August 27, 2011 – 8:10 pm
The first good look at director Bruce Robinson’s adaptation of The Rum Diary, which has been eagerly anticipated by Hunter S Thompson devotees for a few years now, is finally upon us, with the release of the film’s first theatrical trailer this week (you can watch it below). Thompson’s terrific book, penned in 1959 when [...]
September 25, 2010 – 2:59 pm
The new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 gives fans and detractors alike reason to cheer. Fans can work themselves into a frenzy – not that they wouldn’t have otherwise – because it’s probably the most enticing glimpse of a Potter movie yet. Detractors can take some comfort in the knowledge [...]
September 6, 2010 – 9:33 pm
One of the most provocative and darkly stylish trailers I’ve seen for a long time is this rather stunning and disturbing peek at writer/director Jason Eisener’s sure-to-be-exploitation film Hobo with a Shotgun. Check out the trailer below; it reeks of grindhouse. Starring Rutger Hauer as the eponymous hobo, the film begins with his character – [...]
August 25, 2010 – 4:26 pm
In my interview with Australian key art designer Jeremy Saunders, published on Cinetology this time last year, I observed that nowadays film posters are a more peripheral advertising tool than ever before. The rise of online trailers and viral campaigns has steadily reduced their prominence, although, as Saunders pointed out, key art is called key [...]
August 18, 2010 – 12:14 pm
Remember Joaquin Phoenix’s bizarre appearance with David Letterman on The Late Show last year? Of course you do. Nobody who saw that interview is likely to forget it. Phoenix rocked up with black shades and half metre thick facial hair, looking stoned out of his mind and a lot like Dr. John’s long lost brother. [...]
Following in the ignominious footsteps of Tommy Wiseau’s vomit bag melodrama The Room (famously dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”) comes director James Nguyen’s Birdemic: Shock and Terror, another film that looks set to amass a large cult following simply because of its reported awfulness. What little there is of story evidently details an [...]
The first half of the teaser trailer (watch it below) for writer/director Stuart Beattie’s highly anticipated big screen adaptation of Australian author John Marsden’s well-loved novel Tomorrow, When the War Began plays like a shampoo commercial: there are picturesque images of cliff faces, countryside and rain forests, cheesy top 20 music and shots of young [...]
Almost a quarter of a century after Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) bought his way into the chambers of elite corporate screen villainy comes the slippery character’s belated return in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Stone will use the global economic downturn as a storytelling backdrop, in turn exploring a topic virtually untouched by [...]
Officially dispelling the unspoken hopes of many Australian film critics – that The Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos was actually a myth created to spook the Australian film industry into making better films (or in fact, given last year’s bumper crop, to spook them into continuing to make better films) is the trailer for [...]
November 12, 2009 – 9:39 am
Since making a name for himself in 2001’s indie mind melt Donnie Darko and later as Heath Ledger’s lover in Brokeback Mountain (2005) Jake Gyllenhaal has remained somewhat aloof and left-of-centre from the inner circle of mega-earning A list Hollywood actors, largely avoiding the cha-ching! lure of junky action blockbusters. The big exception is The [...]
November 4, 2009 – 7:08 pm
Earlier this year myself and some Twitter buddies played a game called #nicer filmtitles. As its title suggests, the game all about taking the name of popular films and making them, well, nicer. For example, The Empire Strikes Back becomes The Empire Writes A Strongly Worded Letter. The Day the Earth Stood Still becomes The [...]
October 14, 2009 – 11:03 pm
Jackie Earle Haley (aka Rorschach from Watchmen) will fill some very big shoes and a very iconic red and green jumper in music vid-cum-feature director Samuel Bayer’s upcoming remake of Wes Craven’s one-two-you-know-who’s-coming-for-you horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Haley will be the first actor to play gnarly dream invader Freddy Krueger other than [...]
August 10, 2009 – 3:42 pm
The theatrical trailer for Terry Gilliam’s much anticipated phantasmagorical head trip The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which features Heath Ledger’s last screen performance, has hit the net. In terms of pure ocular thrills it’s easily one of the most stunning trailers we’ll see this year. Stocked to the gills with rich, prismatic, distinctively Gilliam-esque imagery, [...]
The trailer for Robert Connelly’s highly anticipated political thrilled Balibo, set to open the curtains of the Melbourne International Film Festival later this month, hit the net on Monday (watch it below). The latest from the director of The Bank and Three Dollars is yet another high-cred 2009 Aussie feature in a year that has [...]
As its title suggests The Fox & the Child is a slight, quaint and syrupy sweet all-ages yarn about the relationship between a young ‘un and a wild fox. It’s Luc Jacquet’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to his 2005 surprise smash hit March of the Penguins, and like its predecessor this warmly shot and convincingly staged film [...]
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