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Trailer Trashin’: Skyfall Brings James Bond Back in a Big Way
Now that the Memorial Day holiday weekend has passed – where The Avengers was finally knocked out of the box office top spot – and the month of May is almost over, the summer 2012 movie season is only going to get more interesting, and the new trailers will just keep coming. On the Trailer Trashin’ docket this week is the first teaser for the long-awaited twenty-third installment of the Jame...[Read More]
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]