to be my cultural shepherd, guiding me toward a transition from the […]
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Trailers of the Week: Upside Down, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Super Bowl Teasers, and More
Upside Down (March 15) Silver: Item no. 17 in my work in progress, Guidelines to Successful Movie Consumption: Theatrical Edition, reads as follows: “Relatively unheard of, quaint-feeling, and seemingly silly science fiction films should never be disregarded outright. That said, they can, more often than not, be accurately judged by their trailers. Don’t let a […]
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Trailers of the Week: Inside Llewyn Davis, Olympus Has Fallen, The Heat, and More
Inside Llewyn Davis (TBD) Silver: This is a teaser in the truest sense. Aside from an invite-only industry screening of the film in early February, this new film from the brothers Coen does not have a release date — but in all likelihood, it won’t hit theaters until after its all-but-certain debut at Cannes this […]
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Trailers of the Week: Mud, Spring Breakers, and Red 2
Mud (April 26) Silver: Scrumptious. My cerebral cortex is flooded with thoughts, due to the numerous mouthwatering elements seen in Mud’s trailer. Where to begin? Writer/director Jeff Nichols’s previous film, Take Shelter, was the criminally forgotten film of 2011. With a much splashier cast, maybe this will be the vehicle to break him out. Matthew […]
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Trailers of the Week: Trance, Only God Forgives, 42, and More
Trance (March 27 — U.K. / TBD — USA) Silver: I’m an ardent Danny Boyle fan (I even like The Beach), and him directing with Trainspotting and Shallow Grave writer John Hodge on an intimate crime caper is just what I’d want from him for his first film released post-Olympics (fun fact: The film was […]
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Trailers of the Week: This Is the End, Turbo, The Place Beyond the Pines, and More
Evil Dead — Full Red Band Trailer (April 12) Silver: My brain is flopping around my skull like a Jell-O ring riding a go-cart down a bumpy hill. That was 2:22 of unrelenting terror, horror, and gore. And the highest form of praise I can loft onto it is this – I know the 1981 […]
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Trailers of the Week: Pacific Rim, After Earth, Man of Steel, and More
Note: This will be our last Trailers of the Week of 2012. We thank you for tuning in for more than 50 trailer roundups with us this year, and can’t wait to get back to overanalyzing (Dan) and always being afraid of everything (Rembert) in 2013. — Dan and Rem Pacific Rim (July 12) Silver: […]
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Trailers of the Week: Upstream Color, Sound City, Star Trek Into Darkness, and More
Sound City (TBD) Silver: OK, so you’re making your first film. It’s about a legendary recording studio that’s hosted such acts as Nirvana, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, and Tom Petty, and which has since fallen into neglect due to the digital age. How in the world do you book interviews and […]
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Trailers of the Week: Now You See Me, Pacific Rim, Epic, and More
In the two weeks since our last post, a glut of trailers flooded the Internet, some good, some bad, some in between. So in an effort to be as thorough as possible and dedicate at least a few words to these cinematic appetizers, we reached way back into our arsenal of gimmicks to bring back […]
