We’re all over the map in trailers this week: a few Oscar taunts, a couple documentaries, a handful of scary offerings coming to screens big and small, and two movies that Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Lawrence probably hope you won’t hold against them (we’re still just glad you’re here, J.Law!). And also the return of Ryan Hansen as Dick Casablancas, complete with plenty of drop ins from his days at Neptune High! So get ready to ride the roller coaster of emotions from war torn Germany to racially-segregated Paris to the hills of Industrial Revolution Appalachia. Just watch out for zombies along the way.
The third act of Brad Pitt’s career is aggressive one. He’s been a United Nations investigator saving the world from zombie hoards, a Nazi-scalping black-ops unit commander, a hit man and a drug dealer’s “associate”—and that’s just since 2009. With his boyish good looks behind him, Pitt has embraced his roguish alter ego in the post-50 years. It looks good on him, and so does this return to the WWII landscape as Wardaddy, a Sherman tank commander in the United States Army leading his five-man crew on a death march into the dark heart of Hitler’s Germany. Obviously, Wardaddy’s squad is outnumbered, outclassed, and breaking in a rookie gunner as they single-handedly look to be taking on an entire Nazi battalion. And considering Fury comes by way of David Ayer, writer of Sabotage, End of Watch, and Training Day, this one is probably going to end very badly.
Pause at: 0:09 to behold the Fury. Catch—and get excited about—Jon Bernthal at 0:28. Stop at 0:41 to see a pretty magnificent air raid and 1:35 to see the tanks in action.
Essential Quote: “Don’t get too close to anyone.”—Sergeant Wardaddy.
This is not a companion piece to Richard Linklater’s entirely pleasant movie-going experience, Boyhood, and its original French title Bande de filles literally translates to “bunch of girls.” Where Boyhood was more of an anthropological rumination on growing up, Girlhood is director Céline Sciamma’s stark examination of gender, identity, and coming of age amidst socially-challenging circumstances. Sciamma first made her name with Water Lilies in 2004, following the sexual maturation of three teenage girls in suburban Paris, and then impressed the festival circuit again in 2011 with Tomboy, the story of a 10-year-old transgender boy. In other words, Sciamma isn’t shy about issues, and for Girlhood is turning her lens away from LGBT themes in favor of focusing on race. The movie centers on Marieme, a young black girl growing up in the projects of Paris who, like all teens, has little to no idea about who she really is. It looks at her relationships with family, school and, more importantly to a high schooler: boys and friends.
Pause at: 0:17 and 0:48. Girl gangs will be girl gangs.
Essential Quote: “I do what I want.”—Marieme, aka Vic
Ryan Hansen pitching a Dick Casablancas spin-off to one very skeptical Kristen Bell with motorcycles, catch phrases, signature cocktails, barely-dressed hot chicks, badassery and … oh, what’s that? You say you want appearances by Enrico Colantoni, Percy Daggs III, Ken Marino, Chris Lowell, and Jason Dohring? Check! And before you even ask: Yes, Rob Thomas is producing. Get your drink on, Marshmallows!
Pause at: 0:06, 0:07, 0:08, 0:10, 0:12 to see hella Dick.
Essential Quote: “Spon-doolie, motherfuckers!”—American hero, Dick Casablancas
Are we having an Ambien dream? Hasn’t Jennifer Lopez kind of made this movie before? If last year’s Oedipal opus Adore and J.Lo’s 2002 vehicle Enough had a spawn, Boy Next Door is probably what the computer-generated face mash-up would look like. So, it’s a paycheck, and also an excuse for Lopez to show off her reverse-aging beauty by having a not-what-he-seems sexy teen (played by 26-year-old Ryan Guzman) lust after then proceed to stalk her. But also, why?
Pause at: 0:13. Go home, Kristin Chenoweth. You are drunk. Anyone else feel like this would be Jesse Metcalfe at 0:24 if we were still in 2005? Aidan from Sex and the City is finding work at 0:46. Lopez is 45 going on 27 at 1:04 (#nobutactually). Various danger at 1:40, 2:03, 2:11, 2:16, and 2:18.
Song: Zack Hemsey, “End of an Era” and Alex Clare, “Whispering”
Essential Quote: “No judgments. No rules. Just us.”—Wow, Noah Sanborn. Just … wow.
After a million (OK, eight) tiny teasers, the first full AHS: Freakshow trailer has finally arrived, and it is sumptuous! Consider our tickets to this sideshow punched.
Pause at: Behold your glorious parade of freaks at 0:14, 0:23, 0:26, 0:37, 0:41 and 0:48!
Song: Melanie Martinez, “Carousel”
Because Halloween will be here before you can say “There’s a nearly naked old man hiding in a human-shaped hole in my mattress!”
Pause at: 0:20, 0:39, 0:45, 0:58, 1:02, 1:03, 1:04, 1:13, 1:14, 1:15, 1:16, 1:17, and 1:31 to sample the freaky treats in this ghoulish cornucopia.
Essential Quote: “I’m here every night!”—Nearly naked old man hiding in a human-shaped hole in a mattress
Laura Jane Grace was born Thomas James Gabel, and she’s known to the world as the founder and lead singer of the band Against Me! Gabel publicly became Grace after coming out as a transgender woman to Rolling Stone magazine in 2012. Grace had experienced gender dysphoria her whole life, but only embraced her identity at 31. Now, two years later, she’s putting out a documentary about gender and what it means to be trans based on her experience, and the experiences of others in the trans community.
Pause at: 0:40, 0:43, 0:47, 0:53, 0:56, 1:18, 1:19, 1:24, and 1:33 to meet the faces of trans America.
Essential Quote: “You can classify someone as trans, gender queer, whatever you want, but when it comes down to it we’re just people.”—Laura Jane Grace
MTV abandoned music video lovers long ago, and VH1 followed suit. Whatever. Now we’ve got YouTube to queue up damn near any video-age song we could ask for. Feeling some “Cryptorchid” by Marilyn Manson? “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel? No, maybe it’s more of a “Here It Goes Again” by OK Go kind of moment. But whatever it is we’re rocking out to and sharing with our friends, we probably forgot that we’re being presented with an elaborate, highly art directed advertisement—or at least that’s the position of Money for Nothing. Based on the book of the same name by Sean Austerlitz, this doc delves into the origins, purpose, and exemplary stars of music video history and … Well, mostly it’s just an excuse to look at and talk about and be reminded of videos we love. It will be cool to learn something new along the way, but mostly we’re excited for a highlight reel of excellent music videos.
Pause at: Too many places to count. Just stop at random and you’ll strike gold in this mine of classic music videos. Robert Palmer, Benny Benassi, Lady Gaga, Weezer, LL Cool J, Michael Jackson, Smashing Pumpkins—the gang’s all here!
Essential Quote: “Somewhere between the avant garde film and the television ad appears that ignored artifact of contemporary culture: the music video.”—voiceover
If this movie is as good (re: disturbing) as its trailer would suggest, Lou Taylor Pucci might be one of our new favorite actors. You may remember him as the bespectacled friend who accidentally unleashed hell in last year’s fantastic Evil Dead remake, and here in Spring he stars as Evan, a 20-something American who’s emotionally adrift after the untimely passing of his mother, and takes a trip abroad for a little R&R. Or maybe to escape the law since it looks like he nearly beats a guy to death at a bar in a fit of bereaved rage. Sounds like an emo soul searcher, right? Not according to a Complex writer who just saw the movie screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. This is less an Eat, Pray, Love type story than it is one where a man turns up dead on the shore after an “attacker rips his penis off and leaves his corpse sprawled atop a beachside rock.” So if you’re into that kind of thing—and we totally are—you should be pretty excited for Spring. Also, it comes from Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead, the director team behind 2012's mind-bendy thriller Resolution, which was a bare bones and highly effective experiment in mind trickery. Spring looks similarly grating on the nerves, and also has at least one kind of monster, so it’s immediately even better!
Pause at: 0:04, 0:10, 1:23, 1:27, 1:35, 1:39, 1:42, 1:43, 1:44, and 1:54 for all sorts of nightmare fodder.
Essential Quote: “I don’t think you’re ready for where this is going.”—female voice (Nope! Nope, we definitely are not.)
The Z-boys are back in town! And guess what? Rick’s gonna kill some people. As much as things change for AMC (farewell, Breaking Bad!) they also stay the same.
Pause at: 0:12. Our heroes, always getting into some kind of new jam! Old friends are back at 0:25! As long as we have Michonne at 0:35, we don’t need anything else. Zombie-spolsion at 0:42.
Essential Quote: “It’s not over till they’re all dead. They don’t get to live.”—Rick (And they never do.)
After more than two years of waiting, we finally got our first trailer for Serena last week. You may know it better as “Oh! You mean that third movie with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper?” but in any case, it’s the story of a timber magnate named George Pemberton (Cooper), who is immediately taken by the striking and charismatic and Lawrencian Serena Shaw. She quickly becomes Serena Pemberton and as an outspoken and brassy type, becomes as much a business partner to her husband as a wife, all to the dismay of his actual business partner. Other wrinkles are introduced—e.g. Serena can’t bear children/she might be crazy/she might kill someone—and his timber empire is hitting the skids. So this movie could go one of three ways based on the trailer. Worst case scenario: It’s awful. Best case scenario: Surprisingly good! Likely scenario: strong performances by two great leads with proven chemistry do the best they can with subpar material. It’s a little disconcerting to see two very contemporary stars in a straight up period piece, especially Cooper putting on a touch of the mid-Atlantic accent, but we’ll follow Lawrence anywhere, and after Silver Linings Playbook the pair of her and Cooper together have a free pass to burn, even if the poster is giving us some unfortunate English Patient vibes.
Pause at: 0:19 and feel the magic! Stop at 0:32, because Jennifer Lawrence should be swinging axes more often. J.Law crazy eyes at 1:07! Break for falconry at 1:09 and for drama at 1:37 and 1:44
Essential Quote: “You’re lying.”—Serena (Because we love us some scorned Jennifer Lawrence!)
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