While Tyler Perry’s movies have found enormous popularity amongst African American audiences, they’re generally been criticitally mauled and ignored by the mainstream, and in Britain, they weren’t even released until recently (some are yet to arrive, and most have only come to DVD), making them just about the only recent movies to reach number 1 at the US box office, but not to get a cinematic release in the UK. Now Perry is doing something a little different, as while his previous movies have been based on his own comedy scripts, this time he’s adapting Ntozake Shange’s acclaimed play, For Colored Girls, and he’s assembled a stunning cast of black women to star in it. The movie features Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad and loads more, and from this trailer it looks like it could be a bit of a dramatic tour de force. For Colored Girls is indeed scheduled to make it to the UK at some point, as it’s seen as potential Oscar fodder, so click below to watch the trailer.

A few weeks ago we had the trailer, and now a new clip has arrived for Jackass 3D, showing the guys once more playing pranks on each other (what else?) and giving someone a big hand. The 3D movie is heading to cinemas this autumn, but click below for the new clip.

The Toronto Film Festival has caused a lot of highly anticipated movies to release their first clips or trailers online, and one of those is Brighton Rock, Rowan Joffe’s new adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic novel, with AOL debuting the first clip from the flick, featuring Helen Mirren and Andrea Riseborough. The film Pinkie (Sam 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 get your first look.

Although I’m not convinced the Night Chronicles isn’t just another way M. Night Shyamalan is massaging his inflated ego, it’s potentially a good idea, with the Sixth Sense director coming up with the ideas for the film, but then handing them onto new young writers and directors to turn into a movie. The first of them, Devil, is out this week, and in this featurette Shyamalan talks about the genesis of The Night Chronicles and why he’d have liked to direct the movie himself, so click below to take a look. The film sees five people trapped in an elevator, one of whome may be Satan himself!

There have been a couple of trailers released for the upcoming Monsters now, and each one seems to bring us closer to actually seing the alien creatures at the heart of the film, with this latest one suggesting something that looks more like a jellyfish or octopus than something you’d expect on land. The film is set six years after a NASA space probe arrives back on Earth containing alien life, which grows, evolves and starts to cause havoc, turning the southern US and north of Mexico into an alien infested zone! The film focusses on two characters and their experience in this terrifying new world. The movie will be in UK cinemas on November 12th. Click below for the new trailer.

While Clint Eastwood has had a many and varied career, one thing he’s rarely if ever touched is the supernatural, esepcially as a director. However he’s now made the somewhat supernatural Hereafter, about three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways. Matt Damon stars as George, a blue-collar American and reluctant psychis, while On the other side of the world, French journalist Marie (Cécile de France), has a near–death experience that shakes her reality, and when London schoolboy Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren) loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might – or must – exist in the hereafter. The film just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, getting some very good reviews, and now the trailer is online, so take a look.