Trailer Time: Shame

Shame from UK director Steve McQueen is about to be released through FoxSearchLight in a few months, and I can't be more excited. Particularly after the release of the second trailer, and it is tasty.

It isn't that much different from the first trailer which contains much of the same images and clips (considering all the talk about the amount of daring frontal nudity and sexuality, I'm surprised they've gathered THAT much preview-friendly material). But the second trailer features less dialogue, and is instead played to Carey Mulligan's character singing a rendition of "New York, New York." And it's pretty heart-breaking.

Trailer Time: J. Edgar, The Swell Season, The Pig w/ the Froggy Tattoo

J. Edgar is the latest film from Clint Eastwood. He's not a personal favorite of mine; while deliberate and at a controlled pace, I can find his films to be sometimes painstakingly slow, overly serious, and damn despressing (honestly, I watched Million Dollar Baby with high hopes and end it wanting someone to pull the plug on me - not a way to win the Fave Film position in my heart). But I will admit that his films are almost always the work of someone who knows what he's doing. Here's his next entry for the upcoming award season.

J. Edgar trailer at Apple Trailers.

Trailer Time: Contagion, El Bulli, Dream House, Higher Ground, Drive

Stephen Soderberg's latest film Contagion is bound to hit me personally on two levels: It takes place in the backyard of the SF Bay Area, and I am such a contamination-OCD freak. Thus, this is my WORST NIGHTMARE. But this looks good.

Trailer Time: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 50/50, and Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

*Mara Rooney as Lisbet Salander in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Trailers here once again. It seems all I have time for is to re-post. But I swear I'll get to some original reviews/articles sometime soon. Anywho, somehow in the flux of pre-summer-action-sequel-grossout-comedy-eye-candy blockbuster galore there have been some trailers released for some really, really interesting films coming out (hence the back-to-back post of Trailer Time). Including probably the best cut trailer I've seen this year thus far, David Fincher's rendition of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

Trailer Time: Page One, The Skin I Live In

*Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas on the set of The Skin I Live In

Literature, journalism and every other form of the printed word is at a crisis. The immediacy, ease, and convenience of the internet and the digital age proves to be such devastating competition that the the publishing and journalism worlds have been in a constant whirlwind of change to keep up with it. And even The New York Times is no different. Or so the documentary Page One shows....

Trailer Time: HP 7.5. Submarine, y señor Will Ferrel

Let's start of this edition of Trailer time with one that half the world and their mom have probably seen already: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, or as I like to call it, Harry Potter 7.5. As a long-time HP fan of the books and the movies (films 1 and 2 - I am NOT talking about you) I am both excited for and dreading the last entry in the beloved series. For what else can capture the hearts and minds of peoples all around the world for the good part of almost 15 years? (Twilight, I am NOT talking about you) That being said, 7.5 is looking just as grand and epic as we all hope it to be. Check it out after the jump

Jane Eyre and the 3 People that Indeed "Tranfix" You

*At the premiere: Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska, Cary Joji Fukunaga

The new Jane Eyre movie is one of many adaptions of a beloved book written in the 1800s. But the movie also beholds the talents of 3 up-and-coming stars - here's some background and what else to look forward to from each of these Hollywood newcomers that I'm really rooting for - hard.

Trailer Time

I'm pumping out a lotta posts right now. Blame it on the exciting novelty of starting the blog. Repressed cinematic thoughts just being purged. Ignore that for now, and take a look at some really intriguing trailers out this week.