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“Is it true that the loss of one sense sharpens the others?” The first trailer has debuted for a murder mystery thriller set in London titled In Darkness, with a screenplay co-written by husband and wife team Natalie Dormer and Anthony Byrne. The film is about a blind musician, played by Natalie Dormer, who hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld. She ends up way too deep in a world of corruption and murder and lies. The full cast for In Darkness also includes Ed Skrein, Emily Ratajkowski, Joely Richardson, James Cosmo, Neil Maskell, and Jan Bijvoet. This looks cool, but nothing to write home about, just a clever thriller. Check it. ›››

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“This place gets overrun, game over.” XLrator Media has released an official trailer for sci-fi action thriller Incoming, from newcomer director Eric Zaragoza. This action space prison movie stars Scott Adkins as a rogue CIA agent who has to fight bad guys to save the International Space Station, which is now a prison, after terrorists take over and turn it into a missile aimed at Moscow. It sounds crazy, looks crazy. The cast includes Aaron McCusker, Alaa Safi, Milorad Kapor, Dominic Power, Michelle Lehane, Arkie Reece, and Lukas Loughran. Surprise, this looks pretty dang bad, but we knew it would, right? Haven’t we seen enough of space prisons, after Lockout copying Escape from New York? I guess not. Well, jump in. ›››

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“You want him to be somewhere he can thrive, right?” IFC Films has debuted an official trailer for an indie drama titled A Kid Like Jake, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Adapted from Daniel Pearle’s play, described as a “timely, honest, emotionally rich look at 21st-century parenting.” Claire Danes and Jim Parsons star as parents of a precocious, creative young child named Jake, played by Leo James Davis. As they attempt to challenge the private school world in New York City, they must determine whether their son’s “gender nonconformity” is something that matters, can help them, or make matters even worse. The cast includes Octavia Spencer, Priyanka Chopra, Amy Landecker, and Ann Dowd. I heard some great things about this at Sundance, and the trailer looks solid. Looking forward to it. ›››

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“Suit up, it might get weird.” Disney-Pixar have debuted the full theatrical trailer for Brad Bird’s superhero sequel The Incredibles 2, which we’ve been waiting a long time to finally see. And boy does it look like it will be worth the wait. Bird directs once again, and the synopsis only states that it’s about Bob navigating “the day-to-day heroics of ‘normal’ life”, allowing him time to bond with Jack-Jack, “whose superpowers are emerging—much to Dad’s surprise.” Craig T. Nelson is back to voice Bob, with Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sarah Vowell. Most of the story is still a surprise – though this trailer gives us a better look at where the story is going with a new villain revealed at the end. This looks like SO much fun, I really can’t wait, I’m glad they’re bringing it back with Brad Bird. I’ve got very high hopes for this, even more now. ›››

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“Being free, and being married – a contradiction.” IFC Films has debuted a trailer for a British martial indie drama titled The Escape, from writer/director Dominic Savage (Love + Hate). This empowering indie first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. Gemma Arterton stars as an “ordinary woman” who “makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.” She plays a married woman in the middle of a challenging marriage on the verge of ending, who decides to go her own way. Dominic Cooper co-stars, with a main cast including Frances Barber, Marthe Keller, Montserrat Lombard, and Jalil Lespert. This looks quite impressive, with what seems to be an exceptional lead performance by Arterton in a very complex and compelling turn as this unhappy woman, looking for an “escape”. See the trailer below. ›››

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“How far does this go?” Uncork’d Entertainment has released the first official trailer for a super creepy horror thriller titled Gehenna, or Gehenna: Where Death Lives in full, from Japanese director and SFX veteran Hiroshi Katagiri. This film is about a group of white tourists who travel to Saipan in the Mariana Islands, and go into a WWII bunker they think is the perfect place for a resort. Once inside, they discover there’s much more to the bunker – including a very pasty old slender man, as well as the horror trope of “they must face their most private secrets.” Gehenna stars Lance Henriksen, Patrick Gorman, Simon Phillips, Sean Sprawling, Eva Swan, Justin Gordon, and Katherine Wallace. Plus Doug Jones as the “Creepy Old Man” (literally what his character is listed as). I wish this looked better, but it looks so bad. ›››

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“I no longer see the world and its works as they before appear to me, and men appear to me as monsters.” IFC Films has debuted an official trailer for Haifaa Al-Mansour’s film Mary Shelley, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and played at the Torino, Dubai, and Tribeca Film Festivals. This film tells the story of famed author Mary Shelley, showing her as “a fiercely modern 19th-century woman, and her Frankenstein as the product of unbridled imagination and profound grief.” Elle Fanning stars as the Mary Shelley, with a knockout ensemble cast including Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Dillane, Ben Hardy, Tom Sturridge, and Ciara Charteris. This looks like a very intense, extra-dramatic account of the events of Shelley’s life. But also like an engaging watching. ›››

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“Then the story went from being amazing, to incredible.” Neon + CNN Films have debuted the first official trailer for an forgettable documentary called Three Identical Strangers, which won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. This gripping, jaw-dropping, shocking, mind-expanding film from director Tim Wardle was won of the most talked about docs at Sundance this year, because it’s just so astounding. You just have to see it to believe it! The story goes that one day in the 1980s, three random strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. They they get famous, but it’s what they discover after all of that which will leave you jaw on the floor. A must watch doc – check it out. ›››

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“I’m not interested in making a film for a niche audience. I want to make films about people who we don’t usually see, but for a wider audience so they can all relate to it.” One of the best films I saw at a festival last year was The Rider, a film by Chloe Zhao, set in the heartland of America about a broken cowboy trying to maintain his identity. The film left me an emotional mess, in the best kind of way, and I wrote a glowing review after catching it at the London Film Festival. The person who made this is a Beijing-born filmmaker named Chloé Zhao, and she has many stories to tell – not only her own, about everyone she encounters. I was lucky to meet with her for an interview and to talk about The Rider, and the art of minimal filmmaking. ›››

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Meet the Dogman. The Cannes Film Festival just announced their official line-up today, and included in the competition selection is the latest film from acclaimed Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone (of the films Roman Summer, Gomorrah, Tale of Tales). It’s titled Dogman, and this “urban western” tells the story of a homicide committed by a coked-out dog groomer during the late 1980s. The story goes that this guy was just a gentle dog groomer before he got pushed into a much more violent world. The cast includes Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Adamo Dionisi, Francesco Acquaroli, Gianluca Gobbi, Nunzia Schiano, and Alida Baldari Calabria. This is a fantastic teaser trailer, with some promising footage, I’m definitely intrigued. But I’m most worried for the dogs in this trailer! I hope nothing bad happens to them, so many, they all look nice. Poor dogs. Anyway, this should be a hot contender at Cannes this year. Get your first look. ›››

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