X-Men: Apocalypse (Official Trailer)
Back in February, Dennis brought you his thoughts on the new X-Men: Apocalypse and, let’s just say he was a bit, umm…non-plussed. And I agree! Not only is the whole idea that FOX is making the first X-Men movies null and void pretty weird, irritating and annoying, it remains unclear as to why they are doing this. Is it in service of ingénue Jennifer Lawrence and her Raven/Mystique character? I hope not as that’s never been all that...
Green Room (Trailer)
Back in 2013 a movie called Blue Ruin rocked the cinematic world with its slow burn revenge thriller stylings. Seriously, if you haven’t seen the film, seek it out. It’s on Netflix Instant right now and is well worth watching. At that time the films writer/director Jeremy Saulnier was a relative unknown having only written and directed 2003’s Murder Party which was pretty good but a bit uneven. Blue Ruin is damned near a masterpiece....
10 Cloverfield Lane (Review)
There’s an old formula for making cost effective independent films. What you do is, limit your actors to no more than a handful and set everything in one location. It seems that lately Hollywood has caught onto this formula, or at least the higher level indie filmmakers are putting it to use as we’ve seen with recent films like Ex Machina, Everly and Room. Yet this formula is merely a cost cutting one as there’s less people to feed...
Everybody Wants Some (Red-Band Trailer)
Back in December we showed you the trailer for Richard Linklater’s new film Everybody Wants Some and it was….eh, it was o.k. The “spiritual companion film” to Dazed and Confused moves the action up a decade to the 1980’s and although as I said back then, Linklater really doesn’t make “bad” films often, that trailer left a little something to be desired. Such as a plot, a sense of characters and an overall angle as to what it was...
Zootopia (Review)
About two months ago, an extended scene for Disney’s latest animated film Zootopia hit theaters as a sort-of trailer. I’m talking about the scene where a bunny police officer and a fox go to the DMV in “Zootopia” (A human-like world inhabited by animals all living together in relative harmony) to run a license plate and discover the entire organization is run by sloths. While, yes, that in and of itself is kind of clever, the way the...
J.K. Simmons Is the New Commissioner Gordon
As the world prepares for just exactly what Batman Versus Superman: Dawn of Justice is going to be like, the DC Comics movie universe is still plugging along with director Zack Snyder at the helm. The Hollywood Reporter broke news this week that the upcoming Justice League (Ie; DC Comics The Avengers) films will feature surly grouch J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon. Honestly, that’s pretty solid casting even if he already played J....
Pete’s Dragon (Teaser Trailer)
Last week we dropped the poster for Disney’s live action remake (reboot?) of the 1977 classic Pete’s Dragon. No sooner had the poster hit the Internets then the trailer flew onto our screens I won’t go into the details of how I know the Pete’s Dragon writer/director David Lowery a little bit, that info and my angle on it is in the post about the poster. So, let’s talk about the trailer. First off, I love it. I’m not just saying that...
Pete’s Dragon (Teaser Poster)
Over the past few years Disney has been releasing live-action versions of some of their popular animated films to varied success. Some were pretty great (Cinderella, Maleficent while other, eh, not-so-much (Alice in Wonderland). But like it or not, there’s up to 15 planned Disney live action remakes of animated films coming our way with John Favreau’s The Jungle Book hitting next in early April. One of these films I’ve been keeping a...
Deadpool (REVIEW)
The Marvel Movie Machine just keeps chugging along making hit film after hit film and frankly, it’s pretty damned impressive. I’m not big on the whole numbers game where critics examine a films worth by how much money it makes, but unless you don’t pay any attention to movies at all, you know almost every Marvel film is a massive commercial success. What’s odd is that even when they announce a film that causes people to roll their...
Batman v. Superman Turkish Airlines . Wait, what? (Trailer?)
Sigh. More weird ass marketing from DC Comics for their upcoming Batman VS Superman: The Dawn of Justice movie. First we had the truly strange “trailer” featuring Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) measuring their ding-dongs before Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) pops in to break the intense sexual tension. It just wasn’t really a trailer inasmuch a really oddly chosen scene from the movie. But, whatever. They made...
Captain America 3: Civil War (Super Bowl Trailer)
I know you’re all settling in for thirds on your buddies bacon nacho wings as the Super Bowl gets going but we here at Flick Nation are going to do you a solid by showing you the big Marvel trailer for Captain America 3: Civil War. That’s it at the top of the page. While there’s not a lot of new footage in terms of what we’ve already seen, the trailer does serve to show us who the two teams are going to be when heroes collide this May...
Cabin Fever (Trailer)
It feels like just the other day that the horror ingénue Eli Roth splattered onto the scene with his funny, gory and terrifying Cabin Fever but alas, that was over a decade ago in 2002. Since then he’s done more (bad) acting in films (Tarantino’s Death Proof and Inglorious Basterds as well as Piranha 3D) than he’s directed (Green Inferno). While he did have unintentional back-to-back films last year with the aforementioned abhorrent...
SUICIDE SQUAD (Trailer)
It’s no big secret that for the past few years, Marvel has simply owned comic book movies. They’ve literally changed cinema storytelling with their world building and one-time fellow comic book behemoth DC Comics has been eating their dust for years. And it’s not just the world building, excellent stand-alone films that tie into the larger Avengers and now Captain America films and outstanding characterizations of iconic characters....
10 Cloverfield Lane (First “Mystery” Trailer)
This weekend Michael Bay’s latest opus 13 Hours hits theaters and it’s about Benghazi so right-wing conspiracy theorists are frothing at the mouth to see sweaty, tan and buffed men running around with guns. Hope they bring a lot of Kleenex to the movie, it’s a wet dream come true. However some regular movie people also went to see early screenings last night and among those were journalists and regular movie geeks who almost had their...
11.22.63 (Trailer)
It’s 2016 and I’ve made many resolutions. None of them included to stop bombarding you with Stephen King “movie” news. Actually, aside from Cary Joji Fukunaga leaving the new It adaptation, the news has all been pretty solid of late. Which is great because King is one of our finest storytellers and his books give themselves over to adaptations easily. The problem is, studios and screenwriters either truncate his work to the point of...
Elvis & Nixon (Trailer)
This entire trailer presentation should end as I write: “Kevin Spacey is Nixon, Michael Shannon is Elvis” but alas, I’m still too stunned that this is real to let it go at that. Up top there is the trailer for Amazon Studios spring release Elvis & Nixon and it looks batshit crazy. Not just because of the aforementioned actors who are starring in the title roles but because…well, did you watch that trailer!?!? I actually LOL’ed 3-4...
The Conjuring 2 (Trailer)
Ed and Lorraine Warren are back and they’re taking their zany, analytical ghost hunting overseas to London in The Conjuring 2! Man, I should be writing PR for the big screen, not just doing their job for them from a laptop atop a children’s desk in Northern California. Since that’s not going to happen, I’ll just keep sharing the latest and greatest movie news to you all at Flick Nation. Works for me! Above is the trailer for The...
The Hateful Eight (Review)
Aside from Star Wars: The Force Awakens the movie I was most looking forward to at the end of 2015 was Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, The Hateful Eight. Like most cinephiles, I love Tarantino and have loved every one of his films. And let us not forget this one almost didn’t happen after someone leaked the script back in 2014. Luckily QT cast aside his anger, put together a simply fantastic cast and got to work. Like many, I...
The Big Short (Review)
The documentary Inside Job tried to explain the 2008 financial crisis in a responsible way, and now, with The Big Short, writer/director Adam McKay attempts to do it with humor. His film focuses on some misfits in the financial world, all of whom discover, early, just what the banks were doing to us. Michael Burry (Christian Bale) is a stock trader who doesn’t know how to handle people, but knows his way through a mortgage...
Everybody Wants Some (Trailer)
Aside from maaaaaybe The Newton Boys, writer/director Richard Linklater has never given me reason to doubt him. He makes movies I like and some, I genuinely love. Let’s run through some of his hits real quick: Slacker, School of Rock, Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight, Bernie, Boyhood and probably his greatest contribution to film, Dazed and Confused. And those titles I listed are just his more well known ones. The guy is a badass. So...
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