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Cinephile goodness in the form of insightful editorials and entertaining, analytical features from the CinemaNerdz writers.
Trailer Trashin’: It’s the Running of the Zombies in World War Z
We’re almost halfway through the month of November, and into the season of year-end movies and Oscar hopefuls – check out Skyfall if you haven’t, it’s awesome – and that means that early trailers for next year’s big movies will start rolling in. This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ conducts a post-mortem on our first look at the upcoming zombie epic World...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Can We Spoil John Dies at the End?
Happy Election Day, dear readers! Now that you’ve (hopefully) gone to vote, a new installment of Trailer Trashin’ is here to help wash the taste of all things political out of your brain. This week’s column dives far down the rabbit-hole into weirdness, with the new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi/horror/comedy John Dies at the End. Premise: It’s a drug that promises an out...[Read More]
The Top Five Found Footage and Faux Documentary Films
[pullquote_right]“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain[/pullquote_right] Found footage/faux documentary films have become insanely popular over the course of the last decade, some made with big budgets and familiar faces, others on kite string budgets with whomever the director/producers could convince to h...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tony Stark Lives Again in Iron Man 3
Happy Halloween, everyone! It’s the time for candy, costumes, trick-or-treating, parties, and watching horror and monster movies. On the Trailer Trashin’ docket this week is the first trailer for a film that’s sure to inspire a lot of Halloween costumes next year: Iron Man 3, the first post-Avengers film from Marvel Studios. Premise: When an enemy disrupts that which industrialis...[Read More]
The 10 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made
Is there anyone out there that doesn’t enjoy a good zombie movie? The infiltration of zombies into our popular culture and continued success of the cinema of the undead suggests that there isn’t. While zombie cinema is a genre that owes its beginning to the seminal Night of the Living Dead in the late 1960s, it’s also one that has shown remarkable growth over the last few years as renewed interest...[Read More]
The Top Five Exorcism and Possession Films
For ages mankind has held the belief that in the aether resides an evil with the ability to enter our physical realm and possess a human being, occasionally giving it superhuman abilities: ESP, or knowing the unknowable, and telekinesis being the most commonly documented examples of this most hostile of takeovers. During the 20th century, as well as the 21st, the theme of possession by an evil ent...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tom Cruise versus Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher
This week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines the second trailer for Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming book-adapted thriller Jack Reacher. Premise: In an innocent heartland city, five people are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But the accused man claims he’s innocent and says “Get Jack Reac...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Master of Suspense Lives Again in Hitchcock
With the release of Argo this past week, we’re officially in the season of prestige films and Oscar contenders. With that in mind, this week breaks new ground for Trailer Trashin’, because it’s my first time writing about a biopic, with the first trailer for Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock. Premise: The film centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony H...[Read More]
Cinema Revisited: The Films of the Beatles
Since Beatlemania seems to be going stronger than ever these days, and interest in the films the band made has peaked yet again (the Magical Mystery Tour film joins Yellow Submarine as a new DVD release from the band’s catalog this year), it’s easy for a film-obsessed Beatlefan to to get a little nostalgic regarding the film career of the Fab Four (you know, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Har...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Saddle Up with the Lone Ranger
It may only be the beginning of October, but it’s never too early for the studios to start hyping their slate of 2013 movies. On this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’, I aim my film journalism six-guns at the first trailer for next summer’s The Lone Ranger. Premise: Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid...[Read More]
Five Remakes That Suck and Five That Don’t
The disturbingly more frequent trend of remaking or recycling classic or popular films and/or properties into vehicles designed to appeal solely to a target demographic without any consideration given to quality or whether a remake is actually warranted or needed has really got me annoyed. Witness the recent release of Dredd, the remake of Judge Dredd which starred Sylvester Stallone or this year’...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Park Chan-Wook Creeps Us the Hell Out with Stoker
And now for something completely different. After a family-friendly fantasy literature adaptation last time, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines a disturbing, real-world horror/drama. Let’s take a look at the first trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Stoker. Premise: After India Stoker’s (Mia Wasikowska) father dies in an auto accident, her uncle Charlie (Ma...[Read More]