Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week I’m humming along with Ben Lee, listening to John Forte, learning about what it’s like to be overtaken by Somali pirates, getting beat in a North Korean re-education camp, and what it must like to be Jean-Claude Van Damme for a day.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week I’m going international with stops in India to talk about a story of baby swapping, England to make sense of a killer clown movie that’s supposed to be a comedy, the Himalayas to be inspired by wounded warriors, Mexico to discover what I never knew about our friends south of the border, then back home to California where the birth of professional skateboarding in the 80s took a foothold.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we’re giving Ed Burns one more chance, I discover Australian musician Paul Kelly and have my mind asploded, we watch a feminine odd couple connect with one another, we get a little street, a guy begs for his wife to come back to him, and Gloria Estefan becomes the basis for a horror movie.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we’re stopping in Ireland to find out what Richard done did, what Denny Gordon from Blind Date and Brian Cox have in common, contemplating death in the Grand Canyon, and one reason why dumb Americans keep our streak of idiocy alive and well.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we look at Nazis in Sweden, protesters around the world, a suicidal old Frenchman who finds the will to live through a buxom young lass, and a whole lot of Monty Python.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we look at Tim Heidecker’s happy face, Zeppelin’s bloated faces, some guys gettin’ their crampon on, Maeby Fünke, and a dissection of the current political process that is neither left or right.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we have trailers that encourage you to get out into the sun, one that feels like Heat-lite, one that celebrates the glory that is women wearing yoga pants, and one that showcases a photographer who probably knows a lot about Bono.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we look at Common playing the part of role model, an Australian nightmare of a comedy, a high school shooter in repose, a French cat and mouse thrill ride with a kid at the center, and a good old fashioned haunted house yarn from the UK.
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