Posts by Dan Silver
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Trailers of the Week: The Dictator, Total Recall, The Host, and More
The Dictator (May 11) Silver: Sacha Baron Cohen better be careful. He’s scarily close to crossing the dreaded “Mike Myers Line.” That’s when a brilliant comic writer/performer rests on his/her past success and just recycles bits (I believe the line, “Exsqueeze Me? Baking Powder” appeared in both Wayne’s World films and at least one Austin […]
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Trailers of the Week: Dark Shadows, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Snow White, and More
Dark Shadows (May 11) Silver:This trailer leaves me completely conflicted. Here’s what I liked: *There are some moments that are quite funny. Although we’ve seen the out-of-time, out-of-place gag before, I get a kick of out of the way Depp’s recently awoken 16th-century vampire attacks the TV for being evil sorcery. The juxtaposition of Karen […]
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An Alien Superfan’s Guide to the New Prometheus Trailers
My weekend was peppered with some NCAA hoops (Go ‘Cuse!), some Knicks (three in a row, baby), some 21 Jump Street (a hilarious, meta action-comedy), and of course some green beer and bagels. But my mind, my thoughts, my focus was elsewhere. For the last 72 hours, I’ve been unhealthily fixated on the slew of […]
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Trailers of the Week: Battleship, The Three Stooges, On the Road, and More
Battleship — Trailer no. 3 (May 18) Silver: I cannot wait to buy my ticket to Battleship. Even though the film looks like a vapid orgy of action and CGI, I have much more faith in Peter Berg, a director who’s made some good films and told actual stories (Very Bad Things, The Kingdom, Friday […]
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Trailers of the Week: MiB III, Bernie, That’s My Boy, and More
A Note From Dan: There was such an overabundance of trailers this week, and we had such a good time last week crafting (used loosely) a single phrase for the latest Avengers trailer, that instead of skipping a few of these we thought it would be fun to go with a single-sentence review (also used […]
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Trailers of the Week: 4:44 Last Day on Earth, The Raid: Redemption, Neighborhood Watch, and More
4:44 Last Day on Earth (March 23) Silver: “It’s an end-of-days movie, written and directed by Abel Ferrara.” Now that’s a statement that separates 4:44 Last Day on Earth from the glut of other apocalyptic thrillers thrust upon us (seemingly) once a month. After such affirming and sunny features (kidding) as Bad Lieutenant and King […]
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Trailers of the Week: American Reunion, Struck by Lightning, Cherry, and More
American Reunion – Trailer No. 2 (April 6) Silver: Go ahead, mock it. Call American Reunion, an unneeded sequel to a franchise most likely irrelevant to 18-25-year-olds or a blatant money grab from an older audience who would much rather order a film on VOD or go see Ryan Gosling drive a car. All may […]
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Trailers of the Week: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (and We’re Sure Some Others, but ABE LINCOLN KILLING VAMPIRES, PEOPLE!)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (June 22) Dan Silver: Last week Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a film I was looking forward to mocking, shunning, and then secretly renting on VOD one night after my wife and kid went to bed. But after seeing the brooding, visually vibrant, and downright bad-ass first trailer, I quickly became […]
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Trailers of the Week: The Hunger Games, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, and More
The Hunger Games — Trailer no. 2 (March 23) Silver: I’m going to start by stating the obvious — books and movies are not the same thing. Just speaking to the form, a written narrative is a much more enveloping and demanding (in a good way) medium since the majority of the experience is left […]
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Trailers of the Week: The Phantom Menace 3D, The Cold Light of Day, Get the Gringo and Much, Much More!
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace in 3D (February 10) Dan Silver: The voice-over audition process for this promo probably went something like this:
