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....
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...
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...
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 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...
The 12 Days of Star Wars: Day Eleven
I woke up this morning and drank my coffee out of my Star Wars cup. I showered and got dressed in my Millenium Falcom t-shirt. I put on my Empire Strikes Back vans and now I’m waiting for my brother-in-law to pick me up and take us to San Francisco to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We will be in line around 4 hours early, my and my fellow nerds. I am in full movie geek mode and couldn’t be more stoked. But this week has been...
Batman Versus Superman: Dawn of Justice (Trailer 2)
As we talked about earlier this week, a new trailer for Batman –VS- Superman: Dawn of Justice was coming this week and right on time, it plopped Wednesday night. And the Internet comic book kingdom collapsed upon itself in a massive freak-out of negativity. I’m typically not the kind of person who either looks at other “critics” opinions before voicing my own nor am I a writer who gets caught up in Internet Bandwagon Bashing. That...
Batman Versus Superman: Dawn of Justice (Teaser Trailer)
From the “Office of Say What Now?” comes this very cool but very peculiar teaser trailer for Batman Versus Superman: Dawn of Justice or as it’s better known around the water cooler, That New Batman Versus Superman Movie. While this teaser is certainly cool, intriguing and a much different look at the film as opposed to the previous trailer, I’m not entirely sure what’s going on. But I have a guess. Rumors about the storyline of Batman...
Captain America: Civil War (Trailer)
I’m really not the world’s biggest superhero film fan but I do have a deep love of comic books even though I kind of phased out of buying and reading them years ago. (Too expensive, we just had a baby, etc…) And right when I tuned out, all the awesomeness of the “Marvel Civil War” storylines happened. Essentially the government decided they needed to regulate superheroes and some heroes agreed (Tony Stark/Iron Man) and others didn’t...
Son of Saul (Review)
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve seen Son of Saul, the much lauded feature film debut by director László Nemes, and I’m still having a difficult time writing this review. And believe me, I’ve been trying. My main difficulty lies in the fact that the film is unsettling on many, many levels but it’s undeniably a “must see” film. However everytime I want to anoint it a truly “great” film something inside of me gives a little hiccup and...
Matthew McCanaughey Circling Man in Black?
Greetings Flick Nation. That headline you see is what we writers call “click bait” and chances are, you’ve been hooked. See, what I wrote there makes you think maaaaaybe Matthew McConaughey will be in a Men in Black movie or maaaaaybe he’ll be portraying Johnny Cash. Fortunately for you, it’s neither of these things but is much better and also: made you look! Anyway… I think I’ve noted it here...
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