This Week In Trailers: 12 O’Clock Boys, Blackfish, Laurence Anyways, The Giant Spider, We Always Lie To Strangers

Posted on Friday, February 15th, 2013 by Christopher Stipp

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 try not to get eaten by Shamu, evade the coppers on our motorbikes and four-wheelers, get all artsy fartsy with a subversive Falco tribute, head to Branson for some good ol’ fashioned fun in the heartland and screech in terror at a giant black and white tarantula.

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This Week In Trailers: Keye Luke, Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, Here, I Wish, The Angels’ Share

Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2012 by Christopher Stipp

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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?

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