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‘Private Life’ Trailer: Filmmaker Tamara Jenkins Returns After A Decade Away With A Deeply Personal Film

September 13, 2018 9:41 am

In her decades-spanning but only sporadically fruitful career, Tamara Jenkins has aptly demonstrated that she’s not only willing to address the most heartbreaking of mundanities with humor and compassion, but s...

‘Halloween’ Trailer: Michael Myers Is Here To Slash Jamie Lee Curtis Yet Again

David Pountain

September 5, 2018 11:06 am

News, Trailers

With the release of David Gordon Green’s "Halloween," not only will the long-running slasher series has spawned three flicks with that exact title, but will have also created at least four different timelines o...

‘BoJack Horseman’ Season 5 Trailer: Will Arnett & Co. Return As BoJack Continues His Destructive Ways

David Pountain

September 4, 2018 12:12 pm

News, Television, Trailers

By now, “BoJack Horseman” has made it punishingly clear that cute animal puns and sorrowful storylines needn’t be mutually exclusive. The unusually optimistic conclusion for the animated comedy’s fourth season,...

‘The Front Runner’ Trailer: Hugh Jackman Stars In True Story Of Major Political Sex Scandal

David Pountain

August 30, 2018 9:39 am

Festivals, News, Trailers

Whatever ill will director Jason Reitman may have garnered for “Labor Day” and “Men, Women and Children” has been more or less negated in the eyes of most critics by the well-received, if commercially underwhel...

‘Hunter Killer’ Trailer: Gerard Butler And Gary Oldman Go To War With Russia In A Submarine

David Pountain

July 26, 2018 12:44 pm

News, Trailers

Between “Geostorm” and “Den of Thieves,” the recent track record of Gerard Butler hardly has us counting down the days until the “300” star’s next feature, but there’s always a chance that action-thriller "Hun...

‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ Trailer Breathes Epic Atomic Fire Down On Comic-Con

David Pountain

July 21, 2018 2:35 pm

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To many a casual consumer of Hollywood monster movies, "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" will be seen as a mere warm-up round to the colossal crossover smackdown that is 2020’s “Godzilla vs. Kong.” But for the l...

‘Robin Hood’ Trailer: Robin Hood And His Merry Men Attempt A Massive Heist

David Pountain

July 17, 2018 3:02 pm

News, Trailers

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A hero with more live-action reboots than Batman, Superman and Spiderman combined, the latest incarnation of "Robin Hood" sees the famed bowman aiming for the hearts of a new generation of angry, superhero-lovi...

‘A Simple Favor’ Trailer: Blake Lively And Anna Kendrick Exchange Secrets In New Thriller

David Pountain

July 13, 2018 10:12 am

News, Trailers

A director known for female-led comedies like “Bridesmaids” and “Ghostbusters,” Paul Feig now tries his hand at the thriller genre with "A Simple Favor," a mystery film that was pitched to Fox 2000 as a work in...

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‘Beautiful Boy’ Trailer: Addiction, Love & Recovery Marks A Father/Son Relationship

David Pountain

June 27, 2018 9:07 am

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Timothée Chalamet isn’t about to let all the career momentum accumulated from last year’s “Call Me by Your Name” and “Lady Bird” go to waste. Though the early consensus has been positive for the Oscar nominee’s...

‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ Trailer Flies Into Action

David Pountain

June 7, 2018 11:05 am

News, Trailers

Writer-director Dean DeBlois spoke of his intentions to make a trilogy of “How to Train Your Dragon” films even before the release of 2014’s “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” claiming that this second installment i...

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