Posts by Dan Silver
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Trailers of the Week: Jeff Who Lives at Home, Darling Companion, and More
Darling Companion (April 20) Dan Silver: I want to mock Darling Companion. I want to point out that it’s a film about a lost dog named Freeway (because he was found on the side of a freeway). I want to make snide comments about how the trailer feels like a Cialis commercial and should only […]
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Trailers of the Week: Casa De Mi Padre, I Am Bruce Lee and More
Casa De Mi Padre (March 16) Rembert Browne: Will Ferrell is in a great place right now. This is the fourth wave of his career and perhaps the Era of Ferrell I’m most excited about. He has already had his rise to fame (SNL), his string of classics (Old School, Zoolander, Anchorman), and his Sandler […]
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Trailers of the Week: Shut Up and Play the Hits, Moonrise Kingdom, and More
Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012) Dan Silver: The pain. The agony. I had tickets to this show, but for reasons to not be shared with the general public I could not attend. So seeing the joy, celebration, and pathos in/around/during LCD Soundsystem’s final show leaves me feeling both sad that I missed what […]
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Trailers of the Week: Bad Ass, Underworld: Awakening and More
Bad Ass (April) Dan Silver: Is there an end-of-the-year award for Best Tagline to a film? If there is, I’d like to nominate the one from Bad Ass — “He’s Mean. He’s Angry. He’s Old.” Forget the underwhelming Machete, this appears to be the film the real-life badass, Danny Trejo, was born to make. What’s […]
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Can We Please Just See the Alien Prequel Right Now?
For those who don’t know, Prometheus is a new sci-fi thriller directed by Ridley Scott. Since it first went into development, the film has been touted as Scott’s return to “the genre he redefined” with films like Blade Runner and Alien. (That would be, well, Sci-Fi). The film has also been rumored to be a […]
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Trailers of the Week: Wrath of the Titans, Ghost Rider 2 and More
Wrath of the Titans (March 30) Dan Silver: When discussing the Wrath of the Titans trailer, the predictable snide critiques would most likely revolve around how the filmmakers have clearly channeled their inner “Michael Bay-hem” to forgo any sense of story and just create an orgy of computer rendered havoc OR how it’s now clear that any […]
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Today in Nerd News: OMG!! THE HOBBIT TRAILER IS HERE!!!
Dan Silver: After raking in billions of dollars at the Box Office, and winning numerous Academy Awards, it was only a matter of time before the Hollywood suits came back to search for their “precious.” But as the title states, The Hobbit took “an unexpected journey” — through financial and studio turmoil, rights ownership disputes, […]
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Trailers of the Week: Battleship, Rock of Ages and (gulp) What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Rock of Ages (May 23) Dan Silver: The heavy use of Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian” makes it almost impossible for me to look at this trailer with anything but ire. As far as I’m concerned, that song should have been retired after Boogie Nights. It’ll always be synonymous with “Cosmo, he’s Chinese”. But the film […]
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Trailers of the Week: Wanderlust, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and We Bought a Zoo
Wanderlust (February 24, 2012) Silver: Wanderlust’s plot is so simple that even if you turned the sound off on the trailer you’d still be able to piece together the narrative. But like any good comedy, it’s all in the execution. Luckily here we have super producer Judd Apatow, director/co-writer David Wain (Role Models, Wet Hot […]