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Trailer Trashin’: Academy Award Nominee A Cat in Paris Looks Like a Storybook Come to Life
It’s Tuesday here at CinemaNerdz, and that means there’s a new Trailer Trashin’ column for your reading pleasure. For the second time since this column debuted, I’m taking a look at an animated film – the official trailer for the stateside release of A Cat in Paris. Premise: This is the story of a young girl whose cat leads her on an adventure and helps her solve a thrillin...[Read More]
Poetry Becomes Surrealism: The Cinema of Jean Rollin
The citizens of Paris were in a bad mood in May of 1968. Student protests lead to a general strike that almost caused the collapse of the government. The City of Light was paralyzed by the most violent protest seen in Europe in over 100 years. It was in this atmosphere that Jean Rollin’s first film opened in Paris. It was only one of two new films to open that week and audiences flocked to the cin...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Gangster Squad Looks to Deliver Stylish Period Crime Drama
After last week’s double-dose of superhero goodness, it’s time for something completely different. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at director Ruben Fleischer’s cops-and-crooks film Gangster Squad. Premise: A vigilante police force within the LAPD fights to keep the East Coast Mafia, led by Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s....[Read More]