Category: Movies

“I admired Spots… I would love to have a dog like Spots.” Fox Searchlight has released a fun new promo featurette for Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated movie Isle of Dogs, which hits theaters at the end of this month. Every movie records interviews with the cast while on set, to use for promotional purposes later. For this movie, they recorded these interviews with the cast, and then animated their interviews as the dogs they’re playing. It’s adorable. Anderson explains to Vulture: that after recording spontaneously, “we spent the next several months figuring out how to make those into the cast interviews.” Isle of Dogs features the voice of Edward Norton as Rex, along with a huge ensemble: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Liev Schreiber, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, and Bob Balaban. I really, really love this film, mostly because it’s all about why dogs are the best. Enjoy. ›››

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“I’m not going anywhere without you – come sail with me.” STX Entertainment has debuted the first trailer for survival drama Adrift, based on the true story of a sailing couple who barely survive riding through a Category 5 hurricane. Shailene Woodley & Sam Claflin star as Tami Oldham & Richard Sharp, two free-spirits who fall in love and embark on a sailboat journey. The cast includes Jeffrey Thomas, Elizabeth Hawthorne, and Grace Palmer. The film tells of “a young couple’s chance encounter” which “leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime.” With a damaged boat and Richard injured, Tami works to keep them both alive as they wait to be rescued, adrift in the Pacific Ocean. This looks like yet another survival-on-the-ocean story, but with a strong core of love keeping it afloat. Hope is on the horizon. ›››

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“There’s no greater story than life… itself.” Amazon Studios has revealed a teaser trailer for a generational romantic drama titled Life Itself, written and directed by Dan Fogelman, creator of the NBC series “This Is Us”. Not to be confused with Roger Ebert’s documentary Life Itself, this feature film stars Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde as a couple, and spans several decades of time examining passionate relationships and other interactions connected by a single “random moment.” It’s a “multi-generational and multi-layered portrait” of two families from America and Spain. The impressive cast includes Olivia Cooke, Mandy Patinkin, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Laia Costa, and Antonio Banderas. From the little bit we get to see in this teaser, this looks like it’s going to be wonderful and very emotional to watch. Get a look below. ›››

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“Sometimes you gotta do a little bad for the greater good.” Gravitas has debuted an official trailer for a new neo-noir demon hunter movie titled Corbin Nash, made by director Ben Jagger, starring his brother Dean S. Jagger as Corbin Nash. He plays a rogue police detective in search of his parents’ killer who’s murdered and reborn the ultimate hunter. The full cast includes Corey Feldman, Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer, Bruce Davison, Richard Wagner, Fernanda Romero, Elizabeth Greer, Patrick Brennan, Chris Pardal, and Thomas Q. Jones. There’s all kinds of vampires and drag queens and other “demons” in this, though it looks odd. At least the score is cool. Give it a look if you’re curious, but don’t expect much. ›››

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“Okay, so growing up can be a little scary… and weird.” A24 has revealed the first official trailer for Bo Burnham’s first film Eighth Grade, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to quite a few rave reviews. The film stars young actress Elsie Fisher as an eighth grader teen dealing with issues of personality and identity as she finishes her last week in middle school. It’s a fascinating portrait of modern youth and how mentally exhausting it is to go to public school. The cast includes Josh Hamilton as her dad, plus Emily Robinson, Missy Yager, Greg Crowe, Daniel Zolghadri, Jake Ryan, Imani Lewis, and Deborah Unger. This a really wonderful trailer for an excellent gem of a film, don’t miss this. ›››

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“We need to learn to listen. Differences always scare us.” Focus Features has debuted the triumphant first trailer for Wim Wenders’ latest documentary, titled Pope Francis – A Man of His Word, a look at the uniqueness of this current Pope – Pope Francis, originally from Argentina. The doc film is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. Instead, it focuses more on his ideas and messages he has spoken about, and his answers to today’s global questions. This new Pope is crazy progressive and very intelligent, and has been saying some important things about greed and money and compassion and how we can make things better. It’s actually impressive, and this doc might be one of the best stories about this holy man. It seems like a fairly straight-forward doc, still worth watching. ›››

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“You don’t see the resemblance?” An official trailer has debuted for a dark fantasy sci-fi thriller titled Ayla, from an American director known only as “Elias”. The story is about a man haunted by the mysterious death of his 4-year-old sister, who decides to bring her back to life 30 years later as an adult woman – “obsession becomes flesh”. Obviously things turn out a bit weird, and only get weirder, and this trailer definitely hints at that. The cast of Ayla includes Tristan Risk as the titular Ayla, along with Nicholas Wilder, Dee Wallace, Sarah Schoofs, D’Angelo Midili, Bill Oberst Jr., and Andrew Sensenig. The footage in this trailer reminds me of Splice, in a way, which seems to be appropriate comparison. I’m not sure what to make of this, seems like it could be good, but it could also be awful and way too experimental. Check it out. ›››

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“I trust him, I have to trust him.” Lucasfilm has released a trailer for the documentary titled The Director and The Jedi. This feature-length (a full 135 minutes!) documentary is actually included as a bonus feature on the forthcoming Blu-Ray/VOD release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but it also just premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, hence the timing of this trailer. The Director and The Jedi is an intimate documentary delving into Rian Johnson and his process as he comes in as a director new to the Star Wars universe. The film examines his intensive work and his connection to Star Wars, as well as his techniques and process as a director. Everything about this looks awesome, and I’m excited to watch, just to see Rian at work. The film is apparently a very revealing inside look at the making of a HUGE movie, which is actually quite rare, especially packaged as a two hour documentary. Take a look below & get your copy of TLJ later this month. ›››

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“The man in the black hat… I heard he can be kind of shady.” Netflix has debuted the first official trailer for a film titled Paradox, the feature directorial debut of actress Daryl Hannah, which is premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this month. Paradox is described as a “loud poem”, a “whimsical western tale of music and love” where “time is fluid.” The full cast features legendary musician Neil Young, along with Lukas Nelson, Micah Nelson, Corey McCormick, Anthony LoGerfo, Tato Melgar (of the band Promise of the Real), with Willie Nelson, Charris Ford, and Dulcie Clarkson Ford. This looks like a crazy fun, hyper-real, and totally mesmerizing mash-up of music and story. This also seems like something that would be best seen on the big screen (alas, Netflix) with a bunch of friends chilling out with beers and good vibes. ›››

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“This isn’t a place for you kids to party.” Here’s another teaser trailer for a slasher film playing at the SXSW Film Festival. This one is titled The Ranger, and it’s the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jenn Wexler, who has worked as a producer on a bunch of great indie films before this. This 80’s horror thriller is about teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, who end up facing off against the “local authority”—an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind. The Ranger’s cast includes Chloë Levine, Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, Bubba Weiler, Amanda Grace Benitez, Jeremy Holm, with Larry Fessenden. This teaser doesn’t reveal much, and not much of the Ranger himself, but it still looks like fun. ›››

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