The trailer for Christina Ricci’s latest movie, After.Life, has popped up online. The movie actually finished production back in December of 2008, but it is just now about to hit theaters in the United States in April (9th).

Synopsis:

After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over to the other side. ~IMDB

Check out the movie trailer for After.Life in the full post. Caution: The word “dead” is said in trailer almost a million times. Literally… kinda… not really. But still, literally almost a billion times .

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Kevin Smith’s upcoming movie, Cop Out, might be the movie that finally establishes him as a legitimate filmmaker in the eyes of those who refuse to give him the credit he is due. I am not talking about me. I love the guy’s work. But I know there is a trolling community of Kevin Smith haters who refuse to get over the fact that he has been making movies that exist in his own little universe which goes by the name of View Askewniverse. A place where Jay and Silent Bob exist.

Kevin Smith’s last movie, Zack and Miri Make A Porno, did take place outside of the View Askewniverse, but there was still the same raunchy spirit carried over.

I don’t really give a crap if Kevin Smith was to keep making Jay and Silent Bob movies. As long as it’s Kevin Smith making the movie, I am down to see it.

Back to the point I was trying to get at, this movie doesn’t yell out to me that it’s a Kevin Smith production, but it still looks good. So this could be that movie that finally proves that the man can do mainstream movies outside of his own script.

Check out the trailer in the full post.

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After watching the trailer, there is no denying that “Repo Men!” looks incredibly similar to 2008’s “Repo! The Genetic Opera.” A similarity which will be mentioned time and time again by countless other movie blogs and forums. I am just getting that out of the way now so when it comes time to post a new trailer or movie stills, I won’t have to keep talking about the comparison between the two. Yes, Repo Men! has the same story setup as Repo! The Genetic Opera. But if we can all manage to overlook that, we all might be able to see a trailer for a potentially fun action movie.

Here is a quick synopsis grabbed from IMDB on Repo Men!

Synopsis

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed. ~IMDB

Trailer in the full post.

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Not sure why this little gem hasn’t been getting a whole lot of attention. The trailer is making the movie look real good to me.

“Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin” focuses on the personal conflict of Darwin writing his book “On the Origin of Species.” The movie stars Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin and the always lovely Jennifer Connelly as Darwin’s wife, Emma Darwin. On a side note, both Bettany and Connelly are married in real life.

Here is the official synopsis from the website.

Synopsis

CREATION. A psychological, heart-wrenching love story starring Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) as Charles Darwin, the film is based on “Annie’s Box,” a biography penned by Darwin’s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family. We take a unique and inside look at Darwin, his family and his love for his deeply religious wife, played by Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream), as, torn between faith and science, Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book “On the Origin of Species,” which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.

I included the trailer in the full post, along with a few movie stills. Go check it out!

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I am not the biggest fan of kiddie CGI films, especially when they focus on talking animals. Every year, a batch of cookie cutter cute-sy animal CG cartoon movies are pooped out from movie studios and they make TONS of money off these movies. I am by no means hating on the studios for taking advantage of easy money.

What I am saying, though, is that what was once a highly respectable and astonishing film medium has now become an outlet to put out recycled kid films that offer no real creativity aside from the differences in simplistic art styles that separates one movie from the next. Granted, I am not saying ALL CG cartoons coming out are unoriginal and recycled. Pixar, for one, still manages to produce amazing movies. And every once in a while a CG cartoon will come out that goes beyond the mold, such as the recent Astro Boy movie (2009).

Now Leonardo DiCaprio is set to make his debut in the CG animated world in a movie called The Guardians (working title). DiCaprio plays Jack Frost. In the movie, his character teams up with an unlikely band of mythic children’s storybook characters such as Santa Clause, The Sand Man, Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny to fight The Boogey Man from ultimately destroying the world.

All the characters have been renamed but with references in their name to their characters such as Santa Clause, who is called “North” in the movie.

I am actually quite excited for this movie. The fact that I am not a fan of what is being done in the CG cartoon world makes this even better because I believe I have something to look forward to that will perhaps break the mold in a way that only Pixar has done in the past. Obviously, I can’t judge if the movie will be good from the described summary alone, but I am loving the concept and hope for the best. I know the movie will pander to kids, but that doesn’t mean we adults can’t enjoy the movie as well. A feat Pixar has proven time and time again.

We do have a render of DiCaprio’s character, Jack Frost, attached. Check out the full post to see it, along with my comments on it.

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The last couple of Mob movies I saw (Public Enemies and RocknRolla) didn’t live up to the greatness I hoped for. Especially RocknRolla. So it brings me great pleasure to see a new Mobster drama coming out that looks to have a lot of promise. Ray Winston, for one, is a great actor, so his presence in the film is enough to catch my attention alone. But then, you have the rest of the cast, which is an ensemble of fantastic actors. Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt, and Ian McShane all in a movie together WITH Ray Winstone. Ok, sold!

The setup sort of reminds me of 1998’s Suicide Kings, where Christopher Walken’s character is being held in a chair while his captors sit around him. That is probably the only resemblance this movie has to 44 Inch Chest, but I had to note the similarity because the trailer gives the same vibe with the kidnapping.

Check out the trailer in the full post. Synopsis and misc info attached as well.

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Upon hearing the news that a movie about Facebook was being made, I was completely confused as to why it was being made, how a movie about a website would even play, and who would fund it? Then the details came that, in fact, the movie would be about the creators of the site and their journey from socially awkward Harvard undergrads to building of the biggest social network and the “mo’ money mo’ problems” that came with it. The story is actually adapted from the 2009 novel, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich.

Justin Timberlake stars as Sean Parker, who was an adviser to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

In the full post, we have a first look at Justin Timberlake on set of “The Social Network.”

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The first trailer I saw for Rob Marshall’s (director of Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha) movie “Nine” didn’t do anything for me. The movie looked to be everything musical film geeks love and I generally loathe. Not that musicals in movie format aren’t good. They’re just not my cup of tea. Chicago was a damn good movie though… hmm…

Ok, getting back on track. As I was saying. The first trailer for Nine was just “eh…” to me, but this new trailer actually looks quite promising. The trailer offers up a wider glimpse at the plot surrounding the characters, particularly Daniel Day-Lewis’ character Guido.

Daniel Day-Lewis’ presence in the movie only offers more reason for me to see it. The man is a modern day legend in his craft, and he is infamous for being extremely picky in the roles he choose. This characteristic of his seems to work well for him as most films he is in get a shit ton of awards.

Check out the trailer, along with the movie synopsis, in the full post.

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*Update* I replaced the old poster with a massive high res one.*

I find it quite surprising that War Machine isn’t kept a little more hidden in this first official poster for Iron Man 2 which has been debuted at Yahoo. While the poster doesn’t showcase a full stand alone photo of War Machine, it’s enough to get the idea. After all, his armor is basically a re-coloration of the Mark II armor with some slight heavy artillery modifications.

Check out the official poster in the full post.

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Jackie’s back to kicking ass in his new action/comedy Little Big Soldier.  Directed by Sheng Ding and written by Jackie Chan, Little Big Soldier chronicles the misadventures of Liang (Chan), a soldier during the ‘Waring States Period’ who manages to survive the epic bloodbath by devising a trick arrow to protrude from his vest in order to play dead. He manages to capture a general of the opposing army, Wei played by Wang LeeHom, to present in exchange for his freedom from battle. Also starring Yoo Seung-Jun, Xiao Dong Mei, and Lin Peng, Little Big Soldier is set for release in Hong Kong February 2010.

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