Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Drive) has employed images of serious violence in the past; his first team-up with Ryan Gosling featured both intimidating threats and gory action. Now we’ve got the first footage from their second film pairing, Only God Forgives, a violent revenge-thriller “western” set in Bangkok.
Gosling plays a boxer and drug smuggler pressed into vengeful action when his brother is killed. This trailer isn’t terribly gory, but it is laden with the heavy air of things just about to go really, really wrong. The color in the images, combined with the music and a sense of floating, suggest that this is a story that descends into the same psychological space as Bronson. This time, however, Refn has more resources at his disposal.
And yet, more than anything else, it’s the opening dialogue from Kristen Scott Thomas, playing the mother of Gosling’s character, that gives me chills. Compared to that, Gosling’s invitation at the end of the trailer seems almost polite.
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Put James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson in a room together and there’s no telling what’s going to happen. They might make a sequel to Pineapple Express, they might try and perform an exorcism, or they might just rip each other to shreds verbally for each other’s enjoyment. And that’s not even considering what’s going on outside.
In This is the End, written and directed by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, those six actors are the survivors of a massive, star-studded party that occurs at James Franco’s house during the start of the apocalypse. Many stars die and, come June 12, many laughs will be had. After the big WonderCon panel over the weekend (read our coverage and interview here) they’re debuting a brand new red-band trailer. Check it out below, and check back later this week for the tamer, but still hilarious, green band trailer too. Read More »
Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie are about to get the full, Michael Bay Miami treatment in the action comedy Pain & Gain. A new red-band trailer for the April 26 film has just been released and it gives a great idea of the humor in the film, complete with language, violence and plenty of skin. Check it out below, along with a new TV spot and a few new stills. Read More »
Posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2013 by Angie Han
The four bikini-clad, gun-toting hotties at the center of Harmony Korine‘s Spring Breakers have drawn quite a bit of attention, by virtue of the fact that they’re, well, four bikini-clad, gun-toting hotties. (And two of them former Disney gals, no less.) But based on festival reviews, it may be James Franco as Alien you really want to keep an eye on.
Franco’s performance is so strong, distributor A24 reportedly even considered giving the film an Oscar-qualifying December release to allow Franco a shot at the big prize. Nothing actually came of that plan, as far as I know, but it’s just another indication that Franco and the movie around him will be worth checking out when it finally comes to theaters. The new red-band trailer puts the spotlight on Alien, and you can watch it after the jump.
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It had never occurred to me that someone might make a film that effectively served as the midpoint between Twilight and the art-house “vampire” weirdness of Trouble Every Day. But here we have a bloody, vaguely sexual red-band trailer for Kiss of the Damned, and the film from Xan Cassavetes plays almost exactly like that.
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The horror anthology is alive and well once again, thanks in large part to V/H/S, its upcoming sequel (reviewed here) and The ABCs of Death. The latest horror anthology is Sanitarium, in which three directors – Bryan Ramirez, Kerry Valderrama and Bryan Oritz — tell three tales of institutions for the insane.
Malcolm McDowell leads the cast, and narrates this trailer with a chillingly ironic sense of cold observation. This red-band trailer for the film won’t give you too much structure for each of the three plots, but it does suggest a few of the horrors that wait within the institution. The cast also features Robert Englund, Lacey Chabert, Lou Diamond Phillips, John Glover, and Walter Perez. Check out a trailer below. Read More »
In just a few weeks we’ll get to see a new Danny Boyle movie, and that’s pretty great. The film is Trance, and as the slice of art above suggests, it leaves the psyche of a man, played by James McAvoy, in less than perfect shape.
This new red-band trailer shows more of Boyle’s heavily-stylized return to all-out genre fare. It also give a taste of some of the more unpleasant moments in the film, and a hint or two of a couple of the more pleasurable moments, too.
And McAvoy’s character isn’t the only one who has his head messed with. There’s a payoff shot in this trailer that had me gobsmacked for a moment, before the gorehound in me took over and started giggling like mad. Check it out below — this one is definitely not safe for work, even if those unsafe flashes are fairly brief. Read More »
When Harmony Korine‘s Spring Breakers premiered in Toronto late last year, it instantly became a must-see film. Some people hated it, other people loved it; arguments went that many either loved that they hated it so much or hated that they loved it so much. Films like that don’t come along very often.
Four girls (Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Rachel Korine and Ashley Benson) rob a store to go on spring break, get arrested and are sprung by a rapper calling himself Alien (James Franco). His promise is that they’ll have more money and drugs than they could ever imagine if they just join him in his life of debauchery and crime. The first trailer looked absolutely insane and now this French, non-censored trailer throws even more sex and profanity into the mix. Check it out below. Read More »
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