Friday, May 4th, 2012
Holy cow. I was already kind of excited about this, but this looks beautiful. The web-slinging, the quips… this looks more like Spider-Man to me than Raimi’s movies ever did (except for the costume).
Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man will be out in theaters on July 3, 2012.
What do you think?
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
We’ve already seen a teaser trailer and a domestic trailer, but this new international trailer goes into a little more depth than what we’ve seen to date. I’ve been optimistic that we’re still having something held back, and I hope that’s still the case, but if you’re nervous about spoiling too much, you might consider not watching this.
Prometheus was written by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof and Jon Spaihts and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron and Ben Foster. It hits theaters on June 8, 2012.
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Judd Apatow’s This Is 40 follows Knocked Up‘s scene-stealing characters Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) into middle age. It’s a clear — almost literal — step back from Funny People, which felt to me like two movies smooshed together, only one of which was really good. A little self-indulgent, a little too long… but still very funny and full of wonderful characters.
This Is 40 also stars Megan Fox, John Lithgow, Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow, Melissa McCarthy, Robert Smigel, Charlene Yi and Albert Brooks. (And Jason Segel is obviously in it, as well, though probably not a whole lot. Katherine Heigl? Definitely not in it.)
Fellow Apatow fans, see you in the theater on December 21st.
Saturday, April 14th, 2012
A new trailer for Hysteria, a based-on-a-true-story British romantic comedy about the two doctors who invented the vibrator. The trailer looks hilarious, if fluffy and a bit sanitized for popular consumption, and the reviews from it’s premiere at TIFF last fall were good, so keep an eye out for it when it opens on May 18th here in the States.
(The synopsis, included below, doesn’t mention why it’s a romcom: younger doctor marries the older doctor’s daughter.)
London, 1880. Mortimer Granville, a dedicated and forward-thinking young doctor, is struggling to establish his career. While Granville preaches sanitation and germ theory, the old guard of doctors clinging to leeches and hacksaws, scoff at his upstart ideas, and show him the door. Granville’s fortunes change when he arrives for an interview at the well-appointed private offices of Dr. Dalrymple, London’s leading specialist in women’s medicine.
