A rake of great new trailers for you this week, with a first look at Pixar’s latest sure thing Brave and Spielberg’s Oscar magnet War Horse, we also have full length trailers for The Three Muskateers (aka ‘Muskamatrix’), and Immortals (still fab). Two horrors come in the form of the otherworld-demon pic 11-11-11 and the other planet-what the hell? pic Apollo 18. Finally we have the sure to be great, but underplayed Le Carre adapt Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Extras include:
A full length trailer for Spy Kids 4 promising ‘Aromascope 4D’ aka: a scratch and sniff ticket to, erm, enjoy (?) with your movie:
And IF you feel like wasting a precious 1 minute and 20 seconds of your life go ahead and watch this trailer, if you don’t care about a film that will probably never see the light of day in any country that values it’s sanity, then don’t.
Layla & Tatiana
Producer: Katherine Sarafian
Director: Mark Andrews
Cast: Emma Thompson, Kelly Macdonald and Kevin McKidd
Synopsis: Scottish princess, Merida, defies her parents by persuing an interest in archery, but inadvertently jeopardizes her father's kingdom in the process.
Official Website: http://disney.go.com/brave/
US Release: 22nd June, 2012
Review/Score: As ‘Pixar’ is also a synonym for ‘money’ there is little chance that this won’t follow the grand old Pixar tradition of tearing it up at the BO. From a critical perspective this looks incredible (I heard Rob exclaim ‘ooh pretty grass!’ so I’m not alone here) the lushly textured Scottish highlands are rendered in all their rugged glory. The protagonist, a flame haired Scottish princess (voiced gratifyingly by Kelly McDonald) promises to inspire a wave of cloak wearing tomboys, while the gallopy bear hunty-ness is sure to appeal to their brothers. Well played Pixar... well played. 9/10 (LHP)
Its previous title was The Bear and the Bow, and that is exactly what this trailer showcases a BEAR and a BOW and of course the main character, Merida. Does the trick as a teaser. 8.5/10 (TA)
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Revel Guest, and Kathleen Kennedy
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson and David Thewlis
Synopsis: Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Official Website: http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/films/war-horse
US Release: 28th December, 2011
Review/Score:
Spielberg: “oh, hai Oscars!”
Kennedy: “hai!” *waves*
Williams: “please get in my pocket now Oscars”
Kennedy/Spielberg: “yes please do that”
Oscars: “sure!”
All: “ K thnx bye”
Boom. 9/10 (LHP)
Very Beautiful, each shot is gorgeously lit and composed and I most certainly wouldn’t expect any less from Speilberg and his DP Janusz Kaminski. Very well done, excited to see more. 8.5/10 (TA)
Producer: Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, and Robert Kulzer
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen and Ray Stevenson
Synopsis: The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
Official Website: http://www.threemusketeers-movie.com/
US release date: 21st October, 2011
Review/Score: All the same ludicrous sub-matrix explody nonsense as the teaser, but now with added exposition. Exposition that singularly fails to explain the nonsense. Le sigh. 5/10 (LHP)
Swords, flips, and explosions galore! This is exactly what I would expect the full length Three Musketeers trailer to look like complete with cardinal Christoph Waltz! I wonder if this is what Alexandre Dumas had pictured when he wrote the book? 6/10 (TA)
Producer: Mark Canton and Ryan Kavanaugh
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke and John Hurt
Synopsis: Greek warrior Theseus battles against imprisoned titans.
Official Website: http://www.immortalsmovie.com/splash/
US Release: 11th November, 2011
Review/Score: This is no 300, and it’s obviously camp as, but I am really looking forward to this explosion of kitsch. A fabulous cast and some suitably epic battle scenes give me hope that this will sit well above Clash of the Titans in terms of quality (the lack of dodgy 3D will help). Commercially this pic is unfortunately dated one week before Twilight in many markets and is unlikely to perform strongly enough to justify screen space. It does look fab though... 8/10 (LHP)
Oh No, why are Mickey Rourke and Freida Pinto taking on these kinds of roles?! This does not look any more exciting than 300... 5.5/10 (TA)
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Robyn Slovo
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy
Synopsis: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
US Release: 18th November, 2011
Review/Score: A rather terrific old school thriller, atmospherically rendered by ~Thomas -let the right one in – Alfredson. It won’t make a penny of course, but you’d be glad to have seen it. 7.5/10
Suspenseful is probably the best way to describe this trailer, like a mix of several Hollywood classics I’ve seen before. Nevertheless has a great cast. 7/10 (TA)
Producer: Timur Bekmambetov
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Cast: Erica Carroll
Synopsis: About the real mission to space in the 1970s that was cancelled by NASA.
Official Website: http://www.apollo18movie.net/
US Release: 2nd September, 2011
Review/Score: well this is an atmospheric little blinder isn’t it? Spanish first time helmer Gonzalo Lopez- Gallego handles the old moon mission conspiracy plot with remarkable aplomb, rendering the astronauts isolated by use of Paranormal Activity-esque handled and surveillance cameras, and steadfastly refusing to let us see what the hell is going on. Produced by the man behind the awesome Nightwatch this micro-budget horror could be a little money magnet for the Weinstiens. 7.5/10
What is this film REALLY about? Soviets, Apollo 18, the moon, helmets, or maybe a mix of all? I’m not really too sure... 5.5/10 (TA)
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