The New San Andreas Trailer Has Great Sound Design
Warner Bros. released a third trailer for their big screen action-thriller San Andreas, opening in 3D and 2D theaters on Friday, May 29. The basic storyline revealed in this 2:34 minute sneak peak is an orderly timeline of events which ends abruptly with a cataclysmic earthquake centered in the eponymous fault – then order and time are replaced by chaos and destruction.
The graphic scenes of destruction, first of Los Angeles and then of San Francisco,
Closer Look at New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Characters Revealed
From the opening shot of what appears to be two Snowtroopers marching on the frozen plains of their secret base, Vanity Fair’s Star Wars cover shoot, including a 45-second video, is exactly what fans want on Star Wars Day. So yes, May the Fourth be with you.
Thanks to Vanity Fair, there’s some fresh news to report; revealing shots and video two of the film’s main characters—played by Adam Driver and Lupita Nyongo’o—are seen in a beautiful photo gallery (created by the legendary Annie Leibovitz) and the behind-the-scenes video they uploaded today.
Who Freaks You Out More: these Grandparents, these Aliens, or Johnny Depp?
Three new trailers with very different sources of extreme tension. So the question we pose to you today is this; who would you rather be trapped in a house with less, the grandparents from M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming The Visit, Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger from the upcoming Black Mass, or whatever the hell those things are in Area 51?
Let's take a look:
The Visit
Yes,
Avengers: Age of Ultron Gets the Sesame Street Parody Treatment
A lot to enjoy in this Sesame Street parody of Marvel’s upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron. One is imagining living in a world in which people walked around eating vegetables on the street. One of the joys of Sesame Street in general is their completely bonkers voice work—listen to how, at 37 seconds in, one of the characters pronounces the word "asparagus" for a perfect example.
The parody,
From Spader to Scarlett: 5 Great Voice Performances in Sci-Fi Films
So we saw Avengers: Age of Ultron yesterday and in an effort not to disclose any spoilers, we’ll just say this; James Spader absolutely nails his voice work as the eponymous villain. Spader’s articulate, sonorous baritone is put to perfect use, and the sound design work done to enhance his voice and give it a digital sheen was outstanding. His Ultron is a witty, wired (literally), emotional artificial intelligence,
Bow Down Humans! Could an Evil AI Like Ultron Become Our Master?
What we create may someday destroy us. It’s been a pervasive fear in human consciousness since well before the dawn of film, appearing in Ovid’s narrative of Pygmalion and the late 16th Century legend of the Golem of Prague, a creature created to protect the Jewish ghetto who – in some versions of tale – eventually went on a murderous rampage.
Avengers: Age of Ultron is the latest in a long list of movies built around a similar idea: man builds smart thing,
CinemaCon 2015: Warner Bros.’ Mad Summer Slate
Today at CinemaCon, Warner Bros. Pictures is presenting an exclusive highlight reel of their upcoming summer slate. While technically starting in spring, the studio’s first big release will be Mad Max: Fury Road, which bows on May 15. We’ve already taken a look at the latest trailer from Fury Road, which looks relentlessly entertaining and beautifully shot.
On May 29, San Andreas, starring Dwayne Johnson as a search and rescue helicopter pilot looking to save his daughter after a magnitude 9 earthquake levels California.
Which Dinosaur Would You Fear The Most in New Jurassic World Trailer?
First of all, who in their right mind would get into one of those transparent orbs and go rolling off into a huge herd of dinosaurs? Tourists, will they ever learn? Anyway, this new Jurassic World trailer gives you a bevy of dinosaurs to fear, and the morbid question that popped into our heads was; which way you rather go if you had to be eaten by a dinosaur at this completely insane theme park?
7 Questions After Watching the New Star Wars Trailer
Oh man, so that happened. Once the trailer was released at the Star Wars Celebration yesterday, a not insignificant portion of the global population went a little bit nuts. It appears what our country has needed, a way to achieve a sort of psychic release, was by giving people what they’ve always wanted—Chewie and Han Solo. Honestly, wow. For all the great little easter eggs in that trailer for Star Wars geeks, and even casual fans alike (you have to hand it to George Lucas and his production design team from the very jump—even all the years later,
Four Films to Make Tax Day a Little Less Taxing
Nobody likes taxes (although as John Oliver recently reminded us, blaming the IRS is understandable but actually sort of ridiculous), but here are four films on the subject to celebrate getting the task done! To find out where to watch these four go to: http://wheretowatch.com
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Expanding on their Saturday Night Live characters, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues,
Abraham Lincoln in Film, on the 150th Anniversary of his Assassination
Today, April 14th, marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln while attending a performance of ‘The American Cousin’ at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC. The 16th President passed the following day, leaving a shocked, grieving nation to heal the wounds of the Civil War without its leader.
Lincoln’s epic story has been manna for filmmakers from the inception of the medium. From D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) to the television movie Killing Lincoln starring Tom Hanks in 2013,
Who’s Funnier, Iron Man or Ultron in this new Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer?
Now that Avengers: Age of Ultron has had its world premiere at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, there are likely going to be a few more clips like this released in the build up to the film’s wide release on May 1.
There’s been all sorts of interesting stories surrounding the premiere of Ultron. There was the piece in Vulture yesterday where Whedon once again discussed how exhausting making this film was,
New Ant-Man Trailer is Sort of Adorable
The new Ant-Man trailer has a few things going for it, and one of those is Evangeline Lilly. She was the underrated scene stealer and heartthrob that made Lost make sense even at the very end (when it sorta-kinda stopped making sense), and here she plays Paul Rudd’s ally and all around bad ass, Hope Van Dyne (that name!). And who isn't excited to see Rudd as a super-shrinking superhero, fighting bad guys while in miniature?
5 Interesting Choices Made by Cast & Crew in Skype Horror Unfriended
There are few things creepier in life than an unexplained, unwanted intrusion on our privacy. In the pre-internet era, the phone was the communication medium of choice for sadists to torture their victims in films. When a Stranger Calls (1979) revolves around that phone call from the titular stranger to a babysitter named Jill (Carol Kane), asking “have you checked the children?” Spoiler alert; the police trace the call and tell the babysitter the call is coming from inside the house.
Lies, Illusions & Murder: A Look at True Story
Journalist Michael Finkel had a promising career ahead of him when he started at the New York Times Magazine, although his future was soon shattered by his own mistakes. Finkel was caught fabricating elements of his feature story “Is Youssouf Malé a Slave?” which looked at the life of the young, titular laborer on a cocoa plantation on the Ivory Coast. Although Malé was a real boy, it was revealed that Finkel had create the version you meet in the article from a composite of several boys he met,
Before & After: Watch What Crowdfunding Did for Aurora in 2 Trailers
On April 26, 2013, Aurora was posted on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Aurora’s an ambitious sci-fi love story set after a human-created apocalypse has destroyed the Earth and left the machines they created to protect them in control. The machines, led by a super-computer named Kronos, take over under the guise of creating a utopia. Sixty years later, the protagonist, Andrew (Julian Schaffner), finds himself living in this Kronos-ruled world when he meets Calia (Jeannine Wacker),
Sesame Street spoofs Game of Thrones With Game of Chairs
In the land of Jesteros, no one could have seen this plot twist coming…
Sesame Street is on point once again with their parody of Game of Thrones; sorry, we mean Game of Chairs. Ned Stark, along with Grover (Bluejoy), is in charge of administering the game (musical chairs), which will crown the new king or queen. Robb Stark, Cersei Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, and Daenerys Targaryen are all on hand to fight for the ‘Iron Throne’
Sick Ride: A Look at Furious 7‘s Supercharged Cars
“Cars are like a cowboy’s horse or a Samurai’s sword. They are an extension of our heroes and representative of their personalities," says Furious 7 screenwriter Chris Morgan. "We always try to maintain that philosophy but accomplish it in a fresh new way with every film. The constant though: Brian (the late Paul Walker) will always get the fast car, while Dom (Vin Diesel) always gets the furious car.”
Masterminds Trailer Delivers a Solid Gut-Punch
This trailer for Masterminds starts off like so many armored car/ bank heist thrillers – the set up is a news broadcast of the theft in a shaky, blurry camera and a newscaster's voice over explaining the audacity of a bank robbery– but it all changes, and becomes wonderfully Galifianakian, with a bullet in the pants, “It feels like it just grazed my biscuits, right in between stuff,” Zach Galifianakis says.
This tease for Masterminds is chock full of the raw fun and sensationally silly escapades we've come to expect from America's preeminent clown (he can really act,
It’s Hard to Tell Who’s Crazy in the New Mad Max: Fury Road Trailer
While watching the new Mad Max: Fury Road trailer, the phrase that resonates is, “Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!”
Director George Miller’s trailer is a breathtaking tease for the return of the Mad Max ‘franchise’ after a 30-year gap. We get a snippet of context for the high adrenaline car chases. We get a Charlize Theron with a fantastic buzz cut and four unidentified girls trying to escape,
