There’s little doubt that Black Swan looks very strange. Cool, but very strange! Now a new music video has popped up online, which is pretty short but gives us a feel for the score, along with plenty of fresh footage from the Darren Aronofsky flick, which hits cinemas on January 21st. Natalie Portman plays Nina, a ballerina whose career seems to be taking off, but who develops a rivalry with fellow dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis). While Nina is the personification of Swan Lake’s White Swan, Lily is more the dark side of the Black Swan. However that makes it sound less unusual than this music video shows it is. But no matter how bizarre, it’s been very well recieved by critics. Click below to take a look.
Brighton Rock Trailer – Take a look at the new version of Graham Greene’s classic
Director Rowan Joffe’s new version of Brighton Rock certainly looks dramatic! The first trailer for the movie really sells the crime thriller aspects, making it look almost like one of Britiain’s trademark gangster flicks, which I suppose it is, sort of. The film, based on Graham Greene’s classic novel and starring Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough and Helen Mirren, sees bad boy Pinkie (Riley) marrying Rose (Riseborough), who unwittingly has the eivdence that could destroy Pinkie’s alibi to a murder he committed. Brighton Rock was previously filmed in 1947 with Richard Attenborough and Carol Marsh, although Joffe has moved the action to 1964. Mirren plays Ida, who’s relentlessly trying to bring Pinkie down. Click below to watch the trailer. The film arrives in UK cinemas on February 4th.
New Green Hornet Trailer Online – Fresh look at the Seth Rogen superhero flick
Will The Green Hornet be any good? That’s the question many are asking after its release was delayed and there were reports of reshoots and Sony not being happy with the footage they’d seen (of course the studio officially says they’re delighted). The trailers we’ve seen so far have been okay, even if there’s been little to get anyone really excited. Now a new rpomo has turned up, which again makes the movie look alright and includes a little more plot, but still isn’t exactly amazing – it does however seem to play a lot on the homoerotic undertones of a superhero having a partner.
The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz, is about Britt Reid (Rogen), the son of LA’s most prominent and respected media magnate, who’s perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene until his father (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father’s more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. But in order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves protecting the law by breaking it. Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets. The film is due out January 14th, 2011.
Every Day Trailer – Helen Hunt and Liev Schreiber have family problems
Ah the trials of family life, that perennial favourite of Hollywood, and particularly actors looking for role where they don’t have to just smile and look pretty. Every Day is about Ned (Liev Schreiber), who’s in the throes of a mid-life crisis. His work as a writer on an outrageous, semi-pornographic TV show is less than satisfying. His 15 year old son has just told him he is gay and his 11 year old is afraid of pretty much everything. When his wife, Jeannie (Helen Hunt), moves her sick and embittered father (Brian Dennehy) from Detroit into their home in NY, it puts added stress on an already strained marriage. And when a sexy female co-worker (Carla Gugino) puts the moves on Ned, the temptation sends him spiraling. Yep, it’s another movie about a guy thinking the grass is greener of the other side. But what’s the betting that in the end he realises home is where the heart is, and many other cliches? Take a look at the trailer below. The film should hit cinemas early next year.
The Lincoln Lawyer Trailer – Matthew McConaughey gets in over his head as a seedy lawyer
When The Lincoln Lawyer was first announced, it sounded like it’d be a rather glossy, simple thriller, with Matthew McConaughey once more standing in front of the camera just so he can pick up his paycheque. However if this first trailer is anything to go by, it could be rather darker and more interested than expected. Mickey Haller (McConaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln sedan. Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of his career: defending Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), a Beverly Hills playboy accused of rape and attempted murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for Haller. With Marisa Tomei, William H. Macy, john Leguizamo and Michael Pena also in the cast, it could be one to look out for when it arrives in cinemas on Amrch 18th, 2011. Click below for the trailer.
Source Code Trailer – Jake Gyllenhaal keeps getting blown up in Duncan Jones’ new flick
Moon director Duncan Jones certainly had a bit more cash to pay for with his follow-up, Source Code, and now the first trailer for the movie has arrived. The neat sci-fi premise sees Jake Gyllenhaal waking up on train, not knowing how he got, and then a few minutes later getting blown up in a bombing. However he’s actually a soldier who’s part of a programme that can send people back into the last eight minutes of someone’s life, and so Jake is sent back again, trying to find out who’s responsible for the explosion, while also falling for a fellow passenger, played by Michelle Monahan, who causes him to want to change events, rather than simply investigate them. While it does look more than a little cool, you can already feel the endless time travel paradoxes creeping in around the edges, and it’ll be intriguing to discover how and if they manage to get round them. The film hits cinemas next spring, and should be well worth a look.
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