Posts by Daniel Silver
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Trailers of the Week: Contraband, Freak Dance, One For the Money
Contraband (January 13, 2012) A film should be applauded for knowing what it is and not trying to over-extend itself — sometimes just being 90 minutes of fun is worth the price of admission (see every Fast and Furious movie). With a trailer packed with snappy visuals, booming music, and bad-ass dialogue, this Mark Wahlberg […]
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Trailers of the Week: The Grey, Big Miracle, Man on a Ledge
The Grey (January 27, 2012) In The Grey, Joe Carnahan’s follow-up to The A-Team, a pack of wolves hunt a group of oil-drilling plane crash survivors in the Alaska tundra. The film is being compared to Jaws or The Edge. Also, it will provide audiences the opportunity to see Liam Neeson punch a wolf.
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Trailers of the Week: The Muppets, Premium Rush, and The Raid
The Muppets (November 23) In the last few years, has there been a better marketing campaign than the one for The Muppets? Maybe not. The latest is a send up of David Fincher’s kick-ass trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This briskly edited spoof reveals a ton of new stuff, and if you […]
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Trailers of the Week: A Dangerous Method, Fireflies in the Garden, and Human Centipede II
A Dangerous Method (November 23) A film about the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and the birth of psychoanalysis would seem to be in David Cronenberg’s wheelhouse, as he’s been psychoanalyzing his protagonists for his entire career. It’s been four years since the director’s Eastern Promises, so hopes are high for this one.
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Trailers of the Week: Carnage, Scorsese’s George Harrison Doc, and Jack and Jill
Headed to the movie theater this weekend? Here are the new trailers you’ll miss while waiting in line for popcorn. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (October 5) Martin Scorsese’s new doc, an intimate portrait of quiet Beatle George Harrison. It’s clear from this trailer that he got all the right folks to sit […]
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Trailers of the Week: 50/50, Drive, and Lots of Sam Worthington
Headed to the movie theater this weekend? Here are the new trailers you might miss while waiting in line for popcorn. 50/50 (September 30) In 50/50, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays an urban twenty-something battling cancer. This is the film’s second trailer, and though the first one was by no means a downer, the new one is […]
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Trailers of the Week: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ralph Fiennes and Roland Emmerich do Shakespeare
As the ancient Knight Templar once told Indiana Jones, “You must choose, but choose wisely.” With our new weekly trailer roundup, we aim to help you sift through the noise and set realistic expectations for upcoming films, so this doesn’t happen to you. Headed to the movie theater this weekend? Here are the new trailers […]