When I sat down to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, I knew I would probably see the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, the third (and unfortunately final) Christopher Nolan Batman movie. Heck, I’ll even admit that the lure of the Dark Knight Rises trailer was a good part of why I wanted to see the Sherlock Holmes sequel, which I only had a passing interest in watching. So, anticipating the... 

What the hell is going on with the world? First we get a trailer for a Men in Black sequel that looks good, and now we get one for the G.I. Joe sequel that also looks like it has promise? What’s next; positive reviews for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked? Even though most people didn’t care all that much for 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the powers that be at Paramount and Hasbro decided... 

I’m among the many who gave up on the Men in Black franchise after the first movie. The first film was great, but if you listen to the commentary track on the DVD you quickly come to realize how much of a serendipitous accident that turned out to be. Most of the movie was filmed without a finished script in place, leading them to craft the film as they went. It worked once, but when they took the... 

I’ve been looking forward to Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods for a while now. There’s just something about the old-fashioned “cabin in the woods” story that’s appealing (see: The Evil Dead, Cabin Fever, and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil for example), and I have been interested in seeing what that concept would be like in the hands of someone like Whedon – an artist who turned the... 

This is not a new trailer, having arrived in theaters and online earlier this year. In fact, it’s so not new that my wife, who has only been to the theater a handful of times this year, has already seen it a couple of times – on the big screen. When I mentioned the trailer on this weekend’s podcast, however, both my co-hosts and our live audience were unfamiliar with the trailer, so here... 

The wait for a decent trailer for The Hunger Games has ended. We’ve had a brief glimpse of the movie for a few months now – a glimpse that only offered us Katniss running through the woods. Now we get a solid look at the movie and a new wait begins: the wait for the March 23rd release date. The full trailer for the novel adaptation gives us a lot more of the world of The Hunger Games, including... 

Summer’s 8 months away, but already the Mighty Marvel Movie Machine is churning, releasing a full two-minute trailer for The Ultimates…I mean, The Avengers…sorry, m’comic bookiness reared its head there for sec. What we’re treated to is a snippet of the team’s (practically non-existent) chemistry, and I don’t mean on screen, I mean as far the in-story team dynamic goes. And that makes... 

I’ve been holding off on watching the trailer for The Sitter. See, the advertising coming from the movie’s marketing team has branded the film as, “the filthiest R-Rated babysitting movie ever made.” That just doesn’t hold any appeal for me. I’m okay with a movie being R-rated, and I’m okay with a movie being filthy, but if that’s the film’s primary selling point then my expectation... 

You know how there are those direct to video or made for tv movies that play off of blockbusters coming to theaters? Like how C. Thomas Howell was in a television version of War of the Worlds the same time Spielberg and Cruise brought their version to theaters? Or how the 1994 movie Oblivion is being remarketed to capitalize on Cowboys & Aliens? Well, that’s how Battleship feels – it looks... 

I usually leave the trailer park stuff to Margaret, only stepping in if she’s too busy to fit the column into her schedule. This week she wasn’t too busy, giving a nice write-up of Larry Crowne. I couldn’t let the latest (and probably last) trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 go by unnoticed however, so you get two trailer park entries this week. The last couple of Harry Potter...